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SHARED FLOATING WIND TURBINE FOUNDATION ARRAY WITH ANGLE-ADJUSTABLE ELASTIC MOORINGS

Resumen de: US20260192889A1

A shared floating wind turbine foundation array with angle-adjustable elastic moorings is formed by connecting floating wind turbine foundations. Each floating wind turbine foundation includes a wind turbine tower, upper pontoons, a truss framework, lower mooring drums, a lower wind turbine hollow pile, a fixed static mooring line and a shared anchor; the lower wind turbine hollow pile includes a lifting plate, a hydraulic rod and a hydraulic device, the elastic chamber is internally provided with a pressure plate and an elastic device; and a first electric winch and a second electric winch are arranged in the winch chamber, and the first electric winch and the second electric winch drive the rotation of the adjacent lower wind turbine hollow piles by adjusting a length difference between the first power mooring line and the second power mooring line, thereby changing an angle of the adjacent wind turbine towers.

METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FREE-FLOATING NAUTICAL STATIONKEEPING

Resumen de: US20260192894A1

0000 Methods and systems are provided for nautical stationkeeping of free-floating objects. In one example, a method includes adjusting translational motion of a body freely floating in water by rotating the body. The translational motion may be adjusted, for instance, to maintain the body within a geographic area. In certain examples, the adjustment of the translational motion may be realized via a Magnus effect induced by rotating the body. The body may be configured as, for example, a free-floating object such as a wave engine.

MOORING SYSTEM STATUS MONITORING FOR FLOATING OFFSHORE WIND TURBINE

Resumen de: US20260192890A1

0000 A method of monitoring a mooring system (10) of a floating offshore installation, FOI, (100) that is moored by the mooring system (10) is provided. The method comprises obtaining parameters related to a position of the FOI, wherein the parameters include at least mooring system parameters that are indicative of a region (15) within which a position of the FOI is expected to lie. The method further includes obtaining position measurements of an actual position (11) of the FOI, and deriving, from the obtained parameters and from the position measurements of the FOI, a state of the mooring system (10) of the FOI.

TENSION-LEG FLOATING FOUNDATION, CONSTRUCTION METHOD AND WIND TURBINE GENERATOR SET

Resumen de: WO2026144995A1

A tension-leg floating foundation, comprising: a floating body (200), the floating body comprising a main column (210) and connectors (220) spaced apart from each other around the main column, the main column being configured to be connected to a wind turbine body, and one end of each connector being connected to a second end portion (210b) of the main column; and a plurality of tension assemblies (100) arranged spaced apart from each other around the floating body, each tension assembly comprising a tension leg (11) and a mooring connection portion (12), one side of each tension leg being universally connected to the connector, the other side thereof protruding from the connector toward the side where a first end is located, the mooring connection portion being arranged on the side of the tension leg protruding from the connector in an axial direction (X), and a mooring cable (300) being provided corresponding to each tension leg, wherein each tension leg is provided with a clearance cavity (115) runing therethrough in the axial direction, one end of the mooring cable is inserted into the clearance cavity and connected to the mooring connection portion, and the other end of the mooring cable is configured to be fixedly connected to the seabed. The tension-leg floating foundation can reduce the construction difficulty and construction cost of a wind turbine foundation. Further provided are a construction method and a wind turbine generator set.

OPERATING A FLOATING WIND TURBINE

Resumen de: EP4549728A1

A method of operating a floating wind turbine (FWT) is provided. The floating wind turbine (100) comprises a nacelle (105) and a rotor (101) mounted to the nacelle (105), wherein the floating wind turbine (100) is exposed to waves during operation, the waves causing a wave induced motion of the floating wind turbine (100). The floating wind turbine (100) is configured to operate a protective function (30). The method comprises obtaining wave information (17) indicative of the waves to which the floating wind turbine (100) is exposed and modifying the operation of the protective function (30) using the obtained wave information (17) to reduce an influence of the wave induced motion of the floating wind turbine (100) on the protective function (30).

Self-adjusting type mariculture platform

Resumen de: CN224460880U

The self-adjusting type mariculture platform comprises installation frames and a culture box arranged between the installation frames, wind power generation heads are arranged at the tops of the installation frames, automatic gravity center adjusting structures are arranged at the bottoms of the installation frames, and the bottoms of the automatic gravity center adjusting structures are fixed to the seabed through connecting chains and seabed anchoring parts. The gravity center automatic adjusting structure comprises a supporting rod and an installing base internally provided with a containing cavity, a rectangular adjusting base is arranged in the containing cavity, an X-axis sliding rail is arranged in the X-axis direction of the adjusting base, and a supporting base is arranged on the X-axis sliding rail. By improving the mounting seat at the bottom of the wind power generation head and utilizing the gravity center adjusting mechanism at the lower part of the mounting seat, when the wind power generation head encounters the acting force of sea wind, the weight body is driven to slide in the inclined reverse direction through the sliding of the Y-axis sliding rail and the X-axis sliding rail on the adjusting seat and the supporting seat, and the posture is quickly recovered through inertia; therefore, the purpose of adjusting the stability is achieved, and the problem of excessive fish escape caused by large floating of the net cage under sea wave fluctuation is avoided.

Righting and clamping device for floating transportation of offshore wind power foundation and wind power equipment

Resumen de: CN224452974U

The utility model discloses a floating transportation offshore wind power foundation and a righting and clamping device of wind power equipment. The offshore wind power foundation comprises a self-floating cylindrical foundation, the telescopic tower drum is fixed on the drum-type foundation, a floating platform is arranged around the drum-type foundation, N layers of square frames are built on the floating platform, and N is greater than or equal to 1; the telescopic tower drum is located in each layer of square frame, left and right slideways are arranged on the front frame and the rear frame of each layer of square frame, and a pair of clamping beams used for clamping and straightening the tower drum is arranged on the slideways in a sliding fit mode; two ends of each clamping beam are bridged on the slideways of the front frame and the rear frame; driving devices for driving the pair of clamping beams to move oppositely or reversely are arranged on the left side frame and the right side frame of each layer of square frame; grooves are formed in the opposite side surfaces of the pair of clamping beams; when the pair of clamping beams clamps the tower drum, the tower drum is located in the grooves of the pair of clamping beams. The self-adaptive hoop fixing and dynamic righting functions of the tower drum in the floating transportation process are achieved, and the stability of the tower drum under the complex sea condition is ensured.

Universal joint

Resumen de: CN224452976U

The universal joint comprises a joint body, pin shaft holes are formed in the two ends of the joint body, and the axes of the pin shaft holes in the two ends of the joint body are perpendicular to each other; pin shafts penetrate through the pin shaft holes in the two ends of the connector body, and clamping grooves clamped with the clamping plates are formed in the two ends of the pin shafts. The lug plates are fixedly connected with the adapters at the top of the tower, the inhaul cables are connected to the floating type draught fan foundation, and after the adapters are connected to the floating type draught fan foundation through the inhaul cables, the adapters can rotate in two directions relative to the inhaul cables.

Floating type tension leg fan platform foundation

Resumen de: CN224448108U

A floating type tension leg fan platform foundation belongs to the field of offshore wind power and comprises a central buoy, side buoys, cross braces, tension tendons and auxiliary buoys. Wherein the cross brace is used for connecting the two side buoys; the tension tendons are arranged at the lower ends of the side buoys; the auxiliary buoy is formed into a cylinder provided with a first through hole in the axial direction, and the space between the hole wall curved surface of the first through hole and the outer side face of the cylinder is a hollow containing space. Wherein the auxiliary buoy is arranged on the cross brace through a first through hole formed between the two bottom faces, the containing space of the auxiliary buoy is used for loading or unloading ballast water, and the displacement of the auxiliary buoy is smaller than that of the center buoy and the side buoys. And the effects of protecting the cross brace and adjusting the ballast water amount of the buoy are achieved, and therefore the possibility that the platform is damaged, repaired and unstable is reduced.

Mooring System for Drifting Energy Converters

Resumen de: AU2026204575A1

Disclosed is a system that maintains the relative and/or absolute geographical positions of two or more buoyant devices floating in a body of water. A plurality of formation restoring tethers are disclosed which permit the unrestricted vertical movement of networked buoyant devices, while resisting increases in their lateral separations by providing restoring forces to oppose such separations. Tensioning mechanisms incorporated into the tethers generate the resistance to the lateral separations of two or more entities by transforming such separations into an increase in the potential energy stored within such tensioning mechanisms, the potential energy of which is released in the process of restoring the original separations and/or positions of the displaced buoyant devices. un u n

FLOATING POWER GENERATION SYSTEM

Resumen de: AU2025210149A1

A floating power generation system incorporates a scotch yoke mechanism that is coupled with an electrical generator to produce power and is actuated by a fin assembly having a plurality of fins that move or pivot from a first pivot position to a second pivot position. The fins are coupled with the yoke of the scotch yoke by a cable to move the yoke back and forth in a reciprocating motion. As the fins move back and forth from one side of the water flow direction to the other, the yoke reciprocates and turns the flywheel to produce electrical power. The floating power generation system may employ two fin assemblies, wherein a first fin assembly directs water through the plurality of first fins into the plurality of second fins of the second fin assembly to force the second fins in an opposing pivot orientation from said first fins.

SUBSEA POWER COLLECTION SYSTEM INCLUDING A DISTRIBUTED TRANSFORMER ARRANGEMENT

Resumen de: US20260189016A1

A power collection system for collecting power from a plurality of offshore power generation units comprises a three-phase sub-grid and a subsea power substation. The sub-grid has a plurality of power input points towards the power generation units and a shared three-phase power output point. The power substation is connected to the power output point, and its secondary side is arranged to be connected to a power consumer. The power substation shall comprise three one-phase transformers, which are contained in respective housings, wherein each housing is arranged to rest on the seabed and to be liftable to the sea surface separately from the other housings. Each phase of the power output point is connected to a primary side of a corresponding one of the one-phase transformers.

Steel and concrete combined floating wind power platform

Resumen de: CN224409567U

The utility model provides a steel and concrete combined floating wind power platform. The steel and concrete combined floating wind power platform comprises a supporting column assembly and a buoy assembly. The supporting column assembly is made of structural steel and comprises a main column, a cross brace and a side column, the top of the main column is connected with a wind turbine generator, and the side column is connected with a mooring system. The buoy assembly is made of concrete and comprises a main buoy, connecting buoys, side buoys and heaving plates, and the buoys are spliced through bolts to form a multi-cavity buoyancy structure. The platform has the advantages of high strength of a steel structure and low cost and high buoyancy of concrete, the modular design facilitates transportation and installation, the heaving plate effectively inhibits vertical movement, and the stability and economical efficiency in the deep and far sea environment are improved.

Floating body quick butt joint device with cable elastic structure

Resumen de: CN224409566U

The utility model discloses a floating body quick butt joint device with a cable elastic structure, and relates to the technical field of floating body butt joint, the floating body quick butt joint device comprises a mounting rack, fixed seats, guide wheels, a mounting seat and a floating plate body, the fixed seats are arranged at two ends of the mounting rack, the guide wheels are arranged on one side, close to the fixed seats, of the mounting rack, and the floating plate body is arranged on the mounting rack. Mounting seats are arranged at the two ends of the mounting frame and are symmetrically distributed at the two ends of the mounting frame. A cable is mounted in a guide wheel along a fixed seat, meanwhile, the cable is rotationally wound along a tightening wheel, and a driving motor can be started, so that the driving motor can rotate a rotating rod connected with the output end, and the rotating rod can rotate the connected tightening wheel when rotating; and then the tightening wheel can quickly tighten the mooring rope, so that the quick docking device for the floating body can have a better tightness adjusting effect during use.

FLOATING OFFSHORE SUPPORT STRUCTURES

Resumen de: WO2026132131A1

A support structure suitable for a floating offshore wind turbine comprises a floater and upright tension legs extending from respective leg anchors to the floater The legs correspond to side edges of a prism, with upright side faces of the prism being defined between neighbouring legs. Additionally, inclined tensile braces extend diagonally across the side faces from individual or shared brace anchors to the floater. Each tension leg lies in a plane that extends between a pair of the braces, the braces of the pair extending across respective adjoining side faces and converging downwardly toward that plane. Braces of different pairs cross each other with mutually opposed inclination as they extend across the side faces.

FLOATING PLATFORM FOR WIND TURBINE

Resumen de: WO2026130731A1

The invention relates to a floating platform (10) for supporting a tower (1) with a wind turbine (2) for harnessing wind energy. The floating platform (10) comprises a floating element (11) and an adaptive mooring system for automatically achieving a substantially vertical alignment of the tower (1) at different wind speeds. The adaptive supporting system comprises a mooring rope (21) coupled to the floating platform (10) and configured for fixing said mooring rope (21) via a ground anchor (50) to the ground (101), a cantilever beam (25) with a proximal end (24) attached to the floating platform (10) and a distal end (26), the mooring rope (21) being coupled to the distal end (26), and a weight (22) coupled to said mooring rope (21) and being positioned below the cantilever beam (25), wherein a variable position of the weight (22) with respect to the cantilever beam (25) supports a compensation of forces from the wind acting on the wind turbine (2) such that the orientation of the tower (1) is substantially vertical.

FLOATING STRUCTURE AND OFFSHORE WIND POWER GENERATION APPARATUS COMPRISING SAME

Resumen de: WO2026135204A1

A floating structure is disclosed. A floating structure according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a center column to which a tower including an offshore wind power nacelle is connected; pontoons each having a plurality of sides and connected to the center column; outer columns each arranged between the plurality of sides of the pontoons; and connection members connecting the pontoons and the center column, wherein the pontoon comprises concrete portions, in the plurality of sides, connected to the outer columns and forming both end portions of the plurality of sides, and a steel material portion disposed between the concrete portions at both end portions of the plurality of sides and connecting the concrete portions arranged at the both end portions of the plurality of sides. The connection member is coupled to the steel material portion such that the pontoons can be connected to the center column.

TUBE ELEMENT FOR FLOATABLE OFFSHORE SUPPORT STRUCTURE FOR WIND TURBINE

Resumen de: NL2035634B1

Title: Tube element for floatable offshore support structure for wind turbine Abstract Method of forming a tube element for use as a longitudinal section of a brace for a truss structure of a floatable offshore support structure for a wind turbine, comprising: providing four elongate flat steel plates each extending along a longitudinal direction and having two opposite lateral edges; deforming each plate such that, along the longitudinal direction, a transverse shape of the plate smoothly transitions between a rectilinear shape and an arcuate shape; and forming the tube element by interconnecting the four deformed plates along their lateral edges. The interconnected plates each form a respective circumferential section of the tube element, wherein along the longitudinal direction, a transverse shape of the tube element smoothly transitions from a circular shape to a rectangular shape. The tube element may connect a cylindrical further tube element of the brace with a further part of the floatable offshore support structure. Fig 1

Un sistema de conexión para una turbina eólica mar adentro flotante contra la intemperie y sistema

Resumen de: CN119773915A

A connection system for connecting a wind-swinging floating offshore support structure of a wind turbine to a pre-laid mooring system, the connection system comprising: a turret element comprising: a base for stable connection to the pre-laid mooring system; a support element comprising switching means connectable to one or more subsea cables and connectable to receive the power generated by the wind generator; a cylindrical body extending from the base to the support element and including an internal passage; and a bearing system configured to rotatably connect the turret element to the wind-oscillating floating offshore support structure; and a slip ring connector including a first connection member for receiving power generated by the wind generator and a second connection member cable connectable to the switching device.

Wind-powered computing buoy

Resumen de: AU2026202729A1

Disclosed is a novel type of computing apparatus which is integrated within a buoy that obtains the energy required to power its computing operations from winds that travel across the surface of the body of water on which the buoy floats. Additionally, these self-powered computing buoys utilize their close proximity to a body of water in order to significantly lower the cost and complexity of cooling their computing circuits. Computing tasks of an arbitrary nature are supported, as is the incorporation and/or utilization of computing circuits specialized for the execution of specific types of computing tasks. And, each buoy’s receipt of a computational task, and its return of a computational result, may be accomplished through the transmission of data across satellite links, fiber optic cables, LAN cables, radio, modulated light, microwaves, and/or any other channel, link, connection, and/or network. pr p r

Fabricated offshore wind power construction platform

Resumen de: CN224363287U

The utility model relates to an assembly type offshore wind power construction platform, which comprises a platform foundation structure and a platform upper structure, the platform foundation structure comprises four steel pipe piles, the four steel pipe piles are inserted into the sea according to four vertexes of a rectangle, a plurality of brackets are annularly welded at a certain height on each steel pipe pile at equal intervals, and the brackets are connected with the platform upper structure. The platform upper structure comprises four steel sleeves arranged according to the four vertexes of a rectangle, steel trusses are welded among the four steel sleeves in the transverse direction and the longitudinal direction respectively, a plurality of distribution beams are welded to the steel trusses, and a platform panel is welded to the distribution beams. The upper ends of the four steel pipe piles are inserted into the four steel sleeves respectively, and the lower ends of the four steel sleeves are supported on the brackets of the four steel pipe piles respectively. The platform upper structure can be welded into a whole on the land, the platform upper structure is inserted into the steel pipe pile through the floating crane, the field welding amount is small, and the mounting and dismounting speed is high.

Underwater anchoring device of floating type ocean wind power generation platform

Resumen de: CN224361342U

The utility model provides an underwater anchoring device of a floating type ocean wind power generation platform, belongs to the technical field of offshore wind power platform positioning, and effectively solves the problem that an existing offshore power generation floating platform is low in stability. According to the technical scheme, the device comprises two foundations which correspond to each floating platform and are poured on the seabed below the floating platform, a concrete pile is prefabricated in each foundation, a plurality of through positioning holes are evenly formed in the top face of each concrete pile in the circumferential direction, and a positioning component which is poured together with the corresponding concrete pile and the corresponding foundation is installed in each positioning hole; and traction mechanisms are fixedly connected between the concrete piles and the corresponding floating platforms. The underwater anchoring device of the floating type ocean wind power generation platform has the advantages of being capable of improving stability and reliability of the platform after the platform is anchored underwater.

Method of installing a floating platform at sea

Floating type fan mounting structure

Resumen de: CN224352043U

The utility model discloses a floating type fan mounting structure which comprises a floating mounting table, a fan mounting plate is arranged at the top of the floating mounting table, a fan fixing seat is fixedly connected to the top of the fan mounting plate, a sleeve column mechanism is arranged at the top of the fan fixing seat, and a pedestal is arranged between the floating mounting table and the fan mounting plate. Fixing supporting legs are connected to the corners of the bottom of the fan mounting plate, a connecting piece is fixedly connected to the bottom of the floating mounting table, a first triangular frame is fixedly connected to the bottom of the connecting piece, a fixing ring is fixedly connected to the bottom of the first triangular frame, an anchoring cable is connected to the surface of the fixing ring, and a plurality of traction steel cables are connected to the surface of the first triangular frame in a winding mode; according to the floating type draught fan installation structure, anchoring treatment can be automatically conducted on the bottom when the anchoring rope is broken, and the stability of the whole draught fan installation structure is guaranteed.

WIND POWER SYSTEM

Nº publicación: US20260160233A1 11/06/2026

Solicitante:

JIVISHOV VUSAL [AZ]
Jivishov Vusal

Resumen de: US20260160233A1

0000 The invention relates to wind power generation, and more particularly to systems for producing power at sea using floating vessels. The invention solves the problem of providing more efficient use of floating wind power systems. The problem of interest is solved in that a wind power system comprises a floating base in the form of a ship having on its deck three wind turbines on vertical posts, one of which is disposed on a fixed platform on the fore part of the deck, said ship additionally being provided with two rotating platforms, capable of moving in a horizontal plane, for receiving the other two wind turbines, wherein the rotating platforms are arranged symmetrically along the sides of the aft part of the ship, one on the left and the other on the right, with one end of each rotating platform being hinged to the hull of the ship and the other end supporting the base of a wind turbine post, the posts of all three wind turbines being mounted so that they can be raised and lowered and being coupled to their respective platforms by hinged joints, wherein each post is provided with its own lowering and raising mechanism, and each rotating platform is provided with its own mechanism for movement in a horizontal plane.