US Patent Issued to Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy on Sept. 2 for "Inflatable component for service or installation of a wind turbine module" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,840, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy A/S (Brande, Denmark).

"Inflatable component for service or installation of a wind turbine module" was invented by Erik Dahl Andersen (Vildbjerg, Denmark), Thomas Justmi Gade Soerensen (Aalborg, Denmark) and Carsten Keller Hansen (Herning, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wind turbine arrangement, that includes: a wind turbine blade; an inflatable platform positioned in the wind turbine blade; and an inflatable outer pressure ring surrounding the platform, wherein the outer pressure ring, when inflated with a gaseous fluid, fixes the platform in the wind ...