Patents by Inventor Hauke MAASS

Hauke MAASS 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).

  • Patent number: 11946451
    Abstract: A method for operating a wind power installation for the purpose of generating electrical power from wind, wherein the wind power installation has an aerodynamic rotor having rotor blades that can be adjusted in their blade angle, and the rotor is operated at a settable rated rotor speed, wherein a turbulence class at a site of the wind power installation is determined, and the rated rotor speed is defined in dependence on the determined turbulence class.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Messing, Hauke Maass, Florian Rubner, Christian Möller
  • Patent number: 11867145
    Abstract: A rotor blade for a wind power installation, which extends in a longitudinal direction with a profile course from a blade connector to a blade tip, wherein the profile course contains at least one profile, comprising: a suction side and a pressure side, a relative profile thickness of greater than 25%, a profile chord, which extends between a leading edge and a trailing edge of the profile and has a length which defines the profile depth, a mean line which extends at least partially below the profile chord, a convex region which extends on the suction side from the trailing edge, and a convex region which extends on the pressure side from the trailing edge, wherein the convex region on the pressure side defines a rounded transition region of the pressure side to the trailing edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: Jochen Stemberg, Hauke Maass, Henry Knobbe Eschen
  • Patent number: 11828262
    Abstract: A rotor blade of a wind turbine, to an associated wind turbine and to an associated method. A rotor blade for a wind turbine, which extends in the longitudinal direction with a profile course from a blade connector to a blade tip, wherein the profile course comprises a course of a lift coefficient, comprising a hub portion adjacent to the blade connector and a tip portion adjacent to the blade tip, a middle portion adjacent to the hub portion and to the tip portion, wherein the middle portion substantially comprises those profile sections which have a relative profile thickness, which is defined as the ratio of maximum profile thickness to profile depth, of between 20% and 30%, and wherein the middle portion comprises a local minimum of the course of the lift coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Möller, Hauke Maass, Jochen Stemberg
  • Patent number: 11788506
    Abstract: A rotor blade of a wind turbine, having a rotor blade length, a rotor blade depth extending over the rotor blade length, a rotor blade thickness extending over the rotor blade length, and a thickness of a trailing edge of the rotor blade extending over the rotor blade length, wherein, in a region of the rotor blade length, the rotor blade simultaneously has a splitter plate that has a predetermined length and a Gurney flap that has a predetermined height, wherein a ratio of the predetermined height of the Gurney flap to the predetermined length of the splitter plate at a particular position in the direction of the rotor blade length is selected in such a manner that a threshold value that decreases with a relative profile thickness, which is defined as a ratio of the rotor blade thickness to the rotor blade depth, is not reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Messing, Jochen Stemberg, Hauke Maass
  • Publication number: 20220252044
    Abstract: A rotor blade of a wind turbine, to an associated wind turbine and to an associated method. A rotor blade for a wind turbine which extends in the longitudinal direction with a profile course from a blade connector to a blade tip, wherein the profile course comprises a course of a lift coefficient, comprising a hub portion adjacent to the blade connector and a tip portion adjacent to the blade tip, a middle portion adjacent to the hub portion and to the tip portion, wherein the middle portion substantially comprises those profile sections which have a relative profile thickness, which is defined as the ratio of maximum profile thickness to profile depth, of between 20% and 30%, and wherein the middle portion comprises a local minimum of the course of the lift coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Christian MÖLLER, Hauke MAASS, Jochen STEMBERG
  • Publication number: 20220235735
    Abstract: A rotor blade of a wind turbine, having a rotor blade length, a rotor blade depth extending over the rotor blade length, a rotor blade thickness extending over the rotor blade length, and a thickness of a trailing edge of the rotor blade extending over the rotor blade length, wherein, in a region of the rotor blade length, the rotor blade simultaneously has a splitter plate that has a predetermined length and a Gurney flap that has a predetermined height, wherein a ratio of the predetermined height of the Gurney flap to the predetermined length of the splitter plate at a particular position in the direction of the rotor blade length is selected in such a manner that a threshold value that decreases with a relative profile thickness, which is defined as a ratio of the rotor blade thickness to the rotor blade depth, is not reached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Ralf MESSING, Jochen STEMBERG, Hauke MAASS
  • Publication number: 20220228551
    Abstract: A rotor blade of a wind turbine that has a Gurney flap, to an associated wind turbine, and to an associated method. A rotor blade for a wind turbine, having a rotor blade length, having a rotor blade depth which extends over the rotor blade length, having a rotor blade thickness which extends over the rotor blade length, and having a thickness of a trailing edge of the rotor blade, which thickness extends over the rotor blade length, said rotor blade comprising a Gurney flap, which has a height which extends over the rotor blade length, wherein the height of the Gurney flap is dimensioned according to the thickness of the trailing edge in such a way that a ratio of the height of the Gurney flap and the thickness of the trailing edge is between greater than 0% and 25%, in particular between 5% and 25%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Hauke MAASS, Jochen STEMBERG
  • Publication number: 20220205423
    Abstract: A rotor for a wind turbine, in particular a wind turbine, having a power of more than 1 MW, to a hub for a rotor of a wind turbine and to a wind turbine. A rotor for a wind turbine, in particular a wind turbine having a power of more than 1 MW, comprising a primary rotor blade, wherein the primary rotor blade extends from a first root region to a first blade tip having a first longitudinal extension, a secondary rotor blade, wherein the secondary rotor blade extends from a second root region to a second blade tip having a second longitudinal extension, the first longitudinal extension being larger than the second longitudinal extension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Jochen STEMBERG, Hauke MAASS
  • Publication number: 20220112874
    Abstract: A rotor blade for a wind power installation, which extends in a longitudinal direction with a profile course from a blade connector to a blade tip, wherein the profile course contains at least one profile, comprising: a suction side and a pressure side, a relative profile thickness of greater than 25%, a profile chord, which extends between a leading edge and a trailing edge of the profile and has a length which defines the profile depth, a mean line which extends at least partially below the profile chord, a convex region which extends on the suction side from the trailing edge, and a convex region which extends on the pressure side from the trailing edge, wherein the convex region on the pressure side defines a rounded transition region of the pressure side to the trailing edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Jochen STEMBERG, Hauke MAASS, Henry Knobbe ESCHEN
  • Publication number: 20220034296
    Abstract: A method for operating a wind power installation for the purpose of generating electrical power from wind, wherein the wind power installation has an aerodynamic rotor having rotor blades that can be adjusted in their blade angle, and the rotor is operated at a settable rated rotor speed, wherein a turbulence class at a site of the wind power installation is determined, and the rated rotor speed is defined in dependence on the determined turbulence class.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Ralf MESSING, Hauke MAASS, Florian RUBNER, Christian MÖLLER