Patents by Inventor Urs Bendel

Urs Bendel 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: 11549484
    Abstract: A device and a method for manufacturing a rotor blade for a wind energy installation, wherein the rotor blade includes at least two rotor blade shells which are bonded together, includes a holding device arranged to hold a rotor blade shell such that at least one bonding surface on the rotor blade shell and/or on a web attached to the rotor blade shell is exposed. The bonding surface of the rotor blade shell can be bonded to a further rotor blade shell. The device further includes a robot arm arranged to apply adhesive to the at least one bonding surface, a carriage on which the robot arm is mounted, and a guide device mounted on the holding device. The carriage is mounted on the guide device so as to be movable. The guide device is arranged to guide the carriage and the robot arm along the holding device, in particular along the bonding surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy Service GmbH
    Inventor: Urs Bendel
  • Publication number: 20220161510
    Abstract: A pultrudate (1) with fibres running in the longitudinal direction (L) and a resin matrix which surrounds the fibres, and a top and a bottom side (2, 4), wherein the top side (2) has continuous elevations (5) and/or grooves (3) and the bottom side (4) has continuous grooves (3) or elevations (5), which are arranged such that elevations (5) and grooves (3) of one pultrudate (1) interact with grooves (3) and elevations (5) of the adjacent pultrudate (1?).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Urs Bendel, Michael Semling
  • Publication number: 20220018328
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor blade of a wind turbine, comprising at least one girder (2), at least one protective layer (4) which is arranged on the at least one girder (2) on the rotor blade outer side, wherein the at least one protective layer (4) is designed to be electrically conductive and connected to a lightning conductor (16), wherein at least one electrically insulating insulator layer (3) which is arranged between the at least one protective layer (4) and the at least one girder (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventor: Urs Bendel
  • Publication number: 20220003203
    Abstract: A device and a method for manufacturing a rotor blade for a wind energy installation, wherein the rotor blade includes at least two rotor blade shells which are bonded together, includes a holding device arranged to hold a rotor blade shell such that at least one bonding surface on the rotor blade shell and/or on a web attached to the rotor blade shell is exposed. The bonding surface of the rotor blade shell can be bonded to a further rotor blade shell. The device further includes a robot arm arranged to apply adhesive to the at least one bonding surface, a carriage on which the robot arm is mounted, and a guide device mounted on the holding device. The carriage is mounted on the guide device so as to be movable. The guide device is arranged to guide the carriage and the robot arm along the holding device, in particular along the bonding surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventor: Urs Bendel
  • Publication number: 20210394464
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a fiber composite component of a wind energy installation, in particular a fiber composite rotor blade, includes steps of providing at least one manufactured fiber-containing semi-finished product, and manufacturing the fiber composite component using this semi-finished product which has been provided. The method may further include inspecting, with the aid of a sensor arrangement which includes at least one sensor, the semi-finished product between its manufacture and its use in the course of the manufacture of the fiber composite component, and triggering a fault response if, during the course of the inspection, it is determined that the semi-finished product does not satisfy a predetermined inspection criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventor: Urs Bendel
  • Patent number: 10882222
    Abstract: The invention relates to a production mold for a rotor blade of a wind turbine plant, having two mold half-shells (3, 4) which during a production method of the rotor blade are disposed so as to be at least temporarily beside one another, and having at least one inner walkway (2c, 2d) that runs along so as to be between the two mold half-shells (3, 4), characterized by at least one escape path (40) which runs along below at least one of the two mold half-shells (3, 4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Senvion GmbH
    Inventor: Urs Bendel
  • Patent number: 10662920
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor blade of a wind power plant having two rotor blade half-shells (1, 21) with in each case a leading-edge periphery and a trailing-edge periphery (8a, 22a), which rotor blade half-shells are adhesively fastened to each other along the leading-edge and trailing-edge peripheries (8a, 22) and which in case have a trailing-edge girder (3, 25), and each of the trailing-edge girders (3, 25) at least in certain sections is of rectangular design in a cross section along its longitudinal extent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Senvion GmbH
    Inventors: Urs Bendel, Markus Werner, Julian Ramm, Enno Eyb, Lenz Zeller
  • 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: 10066491
    Abstract: A composite fiber component for a rotor blade of a wind power plant including a first sandwich core and a second sandwich core arranged next to each other, each having an inside facing a rotor blade interior and an outside facing a rotor blade exterior. A first fiber-containing laminate layer is arranged on the inside of the first sandwich core and on the outside of the second sandwich core. A second fiber-containing laminate layer is arranged on the outside of the first sandwich core and on the outside of the second sandwich core. And, a third fiber-containing laminate layer is arranged on the inside of the first sandwich core and on the inside of the second sandwich core. Also disclosed is a rotor blade for a wind power plant having a composite fiber component as disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Senvion SE
    Inventors: Enno Eyb, Urs Bendel, Hendrik Mester
  • Publication number: 20180080432
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor blade of a wind power plant having two rotor blade half-shells (1, 21) with in each case a leading-edge periphery and a trailing-edge periphery (8a, 22a), which rotor blade half-shells are adhesively fastened to each other along the leading-edge and trailing-edge peripheries (8a, 22) and which in case have a trailing-edge girder (3, 25), and each of the trailing-edge girders (3, 25) at least in certain sections is of rectangular design in a cross section along its longitudinal extent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Urs Bendel, Markus Werner, Julian Ramm, Enno Eyb
  • Patent number: 9897068
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for mounting a rotor blade with a rotor blade shell and an internal space defined by the rotor blade shell, by at least one rotor blade clamp being applied around the outside of the rotor blade shell, by means of which at least one clamping force is exerted from the outside to the rotor blade shell, directed into the internal space by at least one expansion device being introduced into the internal space, by the expansion device inside the internal space being moved into at least one segment of the rotor blade around which the at least one rotor blade clamp is applied, by the at least one expansion device being expanded inside the at least one segment until at least one outwardly-acting counteracting force is exerted from the inside on the rotor blade shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Senvion SE
    Inventor: Urs Bendel
  • Publication number: 20180009177
    Abstract: A production mold for a rotor blade of a wind turbine is provided, having two mold half-shells each with an open side and arranged in a retaining device, wherein the two retaining devices are connected to one another in an articulated manner and can be swung back and forth from an open position, in which the two mold half-shells are arranged one beside the other with their open sides oriented upward, into a closed position, in which the two mold half-shells are arranged one above the other with their open sides oriented toward one another, with a plurality of two-component closures, of which the one component is arranged on the first retaining device and of which the other component is arranged on the second retaining device, and wherein the two components can be closed and opened again by means of at least one actuator, by way of at least two separate movements of the component or of the two components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventor: Urs Bendel
  • Patent number: 9849658
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system and to a method for producing a rotor-blade spar cap with pultruded rods made of a fiber-reinforced material. According to the invention, the system includes at least one retaining apparatus for rotatably mounting at least one rod-layer roll with a rolled-up layer of pultruded rods arranged one beside the other, and a laminating mold for receiving layers of pultruded rods. The system further includes at least one guiding apparatus and additionally at least one trimming apparatus. The guiding apparatus is designed to guide onto the laminating mold a layer of pultruded rods which has been unrolled from a rod-layer roll. And, the trimming apparatus, for trimming the layers of pultruded rods, has a sawing apparatus and/or a milling apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Senvion SE
    Inventors: Enno Eyb, Urs Bendel, Lenz Simon Zeller
  • Publication number: 20170361507
    Abstract: The invention relates to a production mold for a rotor blade of a wind turbine plant, having two mold half-shells (3, 4) which during a production method of the rotor blade are disposed so as to be at least temporarily beside one another, and having at least one inner walkway (2c, 2d) that runs along so as to be between the two mold half-shells (3, 4), characterized by at least one escape path (40) which runs along below at least one of the two mold half-shells (3, 4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventor: Urs Bendel
  • Patent number: 9759184
    Abstract: A bulkhead (22) of a wind turbine (10) to be arranged on a rotor blade connection of a rotor blade (14), especially on a rotor hub (9). The bulkhead (22) has a core body (30). A layer (31, 32) of fiberglass-reinforced plastic (31, 32) is arranged on the core body (30) on both sides respectively and a metal layer body (33) is arranged on one side of the layer of fiberglass-reinforced plastic (31). A method for producing a bulkhead (22) of a wind turbine (9), which is arranged on a rotor blade connection of a rotor blade (14) and a use of a bulkhead (22) of a wind turbine (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Senvion SE
    Inventor: Urs Bendel
  • 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
  • Patent number: 9168705
    Abstract: A rotor blade and a method and a manufacturing mold for the production of a rotor blade for a wind turbine, which extends longitudinally in the operational state from a blade root area to the connection to a rotor hub of the wind turbine and which is divided into at least two segments for its production, wherein at least one subdivision is provided approximately transverse to its longitudinal extension between the blade root area and the blade tip. The method facilitates and shortens the production of the rotor blade, in particular for a series production and to still provide the completed rotor blade as a familiar uniform rotor blade. In the method, the at least two segments, preferably after they have been at least partially produced or partially produced mainly parallel in time, are interconnected in an integration device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: SENVION SE
    Inventors: Urs Bendel, Enno Eyb, Martin Knops
  • Publication number: 20150260156
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for mounting a rotor blade with a rotor blade shell and an internal space defined by the rotor blade shell, by at least one rotor blade clamp being applied around the outside of the rotor blade shell, by means of which at least one clamping force is exerted from the outside to the rotor blade shell, directed into the internal space by at least one expansion device being introduced into the internal space, by the expansion device inside the internal space being moved into at least one segment of the rotor blade around which the at least one rotor blade clamp is applied, by the at least one expansion device being expanded inside the at least one segment until at least one outwardly-acting counteracting force is exerted from the inside on the rotor blade shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: SENVION SE
    Inventor: Urs Bendel
  • Publication number: 20150224760
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system and to a method for producing a rotor-blade spar cap with pultruded rods made of a fiber-reinforced material. According to the invention, the system includes at least one retaining apparatus for rotatably mounting at least one rod-layer roll with a rolled-up layer of pultruded rods arranged one beside the other, and a laminating mold for receiving layers of pultruded rods. The system further includes at least one guiding apparatus and additionally at least one trimming apparatus. The guiding apparatus is designed to guide onto the laminating mold a layer of pultruded rods which has been unrolled from a rod-layer roll. And, the trimming apparatus, for trimming the layers of pultruded rods, has a sawing apparatus and/or a milling apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Enno Eyb, Urs Bendel, Lenz Simon Zeller