US Patent Issued to Timken Gears & Services on Sept. 22 for "Refurbishing wind turbine generator stator winding with winding conversions" (Florida, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,437, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Timken Gears & Services Inc. (King of Prussia, Pa.).

"Refurbishing wind turbine generator stator winding with winding conversions" was invented by Jan H. de Swardt (Eustis, Fla.) and Randall W. Russell (Kennewick, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Stators for use in electric machines and methods for refurbishing the same. One method for refurbishing a stator for use in an electric machine includes at least partially disassembling the stator to provide access to a plurality of stator windings connected in a four-circuit star connection having three turns per coil, and reconfiguring the stat...