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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2007
Applicants:
Nishant Parsania, Bangalore, IN;
Kevin Standish, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Inventors:
Nishant Parsania, Bangalore, IN;
Kevin Standish, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F03D 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A wind turbine includes a tower supporting a drive train with a rotor, at least one blade extending radially from the rotor; and a plurality of substantially flat flaps extending substantially perpendicular from a suction surface of the blade and along different chord lines near a tip of the blade for capturing and directing tip vortices toward a trailing edge of the blade.