Wind blade having a lightning protection system
AssigneeLm Wind Power R&D (Holland) B.V.
InventorLaszlo BARTHA
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Abstract
A lightning protection subsystem for a wind blade is presented. The lightning protection subsystem includes one or more conductive segments, where each of the one or more conductive segments include a conductor and a coupling portion, where the coupling portion is configured to secure the one or more conductive segments to an edge of the wind blade. Further, the one or more conductive segments form an elongated lightning conducting path along at least a portion of the length of the edge, at an outer surface of the wind blade.
Claims21
1-25. (canceled)
A lightning protection subsystem for a wind blade, wherein the lightning protection subsystem comprises:
- one or more conductive segments, wherein each of the one or more conductive segments comprises:
- a conductor;
- and
- a coupling portion, wherein the coupling portion is configured to secure the one or more conductive segments to an edge of the wind blade,
- wherein the one or more conductive segments form an elongated lightning conducting path along at least a portion of a length of the edge, at an outer surface of the wind blade.
A method of manufacturing a wind blade having a lightning protection subsystem, comprising:
- moulding at least a portion of a wind blade;
- and
- disposing one or more conductive segments along at least a portion of length of an edge of the wind blade, wherein the one or more conductive segments comprise a conductor and a coupling portion, wherein the coupling portion is configured to secure the one or more conductive segments to the edge of the wind blade, and wherein the one or more conductive segments form an elongated lightning conducting path along at least a portion of a length of the edge, at an outer surface of the wind blade.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.