Fixing device
AssigneeVestas Wind Systems A/S
InventorsHenning Schroder, Leif Kappel Petersen, Maja Rose Wieland, Olav Davis
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Abstract
A fixing device for fixating a segment of a wind turbine blade to a mold in which the blade segment is manufactured, wherein the blade segment has a fixating portion. The fixing device comprises: a first portion for removably fixating the blade segment at its fixating portion to the mold; and a second portion for fixating the fixing device to the mold.
Claims16
A method for manufacturing a wind turbine blade or a segment of a wind turbine blade in a mold, the wind turbine blade or the segment of the wind turbine blade having a leading edge and a trailing edge that defines a chordwise direction, the method comprising:
- manufacturing a blade segment within a mold, at least one fixating portion being at least partially formed at the blade segment;
- providing at least one fixing device at the mold for fixating the blade segment to the mold, wherein the at least one fixing device comprises a first portion for removably fixating the blade segment at its at least one fixating portion to the mold, and a second portion for fixating the at least one fixing device to the mold;
- removably fixating the at least one fixating portion of the blade segment to the mold with the at least one fixing device;
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- turning the mold over so as to position the mold on top of another corresponding mold, wherein the at least one fixing device exerts a pressing force on the at least one fixating portion of the blade segment in the chordwise direction so as to keep the molded blade segment in the mold when the mold is turned over and positioned on top of the corresponding mold.
A method for manufacturing a wind turbine blade or a segment of a wind turbine blade in a mold, the wind turbine blade or the segment of the wind turbine blade having a leading edge and a trailing edge that defines a chordwise direction, the method comprising:
- manufacturing a blade segment within a mold, at least one fixating portion being at least partially formed at the blade segment and extending beyond the part of the blade segment that results in the wind turbine blade;
- providing at least one fixing device at the mold for fixating the blade segment to the mold, wherein the at least one fixing device comprises a first portion for removably fixating the blade segment at its at least one fixating portion to the mold, and a second portion for fixating the at least one fixing device to the mold;
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- removably fixating the at least one fixating portion of the blade segment to the mold with the at least one fixing device by exerting a pressing force on the at least one fixating portion of the blade segment in the chordwise direction such that the molded blade segment is kept in the mold when the mold is turned over.
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