Patents Assigned to Technology From Ideas
  • Patent number: 9308969
    Abstract: A mooring component comprises a plurality of different deformable elements formed of an elastomeric material. The component has a tensile length L and at least one of the elements has a length L?<L. As the mooring component comprises a plurality of different elastomeric elements, each having its own unique elastic (i.e. reversible) stress-strain response, the overall response of the component is a composite elastic response resulting from a combination of the responses of each of the plurality of elastomeric elements. The mooring component can form part of a mooring system for floating devices and sea-based structures such as renewable energy devices, including wave energy conversion devices, tidal turbines and tidal platforms, fish farms, oil rigs and off-shore wind farms, especially in low scope or high variability environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Technology From Ideas Limited
    Inventor: Paul McEvoy
  • Patent number: 8667791
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a damper for damping the reactionary motion of a wave energy conversion device to wave motion, comprising a damping energy absorber (7) having a reversible non-linear stress-strain response, arranged to damp the reactionary motion of the WEC. According to a first aspect, there is provided a damping structure (2) for a wave energy conversion device (1). The structure comprises a fixed member (6), and a damping member (7) having a reversible non-linear stress-strain response. The present invention also relates to a mooring component (2) for a mooring system (1) and to a method for manufacturing a mooring component (2). The component comprises a deformable element (6) having a reversible non-linear stress-strain response, wherein the response is a composite reversible non-linear stress-strain response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Technology From Ideas, Limited
    Inventors: Paul McEvoy, Robert Healy
  • Patent number: 8439784
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a braking system (1). The system comprises an annulus gear (3) having a fluid contained therein and at least one planet gear (4), arranged within the annulus gear and rotatably engaged therewith. The system further comprises means (10) for controlling the flow of fluid within the system to control relative rotational motion between the planet gear and the annulus gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Technology from Ideas, Limited
    Inventor: Ali El-Zein
  • Patent number: 8049356
    Abstract: Wave energy conversion device (WEC) comprising a means for damping the reactionary motion of a wave energy conversion device to wave motion, which is a cylindrical bellowed elastomeric member that acts under axial compression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignees: E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company, Technology From Ideas
    Inventors: Christophe Chervin, Anthony Loth
  • Publication number: 20100101474
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a damper for damping the reactionary motion of a wave energy conversion device to wave motion, comprising a damping energy absorber (7) having a reversible non-linear stress-strain response, arranged to damp the reactionary motion of the WEC. According to a first aspect, there is provided a damping structure (2) for a wave energy conversion device (1). The structure comprises a fixed member (6), and a damping member (7) having a reversible non-linear stress-strain response. The present invention also relates to a mooring component (2) for a mooring system (1) and to a method for manufacturing a mooring component (2). The component comprises a deformable element (6) having a reversible non-linear stress-strain response, wherein the response is a composite reversible non-linear stress-strain response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: Technology From Ideas Limited
    Inventors: Paul McEvoy, Robert Healy