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US 2019/0162171 A1Published application
Wind turbine blade having a lightning tip receptor
AssigneeVestas Wind Systems A/S
InventorsJakob Hjorth Jensen, Lasse Lykkegaard
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Abstract
A wind turbine blade comprising a main blade portion having a root end and a tip end, wherein a leading edge and a trailing edge extend between the root end and the tip end, and a conductive blade tip module that abuts the tip end of the main blade portion; wherein the conductive blade tip module comprises an elongate body defining a longitudinal axis transverse to a spanwise axis of the blade, and wherein the conductive blade tip module has a length in a direction along said longitudinal axis that is greater than a chord length of the blade tip interface.
Claims16
A wind turbine blade comprising:
- a main blade portion having a root end and a tip end, wherein a leading edge and a trailing edge extend between the root end and the tip end;
- a conductive blade tip module connected to a blade tip interface at the tip end of the main blade portion;
- wherein the conductive blade tip module comprises an elongate body defining a longitudinal axis transverse to a spanwise axis of the main blade portion, and wherein the conductive blade tip module has a length in a direction along said longitudinal axis that is greater than a chord length of the blade tip interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.