Wind turbine having drive train

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10947958-B2
Application number	US-201816227244-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 20, 2018
Priority date	Dec 20, 2017
Publication date	Mar 16, 2021
Grant date	Mar 16, 2021

Abstract

A wind turbine has a drive train that comprises a rotor shaft and a planetary gear train having a first gear stage, the rotor shaft being connected to the planet carrier of the first gear stage in a fixed and backlash-free manner. The rotor shaft is supported, on the side that faces away from the first gear stage, by a toroidal roller bearing, on a first carrying structure. The planet carrier that is connected to the rotor shaft in a fixed and backlash-free manner is supported by a moment bearing, as a fixed bearing. The outer ring of the moment bearing is connected to a housing. The combination of the outer ring of the moment bearing and the housing is connected to a second carrying structure via at least three elastic suspension elements arranged in an annular manner around the rotor axis.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. Wind turbine having a drive train that comprises: a rotor shaft and a planetary gear train having a first gear stage, the rotor shaft having an axis and being connected to a planet carrier of the first gear stage in a fixed and backlash-free manner, characterized in that the rotor shaft is supported, on a side that faces away from the first gear stage, by a toroidal roller bearing, on a first carrying structure, the planet carrier that is connected to the rotor shaft in a fixed and backlash-free manner is supported by a moment bearing, comprising a fixed bearing, an outer ring of the moment bearing being connected to a housing, and a combination of the outer ring of the moment bearing and the housing being connected to a second carrying structure via at least three elastic suspension elements arranged in an annular manner around the rotor axis.

2. The wind turbine according to 1 characterized in that six or more elastic suspension elements are provided.

3. The wind turbine according to claim 1 characterized in that the elastic suspension elements are cylindrical and are arranged with their cylinder axis parallel to the rotor axis.

4. The wind turbine according to claim 1 characterized in that the elasticity of the elastic suspension elements is configured so as to be direction-dependent, in such a manner that there is a sufficient stiffness present in a circumferential direction of the rotor axis to direct a gear torque completely into the second carrying structure solely via the suspension elements.

5. The wind turbine according to claim 1 characterized in that the moment bearing is a sliding bearing or a rolling bearing.

6. The wind turbine according to claim 5 characterized in that the tapered-roller bearing has an inductively hardened, divided outer or inner ring, wherein the corresponding divided ring has two parts having drilled holes.

7. The wind turbine according to claim 6 characterized in that one part of the divided ring has thread-free drilled through-holes, and the other part of the divided ring at a greater distance from the toroidal roller bearing has drilled holes having an internal thread.

8. The wind turbine according to claim 1 characterized in that the planet carrier of the first gear stage on a side of the moment bearing that faces away from the rotor shaft, is supported by a support bearing configured as a floating bearing to form a fixed-floating support of the planet carrier.

9. The wind turbine according to claim 8 characterized in that the support bearing is a rolling bearing.

10. The wind turbine according to claim 8 wherein the support bearing is a cylindrical roller bearing.

11. The wind turbine according to claim 1 characterized in that the housing is a gearbox housing of the planetary train.

12. The wind turbine according to claim 1 characterized in that the first and/or second carrying structure is fastened to a mainframe.

13. The wind turbine according to claim 12 , characterized in that a carrier plate has a plurality of receivers and is configured to accommodate eight or more yaw drives, and/or respectively one yaw drive is provided in each receiver of the carrier plate.

14. The wind turbine according to claim 12 characterized in that on a side that faces away from a receiver of the yaw drives, a carrier plate has at least five receivers for yaw brakes.

15. The wind turbine according to claim 14 characterized in that on a side that faces away from the receiver of the yaw drives, the carrier plate has at least eight receivers for yaw brakes and one yaw brake being provided in each receiver.

16. The wind turbine, according to claim 1 having a mainframe for accommodating component parts for supporting the rotor of the wind turbine, characterized in that the mainframe has a flange having a hole pattern identical to a hole pattern of a yaw bearing of the wind turbine, and a carrier plate is provided for accommodating at least six yaw drives, the carrier plate having a hole pattern identical to the hole pattern of the yaw bearing and being arranged between the mainframe and the yaw bearing in such a manner that a screwed connection of the mainframe to the yaw bearing is routed through the hole pattern of the carrier plate.

17. The wind turbine according to claim 16 characterized in that on a side that faces away from the receiver of the yaw drives, the carrier plate has at least five receivers for yaw brakes, one yaw brake being provided in each receiver.

18. The wind turbine according to 1 characterized in that six or more suspension elements are provided.

19. The wind turbine according to 1 characterized in that the suspension elements are evenly distributed.

20. The wind turbine according to claim 1 wherein the moment bearing comprises a two-row tapered-roller bearing slanted in an X or O arrangement.

Assignees

• Senvion Gmbh

Inventors

• Eusterbarkey Carsten
• Trede Alf

Classifications

• F16C17/00

  Sliding-contact bearings for exclusively rotary movement (F16C32/06 takes precedence; adjustable bearings F16C23/00, F16C25/00) · CPC title

• F05B2260/902

  using frictional mechanical forces · CPC title

• F16C19/385

  with two rows, i.e. double-row tapered roller bearings · CPC title

• F16C19/546

  Systems with spaced apart rolling bearings including at least one angular contact bearing · CPC title

• F05B2240/50

  Bearings · CPC title