Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method for assembling a blade of a wind turbine
-
Application No.: US15241614Application Date: 2016-08-19
-
Publication No.: US09669497B2Publication Date: 2017-06-06
- Inventor: Teresa Arlaban Gabeiras , José Miguel García Sayés , Ander Gastón Lujambio , Miguel Núñez Polo , Alvaro Gorostidi Martinez de Lecea
- Applicant: ACCIONA WINDPOWER, S.A.
- Applicant Address: ES Navarra
- Assignee: ACCIONA WINDPOWER, S.A.
- Current Assignee: ACCIONA WINDPOWER, S.A.
- Current Assignee Address: ES Navarra
- Agency: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP
- Main IPC: F03D1/06
- IPC: F03D1/06 ; B23P15/04 ; B21K3/04 ; F03D13/10

Abstract:
The wind turbine has a tower; a nacelle; and a hub comprising a hub connection flange for being detachably connected to a blade connection flange of a rotor blade. The method comprises the next steps: fixing a first positioning element in the nacelle or in the top of the tower; fixing a second positioning element to the blade in a root blade area; lifting the blade to the vicinity of the hub connection flange by means of lifting means; putting into contact the first and the second positioning elements; providing an accurate position of the blade connection flange, prior to the connection to the hub connection flange, by cooperation of the first and second positioning elements; and providing, when the first and the second positioning elements cooperate, a trajectory of the blade which is parallel to the axis of a hub connection hole, disposed in the hub connection flange, the provision of the trajectory being carried out by means of a guided element joined to either the first positioning element, the second positioning element, or both.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160354879A1 METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING A BLADE OF A WIND TURBINE Public/Granted day:2016-12-08
Information query