Patents by Inventor Joachim Bettermann

Joachim Bettermann 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: 9062658
    Abstract: A rotor blade for a wind turbine includes a casing structure made of flat fiber composite material that forms the rotor blade surface. To reduce interferences to radar systems caused by the use of the rotor blade, at least at the leading edge and the trailing edge of the rotor blade is provided with a fiber composite material is designed for providing a frequency-dependent radar reflection factor for radar radiation that is incident perpendicular to the surface and which has a reflection minimum at a given frequency in the range of 1 GHz to 10 GHz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: EADS Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Joachim Bettermann
  • Publication number: 20150153448
    Abstract: A rotor blade comprising fiber-reinforced plastic for a wind power plant is provided with a radar absorber embedded into the fiber-reinforced plastic. The rotor blade includes a layer close to the surface with a defined electrical sheet resistivity of 100 to 800 ohm/square, which is located at a depth of 2 to 5 mm below the surface. The rotor blade also includes a layer far removed from the surface with a defined electrical sheet resistivity of at a maximum 50 ohm/square at a distance to the layer close to the surface of 5 to 16 mm. The integrated radar absorber covers one or several discrete surface sections of the rotor blade, without covering the entire surface of the rotor blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: Joachim BETTERMANN, Andreas FRYE
  • Patent number: 8932025
    Abstract: A rotor blade comprising fiber-reinforced plastic for a wind power plant is provided with a radar absorber embedded into the fiber-reinforced plastic. The rotor blade includes a layer close to the surface with a defined electrical sheet resistivity of 100 to 800 ohm/square, which is located at a depth of 2 to 5 mm below the surface. The rotor blade also includes a layer far removed from the surface with a defined electrical sheet resistivity of at a maximum 50 ohm/square at a distance to the layer close to the surface of 5 to 16 mm. The integrated radar absorber covers one or several discrete surface sections of the rotor blade, without covering the entire surface of the rotor blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: EADS Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Bettermann, Andreas Frye
  • Patent number: 8710692
    Abstract: Wind farm and method of controlling operation of a wind farm. The wind farm including a plurality of wind power plants, each equipped in a same manner with a pivoted rotor structure and a control device for controlling the operation of the individual wind power plants. The control device is structured and arranged to synchronize the rotary motions of the rotor structures of at least some of the plurality of wind power plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: EADS Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Bettermann, Boris Bloch, Andreas Frye, Michael Gottschalk
  • Publication number: 20120141285
    Abstract: A rotor blade for a wind turbine includes a casing structure made of flat fiber composite material that forms the rotor blade surface. To reduce interferences to radar systems caused by the use of the rotor blade, at least at the leading edge and the trailing edge of the rotor blade is provided with a fiber composite material is designed for providing a frequency-dependent radar reflection factor for radar radiation that is incident perpendicular to the surface and which has a reflection minimum at a given frequency in the range of 1 GHz to 10 GHz.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: EADS Deutschland GmbH
    Inventor: Joachim BETTERMANN
  • Publication number: 20120119495
    Abstract: Wind farm and method of controlling operation of a wind farm. The wind farm including a plurality of wind power plants, each equipped in a same manner with a pivoted rotor structure and a control device for controlling the operation of the individual wind power plants. The control device is structured and arranged to synchronize the rotary motions of the rotor structures of at least some of the plurality of wind power plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: EADS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Joachim BETTERMANN, Boris BLOCH, Andreas FRYE, Michael GOTTSCHALK
  • Publication number: 20110129352
    Abstract: A rotor blade comprising fiber-reinforced plastic for a wind power plant is provided with a radar absorber embedded into the fiber-reinforced plastic. The rotor blade includes a layer close to the surface with a defined electrical sheet resistivity of 100 to 800 ohm/square, which is located at a depth of 2 to 5 mm below the surface. The rotor blade also includes a layer far removed from the surface with a defined electrical sheet resistivity of at a maximum 50 ohm/square at a distance to the layer close to the surface of 5 to 16 mm. The integrated radar absorber covers one or several discrete surface sections of the rotor blade, without covering the entire surface of the rotor blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: EADS Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Bettermann, Andreas Frye
  • Patent number: 5084705
    Abstract: Flat panel elements are placed ahead of structural parts reflecting electromagnetic waves, in the region of radar waves, in order to provide an absorption or reduction of the reflection. For this purpose electrically and/or magnetically conducting materials are embedded into an insulating material in order to form areas of conductivity. The dimensions of these areas of conductivity in all planes are at least 1000 times smaller than the wavelength of the waves to be absorbed, and the electrically and/or magnetically conducting materials amount up to 40% of the weight of the panel area elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1992
    Assignee: Messerschmitt Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Frye, Jurgen Kruse, Julius Weyand, Joachim Bettermann, Dirk Bringmann
  • Patent number: 5083127
    Abstract: It is intended to arrange a thermal barrier layer ahead of structural parts reflecting electromagnetic waves in the region of radar waves, in order to provide an absorption or a reduction of the reflection. For this purpose electrically and/or magnetically conductive materials are embedded in a material from an electric insulator for forming conductive regions. The dimensions of these conductive regions are in all planes at least a thousand times smaller than the wavelengths of the waves to be absorbed, wherein the electrically and/or magnetically conductive materials comprise a share of up to 10% of the volume of the thermal barrier layer. Herein it is provided to design the upstream cover from an electric insulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1992
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Frye, Jurgen Kruse, Julius Weyand, Joachim Bettermann, Dirk Bringmann