US Patent Issued to Kodair Wind Designs on Sept. 15 for "Fail safe system for wind turbine nacelle" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,027, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Kodair Wind Designs Ltd. (Athlone, Ireland).

"Fail safe system for wind turbine nacelle" was invented by John Flaherty (Athenry, Ireland), Shane Ledwith (Galway, Ireland), Derek Hodge (Athenry, Ireland) and Sergei Bondarevski (Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for a wind turbine nacelle includes a rotor head, a plurality of blade holders connected to the rotor head, and a shaft having a first end that extends into the rotor head. Linear movement of the shaft causes movement of the plurality of blade holders. The system further includes an electromechanical pitch actuator...