Wind turbine with retractable light emitter

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11098699-B2
Application number	US-201716334795-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 13, 2017
Priority date	Sep 27, 2016
Publication date	Aug 24, 2021
Grant date	Aug 24, 2021

Abstract

Provided is a wind turbine having at least one lighting device, which has a light source and emission device, wherein the light source and the emission device are arranged at different positions of the wind turbine, wherein at least one positioning device is provided which, by a positioning section, is coupled to the emission device in such a way that the emission device can be moved between a first position and a second position by a movement of the positioning section.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A wind turbine with at least one lighting device, which has a light source and an emitter, wherein the light source and the emitter are arranged at different positions of the wind turbine,
wherein at least one positioning device, which is coupled to the emitter by a positioning section in such a way that the emitter can be moved vertically between a first position and a second position by a movement of the positioning section, is provided, wherein the light source is arranged at a bottom of the positioning section, wherein in the first position the positioning section extends from a top of a nacelle of the wind turbine, and wherein in the second position, the positioning device is at least partially retracted into the nacelle of the wind turbine such that the light source extends out of the nacelle opposite from the top.

2. The wind turbine as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the positioning section is formed as a mast that is movable in relation to the nacelle of the wind turbine.

3. The wind turbine as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the mast is assigned at least one fastener which includes cable, which fastens the mast to the nacelle and/or reduces any swaying of the mast perpendicularly to its direction of movement.

4. The wind turbine as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the positioning device is assigned a number of emitter and/or a number of light sources.

5. The wind turbine as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a number of positioning sections with in each case at least one emitter are arranged on the wind turbine in such a way that, irrespective of the position of a rotor of the wind turbine, at least one emitter is visible from any direction at the height of the at least one emitter.

6. The wind turbine as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the emitter comprises at least one optical unit including at least one of a prism and a lens.

7. The wind turbine as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the positioning device is assigned at least one lightning arrester.

8. The wind turbine as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the lightning arrester projects in the vertical direction above the positioning section and the emitter.

9. The wind turbine as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the light source can be operated in a continuous or pulsed manner.

10. The wind turbine as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the light source can be synchronized with at least one light source assigned to another wind turbine.

11. The wind turbine as claimed in claim 1 , wherein at least one emergency power supply by which the light source can be operated is provided.

12. The wind turbine as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a sensor, configured, to sense the time of day and/or to sense whether it is day or night and/or to sense a light intensity of the ambient light, is provided, wherein the light intensity of the light source can be controlled in dependence on the ambient light intensity by a control device.

13. The wind turbine as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the light source is controllable in at least three modes, wherein the light intensity
in a daylight mode is ≤100 000 cd and ≥50 000 cd
in a twilight mode is ≤20 000 cd and ≥10 000 cd
in a night mode is ≤2000 cd and ≥1000 cd.

14. The wind turbine as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the light source is designed to emit red light and/or white light and/or infrared light.

15. The wind turbine as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the wind turbine has a sensor which is designed to sense objects, in particular flying objects, in the vicinity of the wind turbine, wherein the light source can be controlled in dependence on the result of the sensing.

16. A wind turbine with at least one lighting device, which has a light source and an emitter, wherein the light source and the emitter are arranged at different positions of the wind turbine,
wherein at least one positioning device, which is coupled to the emitter by a positioning section in such a way that the emitter can be moved vertically between a first position and a second position by a movement of the positioning section, is provided,
wherein the positioning device is vertically movable in relation to a nacelle of the wind turbine, and wherein the positioning section is vertically movable in relation to the positioning device, wherein the light source is arranged at a bottom of the positioning section, wherein in the first position the positioning section extends from a top of the nacelle of the wind turbine, and wherein in the second position, the positioning device is at least partially retracted into the nacelle of the wind turbine such that the light source extends out of the nacelle opposite from the top.

Assignees

• Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy As

Inventors

• Nielsen Anders Vangsgaard
• Richert Bodo

Classifications

• G08B5/38

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• F03D80/30

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• Y02E10/72

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• F03D80/10 Primary

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