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patent · US6888262

Method and apparatus for wind turbine rotor load control

3 May 2005

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This patent is cited by material in the archive, so it is indexed here by number, title and inventor. The archive holds no copy of its text.

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Abstract

A wind turbine. In one embodiment, the wind turbine includes a platform and one or more gyroscopes connected to the platform to detect movement of the platform. A control circuit is coupled with the one or more gyroscopes to determine loads placed on one or more turbine components and to mitigate the loads in response to signals from the one or more gyroscopes.

Provenance

Collection
Cited prior art
Filed
2003-02-03
Source
Google Patents bibliographic record
Granted
2005-05-03
Inventors
Ralph W. Blakemore; General Electric Co