Patent 7944076 was granted and assigned to Siemens Aktiengesellschaft on May, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The invention concerns a direct drive or directly driven generator for a wind turbine comprising a stator and a rotor, wherein the stator comprises a stator ring comprising several ring-segment-shaped stator segments each having at least one stator element for the power generation and wherein the rotor comprises a rotor ring pivotable around a centre axis of the generator, the rotor ring comprises several ring-segment-shaped rotor segments each having at least one rotor element for the power generation. Furthermore the invention concerns a wind turbine comprising such a direct drive generator.