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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F03D 9/00 ; F03D 1/00 ; F03D 1/102 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F03D 9/00 ; F03D 1/00 ; F03D 1/102 ;
Abstract
The invention involves a coupling device for a wind power plant with a rotor shaft that carries at least one rotor blade of the wind power plant, a gear shaft running coaxially to the rotor shaft, and a coupling device coupling the rotor shaft to the gear shaft, whereby the coupling device has at least one connection element that can be detachably affixed on the rotor shaft to an attachment element designed to create a positive locking connection, and one coupling element designed to create a friction-fit connection between the connection element, on the one hand, and an additional connection element and/or the gear shaft, on the other hand.