Modular rotor blade assembly
OwnerVishwanath Lande, Prashanth Suresh +5inventors
InventorsVishwanath Lande, Prashanth Suresh, Steef Pronk, Michael Zunner, Akshay A., Deepak S. Achar, Balachandra Hegde
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Abstract
A modular rotor blade assembly includes a pair of cover plates; a base plate disposed between the pair of cover plates; a wedge disposed within a slot formed in a perimeter of the base plate; and a rotor blade attached to the wedge. One or more cover plates and/or the rotor blade with corresponding wedge are capable of being replaced without the need to replace the base plate, thereby reducing the cost or replacing the entire rotor blade assembly.
Claims12
A modular rotor blade assembly comprising:
- a pair of cover plates;
- a base plate disposed between the pair of cover plates;
- a wedge disposed within a slot formed in a perimeter of the base plate;
- and
- a rotor blade attached to the wedge,
- wherein one or more cover plates and/or the rotor blade with corresponding wedge are capable of being replaced without the need to replace the base plate.
A modular rotor blade assembly comprising:
- a pair of cover plates, each cover plate including a plurality of mounting holes;
- a base plate disposed between the pair of cover plates, the base plate including a plurality of threaded mounting holes;
- a wedge disposed within a slot formed in a perimeter of the base plate, the slot being formed with a reverse taper;
- a rotor blade attached to the wedge;
- and
- a threaded fastener received within each of the plurality of threaded mounting holes and each of the plurality of mounting holes for attaching each cover plate to the base plate,
- wherein one or more of the pair of cover plates and/or the rotor blade with corresponding wedge are capable of being replaced without the need to replace the base plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.