Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Reinforcing strip for a wind turbine blade
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Application No.: US15036897Application Date: 2014-11-14
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Publication No.: US10302065B2Publication Date: 2019-05-28
- Inventor: Jonathan Smith , Adrian Gill , Mark Hancock
- Applicant: Vestas Wind Systems A/S
- Applicant Address: DK Aarhus N.
- Assignee: Vestas Wind Systems A/S
- Current Assignee: Vestas Wind Systems A/S
- Current Assignee Address: DK Aarhus N.
- Agency: Wood Herron & Evans LLP
- Priority: GB1320166.0 20131115
- International Application: PCT/DK2014/050385 WO 20141114
- International Announcement: WO2015/070876 WO 20150521
- Main IPC: B29C67/00
- IPC: B29C67/00 ; B29C70/52 ; B29C70/54 ; B29L31/00 ; B29L31/08 ; B32B3/02 ; B32B3/26 ; B32B3/30 ; B32B5/26 ; B29D99/00 ; F03D1/06 ; F03D13/10
Abstract:
A strip of fiber-reinforced polymeric material for a longitudinal reinforcing structure of a wind turbine blade, the strip having substantially flat upper and lower surfaces and extending longitudinally between first and second transverse edges, wherein an end region of the strip tapers in thickness towards the first transverse edge, and wherein one or more slots are defined in the tapered end region, the or each slot extending longitudinally from the first transverse edge of the strip into the tapered end region.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160273516A1 REINFORCING STRIP FOR A WIND TURBINE BLADE Public/Granted day:2016-09-22
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