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US 11,884,029 B2Granted
Method of manufacturing a wind turbine blade with fewer manufacturing defects
AssigneeLm Wind Power A/S
InventorsLars Nielsen, Klavs Jespersen
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a wind turbine blade using a two-step curing process, wherein the second curing is performed in the presence of a resin flow medium (76) comprising a curing inhibitor.
Claims13
A method of manufacturing a wind turbine blade, the blade having a profiled contour including a pressure side and a suction side, and a leading edge and a trailing edge with a chord having a chord length extending therebetween, the wind turbine blade extending in a spanwise direction between a root end and a tip end, said method comprising:
- providing a mould (66);
- arranging one or more first layers of fibre material in the mould for providing an outer shell part (70);
- injecting the one or more first layers of fibre material with a curable resin;
- curing the resin to obtain an outer shell part (70);
- arranging a resin flow medium (76) on top of at least part of the outer shell part (70) followed by one or more second layers of fibre material for forming a load-carrying structure (74);
- injecting the resin flow medium (76) and the one or more second layers of fibre material for forming a load-carrying structure with a curable resin and curing the resin to adhere the outer shell part (70) to the load-carrying structure (74) to obtain a shell half of a wind turbine blade,
- wherein the resin flow medium (76) comprises a curing inhibitor.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.