US Patent Issued to LM Wind Power on Aug. 4 for "Layup process for wind turbine blade manufacturing" (Dutch, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,788, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to LM Wind Power A/S (Kolding, Denmark).

"Layup process for wind turbine blade manufacturing" was invented by Henrik Barslev (Cherbourg en Contentin, France) and Ton Dobbe (DH Heerhugowaard, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a wind turbine rotor blade part comprising stacking a plurality of plies (70, 71, 72) to form a stack of plies (80) such that the stack of plies has at least one stepwise tapering edge (84, 85). A plurality of plastic fasteners (90) is used to interconnect the plies (70, 71, 72) by passing the plurality of plast...