WIND POWER GENERATOR

• US 20110012353A1
• Filed: 07/04/2008
• Published: 01/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/04/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
• Inventors: Kamata, Keitaro, Yuge, Atsushi
• Application Number:
  US12/933,449
• Publication Number:
  US 20110012353A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 290/44
• CPC Class Codes: F03D 80/70 Bearing or lubricating arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: F05B 2260/76 the adjusting mechanism using auxiliary power sources
• CPC Class Codes: F05B 2260/79 Bearing, support or actuation arrangements therefor
• CPC Class Codes: F05B 2260/85 Starting
• CPC Class Codes: F05B 2270/303 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/72 Wind turbines with rotation axis in wind direction

Abstract

A wind power generator is provided which is configured to take a measure against a decrease in oil temperature which measure requires no new large-capacity power source. A wind power generator including a hydraulic pump configured to be stopped when a wind turbine is shut down further includes a bypass channel branching off from an discharge side channel of the hydraulic pump and connected to an oil tank, an electromagnetic valve provided in the bypass channel and opened when the hydraulic pump is started, a temperature sensor configured to detect the oil temperature of hydraulic operating oil, and a controller configured to carry out pump inching after the hydraulic pump has been started, to raise the temperature of the hydraulic operating oil to a predetermined value.

Claims

1. A wind power generator comprising an oil supply pump configured to be stopped when a wind turbine is shut down, the wind power generator further comprising:

a bypass channel branching off from a discharge side channel of the oil supply pump and connected to an oil storage tank;

an on-off valve provided in the bypass channel and opened when the oil supply pump is started;

a temperature detecting section configured to detect an oil temperature of the oil; and

a control section configured to carry out pump inching after the oil supply pump has been started, to raise the temperature of the oil to a predetermined value.

2. The wind power generator according to claim 1, wherein the pump inching is carried out by inputting a pulse wave to a fixed-capacity motor configured to drive the oil supply pump.

3. The wind power generator according to claim 1, wherein the pump inching is carried out by controlling a current value of a variable-capacity motor configured to drive the oil supply pump.

4. A wind power generator comprising an oil supply pump configured to be stopped when a wind turbine is shut down,

the oil supply pump being of a variable discharge amount type, the wind power generator further comprising:

a bypass channel branching off from a discharge side channel of the oil supply pump and connected to an oil storage tank;

an on-off valve provided in the bypass channel and opened when the oil supply pump is started;

a temperature detecting section configured to detect an oil temperature of the oil; and

a control section configured to control a flow rate of the oil supply pump when the oil supply pump starts operation, to raise the temperature of the oil to a predetermined value.