US 2026/0126029 A1 · Community Wind Turbine Cellular System

Abstract

A community wind turbine cellular system (CWTC system) is disclosed. The CWTC system is configured to provide community-based cellular communication, on a temporary or permanent basis. One or more turbine blades of the CWTC system are configured with an omni-directional radio frequency (RF) antenna suitable for receiving and transmitting mobile communication data to cellular devices. These omni-directional RF antenna have an uninterrupted wired connection that passes from the antenna to an antenna radio within the system's nacelle. More particularly, each RF antenna in a turbine blade is connected, via a wired connection, to a corresponding slip ring within the nacelle of the cellular wind turbine. Each slip ring is connected to the antenna radio via a wired connection. In this manner, each RF antenna maintains a wired connection to the antenna radio, even as the turbine blades are rotating.

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Dependent claims

A community wind turbine cellular system comprising, at least:

a wind turbine suitably configured to generate electricity by wind power, and further configured to provide cellular communication services to cellular devices of community members, wherein the wind turbine comprises at least:
a plurality of turbine blades which rotate around a center axis of a nacelle of the wind turbine under wind power thereby generating electricity, wherein at least a first turbine blade of the plurality of turbine blades incorporates an omni-directional radio frequency (RF) antenna suitable for sending and receiving cellular communications with cellular devices of community members in reception range of the wind turbine;
an antenna radio within the nacelle having an electrical connection to the omni-directional RF antenna of the at least first turbine, and configured to send and receive cellular communication data via the omni-directional RF antenna of the at least first turbine blade to provide cellular communication to the community members.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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