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Patent No.:

US 9869296 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2018

Filed:

May. 07, 2015

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

Applicant:

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);

Inventors:

James Robert Tobin, Simpsonville, SC (US);

Stefan Herr, Greenville, 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 63/00 (2006.01); B29C 65/00 (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);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F03D 1/0675 (2013.01); F03D 1/0633 (2013.01); F05B 2230/60 (2013.01); F05B 2230/80 (2013.01); F05B 2240/302 (2013.01); F05B 2250/183 (2013.01); F05B 2260/96 (2013.01); Y02E 10/721 (2013.01); Y02P 70/523 (2015.11);
Abstract

A method for installing an add-on component onto a tip of a wind turbine blade, the associated blade, and the component, are provided. The add-on component has a span-wise end and a separated trailing edge, and is slidable onto the blade tip. Strips of a double-sided adhesive tape are attached onto either or both pressure and suction side surfaces of the blade adjacent the blade tip, or onto interior surfaces of the add-on component, the tape strips having a release liner on an opposite exposed side thereof. An extension tail is configured with the release liner that extends beyond the span-wise end of the add-on component when the add-on component is placed and held at a desired position on the blade. The add-on component is slid onto and maintained in position on the blade tip and, starting from the tape strip furthest from the separated trailing edge, extension tails of the respective tape strips are sequentially peeled through the separated trailing edge and away from the add-on component.

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