Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multirotor wind turbine
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Application No.: US16085760Application Date: 2017-04-04
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Publication No.: US10697424B2Publication Date: 2020-06-30
- Inventor: Peter Bjørn Andersen , Jonas Lerche Schomacker , Anurag Gupta , Henrik Kudsk
- 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: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@45a0ee30
- International Application: PCT/DK2017/050104 WO 20170404
- International Announcement: WO2017/178025 WO 20171019
- Main IPC: F03D1/02
- IPC: F03D1/02 ; F03D13/20 ; F03D7/02

Abstract:
A multirotor wind turbine (1) comprising a tower structure (2) and at least one load carrying structure (3, 4), each load carrying structure (3, 4) being arranged for carrying two or more energy generating units (5, 7) comprising a rotor (6, 8). At least two of the rotors are upwind or downwind rotors (6), the energy generating units (5) comprising upwind or downwind rotors (6) being arranged with their centres of gravity at a first distance behind the tower structure (2) along a direction of the incoming wind, substantially at the same vertical level, and at opposite sides of the tower structure (2) at substantially the same second distance to the tower structure (2) along a direction substantially perpendicular to the direction of the incoming wind. The multirotor wind turbine (1) is self-yawing, even under turbulent wind conditions.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190048847A1 A MULTIROTOR WIND TURBINE Public/Granted day:2019-02-14
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