US Patent Issued to LM WIND POWER on March 11 for "Damage tolerant cover sheet for premanufactured spar cap" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,543, issued on March 11, was assigned to LM WIND POWER A/S (Kolding, Denmark).

"Damage tolerant cover sheet for premanufactured spar cap" was invented by Jeppe Bjorn Jorgensen (Kolding, Denmark) and Ole Nielsen (Kolding, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a pre-manufactured spar cap for a wind turbine blade comprising a spar cap structure comprising a plurality of fibre-reinforced composite elements arranged in stacked rows and separated by interlayers and a first and/or second damage tolerant cover sheet. The first and/or second damage tolerant cover sheets each comprises a first damage tolerant...