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.: US13612947Application Date: 2012-09-13
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Publication No.: US08395273B2Publication Date: 2013-03-12
- Inventor: Tsuyoshi Wakasa , Kazunari Ide , Yoshiyuki Hayashi , Masaaki Shibata
- Applicant: Tsuyoshi Wakasa , Kazunari Ide , Yoshiyuki Hayashi , Masaaki Shibata
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Kanesaka Berner and Partners LLP
- Priority: JP2004-055515 20040227
- Main IPC: F03D9/00
- IPC: F03D9/00 ; H02P9/04

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 is detected with an accelerometer attached to the nacelle. In an active damping unit, a pitch angle of windmill blades for generating a thrust on the windmill blades so as to cancel out the vibrations of the nacelle 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, a pitch angle of the windmill blades 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. The pitch angle of the windmill blades is controlled on the basis of the resulting blade-pitch-angle command after combining.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130001947A1 WIND TURBINE GENERATOR, ACTIVE DAMPING METHOD THEREOF, AND WINDMILL TOWER Public/Granted day:2013-01-03
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