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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2017
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Koji Fukami, Tokyo, JP;
MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A wind turbine blade includes a blade body; and a vortex generator mounted to a surface of the blade body. The vortex generator includes a plurality of fin sets, each fin set including a plurality of fins disposed to protrude from the surface of the blade body at different positions from one another in a blade spanwise direction. The plurality of fin sets is positioned so that, in a planar development view of the surface of the blade body, an angle θ formed by a center axis of a blade root of the blade body with a line connecting two of the fin sets which are adjacent in the blade spanwise direction increases toward the blade root, at least in a part of a region of the blade body between a position of the blade root and a maximum chord-length position of the blade body in the blade spanwise direction.