Patents Examined by Theodore C Ribaneneyra
  • Patent number: 10808680
    Abstract: A method for reducing loads of a wind turbine when a rotor blade of the wind turbine is stuck. The method includes continuously monitoring, via a controller, a loading effect of the stuck rotor blade of the wind turbine. The method also includes providing, via the controller, a predetermined schedule that relates the monitored loading effect of the stuck rotor blade of the wind turbine with a yaw angle for a nacelle of the wind turbine. In addition, the method includes yawing, via the controller, the nacelle of the wind turbine away from an incoming wind direction according to the predetermined schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Carlos Alberto Concha, Samuel David Draper