Intellectual Property India Publishes Siemens’ Wind Turbine Patent Application

Intellectual Property India has published a patent application filed by Siemens AG in 2011. The application for the patent – which was invented by Erik Groendahl and Hans-Joergen Thougaard – was published on Jan. 18 under issue no. 03/2013. According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India:

“Wind turbine comprising at least one generator adapted to generate electric power and a number of electrical converter units adapted to convert electric power generated by the generator and electrically connectable or connected to the generator and to a utility grid whereby the generator comprises a stator being segmented in stator segments with each stator segment comprising a number of stator windings wherein the stator windings of the respective stator segments are divided into at least a first and a second group of stator windings with each group comprising at least one stator winding whereby several or all first groups of stator windings are electrically connected to a first electrical converter unit.”