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Patent No.:

US 9869295 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2018

Filed:

May. 07, 2015

Attachment method to install components, such as tip extensions and winglets, to a wind turbine blade, as well as the wind turbine blade and component

Applicant:

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);

Inventors:

James Robert Tobin, Simpsonville, SC (US);

William Max Gobeli, Simpsonville, SC (US);

Assignee:

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);

Attorney:

Dority & Manning, P.A.

Primary Examiner:

Sing P Chan

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A46D 1/00 (2006.01); B44C 1/17 (2006.01); B63H 1/26 (2006.01); F03D 11/02 (2006.01); B64C 11/16 (2006.01); B64C 11/24 (2006.01); D05C 15/00 (2006.01); B32B 15/04 (2006.01); B64C 27/46 (2006.01); F04D 29/38 (2006.01); B32B 3/06 (2006.01); F03B 3/12 (2006.01); B32B 33/00 (2006.01); B32B 37/00 (2006.01); B32B 38/10 (2006.01); B32B 5/00 (2006.01); F01D 5/14 (2006.01); F01D 5/18 (2006.01); B29C 51/16 (2006.01); B29C 65/00 (2006.01); B29C 63/00 (2006.01); F03B 7/00 (2006.01); B63H 7/02 (2006.01); B32B 7/04 (2006.01); B32B 7/12 (2006.01); B32B 7/14 (2006.01); B32B 9/00 (2006.01); F03D 1/06 (2006.01); F03D 13/10 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F03D 1/0675 (2013.01); F03D 13/10 (2016.05); F05B 2230/60 (2013.01); F05B 2230/80 (2013.01); F05B 2240/302 (2013.01); Y02E 10/721 (2013.01); Y02P 70/523 (2015.11);
Abstract

A method is provided for installing an add-on component to a surface of a wind turbine blade, as well as the blade with attached add-on component, and the add-on component as a stand-alone device. A slot is defined in one or both of the pressure side or suction side surfaces of the add-on component. The adhesive side of strips of a double-sided adhesive tape are attached onto either the surface of the wind turbine blade or an interior surface of the add-on component, the tape strips having a release liner on an opposite exposed side thereof. The tape strips are arranged longitudinally along one or both sides of the slot, and each strip has an extension tail that extends beyond an edge of the add-on component when component is held at a desired position against the surface of the wind turbine blade. The extension tails are pulled along the slot at an angle such that that release liner is removed through the slot along the length of the tape strip while maintaining the desired position of the add-on component against the surface of the wind turbine blade.

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