US Patent Issued to General Electric Renovables Espana on March 25 for "Lubrication system for a pitch bearing of a wind turbine" (British, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,943, issued on March 25, was assigned to General Electric Renovables Espana S.L. (Barcelona, Spain).

"Lubrication system for a pitch bearing of a wind turbine" was invented by Jitendra Kumar Sahu (Bangalore, India) and Gerard Iain Madden (Leighton Buzzard, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lubrication system for a pitch bearing of a wind turbine includes a lubricant for lubricating contact surfaces between an outer race, an inner race, and a plurality of rolling elements of the pitch bearing. Further, the lubrication system includes a lubricant inlet formed into a first side of the inner race and an inlet seal for seali...