Rotor for a wind turbine, rotor blade for a wind turbine, sleeve, and method for assembling a rotor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10865767-B2
Application number	US-201716308229-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 8, 2017
Priority date	Jun 8, 2016
Publication date	Dec 15, 2020
Grant date	Dec 15, 2020

Abstract

A rotor for a wind power installation, to a rotor blade for a wind power installation, to a sleeve, and to a method for the assembly of a rotor. A rotor for a wind power installation, having at least one rotor blade which is connected by means of a face side to a rotor hub, wherein the rotor blade comprises a transverse bolt recess which extends substantially radially with respect to the longitudinal axis of the rotor blade and in which a transverse bolt is arranged, wherein the transverse bolt has a transverse bolt opening, a longitudinal bolt recess which extends substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the rotor blade, wherein the longitudinal bolt recess and the transverse bolt recess have a common passage, and a longitudinal bolt is arranged within the longitudinal bolt recess and within the transverse bolt opening, a sleeve is arranged in the longitudinal bolt recess, wherein the longitudinal bolt extends through a cavity of the sleeve.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A rotor for a wind power installation, comprising:
a rotor hub; and
at least one rotor blade coupled to the rotor hub at a connection region, wherein the connection region comprises:
a transverse bolt recess which extends substantially radially with respect to a longitudinal axis of the at least one rotor blade;
a transverse bolt is arranged in the transverse bolt recess, wherein the transverse bolt has a transverse bolt opening;
a longitudinal bolt recess which extends substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the at least one rotor blade, wherein the longitudinal bolt recess, the transverse bolt recess, and the transverse bolt opening form a common passage, and wherein a longitudinal bolt is arranged within the longitudinal bolt recess and within the transverse bolt opening; and
a sleeve arranged in the longitudinal bolt recess, wherein the longitudinal bolt extends through a cavity of the sleeve, wherein the sleeve extends from a first sleeve end to a second sleeve end, wherein the sleeve includes a first sleeve section at the first sleeve end having a first outer diameter, and includes a second sleeve section at the second sleeve end having a second outer diameter, wherein the second outer diameter is different from the first outer diameter.

2. The rotor as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the at least one rotor blade comprises a plurality of longitudinal bolt recesses, a plurality of transverse bolt recesses, a plurality of longitudinal bolts, and a plurality of transverse bolts, wherein each of the plurality of transverse bolts includes a transverse bolt opening, a plurality of sleeves arranged in the plurality of longitudinal bolt recesses.

3. The rotor as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the sleeve is made of a plastic material or includes a plastic material.

4. The rotor as claimed in claim 1 wherein the cavity of the sleeve includes internal threads.

5. The rotor as claimed in claim 4 wherein the internal threads are arranged in a section adjoining the first sleeve end and the second sleeve end.

6. The rotor as claimed in claim 1 wherein at least one of the first or second sleeve sections is arranged within the transverse bolt opening.

7. The rotor as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the sleeve has a passage axis and a radial encompassing wall with an outer circumferential surface, wherein at least one web is arranged on the outer circumferential surface and has a longitudinal axis that is substantially parallel to the passage axis of the sleeve.

8. The rotor as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the sleeve extends substantially from a face-side-facing end to a face-side-averted end of the longitudinal bolt recess.

9. The rotor as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the sleeve is spaced from a face side of the at least one rotor blade, from a face-side-facing end of the longitudinal bolt recess, or from a face-side-averted end of the longitudinal bolt recess, and wherein the spacing is less than 25% of a longitudinal axis length of the longitudinal bolt recess.

10. The rotor as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the sleeve has at least one rib arranged in the cavity of the sleeve.

11. The rotor as claimed in claim 8 , comprising an expansion sleeve recess arranged on the face-side-averted side of the transverse bolt, wherein the expansion sleeve recess extends substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the at least one rotor blade and coaxially with respect to the longitudinal bolt recess.

12. A wind power installation comprising:
the rotor of claim 1 , wherein the transverse bolt recess is a first transverse bolt recess, wherein the transverse bolt is a first transverse bolt, wherein the longitudinal bolt recess is a first longitudinal bolt recess, wherein the longitudinal bolt is a first longitudinal bolt, wherein the connecting region is a first connecting region, wherein the at least one rotor blade includes a rotor blade inner part which comprises a blade root and a rotor blade outer part which comprises a blade tip, wherein the rotor blade inner part and the rotor blade outer part are connected to one another in a second connecting region, wherein the second connecting region includes:
a second transverse bolt recess in the rotor blade inner part extending substantially radially with respect to a longitudinal axis of the at least one rotor blade;
a second transverse bolt arranged in the second transverse bolt recess, wherein the second transverse bolt has an opening that extends radially with respect to a longitudinal axis of the second transverse bolt;
a second longitudinal bolt recess which extends substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the at least one rotor blade and which extends at a first end of the rotor blade outer part to a second end at the second transverse bolt recess, wherein the second longitudinal bolt recess, the second transverse bolt recess, and the opening of the second transverse bolt form a common passage; and
a second sleeve arranged in the second longitudinal bolt recess, wherein a second longitudinal bolt extends through a cavity of the second sleeve, and a section of the second longitudinal bolt is arranged within the opening of the second transverse bolt.

13. A wind power installation comprising a tower and the rotor as claimed in claim 1 .

14. The rotor as claimed in claim 1 wherein the sleeve includes two parts that are coupled together in a longitudinal direction.

15. The rotor as claimed in claim 1 wherein the sleeve adjoins a face side of the at least one rotor blade, a face-side-facing end of the longitudinal bolt recess, or a face-side-averted end of the longitudinal bolt recess.

16. A rotor blade for a wind power installation, the rotor blade comprising:
a rotor blade body extending from a blade root to a blade tip in a longitudinal direction having a longitudinal axis, wherein the blade root is configured to fasten the rotor blade to a rotor hub, wherein the rotor blade body includes a rotor blade inner part which comprises the blade root and a rotor blade outer part which comprises the blade tip, wherein the rotor blade inner part and the rotor blade outer part are connected to one another in a connecting region, wherein the connecting region includes:
a transverse bolt recess in the rotor blade inner part extending substantially radially with respect to the longitudinal axis of the rotor blade, a transverse bolt arranged in the transverse bolt recess, wherein the transverse bolt has a transverse bolt opening that extends radially with respect to a longitudinal axis of the transverse bolt;
a longitudinal bolt recess which extends substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the rotor blade and which extends at a first end of the rotor blade outer part to a second end at the transverse bolt recess, wherein the longitudinal bolt recess, the transverse bolt recess, and the transverse bolt opening form a common passage; and
a sleeve arranged in the longitudinal bolt recess, wherein a longitudinal bolt extends through a cavity of the sleeve, and a section of the longitudinal bolt is arranged within the transverse bolt opening,
wherein the sleeve extends from a first sleeve end to a second sleeve end, wherein the sleeve includes a first sleeve section at the first sleeve end having a first outer diameter, and includes a second sleeve section at the second sleeve end having a second outer diameter, wherein the second outer diameter is different from the first outer diameter.

17. A method comprising:
coupling a first rotor blade part to a second rotor blade part by:
arranging a transver

Assignees

• Wobben Properties Gmbh

Inventors

• Rubner Florian
• Stops Florian

Classifications

• F03D1/0658 Primary

  Arrangements for fixing wind-engaging parts to a hub · CPC title

• Y02E10/72

  Wind turbines with rotation axis in wind direction · CPC title

• Y02B10/30

  Wind power · CPC title

• F05B2260/30

  Retaining components in desired mutual position · CPC title

• F05B2230/60

  Assembly methods · CPC title