8 patents
Utility
Lightning protection system for wind turbine
14 Feb 23
Provided is a wind turbine including a generator enclosed in a generator housing, the generator housing including a rotating housing and a stationary housing, whereby the rotating housing is separated from the stationary housing by a first gap; a canopy mounted on a tower and including an electrical connection to a down conductor of the tower, wherein the canopy is separated from the generator housing by a second gap; a lightning current path provided by a plurality of brush assemblies mounted on the stationary housing, wherein a brush assembly includes a brush holder mounted on the stationary housing such that a carbon brush extends across the first gap to make electrical contact with the rotating housing; and an electrical connector extending across the second gap to electrically connect the brush holder to the canopy.
Lars Lysgaard, John Nieuwenhuizen
Filed: 20 Aug 20
Utility
Flexible balsa wood panel, a rotor blade, a wind turbine and a method
2 Aug 22
A flexible balsa wood panel for a rotor blade of a wind turbine, including a plurality of balsa wood modules and a polymer film which is attached to a surface of each balsa wood module to connect the balsa wood modules together is provided.
Harald Stecher, Thomas Bro Wernlund
Filed: 16 Jan 19
Utility
Equipment tower having a concrete plinth
27 Jul 21
An equipment tower includes a foundation, a cast-in-place concrete plinth extending vertically from the foundation, and a tower portion extending vertically from the plinth.
James D. Lockwood, Matthew J. Chase, Luis E. Carbonell
Filed: 3 Aug 16
Utility
Cooling arrangement for a wind turbine
18 May 21
A nacelle for a wind turbine extends along a longitudinal axis between a front side where a wind rotor is rotatably attachable to the nacelle for rotating about the longitudinal axis and a longitudinally opposite rear side is provided.
Ebbe Groenheden
Filed: 3 Apr 20
Utility
System and method for installing a tensioning tendon in a wind turbine tower
23 Mar 21
A system and method for installing a post-tensioning tendon (130) in an equipment tower (100).
Matthew J. Chase, James D. Lockwood, Guy Russell
Filed: 9 Aug 16
Utility
Support structure for a wind turbine blade
1 Jun 20
Provided is a support structure for a wind turbine blade and a method for manufacturing a support structure for a wind turbine blade The support structure includes a frame structure including a first section and a second section which are spaced apart with respect to each other along a first direction such that a section of a wind turbine blade is arrangeable in-between the first section and the second section.
Peter Andresen, Witold Zareba
Filed: 18 Nov 18
Utility
Wind turbine with a nacelle including a water draining device
30 Mar 20
A wind turbine with nacelle includes an electrical generator, a cooling circuit including at least two cooling fans for channeling a fluid cooling medium from the electrical generator to an outer wall of the nacelle and a draining device for channeling drainage water from the cooling fans to an outer wall of the nacelle.
Giovanni Airoldi
Filed: 21 Oct 18
Utility
Rotor blade with noise reduction means
9 Dec 19
A rotor blade with a leading edge and a trailing edge, wherein the rotor blade is designed and configured for being exposed to a fluid flowing substantially from the leading edge to the trailing edge) of the rotor blade, the rotor blade includes at least one sensor for detecting flow characteristics of the fluid, and the rotor blade further includes at least one actuator for producing an anti-noise signal.
Peder Bay Enevoldsen, Stefan Oerlemans, Bodo Richert, Bo Birkemose
Filed: 3 May 17
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