Patents by Inventor Alan Majors Walker

Alan Majors Walker 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).

  • Method for assembling a multi-segment wind turbine rotor blade with span-wise offset joints
    Patent number: 8918997
    Abstract: A method provides for assembling a wind turbine blade from at least two blade segments, with each of the blade segments having a pressure side shell member, a suction side shell member, internal support structure, and ends with joint sections that are offset span-wise from the pressure side shell member to the suction side shell member. The blade segments are aligned in an end-to-end orientation and moved into a mating configuration with relative movement that includes overlapping the respective joint sections of adjacent blade segments. The overlapped joint sections are subsequently moved into engagement with each other and joined along respective joint profiles at a chord-wise joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Steven Alan Kyriakides, Scott Gabell Riddell, Alan Majors Walker
  • METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING A MULTI-SEGMENT WIND TURBINE ROTOR BLADE WITH SPAN-WISE OFFSET JOINTS
    Publication number: 20130091705
    Abstract: A method provides for assembling a wind turbine blade from at least two blade segments, with each of the blade segments having a pressure side shell member, a suction side shell member, internal support structure, and ends with joint sections that are offset span-wise from the pressure side shell member to the suction side shell member. The blade segments are aligned in an end-to-end orientation and moved into a mating configuration with relative movement that includes overlapping the respective joint sections of adjacent blade segments. The overlapped joint sections are subsequently moved into engagement with each other and joined along respective joint profiles at a chord-wise joint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Steven Alan Kyriakides, Scott Gabell Riddell, Alan Majors Walker