A wind turbine rotor blade with a leading edge member
AssigneeBlade Dynamics Limited
InventorManish MUKHERJEE
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Abstract
A wind turbine rotor blade (10) is provided with a lightning protection device (84) and a leading edge member (70), the leading edge member (70) comprising an erosion shield (78, 80), deicing means, and an electrically conductive outer surface (80) which is operatively connected to the lightning protection device (84). The invention also relates to the use of the leading edge member (70) for providing leading edge erosion protection, ice mitigation and lightning protection of a wind turbine rotor blade.
Claims15
A wind turbine rotor blade (10) having a pressure side, a suction side, a leading edge, and a trailing edge extending between a tip and a root, wherein the rotor blade comprises a lightning protection device (84) and a leading edge member (70), the leading edge member (70) comprising
- an erosion shield (78, 80),
- deicing means (118), and
- an electrically conductive outer surface (80) which is operatively connected to the lightning protection device (84).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.