ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,028, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Wobben Properties GmbH (Aurich, Germany).
"Wind turbine and method for controlling a wind turbine" was invented by Matthias Arnold (Aurich, Germany), Steffen Busemann (Bremen, Germany) and Hussam Daboul (Sudbrookmerland, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wind turbine with a tower and a nacelle with a nacelle housing is provided. The nacelle is placed on the tower. Further provided is a cooling flap, which is configured to close an opening in or on the area of the wind turbine to be cooled. At least one temperature-dependent passive actuator is configured to activate and open the coolin...