公开(公告)号：US10890163B2

公开(公告)日：2021-01-12

申请号：US16066722

申请日：2016-12-23

申请人： Vestas Wind Systems A/S

发明人： Michael Kastrup ,  Lucia Quintana ,  Adrian Botwright ,  Troels Vahle ,  Martin Damm ,  Kristoffer Lolk Fredriksen ,  Carsten Jasper

IPC分类号： F03D13/40 ,  B60P3/40 ,  B63B25/28

摘要： A transport frame having a longitudinal, lateral and upright extent for receiving a tip portion of a wind turbine blade is disclosed. The frame is stackable with identical frames and has a tip saddle assembly including a saddle with a support surface shaped to receive a blade tip, and a clamping mechanism having a hinged clamping arm operable between an open position and a closed position, the clamping arm, when open, allowing a blade tip to be lowered into the saddle, and when closed, securely restraining the blade tip against upward movement. The tip saddle assembly further includes a preventer serving to maintain the clamping arm in the closed position over a blade. A method of using the transport frame to clamp a wind turbine blade is also disclosed.

公开(公告)号：US20190010930A1

公开(公告)日：2019-01-10

申请号：US16066722

申请日：2016-12-23

申请人： Vestas Wind Systems A/S

发明人： Michael Kastrup ,  Lucia Quintana ,  Adrian Botwright ,  Troels Vahle ,  Martin Dam ,  Kristoffer Lolk Fredriksen ,  Carsten Jasper

IPC分类号： F03D13/40 ,  B60P3/40 ,  B63B25/28

摘要： Transport frame and method; the transport frame having a longitudinal, lateral and upright extent, and being configured for receiving a tip portion of a longitudinally extending wind turbine blade, said frame being stackable with identical frames, said frame having a tip saddle assembly comprising a saddle with a support surface shaped to receive a blade tip with its chordwise extent lying approximately horizontal, and a clamping mechanism having a hinged clamping arm configured to be operable between a raised, open position and a lowered, closed position; said clamping arm, when open, allowing a blade tip to be lowered into said saddle with its chordwise extent generally horizontal, and when closed, securely restraining said blade tip against upward movement; said clamping arm extending between a hinge point and a free end; said tip saddle assembly further including a preventer serving to maintain said clamping arm in said closed position over a blade and which preventer has a middle portion extending between a first end and a second end; and wherein said tip saddle assembly further includes a fixing for respective said first and second end of said preventer; said tip saddle assembly being configured such that said preventer exerts a downward force on said clamping arm when a middle portion thereof passes under tension over a portion of said clamping arm between said hinge point and said free end, and wherein said preventer is anchored at said first and said second ends to said tip saddle assembly.

公开(公告)号：US20190010929A1

公开(公告)日：2019-01-10

申请号：US16066428

申请日：2016-12-23

申请人： Vestas Wind Systems A/S

发明人： Peter Frans Thomsen ,  Adrian Botwright ,  Troels Vahle ,  Martin Dam ,  Kristoffer Lolk Fredriksen ,  Carsten Jasper

IPC分类号： F03D13/40

摘要： Transport frame pair configured for transporting a wind turbine blade, said frame pair comprising a tip frame and a root frame, each said tip and root frame being stackable with identical frames for blade transport or storage, each one of said tip and root frame comprising four upright frame struts which together define a generally cuboid internal space having a longitudinal extent between two pairs of said upright struts; said tip frame comprising a tip saddle assembly within said generally cuboid internal space, and said root frame comprising a root saddle assembly within said generally cuboid internal space, and wherein said root frame is configured to prohibit a translation movement of said root saddle assembly in a longitudinal direction of a blade supported in a root saddle of said root saddle assembly; and wherein said tip frame allows a translation movement of said tip saddle assembly in a longitudinal direction of a blade supported in a tip saddle of said tip saddle assembly. The longitudinal extent of the root frame may be more than twenty percent greater than the longitudinal extent of the tip frame.