Patents by Inventor Thorkil Munk-Hansen

Thorkil Munk-Hansen 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).

  • Patent number: 11852124
    Abstract: Provided is a wind turbine, including: plural transformers, including a first transformer and at least one second transformer, the transformers being connectable to at least one generator, in particular via at least one converter, wherein the transformers are arranged within an inside of the wind turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Inventors: Jesper Gaard, Thorkil Munk-Hansen
  • Publication number: 20220393525
    Abstract: A stator of an electrical machine is provided including a body axially extending along the longitudinal axis between two opposite axial ends, the body radially extending perpendicular to the longitudinal axis between a radially inner surface and a radially outer surface, wherein at least one of the two opposite axial ends includes a plate inclined with respect to the longitudinal axis of an angle greater than 0° and lower than 90°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventor: Thorkil Munk-Hansen
  • Patent number: 11506188
    Abstract: A hatch arrangement with at least one slidable hatch for closing an opening in a floor of a wind turbine including a first guiding device fixedly mountable to the floor and a second guiding device pivotably mountable to the floor, a first coupling means to guide the slidable hatch along a first guidance path in the first guiding device and a second coupling means to couple the slidable hatch at least pivotably to the second guiding device, wherein the slidable hatch is coupled to the first guiding device at a first position and to the second guiding device at a second position, wherein a movement of the slidable hatch from a closed position along the first guidance path results in a pivoting movement of the second guiding device and in a movement of the slidable hatch to an open position and vice versa is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S
    Inventor: Thorkil Munk-Hansen
  • Publication number: 20220275790
    Abstract: Provided is a wind turbine, including: plural transformers, including a first transformer and at least one second transformer, the transformers being connectable to at least one generator, in particular via at least one converter, wherein the transformers are arranged within an inside of the wind turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Jesper Gaard, Thorkil Munk-Hansen
  • Patent number: 11353006
    Abstract: A wind turbine is provided, including a container, a fluid which is arranged inside the container, and a damping body which is arranged inside the container, which is immersed in the fluid, and which is configured to move inside the container, wherein the fluid and the damping body are configured to damp oscillations of the wind turbine. A damper system is provided that on the one hand the fluid damps, e.g. by sloshing, and on the other hand the damping body damps by moving at least partially through the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S
    Inventor: Thorkil Munk-Hansen
  • Publication number: 20220127114
    Abstract: A wind turbine (1) comprising: a tower (2), a nacelle (3) mounted on top of the tower (2), a lift landing platform (7) mounted inside the tower (2), a lift (8) configured to lift cargo (9) to the lift landing platform (7), a hoisting device (13) mounted to the nacelle (3) and configured to hoist cargo (9) lifted to the lift landing platform (7) into the nacelle (3), and guiding means (14) configured to limit a lateral movement (L) of the cargo (9) when hoisted. Damage to the wind turbine or the cargo itself can thus be avoided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Thorkil Munk-Hansen, Malte Herbert Rumler, Madhup Tiwari, Naveen Uppal
  • Patent number: 11293412
    Abstract: Provided is a busbar arrangement for a wind turbine generator, the wind turbine generator including a stator and a rotor arranged to rotate around an axis. The busbar arrangement includes a plurality of busbars for transporting electric power away from the generator, wherein each busbar is arranged at an individual radial distance from the axis and at an individual axial position along the axis. Furthermore, a wind turbine and a method of manufacturing a busbar arrangement is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Inventor: Thorkil Munk-Hansen
  • Patent number: 11192759
    Abstract: Provided is a method for raising or lowering a load parallel to a wind turbine tower, including raising or lowering the load using a cable, and exerting a force acting on the load towards the tower using guiding means supported at the tower. In the present method, a raising or lowering operation is assisted and the undesired movements of the load during raising or lowering are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S
    Inventor: Thorkil Munk-Hansen
  • Patent number: 11174845
    Abstract: An assembly system and method for assembling at least one first wind turbine component assembly section of a first wind turbine component of a wind turbine and at least one second wind turbine assembly section of a second wind turbine component of the wind turbine is provided. The assembly system includes at least one assembly assisting element for joining the two wind turbine components. The assembly assisting element is arranged at the first wind turbine component and the second wind turbine component. The assembly assisting element is arranged at the first wind turbine component and at the second wind turbine component. The assembly assisting element includes at least one guiding element for guiding of the first wind turbine component assembly section and/or for guiding of the second wind turbine assembly section. The wind turbine components are a blade, a hub, a nacelle, a generator or a tower (segments).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Inventors: Jens Hald Jensen, Thorkil Munk-Hansen, Jesper Bjerre Pedersen
  • Patent number: 11073138
    Abstract: A wind turbine nacelle platform structure including a beam assembly with at least two beams arranged to extend from a front region of a nacelle outward beyond the back end of the nacelle and a platform assembly mounted to the underside of the outward extending portion of the beam assembly. The disclosed further describes a wind turbine including a nacelle mounted on top of a tower, and such a nacelle platform structure secured to the nacelle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Inventor: Thorkil Munk-Hansen
  • Patent number: 11060510
    Abstract: Provided is a wind turbine cooling arrangement, including a first cooling circuit arranged to transport a fluid cooling medium to absorb heat from a first component group; and a second cooling circuit arranged to transport a fluid cooling medium to absorb heat from a second component group, which second cooling circuit includes a primary heat exchanger arranged to dissipate heat from the cooling medium of the second cooling circuit; and a secondary heat exchanger arranged to heat the cooling medium of the first cooling circuit. A wind turbine including a cooling arrangement, and a method of cooling components of a wind turbine is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S
    Inventors: Giovanni Airoldi, Thorkil Munk-Hansen
  • Publication number: 20210156366
    Abstract: A hatch arrangement with at least one slidable hatch for closing an opening in a floor of a wind turbine including a first guiding device fixedly mountable to the floor and a second guiding device pivotably mountable to the floor, a first coupling means to guide the slidable hatch along a first guidance path in the first guiding device and a second coupling means to couple the slidable hatch at least pivotably to the second guiding device, wherein the slidable hatch is coupled to the first guiding device at a first position and to the second guiding device at a second position, wherein a movement of the slidable hatch from a closed position along the first guidance path results in a pivoting movement of the second guiding device and in a movement of the slidable hatch to an open position and vice versa is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventor: Thorkil Munk-Hansen
  • Publication number: 20210102529
    Abstract: Provided is a busbar arrangement for a wind turbine generator, the wind turbine generator including a stator and a rotor arranged to rotate around an axis, the arrangement comprising a plurality of busbars for transporting electric power away from the generator, wherein each busbar is arranged at an individual radial distance from the axis and at an individual axial position along the axis. Furthermore, a wind turbine and a method of manufacturing a busbar arrangement is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventor: Thorkil Munk-Hansen
  • Patent number: 10626851
    Abstract: Wind turbine, having a tower and a nacelle mounted rotatably around a center axis of the tower on top of the tower, the tower having at least one tower lift for transportation and/or at least one tower climbing means, in particular a ladder, for climbing between the bottom of the tower and at least one tower platform inside the tower which allows access to an access arrangement for the nacelle, characterized in that the access arrangement includes an access platform suspended below a bed frame of the nacelle and rotatable with the nacelle and an access climbing means, in particular stairs, and/or an access lift leading from the access platform to an interior of the nacelle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy A/S
    Inventors: Thorkil Munk-Hansen, Hans Kjaer Blaabjerg, Dennis Suhr Thoegersen
  • Publication number: 20200018288
    Abstract: An assembly system and method for assembling at least one first wind turbine component assembly section of a first wind turbine component of a wind turbine and at least one second wind turbine assembly section of a second wind turbine component of the wind turbine is provided. The assembly system includes at least one assembly assisting element for joining the two wind turbine components. The assembly assisting element is arranged at the first wind turbine component and the second wind turbine component. The assembly assisting element is arranged at the first wind turbine component and at the second wind turbine component The assembly assisting element includes at least one guiding element for guiding of the first wind turbine component assembly section and/or for guiding of the second wind turbine assembly section. The wind turbine components are a blade, a hub, a nacelle, a generator or a tower (segments).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Jens Hald Jensen, Thorkil Munk-Hansen, Jesper Bjerre Pedersen
  • Publication number: 20200002136
    Abstract: Provided is a method for raising or lowering a load parallel to a wind turbine tower, including raising or lowering the load using a cable, and exerting a force acting on the load towards the tower using guiding means supported at the tower. In the present method, a raising or lowering operation is assisted and the undesired movements of the load during raising or lowering are reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventor: Thorkil Munk-Hansen
  • Publication number: 20190277263
    Abstract: Provided is a wind turbine cooling arrangement, including a first cooling circuit arranged to transport a fluid cooling medium to absorb heat from a first component group; and a second cooling circuit arranged to transport a fluid cooling medium to absorb heat from a second component group, which second cooling circuit includes a primary heat exchanger arranged to dissipate heat from the cooling medium of the second cooling circuit; and a secondary heat exchanger arranged to heat the cooling medium of the first cooling circuit. Awind turbine including a cooling arrangement, and a method of cooling components of a wind turbine is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Giovanni Airoldi, Thorkil Munk-Hansen
  • Publication number: 20190219030
    Abstract: A wind turbine is provided, including a container, a fluid which is arranged inside the container, and a damping body which is arranged inside the container, which is immersed in the fluid, and which is configured to move inside the container, wherein the fluid and the damping body are configured to damp oscillations of the wind turbine. A damper system is provided that on the one hand the fluid damps, e.g. by sloshing, and on the other hand the damping body damps by moving at least partially through the fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventor: THORKIL MUNK-HANSEN
  • Publication number: 20190195205
    Abstract: Provided is a wind turbine, including a rotor with a rotor shaft connected to a generator and a bearing housing, whereby the bearing housing includes at least a first bearing group and a second bearing group each comprising at least a primary bearing setup and a secondary bearing setup in which bearing is receivable, whereby the rotor shaft is rotatably arranged by the primary bearing setups or the secondary bearing setups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Uffe Erikson, Edom Lemma, Thorkil Munk-Hansen, Kim Thomsen
  • Patent number: D1012851
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S
    Inventor: Thorkil Munk-Hansen