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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2018
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Gregory Edward Cooper, Greenfield Center, NY (US);
Norman Arnold Turnquist, Sloansville, NY (US);
Vitali Victor Lissianski, Schenectady, NY (US);
Biao Fang, Clifton Park, NY (US);
James Robert Tobin, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Pascal Meyer, Niskayuna, NY (US);
GE Infrastructure Technology LLC, Greenville, SC (US);
Abstract
An additive printing device and a method for using the same to manufacture a tower structure of a wind turbine is provided. The additive printing device includes a vertical support structure, a support ring suspended from the vertical support structure, and a printer head movably coupled to the support ring for selectively depositing cementitious material. A drive mechanism, such as a rack and pinion, moves the printer head around the support ring while selectively depositing cementitious material. The vertical support structure may be raised and/or the relative position between the vertical support structure and the printer head may be adjusted to raise the printer head to print subsequent layers. This process may be repeated to print the tower structure layer-by-layer from the ground up.