METHOD FOR INSPECTING WIND TURBINE BLADE OF WIND POWER GENERATOR

• Main Authors: ADACHI TAIRIKU, KIMURA YASUTAKA, KONDO KAZUMI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 10.11.2022
• Subjects: BLASTING; HEATING; INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; LIGHTING; MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS; MEASURING; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; OR A REACTIVE PROPULSIVE THRUST, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PHYSICS; PRODUCING MECHANICAL POWER; TESTING; WEAPONS; WIND MOTORS; WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS MOTORS

To provide a method for inspecting wind turbine blades of a wind power generator capable of appropriately transmitting and receiving data about defects in wind turbine blades in the wind power generator.SOLUTION: An inspection method of the present disclosure includes the steps of: attaching an ultrasonic probe; attaching a pulser receiver; transmitting ultrasonic waves from the ultrasonic probe; receiving, with the ultrasonic probe, reflected waves of the ultrasonic waves reflected by a wind turbine blade; acquiring, by the pulser receiver, data of the reflected waves; wirelessly transmitting, by the pulser receiver, the data of the reflected waves; receiving, with at least one of at least two antennas, the wirelessly-transmitted data of the reflected waves; and performing information processing of the data of the reflection waves by an information processing apparatus electrically connected to the at least two antennas.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 5 【課題】風力発電装置において風車翼の欠陥に関するデータを適切に送受信できる風力発電装置の風車翼の検査方法を提供する。【解決手段】本開示の検査方法は、超音波プローブを取付けるステップと、パルサレシーバを取付けるステップと、超音波プローブから超音波を発信させるステップと、超音波が風車翼に反射した反射波を超音波プローブが受信するステップと、反射波のデータをパルサレシーバが取得するステップと、パルサレシーバが反射波のデータを無線伝送するステップと、少なくとも２つのアンテナのうちの少なくとも１つが、無線伝送された反射波のデータを受信するステップと、少なくとも２つのアンテナに電気的に接続された情報処理機器によって反射波のデータが情報処理されるステップとを含んでいる。【選択図】図５