Patents by Inventor Wilhelm Feichter

Wilhelm Feichter 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).

  • Wind turbine lightning protection system
    Patent number: 8137074
    Abstract: A glass-reinforced fiber or carbon-reinforced wind turbine blade having a suction side and a pressure side includes a tip portion adapted with an electric field control region disposed solely on or within the tip portion. The electric field control region is in electrical communication with or galvanically connected to an electric discharge conduction mechanism, wherein the electric field control region and the electric discharge conduction mechanism together operate to protect a wind turbine and its associated blade(s) from damage due to a lightning strike at the tip of the wind turbine blade(s) by controlling an electric field at the tip portion(s) caused by the lightning strike.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Yaru Najem Mendez Hernandez, Bastina Lewke, Matthias Menzel, Wilhelm Feichter, Sebastian Gerhard Maxim Kraemer
  • Wind turbine lightning protection system
    Publication number: 20100047074
    Abstract: A glass-reinforced fiber or carbon-reinforced wind turbine blade having a suction side and a pressure side includes a tip portion adapted with an electric field control region disposed solely on or within the tip portion. The electric field control region is in electrical communication with or galvanically connected to an electric discharge conduction mechanism, wherein the electric field control region and the electric discharge conduction mechanism together operate to protect a wind turbine and its associated blade(s) from damage due to a lightning strike at the tip of the wind turbine blade(s) by controlling an electric field at the tip portion(s) caused by the lightning strike.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: General Electric Comapny
    Inventors: Yaru Najem Mendez Hernandez, Bastian Lewke, Matthias Menzel, Wilhelm Feichter, Sebastian Gerhard Maxim Kraemer