US Patent Issued to Nordex Energy on Dec. 9 for "Heating element for an outer surface of a wind turbine rotor blade" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,683, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Nordex Energy SE & Co. KG (Hamburg, Germany).

"Heating element for an outer surface of a wind turbine rotor blade" was invented by Ines Runge (Henstedt-Ulzburg, Germany), Konrad Sachse (Hamburg, Germany), Adrian Dibbern (Norderstedt, Germany) and Stefan Magnus (Delingsdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating element for an outer surface of a wind turbine rotor blade, wherein the heating element has a length and a width. The heating element includes a carbon fiber layer having a plurality of slots subdividing the carbon fiber layer into consecutive band sections defining a current pa...