US Patent Issued to VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS on April 1 for "Yaw control using mean motor speed reference as feedback" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,652, issued on April 1, was assigned to VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S (Aarhus N, Denmark).

"Yaw control using mean motor speed reference as feedback" was invented by Peter Fynbo (Orsted, Denmark), Jesper Lykkegaard Neubauer (Hornslet, Denmark), Jens-Kristian Egsgaard Langkjaer (Aarhus, Denmark) and Niels Henrik Pedersen (Aarhus, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for controlling the yaw of a wind turbine system by controlling a plurality of yaw drive actuators. Based on a requested motor speed reference as an input signal, and a mean motor speed reference as a feedback signal, the method determines a required motor torque re...