The Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks of Indian Government has recently published, in The Patent Office Journal (page 469), that a patent application has been filed for an invention in tidal power generation.
Lee Han Seok and Moon Je Kyung, South Korean inventors, filed the application in January 2012 for a tidal energy system comprising three water reservoirs and an electricity generation apparatus.
The Patent Office Journal specifies the device: “The first water reservoir includes a first water gate and a second water gate. The second water reservoir is adjacent to the first water reservoir. The second water reservoir includes a third water gate and a fourth water gate. The third water reservoir is adjacent to the first water reservoir and the second water reservoir. The third water reservoir is connected to the second water gate and the fourth water gate.
“The electricity generation apparatus is disposed between the first water reservoir and the second water reservoir and generates electricity using a water turbine rotated by water discharged from the first water reservoir to the second water reservoir.”
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Offshore WIND Staff, February 19, 2013; Image: DHI