Patents and applications for patents on HAWP
This is certainly not complete!
All may help advance the patent party for AWECS:
Filed with WIPO
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WO 2007027765 Multi-rotor wind turbine supported by continuous central
driveshaft by Douglas Spriggs Selsam, filed August 8, 2006.
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WO 2009092181 A balloon suspension high altitude wind generator apparatus
and a wind turbine generator device by LI, Quandong and LI, Yuexiu of China.
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WO 2009092191 A lifting type high altitude wind generator apparatus and a
turbine generator device by LI, Quandong. amd LI, Yuexiu of China.
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WO/2008/034421 Kite Power Generator by Manfred Franetzki of Germany.[25]
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WO/2008/004261 Wind system for converting energy through a vertical-axis
turbine actuated by means of kites and process for producing electric energy
through such system by Massimo Ippolito and Franco Taddei of Italy. Italy
priority date July 4, 2006. International filing date of June 13, 2007.
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WO/2009/143901 Kite type sail with improved line attachment. Dec. 12, 2009
B63H 9/06 PCT/EP2008/056724 SkySails GMBH & CO. KG
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WO/2008/101390 A method and a special equipment converting wind energy at
high altitude into kinetic energy on the ground. 28.08.2008 F23D 9/00
PCT/CN2008/000255 by Fuli Li. Application language: Chinese.
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WO/1992020917 Free Rotor by JACK, Colin, Humphry, Bruce (one man). Colin
Jack. Colin Bruce. Colin Bruce Jack. Colin B. Jack. Multi-rotors are treated.
Faired tethers are recognized. Turbines integrated at tips of free rotor is
instructed. Weather and water flow modifications by working free rotors is
described. 1992.
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WO 2008/047963 Electric power generation system using hydro turbine
tracted by paraglider by Jong Chul Kim. Filed: 19 October 2006.
Filed in USA
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US Patent 1495036 Means for creating emergency power for airplane radio
generator by Carlton David Palmer, filed Dec 6, 1921.
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US Patent 1717552 Airship by Alpin I. Dunn, filed Jan 30, 1926.
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US Patent 2368630 High altitude free-flight wind turbines charged
batteries by using potential energy to form wind by Stanley Biszak, filed June
3, 1943.
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US Patent 3227398 Balloon Tether Cable by Arthur D. Struble, Jr., filed
Mar 4, 1965. Streamlined tether.
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US Patent 3924827 Apparatus for extracting energy from winds at
significant height above the surface by Lambros Lois, filed April 25, 1975.
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US Patent 3987987 Self-erecting windmill by Peter R. Payne, Charles
McCutchen, filed January 28, 1975.
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US Patent 4073516 Wind driven power plant by Alberto Kling, filed June 6,
1975.
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US Patent 4076190 Apparatus for extracting energy from winds at
significant height above the surface by Lambros Lois, filed March 30, 1976.
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US Patent 4084102 Wind driven, high altitude power apparatus by Charles
Max Fry, Henry W. Hise, filed March 7, 1978. (terrain enabled)
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US Patent 4124182 Wind drive energy system by Arnold Loeb, filed November
14, 1977.
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US Patent 4165468 Wind driven, high altitude power apparatus by Charles M.
Fry and Henry W. Hise, filed Mar 7, 1978.
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US Patent 4166596 Airship power turbine by William J. Mouton, Jr., and
David F. Thompson, filed April 28, 1978.
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US Patent 4207026 Tethered lighter than air turbine by Oliver J. Kushto,
filed Sep 29, 1978.
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US Patent 4251040 Wind driven apparatus for power generation by Miles L.
Loyd, filed Dec. 11, 1978.
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US Patent 4285481 Multiple wind turbine tethered airfoil wind energy
conversion system by Lloyd I. Biscomb, filed Dec 7, 1979.
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US Patent 4309006 Tethered airfoil wind energy conversion system by Lloyd
I. Biscomb, filed Jun 4, 1979.
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US Patent 4350897 Lighter than air wind energy conversion system by
William R. Benoit, filed Oct 24,1980, and issued: Sep 21, 1982.
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US Patent 4450364 Lighter than air wind energy conversion system utilizing
a rotating envelope by William R. Benoit, filed March 24, 1982.
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US Patent 4470563 Airship-windmill by Gijsbert J. Engelsman, filed Mar 9,
1982. Fan-belt.
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US Patent 4486669 Wind generator kite system by Paul F. Pugh, filed
November 9, 1981.
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US Patent 4491739 Airship-floated wind turbine by William K. Watson, filed
Sep 27, 1982.
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US Patent 4572962 Apparatus for extracting energy from winds at high
altitudes by David H. Shepard, filed April 28, 1982.
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US Patent 4659940 Power generation from high altitude winds by David H.
Shepard, filed Oct 11, 1985.
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US Patent 4917332 Wingtip vortex turbine by James C. Patterson, Jr., filed
Oct 28, 1988.
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US Patent 5056447 Rein-deer kite by Gaudencio A. Labrador, filed Oct 13,
1988.
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US Patent 5150859 Wingtip Turbine by Thomas F. Ransick, filed Oct 11,
1988.
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US Patent 5909859 Multi-rotor kite glider by Stephen J. Janicki, filed
March 6, 1997.
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US Patent 6072245 Wind-driven driving apparatus employing kites by
astronaut
Wubbo
Johannes Ockels, filed Nov 12, 1997.
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US Patent 6254034 Tethered aircraft system for gathering energy from wind
by Howard G. Carpenter, filed Sep 20, 1999.
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US Patent 6327994 Scavenger energy converter system its new applications
and its control systems by Gaudencio A. Labrador, filed Dec 23, 1997.
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US Patent 6523781 Axial-mode linear wind-turbine by Gary Dean Ragner,
filed Aug 29, 2001.
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US Patent 6555931 Renewable energy systems using long-stroke open-channel
reciprocating engines by John V. Mizzi, filed on Sep 14, 2001.
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US Patent 6616402 Serpentine wind turbine by Douglas Spriggs Selsam, filed
June 14, 2001.
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US Patent 6781254 Windmill kite by Bryan William Roberts, filed Oct 17,
2002.
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US Patent 6914345 Power generation by John R Webster, filed June 23, 2003.
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US Patent 6925949 Elevated sailing apparatus by Malcolm Phillips, filed
Dec 31, 2002.
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US Patent 7109598 Precisely controlled flying electric generators III by
Bryan William Roberts and David Hammond Shepard, filed Oct 18, 2004.
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US Patent 7129596 Hovering wind turbine by Aleandro Soares Macedo, filed
Oct 31, 2004.
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US Patent 7183663 Precisely controlled flying electric generators by Bryan
William Roberts and David Hammond Shepard, filed Aug 17, 2004.
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US Patent 7188808 Aerial wind power generation system and method by
Gaylord G. Olson, filed Feb 27, 2006.
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US Patent 7275719 Wind drive apparatus for an aerial wind power generation
system Gaylord G. Olson, filed February 9, 2007.
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US Patent 7287481 Launch and retrieval arrangement for an aerodynamic
profile element by Stephan Wrang and Stephan Brabeck of Hamburg, Germany,
filed: September 29, 2006.
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US Patent 7317261 Power generating apparatus by Andrew Martin Rolt,
assignee: Rolls-Royce, plc; filed July 25, 2006.
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US Patent 7335000 Systems and methods for tethered wind turbines by
Frederick D. Ferguson, filed May 3, 2005.
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US Patent 7504741 Wind energy plant with a steerable kite by Stephan
Wrage, Stephan Brabeck, filed March 30, 2007.
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US Patent 7709973 Airborne stabilized wind turbines system by Moshe
Meller, Sep 18, 2008.
Applications for patents in process in US