Richard Evan Navarro

US Patent:

8424300, Apr 23, 2013

Filed:

Jan 20, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/690885

Inventors:

Richard M. Navarro - Corpus Christi TX, US

International Classification:

F16D 31/02
F03B 13/14
F04B 17/00

US Classification:

60398, 290 53, 417331

Abstract:

Sea Electrical Energy Production (SEEP”) unit () is disclosed for using the rise and fall of ocean waves to drive a hydraulic pump () which draws water through a turbine () to drive an electric generator (). The crests and troughs of the ocean waves drive the hydraulic pump () which both draws suction on and pressurizes a reservoir () that receives water discharged from the turbine (). A suction stroke of the hydraulic pump () draws water from the ocean through the turbine (), through a first one-way valve () and into a pressure reservoir (). A pressure stroke of the hydraulic pump () pushes water from the pressure reservoir (), through the second one-way valve () and back into the sea. The turbine () is preferably directly connected to the electric generator () by gears to increases the rate of rotation of applied to the electric generator () when low pressure heads are applied across the turbine ().