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).
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Patent number: 11549484Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 23, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy Service GmbHInventor: Urs Bendel
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Publication number: 20220161510Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2019Publication date: May 26, 2022Inventors: Urs Bendel, Michael Semling
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Publication number: 20220018328Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2019Publication date: January 20, 2022Inventor: Urs Bendel
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Publication number: 20220003203Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2019Publication date: January 6, 2022Inventor: Urs Bendel
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Publication number: 20210394464Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2019Publication date: December 23, 2021Inventor: Urs Bendel
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Patent number: 10882222Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 16, 2017Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Senvion GmbHInventor: Urs Bendel
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Patent number: 10662920Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 23, 2017Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Senvion GmbHInventors: Urs Bendel, Markus Werner, Julian Ramm, Enno Eyb, Lenz Zeller
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Patent number: 10648451Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 1, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Senvion GmbHInventors: Urs Bendel, Enno Eyb, Tilman Richers, Christian Flach, Hendrik Mester
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Patent number: 10232568Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 22, 2015Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Senvion SEInventors: Urs Bendel, Lenz Simon Zeller, Enno Eyb, Tilman Richers, Jan-Peter Witthus
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Patent number: 10066491Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 31, 2015Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: Senvion SEInventors: Enno Eyb, Urs Bendel, Hendrik Mester
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Publication number: 20180080432Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2017Publication date: March 22, 2018Inventors: Urs Bendel, Markus Werner, Julian Ramm, Enno Eyb
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Patent number: 9897068Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 19, 2013Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: Senvion SEInventor: Urs Bendel
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Publication number: 20180009177Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2017Publication date: January 11, 2018Inventor: Urs Bendel
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Patent number: 9849658Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 21, 2015Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: Senvion SEInventors: Enno Eyb, Urs Bendel, Lenz Simon Zeller
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Publication number: 20170361507Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2017Publication date: December 21, 2017Inventor: Urs Bendel
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Patent number: 9759184Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 10, 2011Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: Senvion SEInventor: Urs Bendel
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Publication number: 20160369772Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2016Publication date: December 22, 2016Inventors: Urs Bendel, Enno Eyb, Tilman Richers, Christian Flach, Hendrik Mester
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Patent number: 9168705Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 10, 2009Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: SENVION SEInventors: Urs Bendel, Enno Eyb, Martin Knops
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Publication number: 20150260156Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2013Publication date: September 17, 2015Applicant: SENVION SEInventor: Urs Bendel
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Publication number: 20150224760Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2015Publication date: August 13, 2015Inventors: Enno Eyb, Urs Bendel, Lenz Simon Zeller