SHAFTLESS HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINE

Abstract

The invention relates to the shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine for generating electricity from the flow of fluid. The major components of the shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine consist of a stator and a rotor. The major components of the stator consist of a set of copper coils installed along a circular circumference of the stator frame and electrically connected as the Star connection (3-phase) circuit. The major components of the rotor consist of at least a set of the turbine blade, roller, and magnet set. The turbine blade has optimized an obtuse angle (θ.sub.T) of the turbine blade holder and a rotation angle (θ.sub.R) between the turbine blade holder and turbine blade to create the open channel in the middle of the shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine, which is shaped like a nozzle without shaft at the center of horizontal axis wind turbine.

Claims

1. A shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine for generating electricity from the current flow of fluid comprising a stator and a rotor wherein, the stator comprising: a stator frame having a plurality of thin plates containing a circular-shape aperture located at the center of the plate larger than the rotor rotatable within the aperture of the stator structure, a plurality of holes installed around the aperture for supporting a plurality of coil screws attaching a plurality of coil sets to the stator frame; a coil set containing conductive coil coated with air core insulators which is the centered-hollow square shape coil, coated with anti-electrical or chemical reaction materials: made by non-conductive and anti-corrosion resin protecting the electrical or chemical reactions with the conductive coil coated with air core insulators; and attached to a plurality of L-shape coil-holders wherein the shorter part contains a hole for hooking up the coil set with the stator frame and the longer part contains a plurality of holes for hooking up the conductive coil coated with air core insulators to form as one coil set to be installed at the plurality of holes around the aperture of the stator frame, wherein a plurality of the coil sets are orderly arranged as a circle and electrically connected as the 3-phase circuit of a star connection, which is to separate all coil sets into three sets wherein each coil set is connected in forms of a series circuit by connecting end to end of each coil respectively until reaching to the last coil of each coil set, and then connect the three coil sets together, by means of connecting the last coil of the three coil sets together and connecting the first coils of the three coil sets together and to a control unit; a control unit as a box, containing a circuit board and electronic devices within, installed on the stator structure, determined to generate produced-electricity for use; and a cover, being in a circle shape with two opened end for being supported fluid flowing wherein its base has a plurality of holes for hooking up the cover with the stator structure, having a diameter larger than that of the outer circumference of the assembled coil sets, wherein the cover is determined to protect defects might being occurred to a parts of the stator and attached to the stator frame by a plurality of cover screws and washers determined to receive and distribute the load of the screws and protect damages might being occurred to the holes of the cover from the screws; and the rotor comprising: a blade set having a plurality of blades having thickness of at least 1 millimeters (mm) connected to a blade holder, as a hollow cylindrical tube containing at least a hole on its surface for attaching the screw, determined to hold a blade attaching shaft rotatably twisting the blades to make an acute angle (θ.sub.R) for making a current flow of fluid originated from a fluid current flow generator to collide with the blades and rotate the rotor wherein the blades are adhered to the blade holder by adhering material; the blade attaching shaft, being in a longer stick having a hole at one end, rotatably twistable to make an obtuse angle (θ.sub.T) with respect to a rotor attaching shaft at the rotor attaching shaft's hollow core wherein the rotor attaching shaft, being in a shorter stick, has two holes oppositely places at one end for being attached to a screw and a nut and a plurality of holes along the stick for reducing load to, strengthening, and protecting damages might be occurred to the shaft during the use; a roller unit having: a plurality of supporting rollers, being as a thick ring with a slope outer ring surface at one edge, attached to a plurality of weight bearing rollers, helping the rotor rotate within the stator structure; a ball-bearing, attached to the supporting rollers and the weight bearing rollers, determined to minimize friction and rotational stiffness of the roller unit during the rotation of the rotor; and a roller axis, being as a stick, attached to the hole of a rotor frame at one end, twisted to attach with the supporting rollers, the weight bearing rollers, and the ball-bearings at the other end to the rotor frame as well as rotating the roller unit, wherein the roller unit, installed at least three sets on both sides of the rotor frame at the rotor frame's holes by a plurality of roller axes and roller nuts, are determined to control the whole rotor to rotate within the frame of the stator structure; wherein a plurality of blade sets are equally arranged and aligned along a radius of the rotor frame, by a plurality of rotor attaching shafts being inserted to the holes of the rotor frames on the side as the outer location of fluid current flow and by blade attaching nuts on the other side; and a plurality of magnets, being as a rectangular stick, determined to create magnetic force lines intersecting the coils to create the induced electromotive force (emf), installed on a plurality of magnetic pickup metal plates at the same numbers of the magnets coated with a rust-proof agent or paint with a thickness equal to or greater than that of the magnets, and attached at the outer circumference of a hollow magnetic attaching frame connected at the rotor frame with a plurality of L-shape rotor frame's holders, wherein the shorter part contains a hole for hooking up the rotor frame by a plurality of screws and the longer part contains a plurality of holes for hooking up the hollow magnetic attaching frame at its inner circumference by adhering material; wherein the magnets, attached to the frame and the rotor frame holder, roundly moves through the coil sets installed on the stator frame, generating electricity for use wherein the magnetic pickup metal plates play a role in reflecting the magnetic force lines of the magnets to flow into the side of the coil set.

2. The shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine of claim 1, wherein a stator frame is made of plastic, acrylic, or Aluminum.

3. The shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine of claim 1, wherein the blade is made of plastic, acrylic, aluminum, or Aluzinc coated metal.

4. The shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine of claim 1, wherein the blade has a cross-section in any shape.

5. The shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine of claim 1, wherein the adhering material is high-strength adhesives namely super glue, epoxy, silicone glue or acrylic glue, or other welding materials namely iron, zinc, aluminum or plastic.

6. The shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine of claim 1, wherein the blade attaching shaft and the blade holder are made of plastic, acrylic, metal, or wood.

7. The shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine of claim 1, wherein the weight bearing roller is made of natural or synthetic rubber.

8. The shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine of claim 1, wherein the blade is rotatably twistable to make an obtuse angle (θ.sub.T) between the blade attaching shaft and the rotor attaching shaft and to make an acute angle (θ.sub.R) between the blade and the blade attaching shaft causing a bent of the blade to the outer location as the same direction of fluid flow; and wherein the blade has a given length producing a space for ventilating the current flow of fluid at a ventilation system, to flow through the shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine for generating electricity from the current flow of fluid to the outer location without flowing backward to the fluid current flow generator.

9. The shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine of claim 3, wherein the blade has a cross-section in any shape.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING

[0008] The invention is herein described, by way of example only, with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein:

[0009] FIG. 1 illustrates one example of parts in a perspective view of the shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine.

[0010] FIG. 2 illustrates one example of a stator and rotor of the shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine.

[0011] FIG. 3 illustrates one example of exploded view of the stator of the shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine.

[0012] FIG. 4 illustrates one example of exploded view of the rotor of the shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine.

[0013] FIG. 5 illustrates one example of parts of a set of coils of the shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine.

[0014] FIG. 6 illustrates one example of an installation method of the set of coils on the stator structure of the shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine.

[0015] FIG. 7 illustrates one example of an electrical circuit connection in form of a Star connection (3-phase) circuit of the set of coils connection for the shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine.

[0016] FIG. 8 illustrates one example of parts of a blade set of the shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine.

[0017] FIG. 9 illustrates one example of cross-section views of the blade used for the shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine.

[0018] FIG. 10 illustrates one example of parts of a roller set of the shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine.

[0019] FIG. 11 illustrates one example of an extended view of the shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine.

[0020] FIG. 12 illustrates another example of an extended view of the shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine.

[0021] FIG. 13 illustrates one example of a ratio in terms of size of parts of the shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine.

[0022] FIG. 14 illustrates one example of a ratio in terms of size between parts of the shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine and a fluid current flow generator

[0023] FIG. 15 illustrates one example of an installation method of the shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine in case there is no installation problem of confined space.

[0024] FIG. 16 illustrates one example of installation positioning of the shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine.

[0025] FIG. 17 illustrates one example of an installation method of the shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0026] FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 illustrates examples of parts in a perspective view of the shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine for generating electricity from the current flow of fluid according to the invention comprising a stator (2) and a rotor (3).

[0027] FIG. 3 illustrates one example of exploded view of the stator (2) of the shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine for generating electricity from the current flow of fluid according to the invention comprising:

[0028] a stator frame (4), preferably made of plastic, acrylic, or aluminum, having a plurality of thin plates as in any shape containing a circular-shape aperture larger than the rotor (3) having a clearance helping supporting rollers (34) and weight bearing rollers (35) of a roller unit (14) attached to a rotor frame (19), helping the rotor (3) rotate within the stator frame (4),

[0029] wherein the stator frame (4) has a plurality of tap holes installed around the aperture for supporting a plurality of coil screws (10), by torque to allow the screws to penetrate onto the holes on the stator frame (4), attaching a plurality of coil sets (23) to the stator frame (4);

[0030] a coil set (23), according to FIG. 5, containing enameled conductive coil which winding is the air-core type (5) which is the centered-hollow square shape coil, where the coil set (23) is coated with anti-electrical or chemical reaction materials (6) made by non-conductive and anti-corrosion resin to prevent the electrical or chemical reactions with the conductive coil coated with air core insulators (5) and attached to a plurality of L-shape coil-holders (7) wherein the shorter part contains a hole for hooking up the coil set (23) with the stator frame (4) and the longer part contains a plurality of holes for hooking up the conductive coil coated with air core insulators (5) to form as one coil set (23) to be installed at the plurality of holes around the aperture of the stator frame (4),

[0031] wherein a plurality of the coil sets (23) are orderly arranged as a circle, according to FIG.

[0032] 6, and electrically connected as the 3-phase circuit of the Star (Y) connection, which is to separate all coil sets (23) into 3 sets wherein the first set (L1) contains a coil set (23) of C1, C4, C7, C10, C13, C16, C19, C22, C25, C28, C31, and C34, the second coil set (L2) contains a coil set (23) of C2, C5, C8, C11, C14, C17, C20, C23, C26, C29, C32, and C35, and the third set (L3) contains a coil set (23) of C3, C6, C9, C12, C15, C18, C21, C24, C27, C30, C33, and C36, where all coil sets are connected to each other, in forms of the Series circuit connecting end to end of each coil together, by connecting one end of the first coil to one end of the second coil, connecting the other end of the second coil to one end of the third coil, and connecting the other end of the third coil to the one end of the next coil respectively until reaching to the last coil of each set, and then connect the three coil sets (23) together, by means of connecting the last coil of the three coil sets (23) together and connecting the first coils of the three coil sets (23) together and to a control unit (8);

[0033] a control unit (8) as a box, containing a circuit board and electronic devices within, installed on the stator frame (4), determined to generate produced-electricity for use; and

[0034] a cover (9), being in a circle shape with two opened end for being supported fluid flowing wherein its base has a plurality of holes for hooking up the cover with the stator frame (4), having a diameter larger than that of the outer circumference of the assembled coil sets (23), wherein the cover is determined to protect defects might being occurred to a parts of the stator (2) and attached to the stator frame (4) by a plurality of cover screws (11) and washers (12) determined to receive and distribute the load of the screws and protect damages might being occurred to the holes of the cover from the screws.

[0035] FIG. 4 illustrates one example of parts of the rotor (3) of the shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine comprising:

[0036] a blade set (13) having a plurality of blades (24), being in any shape as shown in FIG. 9, wherein the blade (24) has one of cross-section shapes of rectangular (9a), curve (9b), early airfoil (9c), later airfoil (9d), Clark “Y” airfoil (9e), Lamina flow airfoil (9f), circular arc airfoil (9i), or double wedge airfoil (9i) determined to collide with the wind rotating the blade, by means of converting kinetic energy into mechanical energy to transfer the force to the rotor (3), [0037] preferably made of plastic, acrylic, aluminum, or Aluzinc coated metal having thickness of at least 1 millimeters (mm) in order to maintain its durability and not to be twisted and deformed while being hit by the wind, [0038] connected to a blade holder (26) , as a hollow cylindrical tube containing at least a hole on its surface for attaching the screw (27), determined to hold a blade attaching shaft (25) rotatably twisting the blades (24) to make an acute angle (θ.sub.R) (33) for making a current flow of fluid (40) originated from a fluid current flow generator (39) to collide with the blades (24) and rotate the rotor (3);

[0039] the blade attaching shaft (25), being in a longer stick having a hole at one end, rotatably twistable to make an obtuse angle (θ.sub.T) (32) with respect to a rotor attaching shaft (28), being in a shorter stick, having two holes oppositelyplaces at one end for being attached to a screw (29) and a nut (30), wherein at the hollow core of the rotor attaching shaft (28) a plurality of holes along the stick for reducing load to, strengthening, and protecting damages might be occurred to the shaft (28) during the use, [0040] wherein the blades (24) are adhered to the blade holder (26) by adhering material (31), being as a thin plate, preferably selected from high-strength adhesives namely super glue, epoxy, silicone glue or acrylic glue, or other welding materials namely iron, zinc, aluminum or plastic, and [0041] wherein the blade attaching shaft (25) and the blade holder (26) are preferably made of plastic, acrylic, metal, or wood, and [0042] wherein parts of the blade set (13) are able to be partly manufactured and assembled to be the blade set, or manufactured as one workpiece by molding, milling, cutting, 3D injection or 3D printing; and

[0043] a roller unit (14), as shown in FIG. 10, having [0044] a plurality of supporting rollers (34), being as a thick ring with a slope outer ring surface at one edge for supporting two axes, attached to a plurality of weight bearing rollers (35), preferably made of natural or synthetic rubber, helping the rotor (3) rotate within the stator frame (4) without slipping while rotating; [0045] a ball-bearing (36), attached to the supporting rollers (34) and the weight bearing rollers, determined to minimize friction and rotational stiffness of the roller unit (14) during the rotation of the rotor (3); and [0046] a roller axis (37), being as a stick, attached to the hole of a rotor frame (19) at one end and twisted to attach with the supporting rollers (34), the weight bearing rollers (35), and the ball-bearings (36) at the other end to the rotor frame (19) as well as rotating the roller unit (14).

[0047] According to FIG. 4, the roller unit (14) is installed at least three sets on the both sides of the rotor frame (19) at the rotor frame's holes where the rotor frame (19) is as a ring with a hollow core for receiving a current flow of fluid, ventilated from a ventilation system (41), and being able to flow through the shaftless turbine for generating electricity from the current flow of fluid without flowing backward to the fluid current flow generator (39),

[0048] wherein the rotor frame (19) has a plurality of holes for being installed the roller unit (14) by a plurality of roller nuts (22) and roller axes (37) inserted through the hole on the rotor frame (19) determined to control the whole rotor (3) to rotate within the frame of the stator frame (4);

[0049] wherein a plurality of blade sets (13) are equally arranged and aligned along a radius of the rotor frame (19), by a plurality of rotor attaching shafts (28) being inserted to the holes of the rotor frames (19) on the side as the outer location of fluid current flow and by blade attaching nuts (21) on the other side; and

[0050] a plurality of magnets (15), being as a rectangular stick, determined to create magnetic force lines intersecting the coils to create the induced electromotive force (emf), installed on a plurality of magnetic pickup metal plates at the same numbers of the magnets (16) coated with a rust-proof agent or paint with a thickness equal to or greater than that of the magnets (15), and attached at the outer circumference of a hollow magnetic attaching frame (17) connected at the rotor frame (19) with a plurality of L-shape rotor frame's holders (18) wherein the shorter part contains a hole for hooking up the rotor frame (19) by a plurality of screws (20) and the longer part contains a plurality of holes for hooking up the hollow magnetic attaching frame (17) at its inner circumference by adhering material; and [0051] wherein the magnets (15), attached to the frame (17) and the rotor frame holder (19), roundly moves through the coil sets (23) installed on the stator frame (4), generating electricity for use wherein the magnetic pickup metal plates (16) play a role in reflecting the magnetic force lines of the magnets (15) to flow into the side of the coil set (23) in order to increase a degree of magnetic field strength acting on the coil set (23) and generate more electricity.

[0052] The shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine for generating electricity from the current flow of fluid characterizes in that:

[0053] the blade (24) is rotatably twistable to make an obtuse angle (θ.sub.T) (32) between the blade attaching shaft (25) and the rotor attaching shaft (28) and to make an acute angle (θ.sub.R) (33) between the blade (24) and the blade attaching shaft (25) causing a bent of the blade to the outer location as the same direction of fluid flow; and

[0054] the blade (24) has a given length producing a space (38), as in the diameter of D.sub.H having at least a quarter of the diameter of D.sub.T of the turbine, according to FIG. 13 that the current flow of fluid (40) is ventilated from a ventilation system (41) for generating electricity from the current flow of fluid to the outer location without flowing backward to the fluid current flow generator (39), as shown in FIG. 14, and drive the rotor (3) to rotate.

[0055] The shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine for generating electricity from the current flow of fluid is able to be being applied to any fluid flow stream such as natural wind, exhaust air from a ventilation system with a fan is the power source to ventilate the fluid flow from one location to another, or liquid drained through pipelines by a mechanical power unit or by gravity, etc.

[0056] FIG. 15 illustrates one example of an installation method of the shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine for generating electricity from the current flow of fluid, in case there is no installation problem of confined space. Furthermore, the shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine according to the invention, having a smaller size, is able to be placed next to the larger turbine in order to receive the fluid flow current, ventilated from the larger turbine (41), as a power source to drive the rotor (3) for further generating electricity.

[0057] FIG. 16 illustrates one example of installation positioning of the shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine for generating electricity from the current flow of fluid according to the invention, wherein the turbine is capable of being installed in the direction of the fluid flow ventilated from the fluid current flow generator (39) at the horizontal axis as shown in 16a, or at the vertical axis from bottom-to-top as shown in 16b, or at the vertical axis from top-to-bottom as shown in 16c,

[0058] wherein the distance (G) between the blades of the fluid current flow generator (39) and the shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine at or more than 2 millimeters (mm).

[0059] FIG. 17 illustrates one example of an installation method of the shaftless horizontal axis wind turbine for generating electricity for use from the current flow of fluid according to the invention, wherein the turbine is able to be installed by directly attaching to the fluid current flow generator (39) with a turbine holder (42) as shown in 17a, or on a mounting base (43) on the floor or against the wall (44) independently separated from the fluid current flow generator as shown in 17b.