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US 11,952,978 B2Granted
Wind turbine transmission
AssigneeMiba Gleitlager Austria GmbH
InventorsGunther Hager, Johannes Sebastian Hoelzl
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Abstract
A wind turbine gearbox, in particular a planetary gearbox, has at least one gear mounted on an axle, for which purpose a sliding layer is arranged between the gear and the axle, the sliding layer being sprayed directly onto the axle or, with intermediate arrangement of at least one further layer, onto the further layer using a thermal spaying method.
Claims7
A wind turbine gearbox comprising at least one gear mounted on an axle, for which purpose a sliding layer is arranged between the gear and the axle;
- wherein the sliding layer is either sprayed directly onto the axle or is sprayed onto a further layer that is provided on the axle, the further layer forming an intermediate layer between the axle and the sliding layer, by means of a thermal spray method;
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- wherein the sliding layer comprises flattened particles in solid form embedded in the sliding layer and having a length oriented in a direction of rotational movement of the at least one gear.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.