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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2012
Felix Widmer, Winterthur, CH;
Felix Widmer, Winterthur, CH;
WRH WALTER REIST HOLDING AG, Ermatingen, CH;
Abstract
An installation for generating electrical energy from hydropower includes a drive arrangement that revolves around two deflection units distanced to one another and that can be driven in a revolving direction, with a load section running along a gradient. The drive arrangement includes a plurality of gravitational pressure transmission units that are arranged one after the other in the revolving direction, are distanced to one another and, in each case, include an onflow element. The installation also includes a generator for generating electrical energy from the revolving drive arrangement. The gravitational pressure transmission units include guide elements, and the installation includes at least one guide rail along the load section, in which guide rail guide elements of the gravitational pressure transmission units are displaceable so that the gravitational pressure transmission units, at least in the region of the load section, are guided between the two deflection units.