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patent · US7180204

Method and apparatus for wind turbine air gap control

20 February 2007

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Abstract

Methods and apparatus for assembling a wind turbine generator are provided. The wind turbine generator includes a core and a plurality of stator windings circumferentially spaced about a generator longitudinal axis, a rotor rotatable about the generator longitudinal axis wherein the rotor includes a plurality of magnetic elements coupled to a radially outer periphery of the rotor such that an airgap is defined between the stator windings and the magnetic elements and the plur...

Provenance

Collection
Cited prior art
Filed
2005-01-07
Source
Google Patents bibliographic record
Granted
2007-02-20
Inventors
James Jonathan Grant; Bharat Sampathkumaran Bagepalli; Patrick Lee Jansen; Paul Stephen DiMascio; Aniruddha Dattatraya Gadre; Ronghai Qu; General Electric Co