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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8165841 | Intelligent electronic device configuration inspection The present disclosure is concerned with a Substation Automation testing tool which combines the information found in the SCL (Substation Configuration Language) File of a substation (Substation Configuration Description) or an IED (IED Capability description) with ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8156061 | Validating a standardized configuration description The present disclosure is concerned with a validation of a configuration description of automated devices in a power network such as a Substation Automation (SA) system, or of a part or component thereof such as an individual Intelligent Electronic Device (IED), tha... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154311 | Method and device for characterizing the linear properties of an electrical component A method and device for determining the linear response of an electrical multi-port component has an “estimation procedure” in which an estimated admittance matrix is determined by applying voltages to the ports of the component and measuring the response of the... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150230 | High-voltage bushing A high-voltage bushing has a conductor and a core surrounding the conductor, wherein the core comprises a sheet-like spacer, which spacer is impregnated with an electrically insulating matrix material. The spacer is wound in spiral form around an axis, the axis bein... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149599 | Controller circuit and system having such a controller circuit A controller circuit is specified, having a step-up controller, a resonant converter connected downstream of the step-up controller on the output side, a transformer, a rectifier, which rectifier is connected to the secondary winding of the transformer on the input ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148660 | Gas-insulated high-voltage circuit breaker with a relief duct which is controlled by an overflow valve A high-voltage circuit breaker includes two arcing contacts, which are capable of moving relative to one another along an axis, an insulating nozzle, a heating volume for accommodating quenching gas, a heating channel, and an overpressure valve. The pressure of the ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8134833 | Evaporator for a cooling circuit An evaporator is disclosed for a cooling circuit. The evaporator includes a housing having at least one wall for contacting a heat emitting device. A channel, the cross section of which is small enough to allow convection boiling, and a separation volume are located... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8097859 | 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 lea... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8097186 | Microvaristor-based overvoltage protection A method is disclosed for producing a non-linear powder having microvaristor particles which have a non-linear current-voltage characteristic. The production steps includes mixing non-metallic particles with the microvaristor particles, thermally treating the non-me... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8050843 | 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 ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8050053 | Electronic circuit arrangement for control purposes The electronic circuit arrangement for controlling a process device comprises a process interface circuitry and a processing circuitry, wherein the process interface circuitry is designed for receiving process signals from the process device and converting the proce... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046178 | Defect detection system for identifying defects in weld seams A defect detection system identifies defects in weld seams. An exemplary system includes a scanner device, mounted on a displacement device of a processing unit and which can be displaced by the unit over at least one weld seam that is to be examined. The scanner un... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8032749 | Method for remotely controlling and/or regulating a system The invention relates to a method for remotely controlling and/or regulating at least one system (1), in particular an industrial system using a communications device (2) which is assigned to the system (1), and at least one receiver device (... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8032563 | Generating a unique representation of physical assets The present disclosure is concerned with generating a unique representation of a physical asset from a plurality of datasets representing information relating to the physical asset. Each dataset is generated by a system that acquires the dataset in a system-specific... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8022575 | Damping electromagnetic oscillations in power systems Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and controller for damping multimode electromagnetic oscillations in electric power systems which interconnect a plurality of generators and consumers. The controller for damping such oscillations incl... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019484 | Damping electromechanical oscillations in power systems The present disclosure is concerned with the combined voltage or power flow control and damping of electromechanical oscillations in an electric power system by Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) devices or High Voltage DC (HVDC) transmission devices. To this e... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8005941 | Method and system for event transmission The management and transmission of events from a server to at least one client via a communication connection includes a server that has at least one server event service communicating with at least one client via a communication connection and at least one unit int... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8004227 | Method for operating a rotating electrical machine A method is specified for operating a rotating electrical machine, in which the rotating electrical machine is connected in terms of phase to a converter circuit, having a DC voltage circuit, for connecting at least two voltage levels, and the phases of the converte... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8003891 | High-voltage outdoor bushing An exemplary high-voltage outdoor bushing is disclosed which includes a conductor extended along an axis, a condenser core and an electrically insulating polymeric weather protection housing molded on the condenser core. The condenser core can contain an electricall... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8000930 | Monitoring a degrading system The present disclosure is concerned with the identification of fault origins of slowly degrading systems such as industrial gas turbines. Following the initial input of some parameter values, exemplary procedure comprises a number of steps which are repeated periodi... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000816 | Process control system and method for operating a system of this type The invention relates to a process control system having measuring devices and actuators. All of the measuring devices and actuators process information and exchange data amongst themselves. All measuring devices and actuators are interconnected to enable a bi-direc... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000815 | Method for the supplying and installation of device-specific functionalities and/or data for the field devices of a distributed system The invention relates to an arrangement and a method for the directed supplying and installation of device specific functionalities and/or data for field devices that are disposed in a distributed system. At least one device-specific component is provided which coop... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7995327 | Film, a capacitor, a voltage transformer and a method of using a capacitor an exemplary film includes a base having an electrically insulating polymer which carries on one or both surfaces a sequence of electrically conductive coated areas which are separated by non-coated interstices. The film, which can include a superposition of films a... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7981955 | Electrical insulation system based on poly(dicyclopentadiene) Electrical insulation system, which optionally contains a filler material and/or further additives, wherein said electrical insulation system comprises poly(dicyclopentadiene) as the main component, and method of making said electrical insulation system. ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7973427 | Converter control unit The disclosure relates to a converter control unit or power system stabilizing unit for counteracting oscillations in electric power systems that is equipped and employed to provide and processes information for system-wide monitoring, protection, control and meteri... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7963170 | Pressure sensor A pressure sensor is disclosed wherein pressure induced changes in birefringent properties of an optical sensing element are read out by transmission of at least one light beam. The pressure sensor can include at least one single-material transparent body which is s... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7958092 | Maintaining data consistency between integrated applications The present disclosure facilitates the interoperability between different local applications. Related local data objects are referenced via global objects or reference containers within a global data model or a global address space of an integration solution. The pr... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7956596 | Voltage control for electric power systems A limitation of the interaction between cascaded tap changers and/or between a tap changer and a shunt compensator independently of any real-time communication between the respective controllers is disclosed. Coordinated voltage control in distribution networks can ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7956306 | High-voltage switch with a metal container filled with insulating gas A high-voltage switch has a metal container filled with insulating gas, and a quenching chamber installed in the container. The quenching chamber contains a housing which is aligned along an axis, an arcing contact arrangement which is held in the housing, an exhaus... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7952064 | Device and method for processing and/or analyzing image information representing radiation A method for processing and/or analyzing image information representing radiation in a spatially resolved manner using an optical system coupled to at least one detector includes the step of collecting said image information with said optical system using at least o... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949947 | Method and system for bi-directional data conversion between IEC 61970 and IEC 61850 A system and method of converting a file is disclosed that is based on a first standard to a file that is based on a second standard. The concerned standards can be IEC 61970 and IEC 61850 or their equivalents. For conversion, a file based on IEC 61970 is coded acco... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7933664 | Method of generating optimal control problems for industrial processes Modelling of industrial processes is simplified with the use of Mixed Logical Dynamic (MLD) framework. Optimal control problems can be generated for application to industrial processes. For example, two arbitrarily connected MLD blocks are automatically merged to ob... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7912589 | Initializing an estimation of dynamic model parameters The present disclosure relates to monitoring of electromechanical oscillations in electric power systems, and their identification by an adaptive algorithm based on a repeatedly measured and evaluated signal. In order for an estimation of parameters of a model of th... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7911755 | Circuit arrangement for electrically controlling power and cooling arrangement A circuit that electrically controls power includes at least one power control device and at least one heat extraction device. The at least one extraction device is in thermal contact with the at least one power control device. The heat extraction device is arranged... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7911307 | Rotary transformer The invention relates to a variable transformer comprising at least one primary winding and at least one secondary winding which can be rotated in relation thereto. The primary winding and the secondary winding are subdivided into at least two winding sections. The ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7911196 | Optical voltage sensor A voltage sensor includes two optical sensing fibers and a control unit. The sensing fibers carry a first mode of light and a second mode of light, which are orthogonally polarized, with a birefringence between the two modes depending on the electric voltage to be m... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7881033 | High-voltage system and high-power circuit breaker with cooling The high-voltage system has at least one feed line and at least one high-power circuit breaker, the at least one feed line having a longitudinally extended feed line inner conductor and a feed line outer conductor surrounding the feed line inner conductor, and the h... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7880582 | Layered electrically conductive material An electrical resistor has an electrically conductive stack, which includes a plurality of metal first layers and second layers. The stack allows to produce a highly anisotropic resistor, in which the resistance in the direction perpendicular to the layers is much h... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7872091 | Electrical insulation system based on poly(butylene terephthalate) An electrical insulation system and method are disclosed which are based on poly(butylene terephthalate), wherein the poly(butylene terephthalate) contains a polymerized cyclic low molecular weight oligomeric poly(butylene terephthalate) resin. At least one filler m... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7869928 | 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 ... | 01/11/2011 |
