Patent ID: 8011876

Claim:
A Wind Driven Power Generator, comprising: a shroud having a rotational base fixedly attached to a plurality of rotational base guides; a structure base having an annular shaped receiving rotational track that the rotational base guides rotate within; a turbine shaft having a top portion and a shaft end, the shaft end extending through the rotational base of the shroud and through the structure base; at least one elongate arm having a first arm end and a second arm end, the arm fixedly attached proximate the top portion of the turbine shaft equidistant from the first arm end and the second arm end, each of the at least one arm is essentially perpendicular to the turbine shaft, the at least one elongate arm is hollow, wherein a portion of the incoming wind is forced through the arm at the first arm end to the wind side of the wind blade at the second arm end thereby relieving a drag created by a negative pressure on the wind blade on the second arm end; and a plurality of vertically oriented wind blades attached to each of the first arm end and the second arm end, each of the wind blades having a wind side, and a back side opposite the wind side, the wind blades spaced equidistantly apart around the turbine shaft; wherein the shroud surrounds and covers approximately half of the at least one arm while rotating within the rotational base guides such that an opening in the shroud allows an incoming wind to contact the wind side of the wind blades exposed in the opening while the shroud shields the back side of each of the wind blades, the shaft rotates independently from the shroud and the shaft end is coupled to a rotational energy conversion device.