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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:
Sep. 06, 2022

Filed:

Oct. 01, 2019
Applicant:

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);

Inventors:

Nathaniel Benedict Hawes, Milton, NY (US);

Yuntao Xu, Clifton Park, NY (US);

Nidhishri Tapadia, Arvada, CO (US);

David Allan Torrey, Ballston Spa, NY (US);

Anbo Wu, Clifton Park, NY (US);

Assignee:

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H 7/00 (2006.01); H01P 1/18 (2006.01); H02K 55/04 (2006.01); H03H 7/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H 7/001 (2013.01); H01P 1/18 (2013.01); H02K 55/04 (2013.01); H03H 7/18 (2013.01);
Abstract

A wind turbine includes a superconducting generator having an armature and a superconducting field winding set. The armature includes at least one multiphase armature winding set having a plurality of armature windings. The superconducting field winding set is separated by a gap from the armature. The superconducting field winding set includes a plurality of field windings, wherein one of the armature winding set and superconducting field winding set is connectable to rotate with a rotating component of the wind turbine and another of the armature and the superconducting field winding set being non-rotating. The wind turbine also includes a controllable power converter coupled to the at least one multiphase armature winding set and a controller configured to control switching operations of the controllable power converter to effect a phase shift among the plurality of armature windings.


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