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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2021
Arctura, Inc., South Kingstown, RI (US);
Neal E. Fine, North Kingstown, RI (US);
John A. Cooney, Warwick, RI (US);
Christopher S. Szlatenyi, Wakefield, RI (US);
Adam H. Janik, Hampton Falls, NH (US);
Pascal Mickelson, Morgantown, WV (US);
Arctura, Inc., South Kingstown, RI (US);
Abstract
A method of protecting a wind turbine having a set of blades, each blade having a set of loci suitable for placement of a corresponding set of lightning receptors, against lightning strikes, includes applying to each blade a coating that surrounds at least one lightning receptor locus of the set, wherein the coating comprises paint in which has been mixed a conductive powder having a concentration by weight in the coating sufficiently low as to prevent formation of a conductive path through the coating but sufficiently high as to foster ionization of air along the coated exposed surface.