Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Wind turbine generator, active damping method thereof, and windmill tower
- Patent Title (中): 风力发电机,主动阻尼法,风车塔
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Application No.: US10590328Application Date: 2004-11-12
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Publication No.: US07692322B2Publication Date: 2010-04-06
- Inventor: Tsuyoshi Wakasa , Kazunari Ide , Yoshiyuki Hayashi , Masaaki Shibata
- Applicant: Tsuyoshi Wakasa , Kazunari Ide , Yoshiyuki Hayashi , Masaaki Shibata
- Applicant Address: JP
- Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP
- Agency: Kanesaka Berner and Partners, LLP
- Priority: JP2004-055515 20040227
- International Application: PCT/JP2004/016851 WO 20041112
- International Announcement: WO2005/083266 WO 20050909
- Main IPC: H02P9/04
- IPC: H02P9/04 ; F03D9/00

Abstract:
A wind turbine generator, an active damping method thereof, and a windmill tower in which vibrations of the wind turbine generator itself or the windmill tower can be reduced at low cost are provided. The acceleration due to vibrations of a nacelle (13) is detected with an accelerometer (17) attached to the nacelle (13). In an active damping unit (20), a pitch angle of windmill blades (12) for generating a thrust on the windmill blades (12) so as to cancel out the vibrations of the nacelle (13) is calculated on the basis of the acceleration, and the pitch angle is output as a blade-pitch-angle command δθ* for damping. On the other hand, in a pitch-angle control unit (30), a pitch angle of the windmill blades (12) for controlling the output to be a predetermined value is calculated, and the pitch angle is output as a blade-pitch-angle command θ* for output control. The blade-pitch-angle command δθ* for damping is combined with the blade-pitch-angle command θ* for output control using a subtracter (40). The pitch angle of the windmill blades is controlled on the basis of the resulting blade-pitch-angle command after combining.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080206051A1 Wind Turbine Generator, Active Damping Method Thereof, and Windmill Tower Public/Granted day:2008-08-28
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