US Patent Issued to Vestas Wind Systems on Feb. 17 for "Method of determining radial play in a bearing arrangement" (Spanish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,707, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Vestas Wind Systems A/S (Aarhus N., Denmark).

"Method of determining radial play in a bearing arrangement" was invented by Borja Fernandez Garcia (Asturias, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining radial play of a bearing arrangement in a wind turbine component, the bearing arrangement comprising a first component and a second component, which are movable relative to one another in a radial direction. The method comprises: capturing a first image of the bearing arrangement, the first image including the first and second components in a first relative position; applying a r...