US Patent Issued to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY on May 13 for "Method for replacing a sliding pad of a rotational sliding bearing, sliding bearing and wind turbine" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,869, issued on May 13, was assigned to SIEMENS GAMESA RENEWABLE ENERGY A/S (Brande, Denmark).

"Method for replacing a sliding pad of a rotational sliding bearing, sliding bearing and wind turbine" was invented by Alejandro Cerda Varela (Copenhagen East, Denmark), Niels Karl Frydendal (Herning, Denmark), Kim Thomsen (Skorping, Denmark) and Morten Thorhauge (Ry, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for replacing a sliding pad of a rotational sliding bearing, wherein the bearing includes a plurality of sliding pads each supporting an annual rotatable part of the bearing on a stationary part of the bearing in an axial directio...