Blade pitching
AssigneeGE Renewable Technologies Wind B.V.
InventorsSantiago Canedo Pardo, Javier Garcia Cervilla
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Abstract
A blade pitch system for a wind turbine comprising a motor coupled to a central reduction gearing, wherein a rotatable output of the central reduction gearing is fixed to a mobile link that in use is joined to the blade and allows rotation of the blade around its longitudinal axis and a static part of the central reduction gearing or the motor is fixed to a static link that in use is joined to a wind turbine hub, wherein the system further comprises one or more flexible couplings to couple the central reduction gearing or the motor and the static or the mobile link such that torque about a blade longitudinal axis is transmitted between the blade and the reduction gearing while substantially limiting the transmission of other loads.
Claims12
A blade pitch system for a wind turbine, comprising:
- a blade;
- a rotor hub;
- a first bearing ring fixed to the rotor hub, and a radially opposite second bearing ring fixed to the blade, with rolling elements between the first bearing ring and the second bearing ring;
- a mobile link having an outer circumference fixed to the blade or to the second bearing ring;
- a static link having an outer circumference fixed to the rotor hub or to the first bearing ring;
- a motor coupled to a central reduction gearing, wherein
- a rotatable output of the central reduction gearing is fixed to the mobile link that is joined to a blade and allows rotation of the blade around a longitudinal axis of the blade, and
- a static part of the central reduction gearing fixed to the static link, wherein
- the system further comprises one or more flexible couplings configured to:
- (1) directly couple the rotatable output of the central reduction gearing to the mobile link;
- or (2) directly couple the static part of the central reduction gearing to the static link such that a torque about the blade longitudinal axis is transmitted between the blade and the reduction gearing while substantially limiting transmission of other loads.
A blade pitch system for a wind turbine, comprising:
- a motor coupled to a central reduction gearing, wherein
- a rotatable output of the central reduction gearing is fixed to a mobile link that in use is joined to a blade and allows rotation of the blade around a longitudinal axis of the blade, and
- a static part of the central reduction gearing or the motor is fixed to a static link that in use is joined to a wind turbine hub, wherein
- the system further comprises one or more flexible couplings that directly couple the rotatable output of the central reduction gearing and the mobile link.
A blade pitch system for a wind turbine, comprising:
- a motor coupled to a central reduction gearing, wherein a rotatable output of the central reduction gearing is fixed to a mobile link that in use is joined to a blade and allows rotation of the blade around a longitudinal axis of the blade, and a static part of the central reduction gearing or the motor is fixed to a static link that in use is joined to a wind turbine hub, wherein the system further comprises one or more flexible couplings that directly couple the static part of the central reduction gearing or the motor and the static link.
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