Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Wind turbine rotor blade lightning discharger and wind turbine generator equipped with the same
- Patent Title (中): 风力发电机转子叶片避雷器和风力发电机配备相同
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Application No.: US13358902Application Date: 2012-01-26
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Publication No.: US09022740B2Publication Date: 2015-05-05
- Inventor: Kentaro Hayashi , Takehiro Naka , Musashi Kimura
- Applicant: Kentaro Hayashi , Takehiro Naka , Musashi Kimura
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Kanesaka Berner & Partners
- Main IPC: F03D11/00
- IPC: F03D11/00

Abstract:
By means of a simple structure, lightning resistance is improved without increasing the level of fluid noise due to a lightning discharge member provided on a surface of a wind turbine blade. A wind turbine rotor blade lightning discharger, in which a diverter strip serving as a lightning discharge member protrudes from a surface of a wind turbine blade that extends in a radial direction from a rotor head supported in a freely rotatable manner, includes a noise suppressing structure that suppresses the generation of a Karman vortex, which causes noise, on the downstream side of the diverter strip with respect to an airflow that flows at the surface of the wind turbine blade during rotation of the wind turbine rotor blade.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130195663A1 WIND TURBINE ROTOR BLADE LIGHTNING DISCHARGER AND WIND TURBINE GENERATOR EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME Public/Granted day:2013-08-01
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