Multi-Axial Variable Height Wind Turbine with Tilting Boom
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional wind turbines face challenges in capturing varying wind speeds and directions due to their fixed orientation and high maintenance costs, especially when located in hazardous areas, and are not optimized for vertical wind components.
Innovation Solution
A multi-axial variable height wind turbine system with a tilting boom and counterweight system that allows for horizontal and vertical alignment, along with a turbine pitch controller for selective adjustment, enabling the turbine to move between raised and lowered positions and rotate multi-axially to optimize wind energy capture.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional fixed-orientation wind turbines are used, then结构简单性 (structural simplicity) is maintained, but adaptability to varying wind speeds and directions deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements multi-axial variable height wind turbines with dynamic adjustment capabilities. The turbine blades can rotate around multiple axes (horizontal and vertical) and adjust their height dynamically to track wind patterns, transforming a static structure into a dynamic one that adapts to changing wind conditions in real-time
Solution Approach 2:
The invention adds vertical rotation capability to the traditional horizontal-axis wind turbine, creating a multi-axial system that operates in three-dimensional space. This dimensional expansion allows the turbine to capture wind from various directions including vertical components, significantly improving adaptability to varying wind patterns
2Productivity
If wind turbines are positioned at high locations to capture productive wind, then energy capture efficiency is improved, but maintenance safety and cost deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs variable height positioning where turbines can be dynamically raised to optimal wind capture locations and lowered for maintenance. This dynamic height adjustment allows the system to achieve high productivity during operation while ensuring safety during maintenance by bringing turbines to accessible heights
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates automated tracking and adjustment mechanisms that enable the wind turbines to self-position and self-adjust without requiring constant human intervention at heights, reducing maintenance risks while maintaining optimal energy capture positions
3Power
If large rotor blades with reduction gear boxes are used, then power generation capacity is improved, but cost and complexity deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes the reduction gear box from the system entirely, extracting this complex mechanical component that caused maintenance issues and high costs. The design achieves power generation without traditional mechanical reduction mechanisms, simplifying the overall system while maintaining capacity
Solution Approach 2:
The invention replaces mechanical reduction gear boxes with alternative mechanisms such as direct-drive systems or electromagnetic coupling, substituting complex mechanical transmission with simpler or different physical principles to achieve the same power generation function with reduced complexity
4Adaptability or versatility
If multi-axial rotation mechanisms are added to capture vertical wind components, then adaptability to varying wind patterns is improved, but device complexity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent adds vertical rotation capability to the traditional horizontal-axis turbine, enabling multi-axial operation. This dimensional enhancement allows the turbine to capture wind from multiple directions including vertical components, significantly improving adaptability to varying wind patterns while distributing the rotational mechanism across different axes
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This design reduces maintenance costs, improves energy capture efficiency by adapting to changing wind conditions, and allows for safer and more efficient operation by reducing the size and weight of the turbine, thus lowering installation and maintenance expenses.
Implementation Method 1
a rotor having a plurality of rotor blades extending radially from the central hub to an outer circumferential support
Implementation Method 2
a generator mounted to the central hub and operationally connected to the rotor
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention, a multi-axial variable height wind turbine, includes a wind turbine, a structural support, a tilting boom extending between said structural support and said wind turbine, a multiaxial drive mechanism extending upwardly from said structural support for receiving said tilting boom where the multiaxial drive mechanism operationally connects the tilting boom to the structural support for rotation along a plurality of axes. The tilting boom includes a counterweight system positioned opposite said wind turbine which includes a moveable mass which is moved along the tilting boom by a drive mechanism for movement of the wind turbine between a raised position and a lowered position. The wind turbine also includes a plurality of pitched blade members extending between an inner hub and an outer ring.