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US 8,192,170 B2Granted
Rotor blade for a wind energy installation
AssigneeAloys Wobben
InventorRolf Rohden
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Abstract
A rotor blade for a wind power installation, has at least a first component and a second component. The first component has a rotor blade tip and the second component has a rotor blade root. The first and second components are in the form of separate parts for jointly forming the rotor blade. The first component is of at least a first material and the second component is of at least a second material.
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A rotor blade for a wind power installation, comprising:
- at least a first component and a second component, wherein the first component has a rotor blade tip and the second component has a rotor blade root, and the first and the second components are separate parts which jointly form the rotor blade, wherein the first component has a first material,
- wherein the second component has at least a first and a second part which are in the form of separate parts and jointly form the second component,
- wherein the first part represents a load-bearing part and the second part represents a blade trailing edge box,
- wherein the first part comprises a second material and the second part a third material,
- wherein there are provided fiber-reinforced synthetic resin as the first material, steel as the second material for the load-bearing part of the second component and aluminum as the third material for the part or parts of the blade trailing edge box,
- wherein a connection between the first and second components of the rotor blade is a butt joint, and connecting elements for bridging over a joint gap of the butt joint are arranged exclusively within the rotor blade, and
- wherein the connecting elements have cross-bolts, tie elements and an L-flange directed inwardly of the rotor blade on the second component, the cross-bolts are received in openings in the first component, and the tie elements are connected to the cross-bolts, extend through the L-flange, and are fixed there.
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A rotor blade for a wind power installation, comprising:
- at least a first component and a second component, wherein the first component has a rotor blade tip and the second component has a rotor blade root and the first component and the second component are separate parts adapted to jointly form the rotor blade, and wherein the first component comprises fiber-reinforced synthetic resin and the second component includes at least a steel load-bearing part and an aluminum blade trailing edge box,
- wherein a connection between the first component and the second component of the rotor blade is a butt joint, and connecting elements for bridging over the butt joint are arranged exclusively within the rotor blade, and
- wherein the connecting elements include cross-bolts, tie elements and an L-flange directed inwardly of the rotor blade on the second component, and the cross-bolts are received in openings in the first component and the tie elements are connected to the cross-bolts and extend through the L-flange.
A rotor blade for a wind power installation, comprising:
- an interchangeable first component having a rotor blade tip;
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- a second component having a rotor blade root, wherein the first component and second component are separate parts adapted to jointly form the rotor blade, wherein the second component has at least a load-bearing part and an interchangeable blade trailing edge box, and wherein the load-bearing part of the second component of the rotor blade is of a modular structure adapted to interchangeably receive other first components having rotor blade tips of different dimensions and other blade trailing edge boxes of different dimensions,
- wherein the load-bearing part of the second component includes a first connecting face for receiving the other first components having rotor blade tips of different dimensions and a second connecting face for receiving the other blade trailing edge boxes of different dimensions.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.