Wind turbine and a lightning protection unit for a wind turbine

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10337491
APP PUB NO 20160084232A1
SERIAL NO

14890090

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A wind turbine is provided, having a nacelle, and having a rotor that has at least two rotor blades. The rotor blades each have a rotor blade root, at least one metallic conductor, for conducting a lightning strike, and connected thereto, provided in the region of a rotor blade root, have a conducting ring. In addition, a lightning protection unit is fastened to the non-rotating part of the nacelle in such a manner that the lightning protection unit lies on the ring. The lightning protection unit has two rollers and a lightning rod, a free end of the lightning rod being separated from an outer end of the rollers by a distance that defines a spark gap.

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WOBBEN PROPERTIES GMBH26607 AURICH

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Eden, Georg Westerholt, DE 5 54
Sartorius, Florian Leer, DE 8 29

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