US Patent Issued to VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS on Sept. 2 for "Generator power peak limiting in virtual synchronous machine wind turbine" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,287, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S (Aarhus N, Denmark).

"Generator power peak limiting in virtual synchronous machine wind turbine" was invented by Torsten Lund (Fredericia, Denmark), John Godsk Nielsen (Hornslet, Denmark) and Esmaeil Ebrahimzadehveshareh (Aalborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Limiting generator loads in a wind turbine having a power converter with a line side inverter configured as a grid forming inverter. A maximum grid current value is determined based on a measured generator load and a limit function. A virtual impedance value and a virtual voltage drop over the virtual impe...