Y02E 10/72
Wind turbines with rotation axis in wind direction
Y02E10/72 (Wind turbines with rotation axis in wind direction) appears on 12,799 US grants and 16,459 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in Y02E- Granted patents
- 12,799
- Published applications
- 16,459
- Assignees
- 3,325
- Inventors
- 18,663
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 19 | 0 |
| 1977 | 23 | 0 |
| 1978 | 36 | 0 |
| 1979 | 36 | 0 |
| 1980 | 46 | 0 |
| 1981 | 39 | 0 |
| 1982 | 68 | 0 |
| 1983 | 46 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 40 | 0 |
| 2001 | 41 | 12 |
| 2002 | 43 | 60 |
| 2003 | 68 | 111 |
| 2004 | 82 | 144 |
| 2005 | 99 | 157 |
| 2006 | 113 | 235 |
| 2007 | 149 | 299 |
| 2008 | 151 | 403 |
| 2009 | 186 | 599 |
| 2010 | 315 | 967 |
| 2011 | 502 | 1226 |
| 2012 | 701 | 1162 |
| 2013 | 633 | 1026 |
| 2014 | 737 | 935 |
| 2015 | 651 | 1010 |
| 2016 | 656 | 747 |
| 2017 | 770 | 715 |
| 2018 | 686 | 802 |
| 2019 | 725 | 834 |
| 2020 | 753 | 899 |
| 2021 | 714 | 871 |
| 2022 | 731 | 917 |
| 2023 | 761 | 891 |
| 2024 | 858 | 679 |
| 2025 | 674 | 473 |
| 2026 | 247 | 285 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Method for manufacturing a preform building element and oven25 Aug 2026US 12,715,180 B2Siemens Gamsea Renewable Energy A/S
- Hollow wind turbine main shaft and profiling forging process and use thereof25 Aug 2026US 12,716,108 B2Zenkung Heavy Industry (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd.
- Blade assembly for a wind turbine blade, wind turbine and method for building a wind turbine blade25 Aug 2026US 12,716,398 B2Lm Wind Power A/S
- Damper for a wind turbine25 Aug 2026US 12,716,461 B2Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy A/S
- High capacity, shallow draft, ocean-borne wind turbine3 Sep 2026US 2026/0258786 A1Tows, Inc.
- Autonomous roaming offshore wind turbine27 Aug 2026US 2026/0249962 A1Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
- Battery arrangement for stand-alone wind turbine27 Aug 2026US 2026/0250870 A1Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
- A wind turbine blade spar cap and a method for manufacturing a wind turbine blade spar cap27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251117 A1Vestas Wind Systems A/S
- System and method for controlling a wind turbine during a communication loss27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251120 A1GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Wind turbine and a shaft for a wind turbine1,094US 8,664,792 B2Envision Energy (Denmark) ApS · 2014
- Fail-safe actuation system926US 9,239,064 B2Moog Inc. · 2016
- Performance optimization controller and control method for doubly-fed machines427US 5,798,631 AState of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University · 1998
- Islanding-operation prevention apparatus, and dispersed power generation apparatus and power generation system using the same282US 5,686,766 ACanon Kabushiki Kaisha · 1997
- Variable speed wind turbine with reduced power fluctuation and a static VAR mode of operation266US 5,225,712 AU.S. Windpower, Inc. · 1993