US Patent Issued to VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS on July 1 for "Method for reducing gear induced noise from a wind turbine" (Danish, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,235, issued on July 1, was assigned to VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S (Aarhus N, Denmark).

"Method for reducing gear induced noise from a wind turbine" was invented by Peter Mongeau (Center Conway, N.H.), Kent Tange (Ry, Denmark), Andreas Langbak (Aalborg, Denmark) and Tobias Philipp Roman Duda (Lubeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reducing gear induced noise from a wind turbine is disclosed. A first vibration map and a second vibration map are generated, specifying, for each of a plurality of operating points of the generator, a virtual phase of vibrations originating from gear tooth meshing of the gearbox, relative t...