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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2017
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Stephen Bertram Johnson, Greenville, SC (US);
Xu Chen, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Jamie T. Livingston, Simpsonville, SC (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to a method of manufacturing a rotor blade component of a wind turbine is disclosed. The method includes placing at least one first pultruded member into a curved rotor blade component mold. More specifically, the first pultruded member includes at least one design characteristic configured to allow the first pultruded member to sit substantially flush against an inner surface of the curved rotor blade component mold. The method also includes placing at least one second pultruded member atop the at least one first pultruded member and infusing the first and second pultruded members together to form the rotor blade component.