ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,203, issued on April 15, was assigned to TPI Technology Inc (Scottsdale, Ariz.).
"Mold precision pins for component location during fabrication of wind turbine blades" was invented by Amir Salimi (Providence, R.I.), Michael P. Villar (Bacolod City, Philippines) and Christopher Raine (Cranston, R.I.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wind turbine blade mold system having built in precision pins to locate structural components (e.g. spar caps) during layup of composite segments. A plurality of pins can be inserted through the layers of composite layups and into apertures within the mold, with spar caps positioned against the pins to ensur...