US Patent Issued to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY on June 10 for "Generator, wind turbine and method for cooling a direct drive generator of a wind turbine" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,034, issued on June 10, was assigned to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S (Brande, Denmark).

"Generator, wind turbine and method for cooling a direct drive generator of a wind turbine" was invented by Stefano Bove (Lunderskov, Denmark), Jens Bomholt Jensen (Horsens, Denmark) and Anders Vangsgaard Nielsen (Silkeborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A generator for a wind turbine has a rotor and a stator separated radially by an air gap, wherein the stator includes at least one stator segment, which includes a stack of lamination sheets and at least one stator winding, and a stator support structure supporting the at least one...