ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,571, issued on March 31, was assigned to Nordex Energy SE & Co. KG (Hamburg, Germany).
"Bearing for a wind turbine, method for monitoring an anomaly in a bearing of a wind turbine, system for monitoring an anomaly in a bearing of a wind turbine and wind turbine" was invented by Sriram Jayaraman (Chennai, India) and Arumugam Muthaiyan (Chennai, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing for a wind turbine includes a first ring and a second ring. The first ring and the second ring are rotatably arranged relative to each other around a rotational axis. A reference element and a sensor element are applied to the first ring. The sens...