Patent ID: 8196304

Claim:
A method of aligning an input shaft of a wind turbine generator with an output shaft of a wind turbine by steps comprising: placing a push plate of a wind turbine alignment tool into pressing contact with a selected support flange of a plurality of support flanges of the wind turbine generator, wherein the selected support flange is selected based on misalignment data provided by a misalignment measurement device; advancing an indexing member of the wind turbine alignment tool to correct for misalignment between the input shaft of the wind turbine generator with the output shaft of the wind turbine when misalignment is present between the input shaft of the wind turbine generator with the output shaft of the wind turbine; and rechecking the alignment of the input shaft of the wind turbine generator with the output shaft of the wind turbine to ascertain whether further alignment between the input shaft of the wind turbine generator and the output shaft of the wind turbine is required.