F03D 80/40
Ice detection
Official title: Ice detection; De-icing means
F03D80/40 (Ice detection) appears on 265 US grants and 364 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F03D- Granted patents
- 265
- Published applications
- 364
- Assignees
- 138
- Inventors
- 736
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
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| 2006 | 4 | 6 |
| 2007 | 4 | 3 |
| 2008 | 3 | 10 |
| 2009 | 2 | 10 |
| 2010 | 5 | 23 |
| 2011 | 15 | 16 |
| 2012 | 8 | 16 |
| 2013 | 12 | 26 |
| 2014 | 11 | 22 |
| 2015 | 6 | 25 |
| 2016 | 14 | 18 |
| 2017 | 21 | 16 |
| 2018 | 18 | 14 |
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| 2020 | 17 | 26 |
| 2021 | 8 | 21 |
| 2022 | 19 | 24 |
| 2023 | 15 | 23 |
| 2024 | 32 | 15 |
| 2025 | 14 | 8 |
| 2026 | 6 | 12 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Techniques to provide improved wind input for operating offshore wind turbines8 Sep 2026US 12,729,664 B2Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- Wave-absorbing heat-generating coating for melting ice on wind turbine blade, and preparation method therefor16 Jun 2026US 12,655,308 B2Xi'an Thermal Power Research Institute Co., Ltd.
- Method of controlling a rotor of a wind turbine to deal with the risk of blade icing16 Jun 2026US 12,655,829 B2Vestas Wind Systems A/S
- Wind turbine blade repair9 Jun 2026US 12,650,111 B2GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology LLC
- Method for wind turbine blade mechanical de-icing with a line3 Feb 2026US 12,540,603 B2Aerones America LLC
- Wind turbine blade with a deicing system23 Jul 2026US 2026/0210337 A1Lm Wind Power A/S
- Polyurethane-ceramic composite coating and spraying method2 Jul 2026US 2026/0184957 A1Huaneng New Energy Co., Ltd. Mengxi Branch
- Wind turbine rotor blade with an electrical heating system7 May 2026US 2026/0126028 A1Nordex Energy GmbH
- Method of determining a temperature of a heating element of a wind turbine blade16 Apr 2026US 2026/0104035 A1Lm Wind Power A/S
- Improvements relating to wind turbine blade anti-icing systems16 Apr 2026US 2026/0104037 A1Vestas Wind Systems A/S
Most cited
By later US patents
- Wind energy facility with a closed cooling circuit96US 6,676,122 B12004
- Electrically conductive composite heater and method of manufacture95US 5,925,275 AAlliedSignal Inc. · 1999
- Deicing device for wind turbine blades84US 6,890,152 B1General Electric Company · 2005
- Methods and apparatus for rotor blade ice detection76US 7,086,834 B2General Electric Company · 2006
- Wind turbine blade with a system for deicing and lightning protection71US 6,612,810 B1Lm Glasfiber A/S · 2003