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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2022

Filed:

Aug. 20, 2018
Applicant:

Vestas Wind Systems A/s, Aarhus N., DK;

Inventors:

Riccardo Cingolani, Tradate, IT;

Joris Kofman, Aalborg Ø, DK;

Kim Bredo Rahbek, Hadsten, DK;

Assignee:

Vestas Wind Systems A/S, Aarhus N., DK;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F03D 13/40 (2016.01); F03D 80/50 (2016.01); F03D 80/80 (2016.01); F03D 15/00 (2016.01); B66C 23/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F03D 13/40 (2016.05); B66C 23/207 (2013.01); F03D 15/00 (2016.05); F03D 80/50 (2016.05); F03D 80/80 (2016.05); F05B 2230/61 (2013.01); F05B 2240/916 (2013.01);
Abstract

A wind turbine () comprising a tower () and one or more nacelles () mounted on the tower () is disclosed, at least one of the nacelle(s) () housing one or more drive train components () and a transportation system for moving drive train components () of the wind turbine (). The transportation system comprises one or more sliding rails () configured to carry a drive train component () during movement, and one or more sledges (). Each sledge () is movably connected to a sliding rail (), and configured to be attached to a drive train component (), thereby allowing the drive train component () to move along the sliding rail(s) (). Each sliding rail () comprises two or more rail modules () being detachably connected to each other along a direction of movement defined by the sliding rail ().


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