VERTICAL OR HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEM: THE CARDIOID PRINCIPLE, QUO-VADIS

摘要

This invention is in the field of windmills. The new machine converts wind energ y into electricity, efficiently and low price of construction. This is an application for a patent for a new machine with a mobile surface, rea cting to the wind power input force, and constrained to move by two parallel cardioids rails guides support. The system is coupled to the electric generator, via belts to the integrator (pr incipal shaft) to transmit the cardioid movement of the mobile surface on the rail support, into a rotational movement of the principal shaft. There are many advantages to this system compared to other windmill existent or proposed devices of comparable size, that utilize wind energy as source of input. Lower e nvironmentally disturbing factors, such as noise, a more compact and safe device to low speed i nvolved.