ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,758, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to WOBBEN PROPERTIES GMBH (Aurich, Germany).
"Method for monitoring the temperature of a generator of a wind turbine" was invented by Hussam Daboul (Sudbrookmerland, Germany), Rolf Ewen (Aurich, Germany) and Michael Muller (Sudbrookmerland, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for monitoring the temperature of an electric generator of a wind turbine, wherein the generator has a stator, a rotor and a temperature monitoring unit. The temperature monitoring unit has a passive control element on the rotor and a receiving unit on the stator. A change in temperature on the rotor lea...