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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2016
Continuum Dynamics, Inc., Ewing, NJ (US);
Alexander H. Boschitsch, Cranbury, NJ (US);
Alan J. Bilanin, Princeton, NJ (US);
Glen R. Whitehouse, Skillman, NJ (US);
Continuum Dynamics, Inc., Ewing, NJ (US);
Abstract
A lift-driven wind turbine has a turbine rotor with blades mounted to the turbine shaft by two struts hinged to the shaft and each blade to form a four-bar linkage. The blades' airfoil cross section generates lift that rotates the blades around the axis in the presence of a prevailing wind. The airfoil chord forms a geometric angle of attack αrelative to the tangent of the blade path and the struts orient the blades with an outward tilt angle γ. The turbine is designed with values of αand γ that cause the lift generated by each blade to have an upward component that supports the blade against the force of gravity and a mean radially inward component that substantially balances centrifugal forces on the blade. Wind turbines designed according to the principles disclosed herein facilitate the construction of free-floating utility scale wind turbines for deep water installations.