US Patent Issued to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY on July 15 for "Method and device for fault diagnosis of wind turbine pitch bearing based on neural network" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,008, issued on July 15, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"Method and device for fault diagnosis of wind turbine pitch bearing based on neural network" was invented by Weifei Hu (Hangzhou, China), Feng Tang (Hangzhou, China), Yaxuan Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Zhenyu Liu (Hangzhou, China) and Jianrong Tan (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device for fault diagnosis of wind turbine pitch bearing based on neural network, the method includes: measuring the signal strength at different points of a sensor and different rolling angles, determining an optimal measurement rolling angle of a blad...