Patents by Inventor CARSTEN K. RASMUSSEN

CARSTEN K. RASMUSSEN 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).

  • Wind turbine transformer arrangement
    Patent number: 9679691
    Abstract: An improved transformer arrangement of a wind turbine is provided. A wind turbine transformer arrangement comprises a transformer that is arranged in the wind turbine. The transformer comprises a housing. The transformer housing is filled with an oil. The transformer arrangement comprises at least one decompression chamber and the interior of the transformer housing is connected to the interior of the decompression chamber by a pressure release tube in a way that an increase in the pressure in the transformer housing due to a malfunction of the transformer is transferred through the pressure release tube into the decompression chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Jesper Gaard, Thorkil Munk-Hansen, Jacob Blach Nielsen, Carsten K. Rasmussen
  • WIND TURBINE TRANSFORMER ARRANGEMENT
    Publication number: 20150070869
    Abstract: An improved transformer arrangement of a wind turbine is provided. A wind turbine transformer arrangement comprises a transformer that is arranged in the wind turbine. The transformer comprises a housing. The transformer housing is filled with an oil. The transformer arrangement comprises at least one decompression chamber and the interior of the transformer housing is connected to the interior of the decompression chamber by a pressure release tube in a way that an increase in the pressure in the transformer housing due to a malfunction of the transformer is transferred through the pressure release tube into the decompression chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: JESPER GAARD, THORKIL MUNK-HANSEN, JACOB BLACH NIELSEN, CARSTEN K. RASMUSSEN