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Rotor blade for a wind turbine

US8807952B2 · kind B2 · utility

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19Claims

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Assignee

ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG · DE

Inventors

Stephan Drewes · Mönchengladbach, DE
Thomas Flöoth · Duisburg, DE
Mark Hirt · Bochum, DE
Lothar Patberg · Aachen, DE
Peter Seyfried · Berlin, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 19, 2012
Grant date	Aug 19, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 19, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY02E10/72
WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a rotor blade for a wind turbine, comprising a root of the rotor blade and a rotor blade airfoil. The object of providing a rotor blade which can be easily and inexpensively produced even when of great lengths and which, what is more, enables a system for protection against lightning to be incorporated in a simplified way is achieved, for a rotor blade of the generic kind, by having the rotor blade consist of at least partly a fiber-reinforced plastics composite having metal inserts embedded in the matrix of the fiber-reinforced plastics composite.

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