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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2015
Applicant:
Tpi Composites, Inc., Warren, RI (US);
Inventor:
Zachary Brekenfeld, East Greenwich, RI (US);
Assignee:
TPI COMPOSITES, INC., Warren, RI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F03D 1/06 (2006.01); F03D 13/10 (2016.01); B29D 99/00 (2010.01); B29C 70/34 (2006.01); B29L 31/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F03D 1/0675 (2013.01); B29C 70/34 (2013.01); B29D 99/0028 (2013.01); F03D 13/10 (2016.05); B29L 2031/085 (2013.01); Y02E 10/721 (2013.01); Y10T 156/1002 (2015.01);
Abstract
A wind turbine rotor blade is bonded together at the leading and trailing edges, and including a shear web or webs (the main vertical stiffening member that runs the span of the rotor blade) as an integral part, sharing the inner and outer skins of one or both sides of the blade. The integrated shear web(s) is made into the skin shell, and is an uninterrupted, continuous extension of the shell laminate that is joined to the shell component/components without requiring a secondary bond of any sort. The laminates in the shell and the shear web(s) may differ or be the same.