Patents by Inventor Tilman Richers

Tilman Richers 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: 10648451
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rotor blade of a wind power plant which has an area close to the blade root in which the rotor blade has an obtuse rear edge. The method includes manufacturing a half-shell on the pressure side and a half-shell on the suction side, introducing and adhesively bonding filler bodies into at least one section of the area of the obtuse rear edge of the pressure-side half-shell and the suction-side half-shell, wherein the sections with the filler bodies lie opposite one another in the assembled rotor blade, assembling and positioning the half-shells relative to one another, wherein an adhesive gap which is delimited by the first adhesive surfaces of the filler bodies remains between the filler bodies, and introducing an adhesive medium into the adhesive gap. Also a rotor blade manufactured according to the method, and a wind power plant including such a rotor blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Senvion GmbH
    Inventors: Urs Bendel, Enno Eyb, Tilman Richers, Christian Flach, Hendrik Mester
  • Patent number: 10232568
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for producing a rotor blade spar cap for a rotor blade of a wind turbine. The apparatus includes a mold, which has a cavity-like depression in cross section, in which material for a rotor blade spar cap can be placed, and a sheet-like mold covering for sealing off the depression. The depression has side walls, an opening bounded by the side walls and a base area between the side walls. In accordance with the method, fiber material and/or fiber-reinforced material is placed in the depression of the mold such that the material finishes flush with the side walls with respect to the height of the rotor blade spar cap, the depression is sealed off by the sheet-like mold covering, the material is fused together to form the rotor blade spar cap and the rotor blade spar cap is removed from the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Senvion SE
    Inventors: Urs Bendel, Lenz Simon Zeller, Enno Eyb, Tilman Richers, Jan-Peter Witthus
  • Patent number: 9702338
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (10) for manufacturing a fiber composite component (3, 4, 5), which is connected to an attachment element (22), for a rotor blade (2) of a wind turbine (1), wherein the fiber composite component (3, 4, 5) is or will be manufactured from at least one fiber material (15, 21) and at least one matrix material, wherein the attachment element (22) is provided with a first region (221) arranged outside of the fiber composite component (3, 4, 5) and a second region (222) integrated into the fiber composite component (3, 4, 5), comprising a manufacturing mold (11) for the fiber composite component (3, 4, 5) with a recess (12), wherein the recess (12) has a first region (121) for receiving the first region (221) of the attachment element (22), and a retention device (13), by means of which fluid matrix material is or will be retained from the first region (121) of the recess (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignees: Senvion SE, Carbon Rotec GMBH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Tilman Richers, Lenz Simon Zeller, Kai Danekas
  • Publication number: 20160369772
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rotor blade of a wind power plant which has an area close to the blade root in which the rotor blade has an obtuse rear edge. The method includes manufacturing a half-shell on the pressure side and a half-shell on the suction side, introducing and adhesively bonding filler bodies into at least one section of the area of the obtuse rear edge of the pressure-side half-shell and the suction-side half-shell, wherein the sections with the filler bodies lie opposite one another in the assembled rotor blade, assembling and positioning the half-shells relative to one another, wherein an adhesive gap which is delimited by the first adhesive surfaces of the filler bodies remains between the filler bodies, and introducing an adhesive medium into the adhesive gap. Also a rotor blade manufactured according to the method, and a wind power plant including such a rotor blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Urs Bendel, Enno Eyb, Tilman Richers, Christian Flach, Hendrik Mester
  • Publication number: 20150224721
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for producing a rotor blade spar cap for a rotor blade of a wind turbine. The apparatus includes a mold, which has a cavity-like depression in cross section, in which material for a rotor blade spar cap can be placed, and a sheet-like mold covering for sealing off the depression. The depression has side walls, an opening bounded by the side walls and a base area between the side walls. In accordance with the method, fiber material and/or fiber-reinforced material is placed in the depression of the mold such that the material finishes flush with the side walls with respect to the height of the rotor blade spar cap, the depression is sealed off by the sheet-like mold covering, the material is fused together to form the rotor blade spar cap and the rotor blade spar cap is removed from the mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Urs Bendel, Lenz Simon Zeller, Enno Eyb, Tilman Richers, Jan-Peter Witthus
  • Publication number: 20140301857
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (10) for manufacturing a fiber composite component (3, 4, 5), which is connected to an attachment element (22), for a rotor blade (2) of a wind turbine (1), wherein the fiber composite component (3, 4, 5) is or will be manufactured from at least one fiber material (15, 21) and at least one matrix material, wherein the attachment element (22) is provided with a first region (221) arranged outside of the fiber composite component (3, 4, 5) and a second region (222) integrated into the fiber composite component (3, 4, 5), comprising a manufacturing mold (11) for the fiber composite component (3, 4, 5) with a recess (12), wherein the recess (12) has a first region (121) for receiving the first region (221) of the attachment element (22), and a retention device (13), by means of which fluid matrix material is or will be retained from the first region (121) of the recess (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicants: CARBON ROTEC GMBH & CO. KG, SENVION SE
    Inventors: Tilman Richers, Lenz Simon Zeller, Kai Danekas