ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,161, issued on May 20, was assigned to Vestas Wind Systems A/S (Aarhus N., Denmark).
"Manufacture of a wind turbine component" was invented by Jonathan Smith (Southampton, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a first aspect of the invention there is provided a method of making a wind turbine component, the method comprising supporting a layup (14) of fibrous reinforcing material in a mould (12); providing a supply of resin (16); providing a supply of hardener (20) comprising at least a first hardener (20a) and a second hardener (20b), the second hardener being faster than the first hardener; mixing resin with the first and...