Mooring of arrays of buoy-like WECs

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7886680
APP PUB NO 20070224895A1
SERIAL NO

11710847

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For reducing the number of components required for mooring (by means of three, 120° spaced apart mooring lines) multiple floating wave energy converters (WECs), a group of six WECs is disposed in a hexagonal pattern with each WEC being disposed at a corner of the hexagon. The WECs are connected to one another by mooring lines extending along sides of the hexagon, each WEC thereby being connected by two, 120° spaced apart mooring lines and with each WEC serving as a mooring point for each of its two adjacent neighbors. A third mooring line for each WEC, spaced 120° from the other two mooring lines, is connected to an auxiliary surface buoy and thence to an anchor.

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  • OCEAN POWER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Draper, Mark R Kenilworth, GB 4 49

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