Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 14
Claim 1
Independent Claim
169 words
Magnus wind turbine comprising; fixed support means having azimuthal pivot carrying means; azimuthally pivotable nacelle housing mounted upon said pivot carrying means and having central bearing means with a horizontal rotor axis; rotor body carried by said nacelle housing and said central bearing means for rotation about said horizontal rotor axis and having a polar symmetric arrangement of spin bearing means disposed with radial axes stemming from said horizontal rotor axis and lying in a vertical plane; a plurality of Magnus spin barrels each carried by one of said spin bearing means and extending radially outwardly from a point adjacent said rotor body; spin drive means for coupling spin energy to each of said Magnus barrels; means for coupling torque energy of said rotor body to said nacelle housing; power removing circular track means mounted in said nacelle housing in a vertical plane and concentric about said horizontal rotor axis; and power removing wheel means carried by said rotor body in driven rolling relation with said circular track means.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
169 words
Magnus wind turbine comprising; fixed support means having azimuthal pivot carrying means; azimuthally pivotable nacelle housing mounted upon said pivot carrying means and having central bearing means with a horizontal rotor axis; rotor body carried by said nacelle housing and said central bearing means for rotation about said horizontal rotor axis and having a polar symmetric arrangement of spin bearing means disposed with radial axes stemming from said horizontal rotor axis and lying in a vertical plane; a plurality of Magnus spin barrels each carried by one of said spin bearing means and extending radially outwardly from a point adjacent said rotor body; spin drive means for coupling spin energy to each of said Magnus barrels; means for coupling torque energy of said rotor body to said nacelle housing; power removing circular track means mounted in said nacelle housing in a vertical plane and concentric about said horizontal rotor axis; and power removing wheel means carried by said rotor body in driven rolling relation with said circular track means.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
56 words
The invention of claim 1 which further includes: central power collector means carried by said rotor body and being disposed therewithin concentric with said horizontal axis; and a plurality of power removing shaft means carried by said rotor body and connecting, in torque coupling relation, said power removing wheel means with said central power collector means.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
18 words
The invention of claim 2 in which said central power collector means includes a primary power output shaft.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
24 words
The invention of claim 3 which further includes electric generator means carried by said nacelle housing and coupled to said primary power output shaft.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
54 words
The invention of claim 4 which further includes power regulator-integrator means carried by said nacelle housing and being interposed between said central power collector means and said electric generator means for receiving mechanical power from the former at varying rotational velocity and for transmitting mechanical power to the latter at substantially constant rotational velocity.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
80 words
The invention of claim 5 in which said power regulator-integrator means includes: inertia wheel means driven by said primary output shaft; inertia wheel output coupler means for removing energy from said inertia wheel at a variable radius point thereof; and regulator control means coupled to said output coupler means for instantaneously controlling said radius point thereof thereby to maintain the rotational velocity of said electric generator substantially constant independently, within a predetermined range, of that of said inertia wheel means.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
16 words
The invention of claim 6 in which said inertia wheel means includes two contrarotating, concentric flywheels.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
27 words
The invention of claim 4 in which said central power collector means also includes a secondary, spin drive power output shaft coupled to said spin drive means.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
17 words
The invention of claim 4 which further includes spin motor means coupled to said spin drive means.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
55 words
The invention of claim 9 which further includes spin motor means and differential drive means having first and second input shafts and an output shaft, said spin motor means being coupled to said first input shaft, said secondary spin drive power output shaft, and said differential output shaft being coupled to said spin drive means.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
30 words
The invention of claim 10 which further includes brake means coupled to said spin motor means for controlling energy flow from said differential drive means to said spin motor means.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
23 words
The invention of claim 11 in which said spin motor means is of the character to function selectively as a supplemental electric generator.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
111 words
The invention of claim 4 in which said power removing wheel means includes; a drag trolley, pivotally carried by said rotor body; and a pair of rollers mounted on said trolley and juxtaposed one on either side of said circular track means, the pivotal connection being disposed such that as said trolley is dragged along said circular track means, the frictional drag of said rollers causes a force couple which in turn causes a rotational tendency of said trolley about said pivotal connection thereby causing a large compressive normal force between each roller and said track means, each of said rollers being rotationally connected to said central power removing shaft means.