US Patent Issued to BladeRobots on Feb. 17 for "Self-adjusting drive track of a robotic device for repairing a wind turbine blade" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,415, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to BladeRobots A/S (Skanderborg, Denmark).

"Self-adjusting drive track of a robotic device for repairing a wind turbine blade" was invented by Ivar J.B.K. Jensen (Hornslet, Denmark) and Aksel Petersen (Ringkobing, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive track (38) for a vehicle includes a frame (80), a drive pulley (86) rotatably coupled to the frame (80) and coupled to a drive (92), an idler pulley (88) rotatably coupled to the frame (80), and a track wheel (96) disposed about the frame (80). The track wheel (96) includes a continuous belt (98) and a plurality of link assemblies (100) coup...