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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2017
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Yasutaka Kimura, Tokyo, JP;
Takao Kuroiwa, Tokyo, JP;
Kouji Esaki, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiyuki Hirano, Tokyo, JP;
Kentaro Shindo, Tokyo, JP;
Takeshi Fujita, Tokyo, JP;
Keisuke Ota, Tokyo, JP;
MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided are a wind turbine blade, with which effective reinforcement against possible flexural deformation in a longitudinal direction is realized, and a reinforcing method for the wind turbine blade. The wind turbine blade includes a hollow blade main body having a cylindrical blade root portion and extending from the blade root portion along a blade length direction, and a reinforcing plate provided in contact with an inside surface of the blade root portion and formed of an elongated member having a dimension along the blade length direction that is larger than a dimension along a circumferential direction of the blade root portion.