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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2008
Eric M. Jacobsen, Greenville, SC (US);
Ronald Eduard Stam, Overijssel, NL;
Nicholas K. Althoff, Ware Shoals, SC (US);
Matthew Gann, Greenville, SC (US);
Eric M. Jacobsen, Greenville, SC (US);
Ronald Eduard Stam, Overijssel, NL;
Nicholas K. Althoff, Ware Shoals, SC (US);
Matthew Gann, Greenville, SC (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A wind turbine blade having two shell portions bonded together to form a wind turbine blade having an interior space having an axial length. A web disposed between the shell portions in the interior space and extending substantially the axial length thereof. Lightning receptors are disposed on the shell portions and a conductor is disposed in the interior space. The conductor is configured to contact the lightning receptors. One shell portion of the two shell portions has a removable section, e.g. a plug, receptor or panel, to provide access to the opposite conductor. A cable mounted on the web is configured to extend substantially the axial length of the wind turbine blade and is in electrical contact with the conductor.