ES1294732U - HYDRAULIC GENERATOR (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Hydraulic generator, characterized by being constituted from a vertical structure that has a toothed wheel at the upper end (1) and another toothed wheel at the lower end (2), both wheels being joined by a chain (3) that rotates around said wheels and is provided with a plurality of buckets (4), while at least one of the wheels is connected to an electric generator (5), the system having a water source (6), natural or recharged from the use of a pump, while at the base there is a water tank (7). (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

DESCRIPTION

HYDRAULIC GENERATOR

OBJECT OF THE INVENTION

The present invention, as indicated in the title, refers to a device for generating electricity from a hydraulic system that, due to its structural characteristics, could work continuously 24 hours a day throughout the year.

The object of this invention is to provide a hitherto unknown solution for several drawbacks that will be discussed later, mainly, it is intended to achieve a final result that allows having a generator that does not depend on the sun, the wind or other continuously changing factors, but that, being able to be installed almost in any space, generate electricity at all times.

The device in question provides essential characteristics of novelty and notable advantages with respect to the means known and used for the same purposes in the current state of the art.

Currently, many electrical generation systems are known, some more efficient than others. Many of the current proposals refer to solar generators, although they have the obvious drawback of depending on the amount of sunlight available. Something similar happens with wind systems, which also depend on conditions that are not usually constant in all areas. Another of the proposals that is known today is that of wave energy, however, the devices conceived to be installed in the sea can become polluting, in addition, they require a large space, and the difficulty and cost, both both installation and maintenance are high.

Other home gadgets are also known that are not very efficient and their results are very limited.

Until now, an electrical generation device that can be installed outside the water and that has a continuous rotation system in such a way that it works without depending on the sun, wind or waves has not been known.

The generator that the invention proposes solves the aforementioned problems in a fully satisfactory manner, providing a series of advantageous and novel characteristics, and without this implying any reduction in its performance in other aspects.

The proposed invention aims to provide an economical, ecological, practical, simple and easy-to-use solution, the effect of which would be to generate electricity low cost, but effective, that works 24 hours a day all year round with the same intensity, while having the advantage of moderate installation and maintenance costs.

The present invention has its field of application in the electrical sector, and more specifically in that of generators.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

In the state of the art we find some documents related to the invention in question, although none of them provide the same advantageous characteristics or effectively solve the existing drawbacks.

Thus, document ES 2264861 provides a vertical sliding buoy on tube guides founded on the seabed to produce electricity, essentially characterized by a tube founded on the rock of the seabed with concrete reinforcement and footing, the height of which exceeds the level of high tide and that of the highest point achieved by a wave in the area to avoid flooding the place or chamber where an electric generator is housed and the conduit through which the cable that transports electricity to land or power plant runs produced by the generator. Said tube has vertically placed guides on its exterior that, with sufficient height, allow the vertical displacement of another concentric tube that, welded to a volumetric shape, forms the buoy and, by rolling on the guides, will ascend or descend according to its flotation and the action of the wave.

In turn, document ES 2273774 claims a system for generating energy from sea waves, comprising at least one floating body, a ballast and a chain or connection cable between said ballast and said floating body, and which also comprises a device arranged inside said floating body to transform the movement of the floating body into pneumatic or hydraulic energy, and means for transmitting energy to the mainland or a fixed structure, characterized in that said device for the transformation of the movement, it comprises a recovery device that allows the recovery of the chain or cable to its initial position, during the descent movement of the wave, said recovery device being arranged inside said floating body.

On the other hand, document ES 2079302 describes a waterwheel for still water, which uses the energy of gravity and buoyancy to obtain mechanical or electrical energy, and is characterized in that it consists of a main pulley where the drive shaft goes. , and a series of mobile elements that hang from it, which are: some mobile parts equidistant from each other, which form the folding tube and which vary of volume as they rise or fall thanks to a closed air circuit inside, with a valve to remove or enter the air, and a cable; and each of these mobile parts consists of 4 elements: a steel disk with a central hole, joined to the steel cable that runs inside; a folding plastic or rubber part, imitating a Chinese lantern, which has fine steel rings on the outer folds, which is hermetically joined at its lower end to the steel disc; an iron or lead disk, with a hole in the center, which is hermetically attached to the upper end of the foldable plastic and through the central hole passes a rubber tube through which the steel cable passes and air circulates; This rubber tube is attached at one end to the steel tube of the lower part of the mobile disc, inside the folding plastic, and at the other end the tube of the fixed disc is attached to the upper mobile part by means of a clamp.

In the aforementioned documents we discover different proposals for generators but none of them is as effective as the one proposed in this document.

Thus we see that until now a generator was not known that, due to its innovative characteristics, resolves the aforementioned drawbacks both in terms of the cited documents and other inventions or traditional systems that we find in the state of the art.

Taking into consideration the mentioned cases and analyzing the conjugated arguments, with the invention proposed in this document, a final result is given in which significant differentiating aspects are provided compared to the current state of the art, and where a series of of advances in the already known elements with their corresponding advantages.

In particular:

• It is possible to obtain electrical energy through an efficient way thanks to the law of gravity.

• Provides great functionality due to its design.

• A device capable of being installed on land without the need to contaminate the seabed is obtained.

• Does not produce polluting waste like other electrical generation systems.

• Requires minimal maintenance.

• Due to its simplicity, manufacturing with elements known in the state of the art allows a final result of moderate cost.

• Produces electricity continuously and constantly.

• An environmentally friendly means of power generation is available.

• The system works autonomously.

• The system can be applied to different sizes of generators. • The generator depends on itself since it works 24 hours a day.

DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

Thus, the present invention is constituted from the following elements: A vertical structure that has a toothed wheel at the upper end and another toothed wheel at the lower end, both wheels being joined by a chain that rotates around said wheels and that It is equipped with a plurality of buckets, while at least one of the wheels is linked to an electric generator, the system having a source of water, natural or recharged from the use of a pump, which fills the buckets with water. buckets making them lower and, therefore, rotate around the wheels, while at the base there is a water tank.

The operation is simple. The water source loads weight on the buckets, making them lower, allowing a continuous rotation that activates the electric generator.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

For a better understanding of this description, a drawing is attached that, by way of non-limiting example, describes a preferred embodiment of the invention:

Figure 1.- Elevation view of the invention.

In these figures the following numbered elements stand out:

1. Top end wheel

2. Bottom end wheel

3. Chain

4. Buckets

5. Electric generator

6. Water fountain

7. Water tank

PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION

A preferred embodiment of the proposed invention is constituted from a vertical structure that has a sprocket at the upper end (1) and another sprocket at the lower end (2), both wheels being linked by a chain (3) that rotates around said wheels and that is provided with a plurality of buckets (4), while at least one of the wheels is connected to an electric generator (5), providing the system with a water source (6), natural or recharged from the use of a pump, which fills the buckets with water, making them lower and, therefore, rotate around the wheels, while at the same time there is a water tank at the base (7 ).

Claims (1)

1.- Hydraulic generator, characterized by being constituted from a vertical structure that has a toothed wheel at the upper end (1) and another toothed wheel at the lower end (2), both wheels being joined by a chain (3) which rotates around said wheels and which is provided with a plurality of buckets (4), while at least one of the wheels is connected to an electric generator (5), the system having a water source (6) , natural or recharged from the use of a pump, while at the base there is a water tank (7).