HANDY TERMINAL FOR WIND TURBINE GENERATOR, WIND TURBINE GENERATOR AND WIND POWER SITE

• US 20110298213A1
• Filed: 02/12/2010
• Published: 12/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/12/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
• Inventors: Minami, Tohru, Irie, Eiji
• Application Number:
  US12/675,312
• Publication Number:
  US 20110298213A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 290/44
• CPC Class Codes: F03D 17/00 Monitoring or testing of wind motors, e.g. diagnostics testing during commissioning of wind motors F03D13/30
• CPC Class Codes: F03D 7/00 Controlling wind motors supplying or distributing electrical power H02J, e.g. arrangements for adjusting, eliminating or compensating reactive power in networks H02J3/18; controlling electric generators H02P, e.g. arrangements for controlling electric generators for the purpose of obtaining a desired output H02P9/00
• CPC Class Codes: F03D 7/04 Automatic control; Regulation
• CPC Class Codes: F03D 7/047 characterised by the controller architecture, e.g. multiple processors or data communications
• CPC Class Codes: F03D 7/048 controlling wind farms
• CPC Class Codes: F03D 80/50 Maintenance or repair
• CPC Class Codes: F05B 2260/80 Diagnostics
• CPC Class Codes: F05B 2260/83 Testing, e.g. methods, components or tools therefor
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/72 Wind turbines with rotation axis in wind direction

Abstract

A handy terminal for a wind turbine generator that can prevent management of control logics of control devices for controlling operation of the wind turbine generator from becoming cumbersome. The handy terminal for the wind turbine generator comprises, a connecting portion that connects to a connecting end provided on the wind turbine generator, an operating ends group that generate operation signals to selectively enable control logics included in a control circuit that is incorporated in the wind turbine generator, and a display portion that displays the operating state of the operating ends, wherein the operation signals generated by the operating ends group are operation signals that selectively enables the operating or maintenance control logics of the control circuit of the corresponding wind turbine generator connected via the connecting portion, that are common to the other wind turbine generators in the same site.

Claims

1. A handy terminal for a wind turbine generator comprising a connecting portion that connects to a connecting end provided on the wind turbine generator, an operating ends group that generate operation signals to selectively enable control logics included in a control circuit that is incorporated in the wind turbine generator, and a display portion that displays the operating state of the operating ends, wherein

the operation signals generated by the operating ends group are operation signals that selectively enables the operating or maintenance control logics in the control circuit of the corresponding wind turbine generator connected via the connecting portion, that are common to the other wind turbine generators in the same site.

2. A handy terminal for a wind turbine generator according to claim 1, wherein

the operation ends group further includes a mode selection end for selecting either a maintenance mode that performs maintenance control or an operating mode that performs operation control of the wind turbine generator, and

the mode selection from the mode selection end selectively switches a maintenance mode screen and an operation mode screen on the display portion.

3. A handy terminal for a wind turbine generator according to claim 1, wherein the operating ends group is a touch panel that is displayed on the displaying portion.

4. Wind turbine generators each provided with at least one control circuit that performs operating or maintenance control of the local apparatus, wherein

the one control circuit provided in the local apparatus includes a plurality of operating or maintenance control logics that are common with other wind turbine generators, and selectively enables the plurality of control logics by the operation signals obtained from the handy terminal for the wind turbine generator as claimed in claim 1.

5. Wind power generators according to claim 4, further comprising towers provided to stand on land or off-shore, nacelles supported on the towers to be controlled to rotate in the yaw direction and a plurality of rotatable blades attached to the nacelles to be controlled to move their pitch, wherein

the connecting ends are provided on the tower side and the nacelle side respectively, and wherein

the screen for performing the maintenance mode operation is displayed differently on the display portion by connecting the handy terminal to either the nacelle side or the tower side.

6. Wind turbine generators according to claim 4, wherein the control logics are logics to switch enabling/disabling the functions of an aircraft warning light, a lightning current measuring device, an output restriction, a lightning approaching sensor and a lightning strike counter.

7. Wind turbine generators according to claim 4, wherein the control logics are logics to perform a curtailment function including a north reference correction value, an angular range and a wind speed condition.

8. A wind power site comprising a plurality of wind turbine generators that configures a group of wind turbine generators, wherein

each wind turbine generator is provided with at least one control circuit to perform operating or maintenance control of the local apparatus, and wherein

the one control circuit provided in each of the local apparatus includes a plurality of operating or maintenance control logics that are common to other wind turbine generators, and selectively enables the plurality of control logics of each corresponding wind turbine generator by the operation signals that are inputted by connecting the handy terminal claimed in claim 1 to the connecting ends provided on the wind turbine generators.

9. A wind power site according to claim 8 wherein the control logics are logics to perform curtailment control to shutdown the operation of either one of adjacent wind turbine generators to suppress the effect of the other, when one of adjacent wind turbine generators receives air current turbulence from the other wind turbine generator, and wherein

the operation signals include an angular range of the wind direction and wind speed conditions for performing the curtailment function.

10. A wind power site according to claim 8, wherein

the control logics are logics to perform calibration of anemometers provided in corresponding wind turbine generators, and

the operation signals include calibration values of the anemometers.

11. A wind power site comprising a plurality of wind turbine generators, wherein the wind power site is a combination of:

a wind power turbine including a control circuit having a plurality of control logics that are common to other wind turbine generators and performs operation control of the local apparatus, and an connecting end for connecting a handy terminal that generates operation signals for enabling the control logic; and

a handy terminal including a connecting portion for connecting to the connecting end of the control circuit, an operating ends group into which operation signals to designate operation of the control logic are inputted, a display portion for displaying the operating state of the operating ends on a screen, and a screen display controlling portion for making the display portion display input screens of operation signals corresponding to the plurality of control logics.