Patents Assigned to WOBBEN PROPERTIES GMBH
  • Patent number: 11569664
    Abstract: A method for connecting a power transformer, located between an inverter of a wind turbine and an electrical grid, to the electrical grid; the method comprises the steps gradually increasing a voltage at a primary side of the transformer from a low starting voltage to a target voltage equal or close to a nominal voltage of the transformer, by means of the inverter of the wind turbine or by means of an auxiliary inverter, thereby increasing the voltage at a secondary side of the transformer, wherein the gradually increasing of the voltage uses energy of an internal energy storage device, connecting the secondary side of the transformer to the electrical grid after predefined target conditions have been reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventor: Victor Gomes
  • Patent number: 11566601
    Abstract: Provided is a control circuit of a converter, in particular a power converter of a wind power installation, configured to control the converter in such a way that the converter emulates a behavior of a synchronous machine. The control circuit includes a power module for calculating a power change depending on a detected power and a correction module for setting a power set point, in particular for the converter, depending on the calculated power change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: Roberto Rosso, Sönke Engelken, Marco Liserre
  • Patent number: 11563341
    Abstract: Provided is a method for operating a wind power installation including starting a discharge operation of an electrical store of an uninterruptible power supply, in particular at a specific time; performing the discharge operation until the electrical store has a predetermined discharge voltage; detecting a discharge current of the electrical store during the discharge operation; and determining a capacity of the electrical store from the detected discharge current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventor: Kai Busker
  • Patent number: 11557901
    Abstract: Provided is a method for feeding electrical power into an electrical supply grid that has a grid voltage and a grid frequency. The grid comprises consumers for consuming electrical power from the grid, and generators for generating electrical power and feeding the electrical power into the grid. A feed management system is provided for managing the feed. The feed management system takes into consideration a power flow stipulation for a power flow in at least one grid segment of the electrical supply grid, an energy provision stipulation for the provision of a quantity of energy at at least one consumption point of the electrical supply grid, and a stability stipulation that specifies at least one stability criterion for the electrical supply grid. The feed management system, depending on the power flow stipulation, the energy provision stipulation and the stability stipulation, selects or adjusts a master controller to support the feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventor: Johannes Brombach
  • Patent number: 11552498
    Abstract: A method for controlling an electrical consumer is provided. The electrical consumer is coupled to an electricity supply grid using a frequency converter. The electricity supply grid has a line voltage and is characterized by a nominal line voltage. The electricity supply grid is monitored for a grid fault in which the line voltage deviates from the nominal line voltage by at least a first differential voltage. When the grid fault occurs, the electrical consumer remains coupled to the electricity supply grid, and a power consumption of the electrical consumer is changed on the basis of the deviation of the line voltage from the nominal line voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Brombach, Ingo Mackensen, Stefan Gertjegerdes
  • Patent number: 11547881
    Abstract: A wind turbine comprising a tower, a pod, at least one smoke detector in the region of the tower and/or in the region of the pod, at least one fan arranged in the tower and/or in the pod, and a control unit which detects a fire situation or smoke development in the wind turbine by means of the smoke detectors and activates the fans disposed in the tower and/or in the pod in order to suck away the smoke produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Knoop, Ihno Coordes, Jörg Grünhagel
  • Patent number: 11549230
    Abstract: A semi-finished part for a foundation of a tower construction, in particular of a wind turbine tower, comprising at least two semi-finished part foundation segments, which each have an outer delimitation element and a reinforcement, which is connected to the outer delimitation element and comprises struts protruding from the outer delimitation element, wherein: the outer delimitation elements of the semi-finished part foundation segments form an outer edge, which delimits an interior to be later filled curable casting material; and the reinforcements of the semi-finished part foundation segments extend from the outer edge into the interior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: René Mertens, Albrecht Brenner, Bernd Boettcher
  • Patent number: 11545832
    Abstract: A method for controlling a wind farm to damp low-frequency electrical oscillations, in particular subsynchronous resonances, in an electrical supply grid having a grid voltage with a nominal grid frequency is provided. The wind farm comprises at least one wind turbine connected to the electrical supply grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: Aramis Schwanka Trevisan, Angelo Mendonca, Jair Cassoli, Johannes Brombach
  • Patent number: 11536248
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a wind power installation having an aerodynamic rotor with at least one rotor blade, wherein the rotor blade has an active flow control device, which is designed to actively influence a flow over the rotor blade, wherein the flow control device comprises an opening in a rotor blade surface, referred to as a rotor blade surface opening, wherein the flow control device is configured to draw off and/or blow out air through the rotor blade surface opening air by way of a controllable air flow, wherein the wind power installation has a controller which is configured to control an amount of the controllable air flow through the rotor blade surface opening according to at least one of the following rules: if a rotational speed threshold value of a rotational speed of the rotor is exceeded, increasing the maximum controllable air flow successively with increasing rotational speed, if a torque threshold value of a torque of the rotor is exceeded, increasing the maximum controllable ai
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Messing, Muhanad Mahmoud
  • Patent number: 11527890
    Abstract: A method for feeding electric power into an electrical supply grid by means of a local feed unit. The feed unit is connected to a grid link point connected to a transformer point directly or via a supply connection. The transformer point is connected to a grid section via a transformer. The method includes feeding electrical real power into the electrical supply grid at the grid link point, feeding electrical reactive power into the electrical supply grid at the grid link point, detecting a change to be made in the real power to be fed in, and changing the fed-in real power in accordance with the detected change to be made. The method includes limiting a change in the fed-in reactive power over time when changing the fed-in real power and/or immediately thereafter or temporarily activating voltage control on the basis of the change in the fed-in real power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventor: Johannes Brombach
  • Patent number: 11527893
    Abstract: A method for assisting control of an electrical supply grid) or a portion thereof is provided. The method includes recording system states of the grid and/or influencing the grid, transmitting the states to a central evaluation and/or control unit and/or between other subscribers, including wind turbines and/or wind farms that supply the grid, for use in controlling their supply to the grid. The method includes controlling the grid on the basis of the transmitted states. Fundamentally identical states are simultaneously recorded at multiple recording locations associated with the grid and the recording of at least one of the states at a respective recording location is performed by a turbine and/or farm and the turbine or farm recording a state at one recording location and the turbine or farm recording a state at another recording location are independent at least such that they supply to the grid at different points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: Alfred Beekmann, Marcel Kruse
  • Patent number: 11525432
    Abstract: A method for operating a wind turbine for generating electrical power from wind, wherein the wind turbine has an aerodynamic rotor with a rotor hub and rotor blades of which the blade angle is adjustable, and the aerodynamic rotor can be operated with a variable rotation speed, and the wind turbine has a generator, which is coupled to the aerodynamic rotor, for the purpose of generating a generator power, wherein the generator can be operated with a variable generator torque, comprising the steps of: determining a loading variable which indicates a loading on the wind turbine by the wind, and reducing the rotation speed and/or the generator power in a loading mode depending on the loading variable, wherein at least one force variable that acts on the wind turbine is used for determining the loading variable or as the loading variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventor: Enno Von Aswege
  • Patent number: 11511639
    Abstract: A charging station for charging a plurality of electric vehicles, in particular electric cars, comprising: a supply device, in particular for connecting to an electricity supply grid, for supplying the charging station with electric power, a plurality of charging terminals each for charging at least one electric vehicle, and each charging terminal comprises a supply input for drawing electric power from the supply device, a charging output having one or more charging terminals each for outputting a charging current for respectively charging a connected electric vehicle, and at least one DC current controller, arranged between the supply input and the charging output, for generating a respective controlled current from the electric power from the supply device, wherein each charging current (IL1, IL2) is formed from a controlled current or from a plurality of controlled currents (IS1, IS2, IS3), and wherein the charging terminals are connected to one another at exchange terminals by way of electrical exchange
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Brombach, Christian Strafiel, Stefan Gertjegerdes
  • Patent number: 11493019
    Abstract: A wind power installation rotary connection, in particular a blade bearing or azimuth rotary connection, wherein the rotary connection is in the form of a plain bearing assembly, comprising an inner ring having a number of first plain bearing surfaces, an outer ring having a number of second plain bearing surfaces which are respectively associated with one of the first plain bearing surfaces as a plain bearing surface partner, and wherein the plain bearing assembly is in the form of a dry-running plain bearing assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventor: Samer Mtauweg
  • Patent number: 11491888
    Abstract: A charging station for charging electric vehicles, wherein the charging station comprises a network connection point, via which the charging station is connected to an electricity supply network, for the take-up of electric power from said electricity supply network, wherein the network connection point assumes a connection capacity value, up to which a maximum take-up of power from the electricity supply network can be executed by the charging station, at least one charging terminal, for the charging of one electric vehicle respectively, at least one controllable load to the at least one charging terminal, and a control device for controlling the charging station, wherein the control device is designed to determine an equivalent storage capacity of a virtual precharge store, and to control the charging of electric vehicles in accordance with the connection capacity value and the equivalent storage capacity, wherein the equivalent storage capacity describes a value which corresponds to a storage capacity of a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventor: Johannes Brombach
  • Patent number: 11492840
    Abstract: A tower segment, in particular for a tower of a wind turbine, a wind turbine, and a method for manufacturing a tower segment is provided. A tower segment, in particular for a tower of a wind turbine, comprising a casing segment with an inner casing surface, an outer casing surface and a cutout for a door, wherein the inner casing surface has a first inner reinforcing portion and/or the outer casing surface has an outer reinforcing portion, wherein the inner reinforcing portion and/or the outer reinforcing portion adjoin the cutout, and the inner reinforcing portion has an inner reinforcing plate and/or the outer reinforcing portion has an outer reinforcing plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Longeru, Andre Pubanz, Albert Waaijenberg, Henk Lagerweij, Aart van de Pol
  • Patent number: 11495971
    Abstract: A method for exchanging or feeding electric power into an electricity supply grid that has a grid frequency using a converter-controlled generator at a grid connection point is provided. The method includes feeding in electric power depending on a control function, where the electric power may comprise active and reactive power, and the control function controls the power depending on at least one state variable of the grid. It is possible to select between a normal control function and a support control function, different from the normal control function, as the control function. The normal control function is selected when it has been detected that the grid is operating stably and the support control function is selected when a grid problem, grid fault or an end of the grid fault has been detected. The support control function controls the fed-in power to counteract an oscillation in the grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Brombach, Eckard Quitmann
  • Patent number: 11482862
    Abstract: A method for controlling a wind farm, which is operated by means of a wind farm control unit and comprises a multiplicity of wind power installations having wind power installation controllers and being connected to one another via a common wind farm grid, which is connected to an electrical power supply grid of a grid operator by means of a wind farm transformer, comprising the following steps: reception of at least one fault bit at the wind farm control unit, in particular at least one fault bit of the grid operator, deactivation of all external setpoint value specifications at the wind farm control unit apart from those of the grid operator after reception of the fault bit, activation of a closed-loop fault case control implemented in the wind farm control unit after successful deactivation of all external setpoint value specifications apart from those of the grid operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventor: Johannes Brombach
  • Patent number: 11480152
    Abstract: A rotor arresting device, a wind turbine and a method for arresting and/or rotating a rotor. The rotor arresting device comprises a rotor, a rotational assembly, and a static assembly fixed in position, comprising a toothed disk, which can be arranged on the rotational assembly, having a plurality of arresting recesses arranged along a circumference, wherein two adjacent arresting recesses form a tooth, a first arresting module having at least one first arresting element, a second arresting module having at least one second arresting element, wherein the first and the second arresting module can be arranged on the static assembly, wherein the first and the second arresting element are arranged and designed to engage in arresting recesses of the toothed disk, wherein the spacing of the first arresting element from the second arresting element in the circumferential direction of the toothed disk is a non-integral multiple of a tooth tip spacing of the toothed disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: Wojciech Giengiel, Jochen Röer
  • Patent number: 11480148
    Abstract: A rotor blade for a wind turbine, to a rotor for a wind turbine, to a wind turbine, to a method for producing a rotor blade, to a method for connecting a rotor blade to a rotor hub and to a method for repairing a rotor of a wind turbine. The rotor blade has a connection interface, the connection interface having at least one cutout for receiving a tension element for connecting the rotor blade to a further element of a wind turbine, an outer circumferential surface of the cutout being formed of a connection material and having an internal thread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: Ingo Hesse, Alexander Hoffmann