US Patent Issued to Nordex Energy on Jan. 28 for "Wind turbine rotor blade, kit, pressure piece and method for connecting two rotor blade segments" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,569, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Nordex Energy SE & Co. KG (Hamburg, Germany).

"Wind turbine rotor blade, kit, pressure piece and method for connecting two rotor blade segments" was invented by Gerald Festner (Klein Krams, Germany) and Torsten Wackrow (Rostock, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A segmented wind turbine rotor blade includes sleeve-shaped pressure pieces arranged between rotor blade segments, each of which is mounted on a connecting bolt. Each pressure piece includes one or more cylindrical sections and a tool engaging section for an assembly tool). Each pressure piece is connected to a corresponding connec...