Patent ID: 8497593
Filing Date: 2013-07-30
Classification: F03B,F05B,Y02E

Abstract:
1. A device for capturing wave energy, comprising: a float floating in a surface of a stretch of water subject to waves, said float being fixed in a substantially fixed place so as to prevent said float from drifting and from turning on itself, and so as to enable said float to rock with tilting movements under effect of the waves; a column rigid with the float and extending downward from the float, as far as a lower end, a turbine pivotally mounted at the lower end of the column around a substantially vertical axis of rotation, said turbine being designed so that any tilting movement of the float always results in a torque applied to the turbine in one single same predetermined direction of rotation to rock in said tilting movement with said float and to turn about said axis of rotation with respect to the float when said float rocks under effect of the waves; and an electric generator driven by the turbine.