Land vehicle for transporting people and/or goods
A land vehicle for transporting people and/or goods comprising a device for transforming kinetic wind energy into electrical energy, positioned in a front housing of the vehicle exposed to the wind against the direction of travel.
1 . A land vehicle for transporting people and/or goods, comprising:
an electronic control unit,
a vehicle advancement speed sensor operatively connected to the electronic control unit,
one or more atmospheric sensors operatively connected to the electronic control unit and configured to sense conditions external to the vehicle, the one or more atmospheric sensors comprising at least one temperature sensor,
a device configured to transform the kinetic energy of the wind into electric energy, said device comprising at least one variable geometry wind turbine with orientable blades, positioned in a front housing of the vehicle exposed to a wind against the direction of travel, said electronic control unit being configured to communicate with said speed sensor and with said one or more external atmospheric condition sensors and to control said device in real time on the basis of said advancement speed of the vehicle detected by said speed sensor and said environmental conditions external to the vehicle detected by said one or more external atmospheric condition sensors, and
a conveyor of the flow of wind against the direction of travel connecting said turbine to an outer front suction mouth of said housing communicating with the atmospheric environment external to the vehicle, wherein said outer front suction mouth is positioned at a vertical front wall of said vehicle in a grille of a hood of said vehicle.
2 . The land vehicle for transporting people and/or goods according to claim 1 , further comprising a storage battery for storing the electrical energy generated by said device.
3 . The land vehicle for transporting people and/or goods according to claim 1 , wherein said conveyor comprises a conduit converging with a decreasing section towards the turbine.
4 . The land vehicle for transporting people and/or goods according to claim 1 , said device further comprising, downstream of said at least one turbine, ejection means for ejecting said flow of wind coming from said turbine towards the atmospheric environment external to the vehicle.
5 . The land vehicle for transporting people and/or goods according to claim 4 , wherein said ejection means comprise a conduit diverging with an increasing section from said turbine.
6 . The land vehicle for transporting people and/or goods according to claim 5 , said ejection means further comprising at least one ejection mouth for ejecting said flow of wind towards the atmospheric environment external to the vehicle.
7 . The land vehicle for transporting people and/or goods according to claim 1 , further comprising at least one additional suction mouth positioned at a vertical front wall of said vehicle, on a side of said vehicle, at a front opening door of said vehicle, below said vehicle, or behind said vehicle.
8 . The land vehicle for transporting people and/or goods according to claim 1 , wherein said suction mouth has a shutter with variable opening configured to modulate the flow of air that enters.
9 . The land vehicle for transporting people and/or goods according to claim 8 , wherein said shutter has orientable or reconfigurable wings, a sliding partition, or two appropriately shaped plates able to slide longitudinally on one another to open and close relevant holes present thereon.
10 . The land vehicle for transporting people and/or goods according to claim 4 , wherein said device has a system for defrosting said wind turbine of said conveyor, of said ejection means and of said shutter.
11 . The land vehicle for transporting people and/or goods according to claim 1 , wherein said one or more external environmental condition sensors further comprise a rain sensor and/or a humidity sensor.
12 . The land vehicle for transporting people and/or goods according to claim 1 , wherein said electronic controller is configured to regulate in real time the geometry of said wind turbine in relation to the current running conditions detected by said speed sensor.
13 . The land vehicle for transporting people and/or goods according to claim 1 , wherein said electronic controller is configured to regulate in real time the opening of said suction mouth in relation to the current running conditions detected by said speed sensor.
14 . The land vehicle for transporting people and/or goods according to claim 11 , wherein said electronic controller is configured to close said suction mouth and to deactivate said wind turbine when the humidity sensor and/or the rain sensor indicate the presence of atmospheric phenomena.
15 . The land vehicle for transporting people and/or goods according to claim 1 , wherein an axis of rotation of the turbine is parallel to the flow of wind against the direction of travel as the flow of wind enters the suction mouth.
16 . The land vehicle for transporting people and/or goods according to claim 9 , wherein said shutter comprises the orientable or reconfigurable wings, wherein each respective orientable or reconfigurable wing comprises two mutually hinged half-parts configured to move between an open configuration of the shutter where the half-parts are fully folded, a partially closed configuration of the shutter where the half-parts are partially unfolded, and a closed configuration of the shutter where the half-parts are completely unfolded.
17 . The land vehicle for transporting people and/or goods according to claim 9 , wherein the shutter comprises the sliding partition, the sliding partition comprising a first plate having a first plurality of holes defined there through and a second plate having a second plurality of holes defined therethrough, the first plate disposed upstream of the second plate relative to the flow of wind through the shutter, wherein the first plate and second plate are configured to slide longitudinally relative to one another to move between an open position wherein the first plurality of holes are fully aligned with the second plurality of holes, a partially closed position wherein the first plurality of holes are partially aligned with the second plurality of holes, and a closed position wherein the first plurality of holes are fully misaligned with the second plurality of holes.