Title: Method for collecting energy from swell and plant for carrying out said method

Abstract: A method and apparatus for collecting energy from a swell in a fluid medium using a mobile float which is displaceable in response to movements of the swell. The float is submergible in the fluid medium at a predetermined depth selected such that, in the absence of movement of the fluid medium, the upwardly and downwardly directed forces acting on the float counterbalance each other so that the float is in equilibrium at such predetermined depth. The buoyancy of the float is adjusted to maintain it in equilibrium.

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Inventors: Lorphelin, Michel (75017 Paris, FR)

Application Number: 846123
Filing Date: 1977-10-27
Publication_date: 1979-12-11
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Primary Class(es): 60/496 60/506, 417/332
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

1156355	Oct, 1915	Fisher	417/331.
4081962	Apr, 1978	Liv et al.	60/501.

Other Refs: 181431

Jun, 1922	GB

Primary Examiner: Ostrager, Allen M.
Assistant Examiner: Husar, Stephen F.
Attorney: Lerner, David, Littenberg & Samuel