Patents by Inventor Alvaro Matesanz

Alvaro Matesanz 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).

  • Publication number: 20140377065
    Abstract: Method for controlling a wind turbine, comprising the steps of determining a boundary layer profile of the wind coming towards the wind turbine, determining the wind velocity at a predetermined height based on the boundary layer profile, and operating the wind turbine to maintain the emitted noise below a predetermined noise level when the wind velocity at the predetermined height is below a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventor: Alvaro Matesanz
  • Patent number: 8157532
    Abstract: A wind turbine comprising at least a blade (11) having an aerodynamic profile with a leading edge (13), a trailing edge (15) and suction and pressure sides between the leading edge (13) and the trailing edge (15) that includes an anti-noise device (31) placed on the suction side formed by elements (33) that modify the frequency spectra of the boundary layer noise. Preferably the anti-noise device (31) is placed on the suction side between two sections corresponding to chord positions in the range of 40%-95% of the chord length, measured from the leading edge (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Gamesa Innovation & Technology, S.L.
    Inventors: Alvaro Matesanz Gil, Luis Miguel Garcillan Rueda
  • Publication number: 20110123330
    Abstract: Anti-noise wind turbine. A wind turbine (11) which comprises a blade rotor which activates an electric generator and control mechanisms for said rotor in which the blades (13) include mechanisms which allow the reduction of its lift on a length, measured from its tip, less than or equal to its radius R and said control mechanisms allow said lift reduction mechanisms to be activated cyclically during the passing of each blade through a circular sector S less than or equal to 160°. The invention also refers to an operation method for said wind turbine with which said lift reduction mechanisms are cyclically operated during the passing of each blade through a circular sector S delimited between two hypothetical radii located, following the direction of the blades, at 10 and 170° from the hypothetical radius at which a blade (13) reaches maximum height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: GAMESA INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY, S.L.
    Inventor: Alvaro Matesanz Gil
  • Patent number: 7905104
    Abstract: A climatisation system for wind turbines which comprise: a first heat exchanger (10) in the nacelle (1) for exchanging heat with an element of the nacelle for which the temperature needs to be controlled; a second heat exchanger (20) outside the nacelle (1) for exchanging heat with a first exchange unit (21); a first section (12) of a climatisation circuit for: connecting the first heat exchanger (10) with the second heat exchanger (20); circulating a liquid coolant between the first heat exchanger (10) and the second heat exchanger (20); impulsion units (100) for circulating the liquid coolant on the first section (12) of the climatisation circuit; a shut off valve (200); and expansion tank (400); an expansion valve (300) between the first heat exchanger (10) and the second heat exchanger (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Gamesa Innovation & Technology, S.L.
    Inventors: Álvaro Matesanz Gil, Juan Jose Bonilla Andrino
  • Publication number: 20100104444
    Abstract: Blade (1) extending along a geometric axis (1gXY/1gYZ) from a root (111XY/111YZ) where the blade (1) is joined to the rotor (2) to a tip (122XY/122YZ). The blade has in a projection on a side/front plane XY/YZ a side/front root portion (11XY/11YZ) extending from the side/front root (111XY/111YZ) to a first intermediate side/front point (112XY/112YZ); a side/front tip portion (12XY/12YZ) extending from a second intermediate side/front point (121XY/121YZ) to the side/front tip (122XY/122YZ). The side root portion (11XY) forms an acute angle ?1 with the axis y in the side root (111XY), 0°??1?10° and the side tip portion (12XY) forms an acute angle ?2 with the axis y in the second intermediate side point (121XY), 0°??2?10°. The front root portion (11YZ) forms an acute angle ?1 with the front pitch axis (1pYZ) in the front root (111YZ), ?10°??1?10° and the front tip portion (12YZ) forms an acute angle ?2 with the front pitch axis (1pYZ) in the second intermediate front point (121YZ), 0°??2?10°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2008
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Inventors: Juan Carlos García Andújar, Alvaro Matesanz Gil, Malte Basurto Rivas, Manuel Rodriguez Martin
  • Publication number: 20100047070
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optimised wind turbine blade including: a first component (7) having an aerodynamic profile with a leading edge (11), a blunt trailing edge (13) with a thickness T greater than 2 mm and suction and pressure sides (17, 19) between the leading edge (11) and the blunt trailing edge (13); and a second component (9, 12) for reducing the noise from the blunt trailing edge, having a constant cross-section along the radius of the blade, which is securely joined to the blunt trailing edge (13) of the first component (7) in at least part of the wind turbine blade using coupling means that enable same to be replaced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Inventors: Mark Olaf Slot, Alvaro Matesanz Gil, Michael Friederich, Anders Rebsdorf
  • Publication number: 20080298967
    Abstract: A wind turbine comprising at least a blade (11) having an aerodynamic profile with a leading edge (13), a trailing edge (15) and suction and pressure sides between the leading edge (13) and the trailing edge (15) that includes an anti-noise device (31) placed on the suction side formed by elements (33) that modify the frequency spectra of the boundary layer noise. Preferably the anti-noise device (31) is placed on the suction side between two sections corresponding to chord positions in the range of 40%-95% of -the chord length, measured from the leading edge (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Inventors: Alvaro Matesanz Gil, Luis Miguel Garcillan Rueda
  • Publication number: 20080290662
    Abstract: A climatisation system for wind turbines which comprise: a first heat exchanger (10) in the nacelle (1) for exchanging heat with an element of the nacelle for which the temperature needs to be controlled; a second heat exchanger (20) outside the nacelle (1) for exchanging heat with a first exchange unit (21); a first section (12) of a climatisation circuit for: connecting the first heat exchanger (10) with the second heat exchanger (20); circulating a liquid coolant between the first heat exchanger (10) and the second heat exchanger (20); impulsion units (100) for circulating the liquid coolant on the first section (12) of the climatisation circuit; a shut off valve (200); and expansion tank (400); an expansion valve (300) between the first heat exchanger (10) and the second heat exchanger (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Inventors: Alvaro Matesanz Gil, Juan Jose Bonilla Andrino