US Patent Issued to Vestas Wind Systems on Sept. 30 for "Equipotential bonding of wind turbine rotor blade" (Spanish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,031, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Vestas Wind Systems A/S (Aarhus N., Denmark).

"Equipotential bonding of wind turbine rotor blade" was invented by Anton Bech (Ciudad Real, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wind turbine rotor blade portion has a root end, a tip end and a blade shell that defines a suction side, pressure side, leading edge, and a trailing edge of the blade portion. The blade shell includes a lightning conductor including a first conductive material, and at least one spar cap associated with the blade shell and including a second conductive material different than the first conductive material. An equipote...