F05B2260/403

Compound planet gear arrangement and gear wheel arrangement
11746876 · 2023-09-05 · ·

The invention relates generally to compound planet gear arrangements for transmitting torque between two rotating shafts, by splitting the torque into several torque transmitting gear components. The gear arrangements may contain gear shifts arrangement and free-wheel arrangements. The invention also relates to gear wheel arrangements having enhanced torsional compliance capabilities, which gear wheel arrangements advantageously may be used in said compound planet gear arrangements and also at other applications such as at other over-determined systems or where intermittent loads and forces occur. According to one aspect, the invention relates to a gear wheel arrangement (700, 800, 900), comprising; a first part (710, 810, 910) which is arranged to be rotationally fixed to a shaft; a second part (720, 820, 920) which is rotatably connected to the first part and provided with gear teeth for meshing with an adjacent gear. The first and second parts are mechanically connected by means of at least one first elastically deformable member (750, 850, 950) which allows a limited relative rotation between the first and second part. The gear teeth (721, 821, 921) of the second part (710, 810, 910) are helical and the gear wheel arrangement is arranged to allow a limited relative axial displacement between the first part and the second part.

Wind turbine driving device, wind turbine driving device unit, and wind turbine

One object is to promptly and accurately sense an abnormal state of a wind turbine driving device. The wind turbine driving device includes a driving device body and a sensor. The driving device body is installed in one structure at a movable section of a wind turbine. The driving device body includes a meshing portion meshing with a ring gear installed in the other structure at the movable section of the wind turbine. The sensor measures a change in installation state of the driving device body with respect to the one structure.

Wind turbine drive train
11306703 · 2022-04-19 ·

A wind turbine having a tower having a top end and a bottom end; a first eccentric mechanism connected to a turbine rotor, the turbine rotor at the top end of the tower; a second eccentric mechanism connected to an electric generator, the electric generator being at the bottom end of the tower; and a plurality of tensile links connecting the first and second eccentric mechanisms.

Adjustment unit for azimuth adjustment and/or pitch adjustment of a wind turbine, and method
11092134 · 2021-08-17 · ·

A adjustment unit for an azimuth adjustment and/or for a pitch adjustment of a wind turbine, to an adjustment apparatus, to a pitch adjustment apparatus, to an azimuth adjustment apparatus, to a wind turbine, and to methods for the rotor blade adjustment and wind direction tracking, and to the use of an adjustment unit and/or adjustment apparatus. The adjustment unit for an azimuth adjustment and/or for a pitch adjustment of a wind turbine comprises a drive unit which can be arranged on a first annular flange and has an eccentric shaft, a first engagement element which can be arranged on a circumference of a second annular flange which is arranged such that it can be rotated with respect to the first annular flange, a multiplicity of concavely and convexly configured first cam sections being arranged on a circumferential face of the first engagement element, and a second engagement element, with concave and convex second cam sections which are arranged on a circumferential face and correspond to the first cam sections.

WIND TURBINE DRIVE CONTROL DEVICE, WIND TURBINE POWER SUPPLY DEVICE, WIND POWER GENERATION DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD
20210199089 · 2021-07-01 ·

A wind turbine drive control device according to one aspect of the present invention is a wind turbine drive control device for controlling a plurality of drive devices for moving two structures included in a wind power generation device relative to each other, the wind turbine drive control device including: an obtaining unit for obtaining a plurality of information items related to loads occurring between each of the plurality of drive devices and one of the two structures that receives forces generated by the plurality of drive devices; and a control unit for controlling the plurality of drive devices in such a manner that, in a state where each of the plurality of drive devices is controlled to generate a predetermined braking force, the braking force of at least one first drive device among the plurality of drive devices is increased, based on the plurality of information items.

WIND TURBINE DRIVE CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD OF WIND TURBINE DRIVE DEVICE
20210199088 · 2021-07-01 ·

A wind turbine drive control device according to one aspect of the present invention is a wind turbine drive control device for controlling at least one drive device for moving two structures included in a wind power generation device relative to each other, the wind turbine drive control device including: an obtaining unit for obtaining information related to a load occurring between the at least one drive device and one of the two structures that receives a force generated by the at least one drive device; and a control unit for controlling the at least one drive device so as to cause a force generated by the at least one drive device to be reduced or zero based on the information related to the load obtained by the obtaining unit during a stop period in which the two structures are stopped relative to each other.

System for producing energy via use of gravity
10767621 · 2020-09-08 · ·

The present invention is directed to a system for producing energy via use of gravity. The system is for generating energy, and in particular electrical energy, by utilizing the abundant force of gravity that exists and then integrating such a force into a system design of energy power generation by converting the force of gravity into potential energy then into kinetic energy and from kinetic energy back into potential energy again, by using the system's autonomous methodology of fluid recycling to produce electric power generation in the process.

Mechanical Converter
20200200246 · 2020-06-25 ·

The present disclosure relates to a mechanical converter of irregular bi-directional circular motion into continuous and consistent single direction circular motion through a system of gears, drive shafts, freewheels, and flywheel. The system works by transforming the circular movement, both clockwise and counterclockwise from the input shaft into continuous rotation of an output shaft through the use of a pair of free wheels solidly connected to the input shaft which transfers the alternating motion, depending on the rotation of the input shaft, to two parallel secondary shafts.

System and method for removal of a wind turbine gearbox from a main rotor shaft

A method and associated system are provided for removing a drive train component, such as a gearbox, from a rotor shaft uptower in a wind turbine, wherein the component is supported by transversely extending mounting arms at mount locations on the wind turbine frame. The drive train component is supported from above or below and the mount locations. At each mount location, a removal fixture is installed that includes an actuator that moves linearly essentially parallel to the rotor shaft. The mounting arms are simultaneously engaged with the respective actuators, which are controlled to linearly push the mounting arms until the drive train component disengages from the rotor shaft.

ADJUSTMENT UNIT FOR AZIMUTH ADJUSTMENT AND/OR PITCH ADJUSTMENT OF A WIND TURBINE, AND METHOD
20200116125 · 2020-04-16 ·

A adjustment unit for an azimuth adjustment and/or for a pitch adjustment of a wind turbine, to an adjustment apparatus, to a pitch adjustment apparatus, to an azimuth adjustment apparatus, to a wind turbine, and to methods for the rotor blade adjustment and wind direction tracking, and to the use of an adjustment unit and/or adjustment apparatus. The adjustment unit for an azimuth adjustment and/or for a pitch adjustment of a wind turbine comprises a drive unit which can be arranged on a first annular flange and has an eccentric shaft, a first engagement element which can be arranged on a circumference of a second annular flange which is arranged such that it can be rotated with respect to the first annular flange, a multiplicity of concavely and convexly configured first cam sections being arranged on a circumferential face of the first engagement element, and a second engagement element, with concave and convex second cam sections which are arranged on a circumferential face and correspond to the first cam sections.