US Patent Issued to Viventus Holding on Oct. 14 for "Method for securing a bushing in a blade root of a wind turbine blade and cap for use in said method" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,355, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Viventus Holding B.V. (Almelo, Netherlands).

"Method for securing a bushing in a blade root of a wind turbine blade and cap for use in said method" was invented by Edo Johannes Hendrikus Kuipers (Almelo, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for securing a bushing in a blade root of a wind turbine blade according to the preamble of claim 1. The method is known in the state of the art. The known method uses an additional cavity in axial direction of the blade root. The cavities in axial and radial direction are used for accommodation of a T-bolt type bushin...