Patent ID: 8466575

Claim:
In an apparatus for extracting energy from waves and swells on a body of water, having no ocean water being transferred during energy extraction, including an assembly having a buoyancy sufficient for maintaining the apparatus afloat in the water, upwardly oriented beams mounted on the assembly, having upper ends connected to one another, the improvements comprising: a) a pendulum which may be solid or filled with sand, seawater or other material, suspended by a rigid member from the upwardly oriented beams and which does not rotate but only swings side to side from wave action upon buoyant parallel members which are not motorized, do not swivel and are held apart a fixed distance by a cross beam and which pendulum does not include a generator or ratcheted pulleys or storage chamber with a compressible air pocket or any wind producing fan or any inboard or outboard arm members and does not serve to pressurize any ocean water b) a hydraulic cylinder mounted between the upwardly oriented beams and the rigid member I pendulum extension assembly, the hydraulic cylinder having a “T” at each end and which cylinder does not function as any part of an articulated loading arm c) hydraulic feeder lines connected to both openings on each of two “T”s on the hydraulic cylinder, being 4 feeder lines per cylinder, with each feeder line fitted with a check valve d) two main hydraulic lines, one pressure and one return to each of which one of the feeder lines fitted with a check valve from each end of the hydraulic cylinder connect e) a hydraulic motor not mounted on the pendulum to which the main hydraulic pressure line connects and which does not function as any component of an articulated loading arm f) a hydraulic fluid reservoir not mounted on the pendulum which supplies hydraulic fluid to the hydraulic motor to which the main hydraulic return line connects.