Movable Circumferentially Patents (Class 322/55)
  • Patent number: 7321221
    Abstract: A method of operating a wind turbine, wherein the wind turbine may include rotor windings of an induction generator, which includes stator coils coupled to a voltage grid, fed with rotor currents by a feed-in unit are driven by a rotor of the wind turbine; wherein the frequencies of the fed-in rotor currents are controlled depending on the rotor rotation frequency and the feed-in unit is electrically decoupled from the rotor windings in the case predetermined variations of the grid voltage amplitude and the rotor current feed-in is resumed after the decoupling caused by the variation of the grid voltage amplitude, when the currents generated in the motor windings by the variation have declined to a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Andreas Bücker, Wilhelm Janssen, Henning Lütze