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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179065 | Position sensorless control of permanent magnet motor Systems and methods of controlling a permanent magnet motor without a mechanical position sensor are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, a motor control system includes an inverter configured to receive direct current (DC) power and output a power waveform ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8164435 | Subscribing to alarms and events in a hierarchy An alarm provision system comprises a recognizer component that receives an alarm/event and recognizes the alarm/event. A provision component analyzes hierarchical relationships associated with an industrial environment and automatically provides a subscribing entit... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159168 | Rotor position estimator for an electrical machine A method for estimating a rotor position in an electrical machine is provided. The method is applicable to electrical machines that have magnetic saliency. The method includes extracting the rotor position from a demodulated output signal generated in response to an... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154895 | Method and apparatus for DC bus capacitor pre-charge A method and apparatus for converting three phase AC voltages on first, second and third input lines to DC voltage across positive and negative DC buses, the apparatus comprising a rectifier including first, second and third rectifier legs, each leg including a swit... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151196 | Abstracted display building method and system A technique is provided for configuring and interface device. The interface device includes a plurality of device elements, each having visual representation and a state engine defining a functionality. A server module in the interface device receives a query from a... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148929 | Power electronic module IGBT protection method and system A power electronics device with an improved IGBT protection mechanism is provided. More specifically, systems and methods are provided for reducing the switching frequency of an inverter module based on the junction temperature variation of the IGBT. ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8138709 | Control method and system Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed, including an induction-motor controller that has a motor controller configured to receive alternating current (AC) power with a voltage that varies generally sinusoidally and transmit the AC power during a conduction angl... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134474 | Remote monitoring of real-time industrial automation information A method for remote monitoring of real-time information is provided. In the method, a representation is displayed of each of a plurality of items configured to generate the real-time information. Also displayed is a representation of each of a plurality of destinati... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131832 | Message engine searching and classification The subject innovation provides for systems and methods that facilitate locating components of a unified plant model at runtime (e.g., specifying a search criteria), via a message engine that searches for modules/applications dynamically at run time. When a control ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125753 | Brownout ride-through system and method A device is provided for riding through brownouts, or transitory losses of control power applied to electromagnetic devices such as contactors and relays. An energy storage circuit stores charge that can be discharged into a contactor operating coil during partial o... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125304 | Power electronic module with an improved choke and methods of making same An improved choke assembly for a power electronics device is provided. More specifically, a choke assembly with improved protection from environmental conditions such as dirt and water is provided. An improved choke assembly may include an insulative housing for an ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8117008 | Junction temperature prediction method and apparatus for use in a power conversion module A method and apparatus for predicting junction device temperature of at least a first switching device in a power conversion module that includes the first switching device and at least a second switching device, the method comprising the steps of identifying a cros... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115437 | Torque limit of PM motors for field-weakening region operation The invention includes a motor controller and technique for controlling a permanent magnet motor. In accordance with one aspect of the present technique, a permanent magnet motor is controlled by receiving a torque command, determining a physical torque limit based ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8107267 | Systems and methods for common-mode voltage reduction in fully regenerative AC drives Control systems, methods and fully regenerative power conversion systems are presented for mitigating common mode voltages in AC loads by employing inverter and/or active rectifier PWM control using switching sequences with only active vectors where a first vector o... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8086420 | Junction temperature prediction method and apparatus for use in a power conversion module A method and apparatus for predicting junction device temperature of at least a first switching device in a power conversion module that includes a plurality of switching devices, the method comprising the steps of, during switching activity, identifying at least on... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085514 | Modular on-machine controller A modular control assembly is provided for on-machine control of a desired machine. One embodiment has a machine mountable base and a replaceable control unit, wherein the machine mountable base has a machine protection device. In various embodiments of the machine ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082123 | Interactive diagnostics having graphical playback and solution implementation capabilities A system(s) and method(s) that facilitates diagnosing a HMI system and automatically applying a solution to correct and/or update the HMI system. According to a feature is an interactive diagnosis system for an human machine interface (HMI) system. The interactive d... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081462 | Modular liquid cooling system A method and kit of components for configuring electronics cooling configurations, the kit comprising a plurality of passageway forming members, each forming member including an extruded member having first and second ends and forming at least one passageway and at ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8080965 | Motor controller with deterministic synchronous interrupt having multiple serial interface backplane In one embodiment, a motor drive is provided that includes a control board and one or more option boards coupled to the control board via one or more serial interfaces such that data from the one or more option boards is communicated via one or more synchronous inte... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078445 | Load characterization in servo drive systems Systems and methods that characterizes a load as a function of position/movement of mechanical components—as induced by such load in the servo-drive system. By running a plurality of motion profiles, corresponding torque/forces that generate such motions can be ca... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078296 | Dynamic procedure selection A dynamic selection component for an industrial automation system is provided. The system includes one or more abstraction layers that are executed by a controller, the abstraction layers specify higher level requirements of a process. At least one execution layer i... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078294 | Conditional download of data from embedded historians Systems and methods that provide for event driven downloading, via defining storage thresholds in an embedded historian (e.g. micro historian). Upon reaching predetermined thresholds (e.g., low/high water marks), stored data in the embedded historians can automatica... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072756 | Air cooling of medium voltage drive components A parallel redundant fan system includes at least first and second fans located adjacent each other. Each fan includes: (i) a fan housing defining a fan chamber in which an impeller is supported for rotation about an axis of rotation; (ii) a first chamber outlet in ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072174 | Motor controller with integrated serial interface having selectable synchronization and communications In one embodiment, a motor drive is provided that includes a control board and a plurality of option boards configured to communicate with the control board via one or more serial interfaces, wherein the one or more serial interfaces are configured to transfer one o... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8060223 | Editing lifecycle and deployment of objects in an industrial automation environment An editor in an industrial automation environment comprises an input component that receives modification data relating to at least one of lifecycle and deployment of an object, the object is associated with a programmable logic controller and configured in accordan... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8056795 | Fluxometer with a cover having protrusions A fluxometer system and method is provided. The fluxometer comprises a frame, a simulated circuit board disposed in the frame and having a plurality of holes formed therein extending generally transverse to a plane of the board and a cover. The cover is received on ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8046179 | Power converter disable verification system and method A power electronics device with an improved IGBT protection mechanism is provided. More specifically, systems and methods are provided for shortening the duration of a shutdown test pulse, such that the power output to the load is substantially unaffected. ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8044631 | Power conversion systems and methods for controlling harmonic distortion Control systems, methods and power conversion systems are presented for controlling harmonic distortion, in which multi-sampling space vector modulation (SVM) is employed for controlling power converter switching devices, with a reference vector being sampled two or... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8032250 | Location based programming and data management in an automated environment A method and system for providing information related to a set of automated resources that may cooperate in an environment to perform an automated process, the method comprising the steps of associating a specific environment location with the automated process, det... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031913 | Preemptive change verification via electronic signatures in industrial automation systems The subject invention relates to a system and methodology facilitating automated manufacturing processes in a regulated industrial controller environment. In one aspect, a system for automated industrial processing is provided. The system includes an interface compo... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8030791 | Current source converter-based wind energy system Power conversion apparatus and methods are presented for providing electrical power to a grid or other load in which a synchronous machine is driven by a wind turbine or other prime mover to provide generator power to a switching type current source converter (CSC),... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8026933 | Visualization system(s) and method(s) for preserving or augmenting resolution and data associated with zooming or paning in an industrial automation environment A visualization system that preserves, augments or increases resolution of images within an industrial automation environment is provided. A reference component identifies, determines, or maps level of zooming or panning in connection with an image within an industr... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8019796 | Incremental association of metadata to production data The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates utilizing metadata appended to data related to an industrial automation environment with a controller that is associated with a hierarchically structured data model. An interface component c... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8019583 | Selective functional group simulation of automation control and information systems A simulation model can individually and selectively simulate sub-processes of a full-scale production system. Such a customized simulator can directly simulate all the processes of a system, any combination of processes of a system, or a single process of a system. ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8009450 | Method and apparatus for phase current balance in active converter with unbalanced AC line voltage source Active power converters and methods are presented for converting input electrical power to output electrical power with converter switching control in which the individual phase voltage command values are compensated according to phase line voltage imbalances to com... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8009165 | Three-dimensional immersive system for representing an automation control environment A computer-implemented system for representing a production environment comprises a modeling module that creates a three-dimensional model of at least a portion of a production environment. The system also includes a view module that renders a graphical depiction of... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8009004 | Electric coil and core cooling method and apparatus Provided is an electrical apparatus comprising a magnetic core, a conductive coil wound around at least a part of the core, a cooling element configured to receive a cooling fluid to cool the core and the coil during operation, and at least one biasing element opera... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7994924 | RFID tag based discrete contact position indication An RF based state indicator for indicating the state of a control device is provided. The RF-based state indicator indicates the position of a control mechanism by using the position of the control mechanism to enable or disable an RF tag. An RF reader acquires RF t... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7990967 | Firewall method and apparatus for industrial systems The invention includes a method including the steps of specifying access control information for resources, for each first protocol packet transmitted on the network, intercepting the first protocol packet prior to a first protocol destination resource, examining em... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7990097 | Power conversion system and method for active damping of common mode resonance Power conversion systems and methods are presented for damping common mode resonance, in which inverter or rectifier switching control signals are selectively modified according to a damping resistance current value computed using a predetermined virtual damping res... | 08/02/2011 |
