US 12,135,005 B2
Array for arranging wave energy converters in a wave power park
Francisco Gemo Albino Francisco, Uppsala (SE); and Anders Kronberg, Lysekil (SE)
Assigned to SEABASED LIMITED, Dublin (IE)
Appl. No. 18/008,835
Filed by SEABASED LIMITED, Dublin (IE)
PCT Filed Jun. 7, 2021, PCT No. PCT/SE2021/050542
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 7, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/251879, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 16, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20178669 (EP), filed on Jun. 8, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0213016 A1, Jul. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. F03B 13/00 (2006.01); F03B 13/18 (2006.01); B63B 35/44 (2006.01)
CPC F03B 13/1865 (2013.01) [B63B 35/44 (2013.01); B63B 2035/4466 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An array comprising at least ten wave energy converters and at least one marine substation, each wave energy converter comprising a floating body, a wire, a housing anchored in a seabed or a lakebed, said housing comprising a stator and a seesawing translator, whereby the seesawing translator is connected via the wire to the floating body, each of the at least ten wave energy converters being electrically connected to the marine substation, wherein the at least ten wave energy converters are arranged on a symmetric, open concave line, wherein a symmetry axis is at parallel to a primary wave direction and wherein the marine substation is arranged on the symmetry axis, wherein the at least ten wave energy converters are arranged, equally divided on at least two symmetric, open concave lines, a first symmetric, open concave line and a second symmetric, open concave line, the first symmetric, open concave line being arranged upstream the primary wave direction, the second symmetric, open concave line, wherein the first symmetric, open, concave line and the second symmetric, open, concave line have the same symmetry axis and wherein the wave energy converters that are arranged on the second symmetric, open, concave line further downstream the primary wave direction comprise floating bodies with greater buoyancy than the wave energy converters arranged on the first symmetric, open, concave line further upstream the primary wave direction.