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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2011
Bharat Bagepalli, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Stefan Herr, Greenville, SC (US);
Bharat Bagepalli, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Stefan Herr, Greenville, SC (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A wind turbine rotor blade assembly includes a rotor blade having a pressure side, a suction side, a leading edge, and a trailing edge extending in a generally span-wise direction between a tip and a root. An edge extension is attached along the trailing edge and includes a first strip member having a span-wise attachment section attached to pressure side, and a second strip member having a span-wise attachment section attached to the suction side. Each of the first and second strip members has an outboard edge and an extension section that projects chord-wise beyond the trailing edge. The extension sections are adhesively attached to each other outboard of the trailing edge along a span-wise length of the first and second strip members and define an adhesively bonded closure edge of the edge extension. A method is also provided for forming an edge extension on a wind turbine rotor blade.