Patents by Inventor Joachim Nitzpon
Joachim Nitzpon has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240060477Abstract: A method is for operating a wind turbine. The wind turbine includes a nacelle including a nacelle component, in particular a rotor bearing, and a nacelle air flow influencing unit. The nacelle air flow influencing unit is configured to influence an air flow entering, flowing through and/or exiting the nacelle. The method includes: determining an operating condition of the nacelle component, determining a cooling demand of the nacelle component dependent on the determined operating condition of the nacelle component, controlling an operation of the nacelle air flow influencing unit dependent on the cooling demand of the nacelle component to adapt the air flow to the cooling demand of the nacelle component.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventors: Martin Harich, Joachim Nitzpon, Florian Adler, Moritz Dreher, Björn Albertsen
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Patent number: 8753245Abstract: A wind energy plant comprising a gearbox with a gearbox housing, a rotor hub mounted outside of the gearbox and a satellite carrier in the gearbox housing, the satellite carrier having an input side and an output side. At the input side, the satellite carrier is only connected to the rotor hub and mounted in the gearbox housing without a bearing. At the output side, the satellite carrier is mounted in the gearbox housing via a torque bearing arranged in the gearbox housing on the output side of satellite carrier.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2013Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: Nordex Energy GmbHInventor: Joachim Nitzpon
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Publication number: 20130231209Abstract: A wind energy plant comprising a gearbox with a gearbox housing, a rotor hub mounted outside of the gearbox and a satellite carrier in the gearbox housing, the satellite carrier having an input side and an output side. At the input side, the satellite carrier is only connected to the rotor hub and mounted in the gearbox housing without a bearing. At the output side, the satellite carrier is mounted in the gearbox housing via a torque bearing arranged in the gearbox housing on the output side of satellite carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2013Publication date: September 5, 2013Applicant: Nordex Energy GmbHInventor: Joachim Nitzpon
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Patent number: 8409049Abstract: A gearbox for a wind energy plant, with a satellite carrier, which is connected to a rotor shaft or a rotor hub at its input side and which is mounted via a bearing arranged in a gearbox housing, wherein the bearing is arranged in the gearbox housing at the output side of the satellite carrier, and a torque bearing is provided as the bearing for the satellite carrier.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2008Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Nordex Energy GmbHInventor: Joachim Nitzpon
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Patent number: 8308436Abstract: An apparatus for positioning a gearbox in a wind energy plant, which gearbox is supported on a bearing structure of the wind energy plant by way of a torque support, wherein the torque support is mounted via at least one uncoupling element, which is arranged between torque support and bearing structure, wherein the torque support features at least one support body and an hydraulic apparatus with at least one hydraulic cylinder, by way of which the position of the support body is adjustable with respect to the bearing structure.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2009Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Nordex Energy GmbHInventor: Joachim Nitzpon
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Patent number: 8287240Abstract: A wind energy plant and method for installing a rotor hub on a rotor shaft. At the end of the rotor shaft facing the rotor hub, a locking disk is attached on the rotor shaft, which has a multiplicity of bores for the preliminary attachment of the rotor hub, for installing it, the rotor hub is made to sit close to the locking disk, if required, the bores in the locking disk are made to overlap with corresponding bores in the rotor hub by rotating the rotor shaft and/or the rotor hub, starting from the rotor shaft side, the rotor hub is preliminarily screwed together with the locking disk through the bores of the locking disk and of the rotor hub, and starting from the interior space of the rotor hub, the rotor hub is definitely screwed together with the locking disk and the rotor shaft.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2008Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Nordex Energy GmbHInventor: Joachim Nitzpon
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Patent number: 8172535Abstract: A wind energy plant with a rotor, which is coupled to a gear via a rotor shaft, the rotor shaft being double bearing mounted via one rotor side bearing and one gear side bearing, wherein a connection between the rotor shaft and gear is provided at the gear side of the gear side bearing, and the gear side bearing props up on a machine carrier via at least one supporting equipment and the gear is detachably connected with the supporting equipment.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2007Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Nordex Energy GmbHInventor: Joachim Nitzpon
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Patent number: 8169095Abstract: A wind energy plant with a rotor, which is connected to a gearbox and/or a generator via a rotor shaft, wherein the rotor shaft is bearing mounted on a carrier unit via two taper roller bearings in an O arrangement, characterized in that each taper roller bearing has an inner and an outer race, wherein the inner races and the outer races are secured in their distance to each other in the axial direction with respect to the rotational axis of the rotor shaft via an adjustment device.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2008Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Nordex Energy GmbHInventors: Joachim Nitzpon, Matthias Zähr, Viktor Nickel
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Patent number: 7866946Abstract: A method for operating a device to vary a blade setting angle on a rotor blade of a wind power plant, comprising two variable drives each per rotor blade, a bearing element acting between the rotor blade and rotor hub which has a freely rotatable bearing ring, wherein the method has the following process steps: setting the bearing ring into a permanent rotation by a first drive, and adjusting the setting angle of the rotor blade by a second drive.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2005Date of Patent: January 11, 2011Assignee: Nordex Energy GmbHInventor: Joachim Nitzpon
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Patent number: 7834476Abstract: A method for running in a drive train component of a wind energy plant, wherein the wind energy plant has an operation management which can control at least one operational variable B significant for the strain of the drive train component to a desired value BS, wherein after starting up the drive train component, the desired value BS is limited by a maximum value BMax, which is preset depending on a yield value W which describes the yield of the wind energy plant achieved since starting up the drive train component.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2007Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Nordex Energy GmbHInventors: Joachim Nitzpon, Hauke Karstens, Ulrich Harms
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Patent number: 7809477Abstract: A method for starting up a wind energy plant after an operation stoppage, wherein the wind energy plant has a gearbox in the drive train and an operation management which can control at least one operational variable significant for the strain of the gearbox B of the wind energy plant to a desired value BSoll, wherein after the operation stoppage, the desired value BSoll is limited by a maximum value BMax, which is preset depending on a measured temperature of a gearbox component and/or of a lubricant for the gearbox.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2007Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: Nordex Energy GmbHInventors: Joachim Nitzpon, Hauke Karstens, Ulrich Harms
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Publication number: 20100215497Abstract: An apparatus for positioning a gearbox in a wind energy plant, which gearbox is supported on a bearing structure of the wind energy plant by way of a torque support, wherein the torque support is mounted via at least one uncoupling element, which is arranged between torque support and bearing structure, wherein the torque support features at least one support body and an hydraulic apparatus with at least one hydraulic cylinder, by way of which the position of the support body is adjustable with respect to the bearing structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2009Publication date: August 26, 2010Applicant: NORDEX ENERGY GMBHInventor: Joachim Nitzpon
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Patent number: 7694473Abstract: A wind energy plant tower with a tower portion made of a concrete material and a steel-made tubular tower segment, which has on its foot a plurality of connection bores for the connection to the tower portion made of the concrete material, wherein the tower portion made of the concrete material has a head portion with a plurality of openings and a plurality of anchor bolts are provided, which can be fastened after the completion of the tower portion made of the concrete material each at a time in or on one of the connection bores on the foot of the steel-made tower segment and one of the openings in the head portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2007Date of Patent: April 13, 2010Assignee: Nordex Energy GmbHInventors: Alexander Jakubowski, Joachim Nitzpon
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Publication number: 20100026005Abstract: A wind energy plant with a rotor, which is connected to a gearbox and/or a generator via a rotor shaft, wherein the rotor shaft is bearing mounted on a carrier unit via two taper roller bearings in an O arrangement, characterised in that each taper roller bearing has an inner and an outer race, wherein the inner races and the outer races are secured in their distance to each other in the axial direction with respect to the rotational axis of the rotor shaft via an adjustment device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2008Publication date: February 4, 2010Applicant: Nordex Energy GmbHInventors: Joachim Nitzpon, Matthias Zahr, Viktor Nickel
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Publication number: 20100028153Abstract: The present invention is related to method for installing a rotor hub on a rotor shaft of a wind energy plant, in which the following steps are consecutively performed: at the end of the rotor shaft (10) facing the rotor hub (12), a locking disk (18) is attached on the rotor shaft (10), which has a multiplicity of bores for the preliminary attachment of the rotor hub (12), for installing it, the rotor hub (12) is made to sit close to the locking disk (18), if required, the bores in the locking disk (18) are made to overlap with corresponding bores in the rotor hub (12) by rotating the rotor shaft (10) and/or the rotor hub (12), starting from the rotor shaft side, the rotor hub (12) is preliminarily screwed together with the locking disk (18) through the bores of the locking disk (18) and of the rotor hub (12), and starting from the interior space (42) of the rotor hub, the rotor hub (12) is definitely screwed together with the locking disk (18) and the rotor shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2008Publication date: February 4, 2010Applicant: Nordex Energy GmbHInventor: Joachim Nitzpon
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Patent number: 7649277Abstract: A method for the operation of a wind energy plant, with a synchronous generator, a superimposition gearbox, which is connected between rotor shaft and generator shaft, and a drive unit, wherein before connecting the synchronous generator to the electric grid, the drive unit drives the synchronous generator until the same has reached its rated rotational speed.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2007Date of Patent: January 19, 2010Assignee: Nordex Energy GmbHInventors: Joachim Nitzpon, Thomas-Paul Woldmann
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Patent number: 7595566Abstract: A method for the operation of a wind energy plant, with a synchronous generator and a superimposition gearbox, which is connected between rotor and generator, and the gear ratio of which is adjusted by a control unit, characterised in that a mode of operation is provided in which the generator is connected to the electric grid, and the generator shaft is uncoupled from the rotor shaft via the superimposition gearbox.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2007Date of Patent: September 29, 2009Assignee: Nordex Energy GmbHInventors: Joachim Nitzpon, Thomas Paul Woldmann
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Publication number: 20090023544Abstract: A gearbox for a wind energy plant, with a satellite carrier, which is connected to a rotor shaft or a rotor hub at its input side and which is mounted via a bearing arranged in a gearbox housing, wherein the bearing is arranged in the gearbox housing at the output side of the satellite carrier, and a slew bearing is provided as the bearing for the satellite carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2008Publication date: January 22, 2009Applicant: Nordex Energy GmbHInventor: Joachim Nitzpon
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Publication number: 20090001723Abstract: A method for starting up a wind energy plant after an operation stoppage, wherein the wind energy plant has a gearbox in the drive train and an operation management which can control at least one operational variable significant for the strain of the gearbox B of the wind energy plant to a desired value BSoll, wherein after the operation stoppage, the desired value BSoll is limited by a maximum value BMax, which is preset depending on a measured temperature of a gearbox component and/or of a lubricant for the gearbox.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2007Publication date: January 1, 2009Applicant: Nordex Energy GmbHInventors: Joachim Nitzpon, Hauke Karstens, Ulrich Harms
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Publication number: 20090005909Abstract: A method for running in a drive train component of a wind energy plant, wherein the wind energy plant has an operation management which can control at least one operational variable B significant for the strain of the drive train component to a desired value Bsoll, wherein after starting up the drive train component, the desired value Bsoll is limited by a maximum value BMax, which is preset depending on a yield value W which describes the yield of the wind energy plant achieved since starting up the drive train component,Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2007Publication date: January 1, 2009Applicant: Nordex Energy GmbHInventors: Joachim Nitzpon, Hauke Karstens, Ulrich Harms