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US 8,608,449 · App. 12/960,529 · Granted Dec 17, 2013

Support for a large vertical axis wind turbine

Inventor: Qiang Yan (Shanghai, CN)
Assignee: Qiang Yan
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Patent No.
US 8,608,449
App. No.
12/960,529
Granted
Dec 17, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A support for a large vertical axis wind turbine including a tower frame, a platform, a vertical central axis, and a vertical axis windmill including a plurality of blades and supporting arms. The platform is disposed on the tower frame for installing and fixing a generator. The vertical central axis and the vertical axis windmill are supported by the tower frame. The tower frame is a truss structure and includes at least three sub-tower frames which are in parallel with each other and form a regular polygon from top view. The sub-tower frames are hollow tubes. The ratio of a diameter of the vertical axis windmill to a distance between two adjacent sub-tower frames is between 2.5 and 6. The ratio of the diameter of the vertical axis windmill to a height of the tower frame is between 3 and 0.5.

Claims (26)

1. A large vertical axis wind turbine comprising:

a tower frame, said tower frame being a truss structure and comprising at least 3 sub-tower frames in parallel with each other and forming a polygon from a top view,

a platform disposed on the tower frame for installing and fixing a generator,

a vertical central axis supported on the tower frame, said vertical central axis being hollow with a truss structure disposed therein, and

a vertical axis windmill supported on the tower frame, the vertical axis windmill comprising supporting arms for supporting a plurality of blades of the vertical axis wind turbine,

wherein said supporting arms of said vertical axis windmill are rotatable around said vertical central axis; each of said sub-tower frames is a hollow tube; a ratio of a diameter of said vertical axis windmill to a distance between two adjacent sub-tower frames is between 2.5 and 6; and a ratio of the diameter of said vertical axis windmill to a height of said tower frame is between 3 and 0.5, and

wherein said truss structure in said vertical central axis extends heterogeneously from the bottom to the top, said truss structure at the bottom has a high density and said truss structure on the top has a low density.

2. The large vertical axis wind turbine of claim 1 , wherein said tower frame comprises three sub-tower frames which form a regular triangle from the top view.

3. The large vertical axis wind turbine of claim 1 , wherein said supporting arms are a truss structure and a ratio of a length of said supporting arms to a space between two adjacent trusses is between 13 and 25.

4. The large vertical axis wind turbine of claim 1 , further comprising

a generator, and

optionally a connector, a brake, a transmission, or a gear box,

wherein the generator, connector, brake, transmission, and gear box are disposed under said platform.

5. A large vertical axis wind turbine comprising:

a tower frame, said tower frame being a truss structure and comprising at least 3 sub-tower frames in parallel with each other and forming a polygon from a top view,

a platform disposed on the tower frame for installing and fixing a generator,

a vertical central axis supported on the tower frame, said vertical central axis being hollow with a truss structure disposed therein, and

a vertical axis windmill supported on the tower frame, the vertical axis windmill comprising supporting arms for supporting a plurality of blades of the vertical axis wind turbine,

wherein said supporting arms of said vertical axis windmill are rotatable around said vertical central axis; each of said sub-tower frames is a hollow tube; a ratio of a diameter of said vertical axis windmill to a distance between two adjacent sub-tower frames is between 2.5 and 6; and a ratio of the diameter of said vertical axis windmill to a height of said tower frame is between 3 and 0.5, and

wherein said vertical central axis comprises a plurality of round tubes at intervals which form a circle defining a circumference of said vertical central axis.

6. The large vertical axis wind turbine of claim 5 , wherein said tower frame comprises three sub-tower frames which form a regular triangle from the top view.

7. The large vertical axis wind turbine of claim 5 , wherein said supporting arms are a truss structure and a ratio of a length of said supporting arms to a space between two adjacent trusses is between 13 and 25.

8. The large vertical axis wind turbine of claim 5 , further comprising

a generator, and

optionally a connector, a brake, a transmission, or a gear box,

wherein the generator, connector, brake, transmission, and gear box are disposed under said platform.

Priority Claims (1)
CN 2008 1 0108995 · Jun 5, 2008 · national
Continuity (2)
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