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Granted Patent B2
US 11,353,003 · App. 16/834,349 · Granted Jun 7, 2022

Wind turbine blade and wind turbine

Inventors: Claus Burchardt (Gistrup, DK); Soeren Randrup Daugaard Henrichsen (Vodskov, DK); Ashish Pawar (Aalborg, DK)
F03D1/0675F03D80/30F05B2240/30Y02E10/72
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Patent No.
US 11,353,003
App. No.
16/834,349
Granted
Jun 7, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a wind turbine blade for a wind turbine, the wind turbine blade including a root, a tip, a trailing edge, a leading edge and at least two beams including carbon fiber-reinforced plastic and being spaced apart from one another, wherein the at least two beams are arranged in the wind turbine blade in the longitudinal direction of the wind turbine blade at the trailing edge or within a distance of 25% of the width from the trailing edge, whereby the at least two beams are electrically connected to one another by at least one electrically conductive member and at least one of the at least two beams and/or at least one of the at least one electrically conductive member is configured to be connected to a down conductor of the wind turbine.

Claims (37)

1. A wind turbine blade for a wind turbine, the wind turbine blade comprising a root, a tip, a trailing edge, a leading edge and at least two beams having carbon fiber-reinforced plastic and being spaced apart from one another, wherein the wind turbine blade has a width measured in a width direction from the trailing edge to the leading edge, wherein the at least two beams are arranged in the wind turbine blade in the longitudinal direction of the wind turbine blade at the trailing edge or within a distance of 25% of the width from the trailing edge, wherein the at least two beams are electrically connected to one another by means of at least one electrically conductive member and wherein at least one of the at least two beams and/or at least one of the at least one electrically conductive member is configured to be connected to a down conductor of the wind turbine.

2. The wind turbine blade according to claim 1 ,

wherein

at least one of the at least one electrically conductive member is a flexible electrically conductive strip.

3. The wind turbine blade according to claim 1 ,

wherein

at least one of the at least one electrically conductive member is arranged at the outer circumference of the trailing edge.

4. The wind turbine blade according to claim 1 ,

wherein

at least one of the at least one electrically conductive member is a carbon fiber roving or a copper mesh.

5. The wind turbine blade according to claim 1 ,

wherein

at least one of the at least one electrically conductive member has a length measured in the longitudinal direction of at least 1% of the length of the wind turbine blade.

6. The wind turbine blade according to claim 1 , wherein

the wind turbine blade further comprises an adjacent electrically conductive member adjacent to the at least one electrically conductive member, wherein the at least one electrically conductive member and the adjacent electrically conductive member are arranged at a distance of 0.1% to 5% of the length of the wind turbine blade from one another.

7. The wind turbine blade according to claim 1 , wherein

at least one of the at least two beams is arranged at the trailing edge or within a distance of 3% of the width of the wind turbine blade from the trailing edge.

8. The wind turbine blade according to claim 7 ,

wherein

the at least one of the at least two beams arranged at the trailing edge or within a distance of 3% of the width of the wind turbine blade from the trailing edge is at a distance of 3% to 15% of the width of the wind turbine blade from any other of the at least two beams.

9. The wind turbine blade according to claim 1 , wherein

at least two of the at least two beams are arranged opposite to one another.

10. The wind turbine blade according to claim 1 , wherein

the wind turbine blade comprises at least three beams spaced apart from one another, wherein the beams are arranged in the longitudinal direction of the wind turbine blade within a distance of 25% of the width of the wind turbine blade from the trailing edge.

11. The wind turbine blade according to claim 10 ,

wherein

each of at least two of the at least three beams is electrically connected to another one of the at least three beams by means of at least one electrically conductive member.

12. The wind turbine blade according to claim 11 ,

wherein

the two beams electrically connected to the another one of the at least three beams by the at least one electrically conductive member are otherwise not electrically connected to each other.

13. The wind turbine blade according to claim 10 ,

wherein

the wind turbine blade has at least one first longitudinal section in its longitudinal direction comprising at least one of the at least three beams and at least one second longitudinal section in its longitudinal direction comprising at least two other of the at least three beams, which are not provided in the at least one first longitudinal section, wherein the beams are connected to one another by means of the at least one electrically conductive member at longitudinal end portions of the beams.

14. The wind turbine blade according to claim 13 ,

wherein

the at least one first longitudinal section and the at least one second longitudinal section are partially overlapping each other in an overlapping section, in which the beams are provided and connected to one another by the at least one electrically conductive member at the longitudinal end portions of the beams.

15. A wind turbine comprising at least one wind turbine blade, the at least one wind turbine blade having a root, a tip, a trailing edge, a leading edge and at least two beams having carbon fiber-reinforced plastic and being spaced apart from one another, wherein the wind turbine blade has a width measured in a width direction from the trailing edge to the leading edge, wherein the at least two beams are arranged in the wind turbine blade in the longitudinal direction of the wind turbine blade at the trailing edge or within a distance of 25% of the width from the trailing edge, wherein the at least two beams are electrically connected to one another by means of at least one electrically conductive member and wherein at least one of the at least two beams and/or at least one of the at least one electrically conductive member is configured to be connected to a down conductor of the wind turbine.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 30, 2021
From: BURCHARDT, CLAUS; HENRICHSEN, SOEREN RANDRUP DAUGAARD; PAWAR, ASHISH
To: SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S
Reel/Frame 055769/0017 →
Priority Claims (1)
EP 19167131 · Apr 3, 2019 · regional
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20200318605A1 · Oct 8, 2020