Wind turbine lightning protection and monitoring systems
    1.
    发明授权
    Wind turbine lightning protection and monitoring systems 有权
    风力发电机组的防雷和监控系统

    公开(公告)号:US08873214B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-10-28

    申请号:US13264880

    申请日:2010-04-13

    摘要: A wind turbine hub (8) and nacelle (4) assembly including lightning conducting means (26, 30, 32, 40) for conducting lightning between the hub (8) and the nacelle (4), the hub (8) being mounted for rotation relative to the nacelle (4) and being adapted to support turbine blades, the hub (8) including a hub conductor (26) for connection to a turbine blade supported by the hub (8), the lightning conducting means including a conductive track (40) and a terminal (30, 32) which confront and are displaceable relative to each other, one of the conductive track (40) and the terminal (30, 32) being mounted on the hub (8) and being electrically connected to the hub conductor (26) and the other of the conductive track (40) and the terminal (30, 32) being mounted on the nacelle (4), the terminal (30, 32) including a terminal main body (30) which is spaced from the conductive track (40) and a sacrificial conductive terminal extension (32) extending from the terminal main body (30) towards the track (40).

    摘要翻译: 包括用于在所述轮毂(8)和所述机舱(4)之间进行雷电的雷电传导装置(26,30,32,40)的风力涡轮机轮毂(8)和机舱(4)组件,所述轮毂(8)被安装用于 所述轮毂(8)包括用于连接到由所述轮毂(8)支撑的涡轮机叶片的轮毂导体(26),所述雷电传导装置包括导电轨道 (40)和相对于彼此相对移动的端子(30,32),所述导电轨道(40)和所述端子(30,32)中的一个安装在所述轮毂(8)上并且电连接到 所述导体导体(26)和所述导电轨道(40)中的另一个和所述端子(30,32)安装在所述机舱(4)上,所述端子(30,32)包括端子主体(30) 与导电轨道(40)间隔开,并且从端子主体(30)向轨道延伸的牺牲导电端子延伸部(32) (40)。

    Electric-field meter having current compensation

    公开(公告)号:US20060279290A1

    公开(公告)日:2006-12-14

    申请号:US11502138

    申请日:2006-08-10

    IPC分类号: G01R29/12

    CPC分类号: G01R29/12 H02G13/00 H02G13/60

    摘要: An electric-field meter provided with a housing, an electrode assembly, a shield assembly, a movement assembly, a position detection assembly, a charge measurement circuit, and a leakage current compensation circuit. The electric-field meter can be characterized as a field mill, an induction voltmeter, an electrostatic fluxmeter or an agrimeter. The electrode assembly is selectively exposed to the electric field. The shield assembly alternately covers and exposes the electrode assembly to the electric field. The movement assembly has a source of motive force and a linkage operably connected to one of the shield assembly and the electrode assembly for alternately covering and exposing the electrode assembly to the electric field. The charge measurement circuit receives charge on the electrode assembly. The charge measurement circuit provides a charge detection signal indicative of the charge induced on the electrode assembly as the electrode assembly is selectively exposed to the electric field. A current compensation circuit is provided for offsetting an average leakage current at the input of the charge measurement circuit.

    Registration of lightning strike in a wind turbine
    5.
    发明申请
    Registration of lightning strike in a wind turbine 有权
    风力发电机雷击登记

    公开(公告)号:US20060126252A1

    公开(公告)日:2006-06-15

    申请号:US10559632

    申请日:2004-06-11

    申请人: Ivan Mortensen

    发明人: Ivan Mortensen

    IPC分类号: H02H9/06

    摘要: The invention relates to aspects of a method of registering lightning strikes in the blade of a wind turbine, use of such method, a system of exercising the method. The method according to the invention of registering lightning strikes involve that the method comprises that the lightning strike is captured in a receptor arranged in the blade (5) of the wind turbine, and the lightning current is conducted completely or partially through at least one electric resistor (10), thereby heating it, and that it is registered at least that the temperature of the resistor is or was at some point increased. The heating of the electric resistor, ie the increase in temperature, provides simple and reliable registration. This can be extended to also comprise measurement of the amount of energy contained in the lightning current in a very robust and hence very suitable manner for the task. By the invention it is acknowledged that if a lightning current is conducted through a suitable electric resistor, this will “capture” a share of the amount of energy in the same manner as eg an electric radiator or a furnace, ie the resistor is heated by the current as a function of the voltage and the duration and hence of the amount of energy.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及一种在风力涡轮机的叶片中记录雷击的方法的方面,使用这种方法,执行该方法的系统。 根据本发明记录雷击的方法涉及该方法包括在设置在风力涡轮机的叶片(5)中的接收器中捕获雷击,并且雷电电流完全或部分地通过至少一个电 电阻器(10),从而加热电阻器,并且至少注册了电阻器的温度或在某一点处的温度升高。 电阻的加热,即温度的升高,提供了简单可靠的配准。 这可以扩展到包括对雷电电流中所包含的能量量的测量,非常稳健,因此对于任务是非常合适的方式。 通过本发明,可以肯定的是,如果雷击电流通过合适的电阻器传导,则将以与例如电动散热器或炉子相同的方式“捕获”一部分能量,即电阻器被加热 电流作为电压和持续时间以及因此的能量的函数的函数。

    Active lightning protection system and method
    6.
    发明申请
    Active lightning protection system and method 有权
    主动防雷系统及方法

    公开(公告)号:US20030067731A1

    公开(公告)日:2003-04-10

    申请号:US10266261

    申请日:2002-10-08

    IPC分类号: H02H001/00

    CPC分类号: H02G13/00 H02G13/60 H02G13/80

    摘要: An active lightning protection system and method is disclosed. According to one embodiment of the invention, the active lightning protection system includes a charge sensor that senses the build-up of charge associated with an imminent lightning strike in the proximity of a structure and a charge source to supply an opposite charge into the proximity to offset the build-up, thereby reducing the possibility of a strike to the structure.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种主动防雷系统和方法。 根据本发明的一个实施例,主动防雷系统包括电荷传感器,其感测与在结构和电荷源附近的即将发生的雷击相关联的电荷的积累,以将相反的电荷提供到接近 抵消了积聚,从而减少了对结构的罢工的可能性。

    Lightning protection apparatus and method
    7.
    发明申请
    Lightning protection apparatus and method 失效
    防雷装置及方法

    公开(公告)号:US20030021076A1

    公开(公告)日:2003-01-30

    申请号:US10089182

    申请日:2002-07-25

    IPC分类号: H05F003/00

    摘要: A deployable lightning protection apparatus particularly suited for use with an aircraft radome comprises; a source of electrically conducting fluid (5); a delivery means (3,4,7) for delivering the conducting fluid to the surface of the radome prior to a lightning strike; a control means (1,2) for controlling the delivery means; and means for directing the conducting fluid across the outer surface of the radome thereby providing a conductive channel for the passage of electrical current resulting from a lightning strike and dissipating said current without damage to the radome. The apparatus allows lightning protection to be deployed in response to a change in atmospheric conditions indicative of a high probability of lightning strike and removed when the danger of lightning strike has passed.

    摘要翻译: 特别适用于飞机雷达罩的可部署的防雷装置包括: 导电流体源(5); 用于在雷击之前将导电流体输送到天线罩的表面的输送装置(3,4,7); 控制装置(1,2),用于控制传送装置; 以及用于引导导电流体穿过天线罩的外表面的装置,由此提供导电通道,用于由雷击引起的电流的通过,并且消散所述电流而不损坏天线罩。 该装置允许响应于指示雷击的可能性高的大气条件的变化来部署雷电保护,并且当雷击的危险已经过去时被去除。

    Human impalement prevention system
    8.
    发明申请
    Human impalement prevention system 失效
    人类防伪系统

    公开(公告)号:US20020157842A1

    公开(公告)日:2002-10-31

    申请号:US10119176

    申请日:2002-04-08

    发明人: Robert W. Rapp

    IPC分类号: H02G013/00

    CPC分类号: H02G13/00 H02G13/60 H02G13/80

    摘要: A lightning rod system including both methods and specific types of lightning rod protection apparatus, which address the need for lightning rod safety features to deter impalement and minimize injury when humans inadvertently fall upon or strike the projecting air terminal through use of a hebetative contagious impact surface (10) on an end cap(s). The system involves lightning rod system components such as humanized quantal rod (3) or coil spring coupler (13) engineered to be responsive within the range of forces achieved when a human of average size and weight falls onto the projecting air terminal from a standing surface level with that on which the lightning rod system is mounted to. The lightning rod system also involves a method and engineered components to retrofit existing lightning rod assemblies. Additionally, the system components address the need for a safety warning air terminal system to prevent impalement and injury from projecting air terminals that are not designed to be conducive to a lightning strike.

    摘要翻译: 一种避雷针系统,包括两种方法和特定类型的避雷针保护装置,它们满足避雷针安全特征的需要,以防止人员无意中掉落或撞击突出的空中终端,从而通过使用一个抗冲击的传染性冲击面 (10)在端盖上。 该系统包括避雷针系统部件,例如人造量子杆(3)或螺旋弹簧联轴器(13),其被设计成在平均尺寸和重量的人从站立面落到突出的空气端子上时所达到的力的范围内是响应的 与安装避雷针系统的电平相同。 避雷针系统还涉及一种改进现有避雷针组件的方法和工程组件。 此外,系统组件解决了安全警告空中终端系统的需要,以防止突发和伤害投射不被设计为有利于雷击的空中终端。

    Safer lightning rod and warning system
    9.
    发明授权
    Safer lightning rod and warning system 有权
    更安全的避雷针和预警系统

    公开(公告)号:US06369317B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-04-09

    申请号:US09762159

    申请日:2001-02-02

    申请人: Robert W. Rapp

    发明人: Robert W. Rapp

    IPC分类号: H01B1300

    CPC分类号: H02G13/00 H02G13/60 H02G13/80

    摘要: A lightning rod system including both methods and specific types of lightning rod protection apparatus, which address the need for lightning rod safety features to deter impalement and minimize injury when humans inadvertently fall upon or strike the projecting air terminal through use of a hebetative contagious impact surface (10) on an end cap(s). The system involves lightning rod system components such as humanized quantal rod (3) or coil spring coupler (13) engineered to be responsive within the range of forces achieved when a human of average size and weight falls onto the projecting air terminal from a standing surface level with that on which the lightning rod system is mounted to. The lightning rod system also involves a method and engineered components to retrofit existing lightning rod assemblies. Additionally, the system components address the need for a safety warning air terminal system to prevent impalement and injury from projecting air terminals that are not designed to be conducive to a lightning strike.

    摘要翻译: 一种避雷针系统,包括两种方法和特定类型的避雷针保护装置,它们满足避雷针安全特征的需要,以防止人员无意中掉落或撞击突出的空中终端,从而通过使用一个抗冲击的传染性冲击面 (10)在端盖上。 该系统包括避雷针系统部件,例如人造量子杆(3)或螺旋弹簧联轴器(13),其被设计成在平均尺寸和重量的人从站立面落到突出的空气端子上时所达到的力的范围内是响应的 与安装避雷针系统的电平相同。 避雷针系统还涉及一种改进现有避雷针组件的方法和工程组件。 此外,系统组件解决了安全警告空中终端系统的需要,以防止突发和伤害投射不被设计为有利于雷击的空中终端。

    Operative lightning protection system
    10.
    发明授权
    Operative lightning protection system 失效
    操作防雷系统

    公开(公告)号:US5657197A

    公开(公告)日:1997-08-12

    申请号:US657384

    申请日:1996-06-03

    IPC分类号: H02G13/00 H02H1/04

    CPC分类号: H02G13/00 H02G13/60 H02G13/80

    摘要: As part of the operating mode of a lightning protection system in which lightning rods are moved from concealed positions to deployed positions as required for use in a storm with lightning phenomena, a testing procedure which monitors the movement noted during the long intervals which usually transpire between such storms to assure operability when needed, and which testing is done at night when the deployed positions are not aesthetically and otherwise objectionable.

    摘要翻译: 作为闪电保护系统的操作模式的一部分,其中避雷针从隐蔽位置移动到在具有雷电现象的暴风雨中使用所需的部署位置,监测在通常在 这样的风暴,以确保在需要时的可操作性,以及哪些测试是在夜间进行的,当部署的位置在美观和其他方面令人反感时。