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Patent No.:

US 9869297 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2018

Filed:

May. 07, 2015

Attachment method and system to install components, such as vortex generators, to a wind turbine blade

Applicant:

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);

Inventors:

James Robert Tobin, Simpsonville, SC (US);

William Max Gobeli, Simpsonville, SC (US);

Scott Gabell Riddell, Greer, SC (US);

Michael Christopher Booth, Simpsonville, SC (US);

Assignee:

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);

Attorney:

Dority & Manning, P.A.

Primary Examiner:

Philip Tucker

Assistant Examiner:

Brian R Slawski

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); F03D 13/10 (2016.01); B29C 65/48 (2006.01); B29C 65/72 (2006.01); B29C 65/50 (2006.01); B29C 65/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F03D 1/0675 (2013.01); F03D 13/10 (2016.05); B29C 65/483 (2013.01); B29C 65/4825 (2013.01); B29C 65/5057 (2013.01); B29C 65/562 (2013.01); B29C 65/72 (2013.01); F05B 2240/122 (2013.01); Y02E 10/721 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for installing an add-on component to a surface of a wind turbine blade includes attaching an adhesive side of strips of a double-sided adhesive tape onto either the surface of the wind turbine blade or a surface of the add-on component, the tape strips having a release liner on an opposite exposed side thereof. The tape strips having an extension tail of the release liner that extends beyond an edge of the add-on component when the add-on component is placed and held at a desired position against the surface of the wind turbine blade. With the add-on component held at the desired position, the extension tail is pulled away at an angle such that that release liner is removed along the length of the tape strip while maintaining the add-on component against the blade surface to attach the exposed adhesive under the release liner to either the surface of the wind turbine blade or the surface of the add-on component.

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