US Patent Issued to LM WIND POWER on March 31 for "Pultruded fibre-reinforced strip for a reinforced structure, such as a spar cap" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,556, issued on March 31, was assigned to LM WIND POWER A/S (Kolding, Denmark).

"Pultruded fibre-reinforced strip for a reinforced structure, such as a spar cap" was invented by Thomas Merzhaeuser (Salzbergen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pultruded fibre-reinforced strip configured to be stacked with one or more similar strips to form a spar cap of a wind turbine blade, comprising a core comprising a plurality of first fibres embedded in a resin matrix, the plurality of first fibres being carbon fibres and/or glass fibres, and a surface layer enclosing and covering the core and comprising a plurality of second fibres Imbe...