Patents by Inventor Nigel Peter Webb Protter

Nigel Peter Webb Protter has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8013462
    Abstract: A wave energy converter has a primary body interconnected to a secondary body such that the bodies may oscillate longitudinally relative to one another. A slug mass is visco-elastically connected to the primary body. The slug mass has effective mass, stiffness and damping characteristics. A generator is drivingly connected between the primary and secondary bodies. The generator has a load damping characteristic. At least one of the characteristics is dynamically controllable, allowing the bodies' longitudinal motion to be varied in response to wave motion changes of the wave environment in which the wave energy converter is deployed, to maintain out-of-phase oscillation of the bodies, thus increasing the driving force imparted to the generator and thereby increasing the generator's electrical energy output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: SyncWave Energy Inc.
    Inventors: Nigel Peter Webb Protter, Bradley Jason Buckham, Scott James Beatty
  • Publication number: 20090146429
    Abstract: A wave energy converter (100, 200 or 300) has a primary body (102, 202 or 302) interconnected to a secondary body (104, 204 or 304) such that the bodies may oscillate longitudinally relative to one another. A slug mass (106, 208 or 308) is visco-elastically connected to the primary body. The slug mass has effective mass, stiffness and damping characteristics. A generator (108, 216 or 316) is drivingly connected between the primary and secondary bodies. The generator has a load damping characteristic. At least one of the aforementioned characteristics is dynamically controllable, allowing the bodies' longitudinal motion to be varied in response to wave motion changes of the wave environment in which the wave energy converter is deployed, to maintain out-of-phase oscillation of the bodies, thus increasing the driving force imparted to the generator and thereby increasing the generator's electrical energy output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: SYNCWAVE ENERGY INC.
    Inventors: Nigel Peter Webb Protter, Bradley Jason Buckham, Scott James Beatty