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OrthoKiteBunch (OKB)

See: http://flygenkite.com/    
FlygenKite™  (formerly Manual Flygen)

Intellectual property only, not a hardware company

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• Summer of 2010:   Manual flygen for loading mobile phone or laptop

• See: OrthoKiteBunch presentation at 2010 XXI World Energy Congress

• See: Communication en vue du XXIe Congrès mondial de l’énergie CME Montréal 2010

• http://monsite.orange.fr/ballonsolairebonds/
• Solar air-balloon   Pierre Benhaïem  
  Design US Pat. D394631    Filing date: Aug 2, 1994      Issue date: May 26, 1998
• A couple of his solar-balloon photos is on Solar-Balloons
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• Pierre Benhaïem of France, as a non-enterprise contributing national team reporting representative in AWEIA,  officially entered his application for AWEIA membership as a founding member.   In agreement with the founding circle he envisions synergy under his following expressions:               Possible actions:                     -develop my projects.                     -enter ideas for a classification of AWE.                     -report related information in France.                     -have contacts with eventual economic, politic, or industrial actors                      to raise an interest for AWE in France.           Pierre Benhaïem Pierre Benhaïem has joined other national and regional AWEIA reporting representatives. If you wish to join the France team, please contact Pierre and AWEIA.  Nominations are open for other nation teams.

• OrthoKite is one of the two systems of OrthoKiteBunch (OKB) and lets a perpendicular transmission between lines and lever according an oscillating motion to right and to left and crosswind flat or bended trajectories. Prototype characteristics: lever length: 1 m kite area: 1.5 m² lines: 18 m Tries on 01/31/2010: wind speed: 2 m/s <wind speed<3m/s torque: 100 Nm kite speed: until 18 m/s area swept: 50 m² angular speed: 1.5 rad/s punctual power: 150 W covered angle of lever motion and kite flight : + - 100° These tries show that OK system does not generate losses like loss due to the loss of relative wind speed with linear systems, or losses because of kite entering out-of-flight window. Cost of the system (without kite, dynamometer, and further generator): $15-to-$20; so every person can verify these indications by experimenting with the system by oneself. More details and photos of the first prototype for interested persons. Pierre B                     M1081

  June 11, 2011 Hi all, My technical paper about OKB has been accepted by the WEC for publication and for presentation at Congrès Mondial de l'Énergie 2010. I thank Harry Valentine for the information and for contacts, and Joe Faust and Dave Santos for advices. I must give the response for registration and provide the registration fee (1700 CA $) on June 15. My actual position is no registration (too heavy with travel, etc., and in rapport with my profession), only publication. But before a definitive decision I would like your advice about an eventual registration?  Do you think a presentation at Congress would be necessary? PierreB                                                   M1623

• Terms:  OrthoKite system,  swiveling tray, KiteBunch system, kite trajectory,
  linear AWE, linearAWE, cyclic AWE, cyclicAWE, OrthoKiteBunch, OK, OKB, Manual Flygen, FlygenKite™

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