patent · US7183665
Direct drive wind turbine
27 February 2007
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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.
Abstract
A wind turbine is provided that minimizes the size of the drive train and nacelle while maintaining the power electronics and transformer at the top of the tower. The turbine includes a direct drive generator having an integrated disk brake positioned radially inside the stator while minimizing the potential for contamination. The turbine further includes a means for mounting a transformer below the nacelle within the tower.
Provenance
- Collection
- Cited prior art
- Original PDF
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- Filed
- 2006-03-17
- Source
- Google Patents bibliographic record
- Granted
- 2007-02-27
- Inventors
- Garrett Bywaters; William Danforth; Christopher Bevington; Stowell Jesse; Daniel Costin; Northern Power Systems Inc