Wind turbine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10669997-B2
Application number	US-201716304581-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 6, 2017
Priority date	May 27, 2016
Publication date	Jun 2, 2020
Grant date	Jun 2, 2020

Abstract

A wind power installation comprising one or more rotor blades, a rotor hub to which the rotor blade or blades are mounted, and a generator for generating electrical power, wherein the generator has a generator stator and a generator rotor which is non-rotatably connected to the rotor hub and which is rotatable about an axis, wherein the rotor hub and the generator rotor have a common main bearing system or means which is subdivided into two bearing portions which are spaced from each other in the direction of the axis, wherein in that the first bearing portion has a first radial plain bearing and a first axial plain bearing and the second bearing portion has a second radial plain bearing and a second axial plain bearing.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A wind power installation comprising:
one or more rotor blades;
a rotor hub, the one or more rotor blades being mounted to the rotor hub; and
a generator for generating electrical power, wherein the generator has a generator stator and a generator rotor, wherein the generator rotor is non-rotatably coupled to the rotor hub and is rotatable about an axis,
wherein the rotor hub and the generator rotor have a common main bearing system that includes first and second bearing portions spaced apart from each other in a direction of the axis,
wherein the first bearing portion has a first radial plain bearing and a first axial plain bearing, and wherein the second bearing portion has a second radial plain bearing and a second axial plain bearing.

2. The wind power installation according to claim 1 wherein the first and second radial plain bearings each have a plain bearing lining, and wherein the plain bearing linings of the first and second radial plain bearings are arranged on a common first bearing ring.

3. The wind power installation according to claim 2 comprising a pod having a fixedly installed machine carrier and the common first bearing ring is fixedly coupled to the machine carrier.

4. The wind power installation according to claim 2 wherein the first and second axial plain bearings, each have a plain bearing lining, and wherein the plain bearing lining of the first axial plain bearing is arranged at a flange of the common first bearing ring.

5. The wind power installation according to claim 4 wherein the plain bearing lining of the second axial plain bearing is arranged at a machine carrier.

6. The wind power installation according to claim 4 wherein the flange is a first flange, wherein the common first bearing ring has a second flange arranged in opposite relationship in the direction of the axis, and wherein the plain bearing lining of the second axial plain bearing is arranged at the second flange.

7. The wind power installation according to claim 1 wherein the common main bearing system has a second bearing ring that is non-rotatably coupled to the generator rotor.

8. The wind power installation according to claim 7 wherein the second bearing ring in the first bearing portion has a radially inwardly extending first collar and in the second bearing portion has a radially inwardly extending second collar, wherein the first collar cooperates with the first axial plain bearing, and wherein the first radial plain bearing and the second collar cooperates with the second axial plain bearing and the second radial plain bearing.

9. The wind power installation according to claim 8 wherein the first collar has a radially oriented first surface portion which runs in sliding relationship on a plain bearing lining of the first radial plain bearing and an axially oriented second surface portion which runs in sliding relationship on the plain bearing lining of the first axial plain bearing.

10. The wind power installation according to claim 8 wherein the second collar has a radially oriented first surface portion which runs in sliding relationship on a plain bearing lining of the second radial plain bearing and an axially oriented second surface portion which runs in sliding relationship on the plain bearing lining of the second axial plain bearing.

11. The wind power installation according to claim 1 wherein at least one of the first and second radial plain bearings and the first and second axial plain bearings is a hydrodynamic plain bearing.

12. The wind power installation according to claim 2 wherein the plain bearing linings are partially or completely made from a fiber composite material.

13. The wind power installation according to claim 12 wherein the plain bearing linings include a plurality of plain bearing layers comprising one of the following materials:
polytetrafluorethylene,
expanded polytetrafluorethylene,
molybdum disulphide,
graphite,
graphene,
vapor-deposited metallic material, or
a combination of at least two of the above materials.

14. The wind power installation according to claim 12 wherein the fiber composite material has:
carbon fibers,
glass fibers,
steel fibers,
bamboo fibers, or
a combination of at least two of the above fibers.

15. The wind power installation according to claim 2 wherein the common first bearing ring is an inner ring of the common main bearing system.

16. The wind power installation according to claim 4 wherein the plain bearing linings of the first and second axial plain bearings face each other.

17. The wind power installation according to claim 7 wherein has the second bearing ring is an outer ring of the common main bearing system.

Assignees

• Wobben Properties Gmbh

Inventors

• Mtauweg Samer

Classifications

• F16C33/16

  Sliding surface consisting mainly of graphite · CPC title

• F16C17/26

  Systems consisting of a plurality of sliding-contact bearings · CPC title

• F16C33/18

  Sliding surface consisting mainly of wood or fibrous material · CPC title

• H02K7/1838

  Generators mounted in a nacelle or similar structure of a horizontal axis wind turbine · CPC title

• F03D80/70 Primary

  Bearing or lubricating arrangements · CPC title