US Patent Issued on July 1 for "Method for decreasing blade deflection during tower passage in a wind turbine" (Danish, Portuguese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,234, issued on July 1.

"Method for decreasing blade deflection during tower passage in a wind turbine" was invented by Jesper Sandberg Thomsen (Hadsten, Denmark), Anders Druedahl Thurlow (Silkeborg, Denmark), Alexander Duncan Giles (Oporto, Portugal) and Yi Han (Hasselager, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a wind turbine to decrease blade deflection during tower passage is disclosed. A blade flap moment of the wind turbine blades is measured. A blade flap moment of the wind turbine blades and a rotor tilt moment in a situation where the pitch offset has not been added are estimated, based on the measured...