Patents Assigned to WOBBEN PROPERTIES GMBH
  • Wind turbine foundation and wind turbine
    Patent number: 9670909
    Abstract: A wind energy plant foundation is provided with a plurality of ready-made concrete foundation segments. The foundation segments have a plurality of first and second sheaths which serve to receive tension wires for bracing the foundation segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventor: Norbert Hölscher
  • Fluid degassing device and method for degassing fluids
    Patent number: 9669331
    Abstract: The invention concerns a fluid degassing device for degassing fluids, in particular resins. The device has a fluid supply element for supply of the fluid and a fluid discharge element for discharge of the fluid. Between the supply element and the discharge element there is at least one structural element for breaking down bubbles in the fluid as it flows through the structural element. In addition or alternatively there may be provided at least one profile element, over which the fluid must flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: WOBBEN PROPERTIES GMBH
    Inventor: Ingo Kamke
  • Wind power plant having a fire protection module for a transformer in the tower
    Patent number: 9650795
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wind power plant having a tower that has at least one bottom tower segment and a pre-manufactured fire protection module for fireproof receiving of a transformer. The fire protection module is placed within the bottom tower segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert Holscher, Mischa Braske
  • Synchronous generator of a gearless wind energy turbine
    Patent number: 9653977
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a synchronous generator of a gearless wind power installation, comprising a stator and a multi-part external rotor. The invention also concerns a wind power installation having such a generator. Furthermore the present invention concerns a transport arrangement for transporting a synchronous generator of a gearless wind power installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: Wilko Gudewer, Wojciech Giengiel
  • Transmission station for feeding in electrical energy and wind farm comprising such transmission station
    Patent number: 9627865
    Abstract: The invention relates to a transmission station for feeding locally provided electrical energy, in particular provided by one or more wind power installations, into a grid. According to the invention, it is proposed for a housing of the transmission station to feature a first, accessible room and a second room that is connected to the outside world by means of an exhaust pipe, with such first room and second room being connected to each other by means of a joint recess, with such control unit closing the joint recess, and with one casing of the control unit being open in the area where the recess is closed and/or showing a predetermined breaking point that is adapted to fail if an electric arc occurs inside the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: Holger van Dyk, Heinz Flessner
  • Apparatus and method for processing a concrete tower segment of a wind turbine
    Patent number: 9587413
    Abstract: The invention concerns a processing apparatus for processing an upper segment edge of a pylon segment of a concrete pylon for preparing the pylon segment for placement thereon of at least one further pylon segment. According to the invention it is proposed that the processing apparatus includes a processing means for processing the segment edge, and a carrier apparatus to be fixed in the region of the segment edge for displaceably carrying and guiding the processing means along the segment edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: WOBBEN PROPERTIES GmbH
    Inventors: Gunther Horn, Norbert Holscher, Olaf Stracke
  • Magnus rotor
    Patent number: 9580158
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a Magnus rotor comprising a carrier arranged in the interior of the Magnus rotor, a rotor which in operation of the Magnus rotor rotates about the carrier, a bearing which carries the rotor on the carrier and a heating device provided for producing heated air in the interior of the carrier. The carrier has at least one opening at its outside, which connects the internal space in the carrier to the intermediate space between the carrier and the rotor in such a way that air can pass through between those two spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: WOBBEN PROPERTIES GMBH
    Inventor: Rolf Rohden
  • Test piece, test method, wind turbine generator system
    Patent number: 9581529
    Abstract: The invention relates to a test piece for determining a specific material property of a fiber-reinforced plastic composite under applied mechanical loading. According to the invention, it is provided that an inner core is incorporated in a composite with the fiber-reinforced plastic, the inner core being widened in a transverse axis in relation to the mechanical load in such a way that the composite with the inner core has a greater buckling stability than a comparative body, such as the composite without the inner core, and that the inner core is formed in such a way that an influence on the specific material property to be determined of the fiber-reinforced plastic composite lies in a range of acceptance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventor: Ingo Hesse
  • Magnus-rotor
    Patent number: 9567048
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a Magnus rotor comprising a carrier, and a rotary body mounted rotatably to the carrier, as well as a drive device for driving the rotary body. The carrier has at least one opening which connects an internal space in the carrier with an external space in such a way that air can pass through between those two spaces. The invention further concerns a method of cooling elements of a Magnus rotor, a method of heating a rotary body of a Magnus rotor and a ship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: WOBBEN PROPERTIES GMBH
    Inventor: Rolf Rohden
  • Method for operating a wind turbine or a wind farm
    Patent number: 9541067
    Abstract: Thus, a method for operating a wind turbine, a wind farm or the like and a power-to-gas unit connected electrically thereto is provided. The wind turbine or the wind farm generates electric power if there is sufficient wind and feeds this power into an electrical grid connected to the wind turbine or to the wind farm. Each wind turbine is operated with a predetermined power curve. Electric power is generated by the wind turbine or the wind farm once a first wind speed (starting wind) has been reached. The wind turbine or the wind farm is in a partial-load operating mode as long as the wind speed is between the first wind speed (starting wind) and a second wind speed (nominal wind). The wind turbine or the wind farm is in a nominal power range when the wind speed is in a range which is greater than the second wind speed (nominal wind speed).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: WOBBEN PROPERTIES GMBH
    Inventor: Joachim De Boer
  • Large rolling bearing
    Patent number: 9541126
    Abstract: The invention concerns a large-size rolling bearing which is in the form of a multi-row ball-bearing rotary joint for carrying axial loads, radial loads and tilting moments. The large-size rolling bearing has an outer race, an inner race, a first ball row and a second ball row. The first ball row and the second ball row are respectively arranged in axially mutually spaced relationship in a four-point bearing configuration, associated with the first ball row are four raceway portions and associated with the second ball row are four raceway portions. The invention concerns in particular a large-size rolling bearing in which a surface of a respective raceway portion provided in the inner race is larger than the surface of the respectively adjacent raceway portion provided in the inner race and equal to the surface of the respectively diametrally oppositely disposed raceway portion provided in the outer race.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventor: Torsten Jepsen
  • Method and device for erecting a tower for a wind energy plant
    Patent number: 9534416
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a lifting apparatus, in particular a cross lifting beam, for lifting a first pylon segment of a concrete pylon of a wind power installation by means of a crane, including at least one fixing means for fixing the pylon segment to the lifting apparatus, and at least one release apparatus for releasing a connection between the lifting apparatus and the pylon segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: Hermann van Ohlen, Norbert Holscher, Michael Honczek, Jan Kapitza, Ralf Buck
  • Production of a tower
    Patent number: 9533428
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a tower segment of a concrete tower of a wind energy installation, comprising the steps: providing a segment mold having at least one formwork for defining a mold of the tower segment that is to be produced and for filling with concrete; filling the segment mold with concrete in order to form the tower segment by the subsequent hardening of the concrete; measuring the tower segment thus hardened for creating a three-dimensional, virtual actual model of said tower segment; producing said three-dimensional actual model; comparing the three-dimensional actual model with a predefined mold, in particular a stored three-dimensional, virtual target model; and determining a deviation between both virtual models and changing the segment mold, in particular changing the at least one formwork when the deviation exceeds a first predefined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: WOBBEN PROPERTIES GMBH
    Inventors: Jan Kapitza, Karsten Albers, Gunther Horn
  • Method for the operation of a wind turbine
    Patent number: 9518561
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a wind turbine comprising an aerodynamic rotor that has at least one rotor blade. Said method comprises the steps of operating the wind turbine at an operating point that depends on the wind speed, detecting an operating parameter of the operating point, comparing the detected operating parameter with a predetermined reference quantity, and heating the at least one rotor blade when the detected operating parameter exceeds a predetermined variation from the reference quantity, the operation of the wind turbine being continued.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GMBH
    Inventors: Wolfgang De Boer, Georg Eden, Alfred Beekmann, Gerhard Lenschow
  • Method for treating a fiber-plastic composite of a rotor blade, semifinished product in the form of a composite structure and UV lamp for curing a UV-curable matrix material
    Patent number: 9498923
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for treating a fiber-plastic composite of a rotor blade, comprising the steps of: providing the fiber-plastic composite to be treated at the rotor blade; preparing a local working area of the fiber-plastic composite; providing a fiber-matrix composite comprising a UV-curable matrix material and a fiber material; applying the fiber-matrix composite onto the local working area of the fiber-plastic composite; and curing the matrix material. The invention provides for the curing of the matrix material to take place with the help of UV radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventor: Ingo Hesse
  • ARRANGEMENT WITH A CONCRETE FOUNDATION AND A TOWER AND A METHOD FOR ERECTING A TOWER
    Publication number: 20160312431
    Abstract: An arrangement with a concrete foundation and a tower for supporting a nacelle of a wind energy plant wherein the tower comprises a number of tower segments which are arranged along a tower axis and at least an uppermost tower segment comprises a head flange and a foot flange, wherein an uppermost tower segment of the number of tower segments is formed as a steel element; and a number of tension or traction wires braces the concrete foundation with the head flange of the uppermost tower segment under tensile stress. A method for erecting a tower for supporting a nacelle of a wind energy plant and to a wind energy plant comprising an arrangement according to the present embodiments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicant: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Coordes
  • INSTALLATION FOR PRODUCING REINFORCEMENT CAGES FOR TOWER SEGMENTS OF WIND TURBINES
    Publication number: 20160305125
    Abstract: A system for producing reinforcing cages for wind turbine tower segments, wherein a reinforcing cage has in each case substantially horizontally oriented ring segments and substantially vertically oriented stiffening elements. It is proposed that the system has a receiving area which is adapted so as to receive the preferably inner, substantially horizontally oriented ring segments of the reinforcing cage, a first handling robot for supplying and positioning the stiffening elements, and a second handling robot for connecting the ring elements to the stiffening elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Krüger, Ingo Meyer, Karsten Albers
  • Wind turbine
    Patent number: 9464625
    Abstract: There is provided a wind power installation comprising a rotor to which rotor blades can be fitted, an electric generator having a generator stator and a generator rotor, and a plurality of displacement units. The first end of the displacement unit is fastened to the generator stator and the second end of the displacement unit is releasably fastened to the generator rotor. The displacement units each have a respective hydraulic cylinder, the deflection of which is controllable so that by actuation of the displacement unit the generator rotor is displaced relative to the generator stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: WOBBEN PROPERTIES GMBH
    Inventors: Albrecht Brenner, Frank Knoop, Matthias Ubben
  • Method for controlling a wind turbine
    Patent number: 9458824
    Abstract: One embodiment of the invention relates to a method for controlling a wind turbine, having the steps of detecting an internal fault signal which is generated in the first wind turbine and which indicates a disruption of the first wind turbine; receiving at least one external fault signal which is generated outside of the first wind turbine and which indicates a disruption of another wind turbine; and evaluating the internal fault signal dependent on the at least one external fault signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: Helge Giertz, Wolfgang de Boer
  • Electric generator for a wind power installation
    Patent number: 9450460
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical generator comprising a stator which has windings lying in grooves formed by metal sheets and which has a predetermined diameter and a predetermined depth. The metal sheets form a laminated core which is penetrated by threaded bolts, the front and rear end of the laminated core being mounted on a ring of the stator. According to the invention, an additional mounting point for the laminated core is formed on the stator ring, said mounting point being located approximately in the center of the stator ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: WOBBEN PROPERTIES GMBH
    Inventor: Wilko Gudewer