Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Wind turbine tower
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Application No.: US15543256Application Date: 2015-12-16
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Publication No.: US10598154B2Publication Date: 2020-03-24
- Inventor: Gunnar K. Storgaard Pedersen , Borge Øllgaard , Soren P. Jensen , Casper Lyngsø
- 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: DK201570033 20150121
- International Application: PCT/DK2015/050397 WO 20151216
- International Announcement: WO2016/116107 WO 20160728
- Main IPC: F03D7/00
- IPC: F03D7/00 ; F03D13/20 ; E04H12/20 ; E04H12/34

Abstract:
A wind turbine tower configured to support a wind turbine nacelle and a rotor, and with a tower wall of an inner surface and an outer surface. The tower is tethered by a number of cables, each cable extending between a first end anchored to an anchoring element and an opposite, second end attached to the tower at an attachment element. Two cables extending from two different anchoring elements are attached to the tower such that longitudinal projection lines from the second ends of the two cables converge at a convergence point, which lies at a location at a certain height and inside the tower wall thickness. Alternatively, the convergence point lies inside the tower within a distance of three wall thicknesses from the wall inner surface as measured at the height and in a direction perpendicular to the central longitudinal axis of the tower. The invention further relates to a method of erecting a wind turbine tower tethered by cables and configured for supporting a rotor assembly, and wherein the tower comprises a number of tower sections joined to each other. The method comprises positioning a first tower section, attaching at least some of the tethering cables to a second tower section while the second tower section is on the ground, lifting the second tower section with the attached cables onto the first tower section, and joining the second tower section to the first.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180003158A1 WIND TURBINE TOWER Public/Granted day:2018-01-04
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