Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Wind turbine generator with seal mechanism
- Patent Title (中): 具有密封机构的风力发电机组
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Application No.: US12681141Application Date: 2010-02-12
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Publication No.: US08212372B2Publication Date: 2012-07-03
- Inventor: Yoshihiro Fujioka , Atsushi Imanaga
- Applicant: Yoshihiro Fujioka , Atsushi Imanaga
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Kanesaka Berner & Partners, LLP
- International Application: PCT/JP2010/052032 WO 20100212
- International Announcement: WO2011/099139 WO 20110818
- Main IPC: F03D9/00
- IPC: F03D9/00

Abstract:
The present invention provides a wind turbine generator in which an oil seal structure provided in a blade rotating ring bearing of a wind turbine blade is improved and leakage of lubricant oil to outside is prevented or suppressed. A wind turbine generator in which a rotor head has wind turbine blades, the rotor head rotates when the wind turbine blades receive wind power and drives a power generator disposed in a nacelle to generate electricity, the nacelle is disposed on an upper end of a tower that stands on a foundation such that the nacelle can yaw-slew, a blade rotating ring bearing is disposed between the wind turbine blade and the rotor, the wind turbine generator includes a pitch control mechanism that can adjust a pitch angle of the wind turbine blades, wherein seal mechanisms are mounted on both ends of opposed rolling body holding surfaces of an outer race and an inner race of the blade rotating ring bearing with rolling bodies interposed between both the ends, sides of the seal mechanisms closer to the blade are formed into a double sealed structure in which a space is disposed between seal members and the seal member are disposed in an axial direction of the blade, pressurized fluid is supplied to the space, and lips of the seal members are pushed against a mating sidewall surface.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110278851A1 WIND TURBINE GENERATOR Public/Granted day:2011-11-17
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