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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120023058 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING AUTOMATION SYSTEMS Systems and methods are disclosed for monitoring operation of an automation system that includes a plurality of interconnected logical objects. The systems and methods may build a fuzzy cognitive map to model an interdependence of the plurality of interconnected logical... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120010830 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLASSIFYING POWER LINE EVENTS Systems and methods for classifying power line events are disclosed. Classifying power line events may include receiving measured data corresponding to a signal measured on a power line, such as proximate a substation bus or along the power line, determining from the me... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120004869 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR POWER LINE EVENT ZONE IDENTIFICATION Systems and methods for power line event zone identification are disclosed. Power line event zone identification may include receiving measured data corresponding to a signal measured on a power line, determining from the measured data that a power line event has occurr... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120004867 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CHARACTERIZING FAULT CLEARING DEVICES Systems and methods for characterizing a device that operated to clear a fault in a power line, such as a power distribution system feeder, are disclosed. Characterizing the device may include receiving measured data corresponding to a current measured along the feeder ... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110307936 | NETWORK ANALYSIS A method and system are provided for analyzing a network. The method and system convert network specification information into a single intermediate representation of the network. The intermediate representation can then be used to determine security parameters as well ... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110286361 | Method for Detecting Network Asymmetrical Status and Asymmetrical Communication Channels for Power System The present invention provides a new synchronization method named Multi-Node Echo Method (MNEM), which settles the problem of clock/data synchronization with asymmetrical channels. In MNEM, the echo messages are relayed among multi-node loop both by clockwise and anti-c... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110257766 | SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR CONTROL AND AUTOMATION SERVICE The present disclosure relates to exemplary systems for providing control and expert services over a communication network by specialized service providers to various kinds of automation needs and methods thereof. The arrangement allows sharing of automated control syst... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110248178 | OXYGEN CONCENTRATION MEASURING DEVICE An oxygen concentration measuring device is provided for determining an oxygen concentration of a gas in a sample volume. The device includes an optical device configured for irradiating the sample volume containing oxygen with a first UV radiation intensity, at least o... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110238329 | Method and a device for detecting abnormal changes in play in a transmission unit of a movable mechanical unit The present invention relates to a method and a device for detecting abnormal changes in play in a transmission unit configured to transfer rotational movements of a motor, having a speed of rotation that depends on a torque reference signal (Tref), to a mova... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110228578 | NON-ISOLATED DC-DC CONVERTER FOR SOLAR POWER PLANT An exemplary non-isolated DC-DC converter for a solar power plant, can be adapted to connect to a full-bridge inverter. The converter includes positive and negative input terminals, and positive and negative output terminals. A plurality of switches, diodes, inductors a... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110223001 | Robotic Picking Of Parts From A Bin A robot for picking one or more parts (41) randomly distributed in a bin (40), this robot comprising a moveable arm (16a, 16b), a computing device (14) connected to said robot for controlling motion of said moveable arm a... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110223000 | Robotic Picking Of Parts From A Bin A robot is used to pick parts from a bin. The robot has a compliant apparatus and one or more tools are connected to the apparatus to perform the picking. The compliant apparatus has mechanisms for monitoring and/or controlling its compliance. The compliant apparatus ca... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110221420 | CONTROL METHOD FOR SINGLE-PHASE GRID-CONNECTED LCL INVERTER A method of controlling the grid-side current of a single-phase grid-connected converter having an LCL filter connected between the output of the converter and the grid. The method includes measuring a grid voltage (vS) and at least one signal in a group of s... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110213577 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING WAVEFORM SIGNALS OF A POWER SYSTEM Method and apparatus for analyzing waveform signals of a power system. A waveform signal obtained from the power system is digitalized and then filtered. One or more segments are identified on the filtered waveform signal and, based on the information content of the ide... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110211938 | Compliant End Of Arm Tooling For A Robot A robot (12) is used to pick parts from a bin (40 in FIG. 1). The robot has a compliant apparatus (42) and one or more tools are connected to the apparatus to perform the picking. The compliant apparatus has mechanisms for monitoring and/or c... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110208353 | TOOL FOR AN INDUSTRIAL ROBOT A method to control an industrial robot with a tool including at least one actuator. The industrial robot has at least one robot arm with a tool holder arranged on the arm. A contactless power supply is provided to the at least one actuator of the tool. Control signals ... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110208341 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING AN INDUSTRIAL PROCESS A control system for controlling an industrial process includes an indicator generator configured to determine at least one fuzzy logic based indicator from measured process variables. The control system also includes a state estimator configured to determine estimated ... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110202191 | ENERGY GENERATING SYSTEM AND CONTROL THEREOF A system and method of controlling an electricity generating system that includes at least one intermittent energy source generating plant are disclosed. An exemplary method includes calculating actual operating parameters of the at least one intermittent energy source ... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110188159 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SUPERVISING SECONDARY CIRCUIT OF INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMER IN POWER SYSTEM A method and a protection IED for supervising a secondary circuit of an instrument transformer in a power system are disclosed. The instrument transformer is connected to a power system component. The method includes: detecting, by a protection IED which is connected to... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110184902 | BUSINESS RULE INTEGRATION WITH ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS The system integrates a business rule engine with an engineering application that performs one or more predetermine functions relating to the monitoring, analyzing or controlling of a physical system. Rule processing requests are transmitted from the engineering applica... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110181225 | CONTROLLER FOR A ROTATING ELECTRICAL MACHINE To minimize switching losses in a rotating electrical machine, exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure proposes an iterative control method which calculates optimal switching states in advance. A rotating electrical machine can be controlled on the basis of this... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110166720 | FAST POWER SWING UNBLOCKING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISTANCE PROTECTION IN POWER SYSTEM The present invention discloses a fast power swing unblocking method and apparatus for a distance protection in a power system, which is able to ensure fast phase-segregated tripping of distance protection for faults during a power swing (3-phase or 2-phase swing). The ... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110163614 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REARRANGING SOUND CONDUCTORS IN PARALLEL LINES IN POWER TRANSMISSION A method and a system for rearranging sound conductors included in parallel lines in power transmission are provided. The parallel lines include at least a first line (L1) and a second line (L2) each of which includes N conductors (1A, 1B, an... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110160980 | ESTIMATING HEALTH PARAMETERS OR SYMPTOMS OF A DEGRADING SYSTEM The present invention is concerned with the estimation of health parameters p(k) representing symptoms of a slowly degrading system, in particular industrial gas turbines. According to the invention, an estimation of a true health or independent parameter vector at time... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110156094 | ELECTRICAL MODULE A method for fabricating an electrical module comprising a first substrate plate (101), a second substrate plate (102), and semiconductor components (103-110) between the first and second substrate plates is presented. Also an electrical modu... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110127011 | HEAT EXCHANGER An exemplary heat exchanger includes evaporator channels and condenser channels, connecting parts for providing fluid paths between evaporator channels and the condenser channels, a first heat transfer element for transferring a heat load to a fluid in said evaporator c... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110122654 | HIGH VOLTAGE AC/DC OR DC/AC CONVERTER STATION WITH FIBER-OPTIC CURRENT SENSOR DC current in a high voltage AC/DC or DC/AC converter station can be measured via the Faraday effect in one or more loops of an optical sensing fiber located at the base of a bushing extending through a wall of the hall. This arrangement can exploit the base of the bush... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110104385 | APPARATUS FOR ELECTROSTATICALLY COATING A WORKPIECE AND METHOD OF REDUCING CONTAMINATION THEREOF To minimize contamination and improve cleanability of an apparatus for electrostatically coating workpieces, the external surfaces of the apparatus are coated with a hydrophobic and hard coating.... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110103118 | NON-ISOLATED DC-DC CONVERTER ASSEMBLY A non-isolated DC-DC converter assembly includes a boost converter and a Ćuk converter connected together in a specific way. The non-isolated DC-DC converter assembly allows for grounding of a source and load at the same time, and provides a complete adjustability of t... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110103108 | Converter Valve A converter valve unit including a plurality of parallel connected semiconducting elements, a free-wheeling diode and a control unit.... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110098988 | Methods and Apparatus for Designing Device-to-Device Configurations Suitable to be used in a Power System Graphical tool and method for designing device-to-device configurations used in power systems. The tool comprises software program instructions configured to allow a user to graphically associate on a monitor an intelligent electronic device (IED) selected from an avail... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110093124 | INVESTIGATING TIMING RELIABILITY IN RELATION TO CONTROL OF A POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM The disclosure is related to a method, power control device and computer program product for evaluating accuracy of timing provided by time generating equipment in relation to wide area control in a power transmission system, where the wide area control is performed bas... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110082653 | METHOD FOR FAULT LOCATION ON SERIES COMPENSATED POWER TRANSMISSION LINES WITH TWO-END UNSYNCHRONIZED MEASUREMENT The present invention is concerned with a method for fault location in series compensated power transmission lines with two-end unsynchronized measurement, finding an application in the electrical power sector and for overhead uncompensated and series-compensated transm... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110080711 | POWER-ELECTRONIC ARRANGEMENT A power-electronic arrangement comprising semiconductor components (102, 103, 107), a heat exchanger (110), and an electrically conductive element (109) is presented. The heat exchanger comprises evaporator channels (111) and condenser channe... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110035792 | CLIENT/SERVER SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATING ACCORDING TO THE STANDARD PROTOCOL OPC UA AND HAVING SINGLE SIGN-ON MECHANISMS FOR AUTHENTICATING, AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING SINGLE SIGN-ON IN SUCH A SYSTEM A method and device are provided for integrating single sign-on (SOS) mechanisms in a client/server system using communication according to the standard protocol OPC UA, and for performing SOS for user authentication and authorization in the system. A client is connecte... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110031936 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMISSION LINE CONTROL It is presented an apparatus comprising: a converter (118) having an AC side and a DC side, a switch (112) adapted to be connected to a transmission line (104) on a first side and the switch being adapted to be connected to a load (122) on a ... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110030400 | EVAPORATOR AND COOLING CIRCUIT An evaporator for a cooling circuit is provided, for cooling at least one heat emitting device by evaporation of a cooling fluid. The evaporator includes a top collector, a bottom collector, and an evaporator body. The evaporator body includes at least one thermoconduct... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110004355 | Hybrid Distribution Network Power Restoration Control A power outage restoration system manages a power network including a plurality of switching devices. The power outage restoration system includes an outage management system having a network model of said power network. A plurality of local restoration controllers are ... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100332211 | PROGRAMMABLE AND RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE FOR REAL POWER SYSTEM EMULATION An apparatus is provided for emulation of a power system. The apparatus includes a plurality of programmable elements which are selectively connectable to one another. Each programmable element includes at least two elements selected from the group consisting of a gener... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100327790 | CONTROL METHOD AND MOTORSTARTER DEVICE A method for controlling an electric motor with a softstarter. A softstarter device for control of electric motors. Motor torque is controlled in dependence of a torque error signal, based on a calculated difference between the motor torque and a reference torque value,... | 12/30/2010 |
