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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2017
Filed:
May. 19, 2015
GE Energy Power Conversion Technology Ltd, Rugby, Warwickshire, GB;
Allen Michael Ritter, Salem, VA (US);
Abstract
Provided is a cable twist allowance system for a wind turbine system. The system includes a sun gear disposed within a tower of wind turbine, a pivot disk connected with the sun gear, a plurality of lever members, each including a plurality of cables and spaced a predetermined distance apart from each other, the plurality of level members being pivotably connected with a surface of the pivot disk and rotatable about the sun gear; and a plurality of compression members, each compression member corresponding to each lever member and adjusting a position of a respective lever member based on a radial force applied to the plurality of cables of the respective lever member.