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US 8,575,776 B2Granted
Wind turbine with a generator
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsJames Kenneth Booth, Uffe Eriksen, Jacob Blach Nielsen, Henrik Stiesdal
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Abstract
A wind turbine with a generator includes a rotor with permanent magnets and a stator with stator coils mounted on a stator support structure. The stator support structure includes a base structure on which circular connection structures are mounted with their inner perimeter, whereby a stator base structure is connected to the outer perimeter of the circular connection structures.
Claims7
A wind turbine with a generator, comprising:
- a rotor comprising permanent magnets and arranged around an axis of rotation;
- a stator arranged radially inward from the rotor, the stator comprising:
- stator coils;
- a circular inner base structure;
- a circular outer base structure on which the stator coils are mounted;
- and
- a plurality of connection structures, each of the plurality of connection structures separated axially and radially extending between the circular inner base structure and the circular outer base structure forming a hollow chamber between the circular inner base structure, outer base structure and the plurality of connection structures,
- wherein the hollow chamber is ventilated, and
- wherein the plurality of connection structures are connected to the circular inner base structure and connected to the circular outer base structure.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.