Patents by Inventor Jochen Kremer

Jochen Kremer 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: 10519936
    Abstract: Lightning receptor for a wind turbine rotor blade, the lightning receptor being produced in one part in a casting process and having a receptor tip, a receptor suction side, a receptor pressure side, a receptor nose edge and a receptor end edge, defined by a fastening portion with two mutually opposite adhesive bonding surfaces which are formed by recesses in the receptor pressure side and in the receptor suction side, a receptor-nose-edge-side leg and a receptor-end-edge-side leg projecting beyond the fastening portion in a direction away from the receptor tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Nordex Energv GmbH
    Inventors: Nick Ohlerich, Jochen Kremer
  • Patent number: 10202966
    Abstract: A wind turbine rotor blade is provided. The wind turbine blade has a lightning receptor, a first electric line, and a potential equalization arrangement having a first electrode, which is connected to the lightning receptor, and a second electrode, which is connected to the first electric line, a spark gap being formed between the two electrodes, mutually facing sides of the two electrodes forming an air flow channel, which is arranged such that the ambient air that is incident when the wind turbine rotor blade is in operation flows through it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Nordex Energy GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Lipka, Jochen Kremer
  • Publication number: 20180156202
    Abstract: A spar cap assembly for a wind turbine rotor blade with a carbon fiber-reinforced spar cap, a lightning conductor, which extends along the spar cap, and an equipotential bonding element, which connects the spar cap and the lightning conductor together electrically conductively, wherein the spar cap includes a plurality of layers of pultruded semi-finished products and the equipotential bonding element comprises a sheet of a carbon fiber material, which rests against an end face of an end on the blade root side of one of the pultruded semi-finished products and against an end face of an end on the blade tip side of one of the pultruded semi-finished products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Thomas Lipka, Hendrik Klein, Jochen Kremer
  • Publication number: 20170335830
    Abstract: Lightning receptor for a wind turbine rotor blade, the lightning receptor being produced in one part in a casting process and having a receptor tip, a receptor suction side, a receptor pressure side, a receptor nose edge and a receptor end edge, defined by a fastening portion with two mutually opposite adhesive bonding surfaces which are formed by recesses in the receptor pressure side and in the receptor suction side, a receptor-nose-edge-side leg and a receptor-end-edge-side leg projecting beyond the fastening portion in a direction away from the receptor tip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Nick Ohlerich, Jochen Kremer
  • Publication number: 20170045037
    Abstract: A wind turbine rotor blade is provided. The wind turbine blade has a lightning receptor, a first electric line, and a potential equalization arrangement having a first electrode, which is connected to the lightning receptor, and a second electrode, which is connected to the first electric line, a spark gap being formed between the two electrodes, mutually facing sides of the two electrodes forming an air flow channel, which is arranged such that the ambient air that is incident when the wind turbine rotor blade is in operation flows through it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventors: Thomas Lipka, Jochen Kremer