Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy A/s

Thorkil Munk-Hansen

Uffe Eriksen

Jacob Blach Nielsen

Henrik Stiesdal

Giovanni Airoldi

Claus Thygesen

James Kenneth Booth

Peter Hessellund Soerensen

Christian Laursen

Soeren Gundtoft

Claus Michaelsen

Soeren Oemann Lind

Jesper Gaard

Rune Nielsen

Hans Kjaer Blaabjerg

Thyge Skovbjerg Thomsen

Jens Hald Jensen

Jesper Bjerre Pedersen

Xavier Tourde

Steffen Lorentzen

Carsten K Rasmussen

Dennis Suhr Thoegersen

Jens Markussen

Alex Yundong Wang

Claus Nybroe

Puneet Mehta

A stator of an electrical machine is provided including a body axially extending along the longitudinal axis between two opposite axial ends, the body radially extending perpendicular to the longitudinal axis between a radially inner surface and a radially outer surface, wherein at least one of the two opposite axial ends includes a plate inclined with respect to the longitudinal axis of an angle greater than 0° and lower than 90°.

Segment for a generator of a wind turbine

Wind turbine

Provided is a wind turbine, including: plural transformers, including a first transformer and at least one second transformer, the transformers being connectable to at least one generator, in particular via at least one converter, wherein the transformers are arranged within an inside of the wind turbine.

Wind turbine transformer system

A hatch arrangement with at least one slidable hatch for closing an opening in a floor of a wind turbine including a first guiding device fixedly mountable to the floor and a second guiding device pivotably mountable to the floor, a first coupling means to guide the slidable hatch along a first guidance path in the first guiding device and a second coupling means to couple the slidable hatch at least pivotably to the second guiding device, wherein the slidable hatch is coupled to the first guiding device at a first position and to the second guiding device at a second position, wherein a movement of the slidable hatch from a closed position along the first guidance path results in a pivoting movement of the second guiding device and in a movement of the slidable hatch to an open position and vice versa is provided.

Hatch arrangement for closing an opening in a floor of a wind turbine and a wind turbine

A wind turbine is provided, including a container, a fluid which is arranged inside the container, and a damping body which is arranged inside the container, which is immersed in the fluid, and which is configured to move inside the container, wherein the fluid and the damping body are configured to damp oscillations of the wind turbine. A damper system is provided that on the one hand the fluid damps, e.g. by sloshing, and on the other hand the damping body damps by moving at least partially through the fluid.

Provided is a busbar arrangement for a wind turbine generator, the wind turbine generator including a stator and a rotor arranged to rotate around an axis. The busbar arrangement includes a plurality of busbars for transporting electric power away from the generator, wherein each busbar is arranged at an individual radial distance from the axis and at an individual axial position along the axis. Furthermore, a wind turbine and a method of manufacturing a busbar arrangement is provided.

Busbar arrangement for wind turbine generator

Provided is a method for raising or lowering a load parallel to a wind turbine tower, including raising or lowering the load using a cable, and exerting a force acting on the load towards the tower using guiding means supported at the tower. In the present method, a raising or lowering operation is assisted and the undesired movements of the load during raising or lowering are reduced.

Method and apparatus for raising or lowering a load parallel to a wind turbine tower

An assembly system and method for assembling at least one first wind turbine component assembly section of a first wind turbine component of a wind turbine and at least one second wind turbine assembly section of a second wind turbine component of the wind turbine is provided. The assembly system includes at least one assembly assisting element for joining the two wind turbine components. The assembly assisting element is arranged at the first wind turbine component and the second wind turbine component. The assembly assisting element is arranged at the first wind turbine component and at the second wind turbine component. The assembly assisting element includes at least one guiding element for guiding of the first wind turbine component assembly section and/or for guiding of the second wind turbine assembly section. The wind turbine components are a blade, a hub, a nacelle, a generator or a tower (segments).

Assembly system for assembling of a first wind turbine component of a wind turbine and second wind turbine component of the wind turbine and method for assembling of a wind turbine by using the assembly system

A wind turbine nacelle platform structure including a beam assembly with at least two beams arranged to extend from a front region of a nacelle outward beyond the back end of the nacelle and a platform assembly mounted to the underside of the outward extending portion of the beam assembly. The disclosed further describes a wind turbine including a nacelle mounted on top of a tower, and such a nacelle platform structure secured to the nacelle.

Wind turbine nacelle platform structure

Provided is a wind turbine cooling arrangement, including a first cooling circuit arranged to transport a fluid cooling medium to absorb heat from a first component group; and a second cooling circuit arranged to transport a fluid cooling medium to absorb heat from a second component group, which second cooling circuit includes a primary heat exchanger arranged to dissipate heat from the cooling medium of the second cooling circuit; and a secondary heat exchanger arranged to heat the cooling medium of the first cooling circuit. A wind turbine including a cooling arrangement, and a method of cooling components of a wind turbine is also provided.

Wind turbine cooling arrangement

Wind turbine, having a tower and a nacelle mounted rotatably around a center axis of the tower on top of the tower, the tower having at least one tower lift for transportation and/or at least one tower climbing means, in particular a ladder, for climbing between the bottom of the tower and at least one tower platform inside the tower which allows access to an access arrangement for the nacelle, characterized in that the access arrangement includes an access platform suspended below a bed frame of the nacelle and rotatable with the nacelle and an access climbing means, in particular stairs, and/or an access lift leading from the access platform to an interior of the nacelle.

Wind turbine having an access arrangement for a nacelle

An apparatus for dampening of acoustic noise generated by air-cooling of at least one turbine component provided with the nacelle of a wind turbine is provided. Apparatus for dampening of acoustic noise generated by air-cooling of at least one wind turbine component provided with the nacelle of a wind turbine, comprising at least one acoustic dampener, with the acoustic dampener including at least one acoustic dampening channel structure having at least one acoustic dampening channel connected with at least one inlet opening of the acoustic dampening channel structure and at least one outlet opening of the acoustic dampening channel structure.

Apparatus for dampening of acoustic noise generated by air-cooling of at least one wind turbine component provided with the nacelle of a wind turbine

A sealing arrangement includes an interface seal part arranged between a stationary element of a wind turbine and a rotary element of the wind turbine. The interface seal part is arranged to establish a seal between an interior of the stationary element and an exterior environment. Also a brake disc is realized to accommodate at least a portion of an interface seal part of such a sealing arrangement. Also described is a wind turbine which includes the sealing arrangement and the brake disc.

Sealing arrangement for a wind turbine

An improved transformer arrangement of a wind turbine is provided. A wind turbine transformer arrangement comprises a transformer that is arranged in the wind turbine. The transformer comprises a housing. The transformer housing is filled with an oil. The transformer arrangement comprises at least one decompression chamber and the interior of the transformer housing is connected to the interior of the decompression chamber by a pressure release tube in a way that an increase in the pressure in the transformer housing due to a malfunction of the transformer is transferred through the pressure release tube into the decompression chamber.

Wind turbine transformer arrangement

An airflow control arrangement for a direct-drive wind-turbine with a generator comprising a rotor and a stator, which airflow control arrangement comprises an outflow fan arranged to draw an exit airflow through an exit duct, which exit duct extends from an interior cavity of the stator to the exterior of the wind turbine. The invention further describes a direct-drive wind turbine comprising such an airflow control arrangement. The invention further describes a method of controlling an airflow in a direct-drive wind-turbine with a generator comprising a rotor and a stator is provided.

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