Patents by Inventor Martin Von Mutius

Martin Von Mutius 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).

  • Publication number: 20080118342
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wind turbine and a method for operating the wind turbine planted in the floor of a body of water. The wind turbine includes a support structure and a rotor, which is arranged on the support structure. The rotor has a rotor blade. The wind turbine operates in a trundle mode in order to reduce the oscillations in the support structure created through mechanical impacts on the support structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2007
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Applicant: REPOWER SYSTEMS AG
    Inventors: Marc Seidel, Martin Von Mutius, Dirk Steudel
  • Patent number: 7261517
    Abstract: The device for adjusting a rotor blade of a wind energy turbine is provided with a driving device (12) for driving an adjusting element (24) for selectably rotating the rotor blade (26) in both directions about its longitudinal axis (28), an energy storage unit (30) and a free-running means (32) adapted to be selectively activated, said free-running means (32), in its activated state, allowing rotation of the rotor blade (26) by means of energy stored in the energy storage unit (30) only in one of the two directions up to a desired rotational position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2007
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ulrich Uphues, Patrik Achenbach, Martin Von Mutius
  • Publication number: 20060225379
    Abstract: The modular kit for a tower has a height ranging between a minimum height and a maximum height, in particular for a wind energy turbine, comprises a first conical tower segment (10) comprising a steel tube having a predetermined length (11), a second conical tower segment (12) comprising a steel tube having a predetermined length (12), and a first cylindrical tower segment (14) comprising a steel tube having a length between a predetermined minimum length and a predetermined maximum length. The length of the first cylindrical tower segment (14) can be adapted to the necessary height of the tower between its minimum height and its maximum height. The minimum height is the sum of the predetermined lengths (11,12) of the first and second conical tower segments (10,12) and the minimum length of the first cylindrical tower segment (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2003
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Inventors: Marc Seidel, Martin Von Mutius, Ulrich Uphues
  • Publication number: 20060099075
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a wind power plant with a rotor and with at least two rotor blades rotatable about a common rotor axis in a rotor blade plane, whereof each can be swivelled about a swivel axis which is roughly parallel to its longitudinal axis approximately perpendicular to the rotor axis, in which the setting or pitch angels of the rotor blades are set with respect to the rotor blade plane as a function of the operating and in particular wind conditions, in which the pitch angels of at least two rotor blades in a parking position of the rotor, in which rotor rotation about the rotor axis is decelerated, are set to different values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Publication date: May 11, 2006
    Inventor: Martin Von Mutius
  • Publication number: 20050175456
    Abstract: The device for adjusting a rotor blade of a wind energy turbine is provided with a driving device (12) for driving an adjusting e ement (24) for selectably rotating the rotor blade (26) in both directions about its longitudinal axis (28), an energy storage unit (30) and a free-running means (32) adapted to be selectively activated, said free-running means (32), in its activated state, allowing rotation of the rotor blade (26) by means of energy stored in the energy storage unit (30) only in one of the two directions up to a desired rotational position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2003
    Publication date: August 11, 2005
    Inventors: Ulrich Uphues, Patrik Achenbach, Martin Von Mutius