US Patent Issued to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY on July 8 for "Fluid film bearing comprising bearing pads and method of replacing bearing pads" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,308, issued on July 8, was assigned to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S (Brande, Denmark).

"Fluid film bearing comprising bearing pads and method of replacing bearing pads" was invented by Niels Karl Frydendal (Herning, Denmark), Kim Thomsen (Skorping, Denmark), Morten Thorhauge (Ry, Denmark) and Anders Volund (Vanlose, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid film bearing for a rotor hub of a wind turbine includes a first part and a second part rotatably coupled to each other about a longitudinal axis. The first part includes an annular first sliding surface extending in the circumferential direction of the fluid film bearin...