Rotor blade for a wind power installation, wind power installation, and method for designing a rotor blade

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11867145-B2
Application number	US-202117497220-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 8, 2021
Priority date	Oct 9, 2020
Publication date	Jan 9, 2024
Grant date	Jan 9, 2024

Abstract

A rotor blade for a wind power installation, which extends in a longitudinal direction with a profile course from a blade connector to a blade tip, wherein the profile course contains at least one profile, comprising: a suction side and a pressure side, a relative profile thickness of greater than 25%, a profile chord, which extends between a leading edge and a trailing edge of the profile and has a length which defines the profile depth, a mean line which extends at least partially below the profile chord, a convex region which extends on the suction side from the trailing edge, and a convex region which extends on the pressure side from the trailing edge, wherein the convex region on the pressure side defines a rounded transition region of the pressure side to the trailing edge.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A rotor blade for a wind power installation, comprising:
a body extending in a longitudinal direction with a profile course from a blade connector to a blade tip,
wherein the profile course contains a profile, comprising:
a suction side and a pressure side,
a profile chord extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge of the profile and having a length defining a profile depth,
a relative profile thickness of greater than 25% of the length of the profile chord,
a mean line extending at least partially below the profile chord,
a convex region extending on the suction side from the trailing edge, and
a convex region extending on the pressure side from the trailing edge,

wherein the convex region on the pressure side defines a rounded transition region of the pressure side to the trailing edge,
wherein the mean line has, in a region in which the mean line is defined by the convex region extending on the pressure side from the trailing edge and the convex region extending on the suction side from the trailing edge, a rear local minimum situated below the profile chord, and/or
wherein the mean line has, in a region in which the mean line is defined by a convex region extending on the pressure side from the leading edge and the convex region extending on the suction side from the leading edge, a front local minimum situated below the profile chord.

2. The rotor blade as claimed in claim 1 , comprising both the front local minimum and the rear local minimum,
wherein the pressure side has a concave region in a region which is situated between the convex region extending from the leading edge and the convex region extending from the trailing edge, and
wherein the rear local minimum or the front local minimum is an absolute minimum.

3. The rotor blade as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the trailing edge is:
a closed trailing edge, or
a flat trailing edge, wherein a height of the flat trailing edges less than 40% of the maximum profile thickness which is established between the suction side and the pressure side.

4. The rotor blade as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the profile has a thickness setback, which defines a ratio of a chordwise distance between the leading edge and a location of a maximum profile thickness, wherein the maximum profile thickness which is between the suction side and the pressure side, wherein the ratio is less than 40%.

5. A wind power installation comprising a tower, a nacelle, and at least one rotor blade as claimed in claim 1 .

6. A rotor blade for a wind power installation, comprising:
a body extending in a longitudinal direction with a profile course from a blade connector to a blade tip,
wherein the profile course contains a profile, comprising:
a suction side and a pressure side,
a profile chord extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge of the profile and having a length defining a profile depth,
a relative profile thickness of greater than 25% of the length of the profile chord,
a mean line extending at least partially below the profile chord,
a convex region extending on the suction side from the trailing edge, and
a convex region extending on the pressure side from the trailing edge,

wherein the convex region on the pressure side defines a rounded transition region of the pressure side to the trailing edge,
wherein the entire mean line extends below the profile chord.

Assignees

• Wobben Properties Gmbh

Inventors

• Stemberg Jochen
• Maass Hauke
• Eschen Henry Knobbe

Classifications

• F03D1/0633 Primary

  of the blades · CPC title

• F05B2230/50

  Building or constructing in particular ways · CPC title

• F05B2240/304

  Details of the trailing edge · CPC title

• F05B2250/711

  convex · CPC title

• F03D1/0641 Primary

  of the section profile of the blades, i.e. aerofoil profile · CPC title