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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2015

Filed:

Aug. 19, 2011
Applicant:

Per Brath, Randers Nv, DK;

Inventor:

Per Brath, Randers Nv, DK;

Assignee:

Vestas Wind Systems A/S, Aarhus N, DK;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F03D 9/00 (2006.01); H02P 9/04 (2006.01); F03D 7/02 (2006.01); F03D 7/04 (2006.01); F03D 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F03D 7/0264 (2013.01); F03D 7/042 (2013.01); F03D 11/0091 (2013.01); F05B 2260/84 (2013.01); F05B 2260/845 (2013.01); Y02E 10/722 (2013.01); Y02E 10/723 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of operating a wind turbine has the following steps: receiving () multiple sensor signals being indicative of the state of the wind turbine (); analyzing () the multiple sensor signals in order to determine whether a specific alarm condition is met as predefined in one of a plurality of different predefined alarm scenarios (); further analyzing () at least one of the multiple sensor signals in accordance with analyzing steps as predefined in the alarm scenario () for which the specific alarm condition is met in order to determine () whether the wind turbine () is to be put into either a predefined safe mode, a shutdown mode or a continued operation mode.


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