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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185346 | Dynamic maintenance plan for an industrial robot A method for establishing a dynamic maintenance scheduling tool for a specific part of a machinery based on condensed prior knowledge of the part of the machinery in a population of machineries. The scheduling tool is in turn used in a method for establishing a dyna... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183736 | Device and method for converting energy A device for transforming thermal energy to electric energy including a magnetic circuit including at least a portion made of a magnetic material, a temperature-varying device for varying the temperature in the portion made of the magnetic material alternately above... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183489 | Contact element An electric contact element for an arcing contact including a contact body arranged to be applied against a contact element. The contact body includes a Mn+1AXn-material, wherein M is at least one transition metal, A is at least one element sel... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179817 | Tool for communication system A method for designing an, at least partly wireless, local area communication network for industrial application. A 3D plant model of the area in which the communication network is to operate is accessed. Devices that are to communicate in the communication, identif... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8165141 | Method for configuring a node of an industrial wireless network A method for joining a wireless node of a field device such as a sensor or actuator to a wireless network connected to an industrial monitoring or control system. A handheld wireless device is utilized including hardware and software for communicating with the wirel... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164413 | Electric insulation arrangement An electric insulation arrangement including a field grading material including a matrix including a dielectric material. A plurality of micro varistor particles is distributed in the matrix. A plurality of bridge particles include an electrically conducting materia... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8138702 | 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 va... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8129882 | Thermoelectric generator and method of generating electricity A generator device for converting thermal energy to electric energy. A magnetic circuit includes at least a portion made of a magnetic material. A temperature-varying device varied the temperature in the portion made of the magnetic material alternately above and be... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126964 | Method for displaying data in an industrial control system A method to distribute or share data provided by a server process of an industrial control system to a client process running on a first machine of a first user, with a client process running on a machine of a second user. The server session is logged by the server ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126395 | Wireless communication method, device and system for establishing a connection A method for a user to establish a wireless connection between a wireless portable computing device and a wireless-equipped device in an industrial or electrical power or distribution plant. Actions of the method are carried out by a second computer program that pro... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125310 | Method and system for providing a user interface A method for providing a user interface for an industrial control system. Information is presented at least in part displayed in layers or filters on one or more display screens of a control system. The control system may include other media for presenting or displa... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121729 | Remote diagnostic system for robots A remote diagnostic system for robots including a number of at least two robots, wherein a controller of each robot of the system is locally connected to a service unit provided with local processing power, a remote service center provided with a connector server is... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8090475 | Method and device for monitoring the condition of an industrial robot A method for monitoring the condition of an industrial robot having a plurality of links movable relative to each other, and a plurality of actuators controlling the movements of the links. A feed forward torque is calculated for at least one of the actuators based ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8088996 | High voltage DC bushing and device comprising such high voltage bushing A high voltage DC bushing including a fluid duct with non-constant width (Δr) along the axial direction of the bushing. ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8067694 | High voltage cable An extruded high voltage cable including a conductor with at least three concentric layers of helically wound metal wires, an extruded inner conducting layer surrounding the conductor, and an extruded electrical insulation arranged outside the inner conducting layer... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8062711 | Device and a method for stabilizing a steel sheet A device for stabilizing an elongated steel sheet when continuously transporting the steel sheet in a transport direction along a predetermined transport path. The device includes at least a first pair, a second pair and a third pair of electromagnets with at least ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8050782 | Method and system to retrieve and display technical data for an industrial device A method to retrieve and display technical data for an industrial device supervised by a computer program for control, configuration or condition monitoring in an industrial or commercial plant. The method can use a substantially static and easily visible large size... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8049587 | Cooling system for a dry-type air-core reactor An air-core reactor with natural-air cooling of a winding includes first open spaces to let air flow through the winding in parallel with an axis of symmetry of the reactor and second open spaces crossing the first open spaces to let air flow through the winding ang... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8022655 | Robot control system comprising a portable operating device with safety equipement A robot controller including a control unit and a portable device (TPU) for teaching and manually operating the robot. The TPU includes safety equipment, a safety TPU-part having a first communication unit and a main TPU-part having a third communication unit. The c... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8013555 | Drive system for a tap changer A drive system for operation of a tap changer for voltage regulation of a transformer on load. An electric motor is connectible to a movable part of the tap changer for moving the movable part for carrying out a tap change operation. An electric converter connects a... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7982142 | Diverter switch, a method for operating such a switch and use of such a switch A diverter switch with an operating member and an electric circuit. The electric circuit has a main branch and a resistance branch connected in parallel with the main branch. Each branch includes a contact and a vacuum switch. The resistance branch also includes a r... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7979162 | Wireless controller and a method for wireless control of a device mounted on a robot A wireless controller for controlling and/or monitoring a device arranged mounted on or relative to an industrial robot. A wireless communicator including a processor arranged with software means handles wireless communication to and from the device. A control carri... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7964799 | Bushing A bushing for an electrical device including an insulating core, where at least a part of the insulating core includes a continuous diffusion barrier with firm adhesion to the insulating core. The bushing is manufactured by coating at least a part of the insulating ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7944393 | Method for positioning and a positioning system A method for recording a position of at least one component in a location system of a control system of an industrial facility for an industrial process. A model of the facility is created, including position coordinates for major parts of the facility. The model is... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7942073 | Device for transmitting rotary motion Device for transmitting rotary motion in a diverter switch comprising a motion-transmitting member for transforming an alternating rotary motion of a drive shaft into a unidirected rotary motion of a driven body driven about driven shaft. The motion-transmitting mem... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7881816 | Method for controlling an industrial automation device A method for controlling an industrial automation device or process including a control unit, at least one actuator, and at least one device arranged for wireless communication with the control unit. The method determines characteristics of the wireless transmission... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7847527 | Apparatus and method for improved power flow control in a high voltage network An apparatus for controlling power flow in a high voltage network. A phase shifting transformer includes a tap changer. ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7873371 | Control system controlling a plurality of real world objects, and a method for handling messages from a mobile user connected to the control system A method for handling messages from a mobile user, in a control system controlling a plurality of real world objects, wherein the real world objects are represented by software objects and the user selects one of the objects for the message. The method includes rece... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7868079 | Field grading material A field grading material including a polymeric matrix provided with a filler. The filler includes a field grading effective amount of particles having at least one dimension smaller than or equal to 100 nm. A device including the field grading material for grading a... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7859232 | Apparatus and method for improved power flow control in a high voltage network An apparatus for controlling a power flow in a high voltage network. A phase shifting transformer includes a tap changer. ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7852050 | Apparatus and method for simultaneous provision of power flow control in a three-phase AC transmission line A device for control of power flow in a three-phase ac transmission line. The device includes a series transformer unit, a shunt transformer unit, and a reactance unit. ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7843176 | Apparatus and method for improved power flow control in a high voltage network An apparatus for controlling the power flow in a high voltage network. A phase shifting transformer includes a tap changer. ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7839125 | Apparatus and method for optimization of power flow control between different paths of a high voltage network in dependence of a disturbance in the network A method for controlling the power flow in an ac transmission line including prompt handling of voltage recovery and only thereafter thermal constraints. ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7805973 | Mechanical press drive system A method for operating a mechanical press including an electric drive motor, a drive control for controlling the motor, a ram, a flywheel, a clutch and a member for translating rotational motion of the flywheel in a first rotation direction into a linear motion of t... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7787992 | Method to generate a human machine interface A method to generate technical information about a device or process by recognizing the identity of a device or process, retrieving a stored image dependent on the device, combining the stored virtual image together with an image of a real device object, displaying ... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7759910 | System for transmission of electric power A high voltage AC transmission cable system for transmitting power between two points, each connected to one or more power networks, and a method to operate the system. At least one transformer is arranged at each end of the AC transmission cable, wherein at least o... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7715929 | Human-machine interface for a control system A human-machine interface of a control system for monitoring and control of a process and including a computer generated model of the process. The process or a part or component of the process is displayed such that the model is arranged to map a point on the comput... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7714895 | Interactive and shared augmented reality system and method having local and remote access An augmented reality system including a camera movably located at a local site captures an image. A registering unit generates graphics and registers the generated graphics to the image from the camera to provide a composite augmented reality image. A display device... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7709759 | Contact element and a contact arrangement A contact element for making an electric contact to a contact member for enabling an electric current to flow between the contact element and the contact member includes a body having at least one contact surface thereof coated with a contact layer to be applied aga... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7622829 | Rotating electric motor for operating an electric component A rotating electric motor for operating an electric component. The motor is arranged for an operating movement during a limited predetermined angular motion of the rotor of the motor. An electric drive circuit is arranged for the winding of the motor. The electric c... | 11/24/2009 |
