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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2017
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
James Robert Tobin, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Norman Arnold Turnquist, Sloansville, NY (US);
Stephen Bertram Johnson, New Castle, NH (US);
Don Conrad Johnson, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Thomas Merzhaeuser, Munich, DE;
Peggy Lynn Baehmann, Glenville, NY (US);
Stefan Herr, Greenville, SC (US);
Murray Fisher, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Andrew McCalip, Houston, TX (US);
Alan M. Walker, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Todd Anderson, Niskayuna, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for manufacturing a rotor blade panel of a wind turbine includes placing one or more fiber-reinforced outer skins into a mold of the rotor blade panel. The method also includes printing and depositing, via a computer numeric control (CNC) device, a plurality of rib members that form at least one three-dimensional (3-D) reinforcement grid structure onto an inner surface of the one or more fiber-reinforced outer skins. Further, the grid structure bonds to the one or more fiber-reinforced outer skins as the grid structure is deposited. Moreover, the method includes printing at least one additional feature into the grid structure.