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Studying the patent application: higher winds: Permit
working with less efficiency and such costs for that efficiency. Less
dependent upon the conversion efficiency of the system, when compared with
towered wind turbines.
Pardal and Freire:
- control group
- cable group
- airborne group
- ground station group
- reeler
- roller fairlead component
- roller fairlead system
- inertia wheel
- buoyancy system
- inflated elements
- support system
- aerodynamic system
- Atmospheric Resources Explorer
- payload system
- structural part of the airborne group
- airborne group of systems
- modular
- modularity
- alternator
- torque smoothing device
- air flux
- wing airfoils
- stabilizing tails
- axial controlled rotation
- propulsion system to improve the positioning of the overall platform
against the prevailing wind
- optical fiber for exchange of data between airborne group and ground
station group
- knot formation avoidance
- safety level
- lightning arrestor components
- putting airborne group to higher altitudes during some specially
strong cyclonic weather conditions to save the group from damages
- angle of attack control system
- pillow block bearing
- aerodynamic downforce
- positive net buoyancy
- wing profiles (also referred to as airfoils)
- rotating bodies
- variable configuration element
- The applicants declare that they prefer wing airfoils over the VAWT
Magnus effect devices
- gas leakage
- in-situ production of LTA gases at airborne platform
- inert gas may be obtained from ambient air by removing the oxygen
- scalability
- versatility
- stratosphere
- troposphere
- control box
- airborne group positioning control
- control and safety operations
- slip ring
- rotary transformer
- secondary power system
- aero-generator (conventional) for auxiliary power supply
- magnetic field variation
- Faraday's law
- high altitude platform
- wind friction and accumulation of static charge
- long-term airborne
- physical reconnaissance elements
- cable swivels
- clutch device
- coupling system for obtaining desired rotation speeds
- braking system
- electric current rectifying system
- ballast and/or anchorage system
SPECIAL NOTE: Tether independent streamline components may
double in service as wind-direction sensors; data of such might go to
the control group for possible adjustments.
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