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| 20120072139 | Computer-implemented systems and methods for detecting electrostatic discharges and determining their origination locations Computer-implemented systems and methods for detecting ESD on a surface and determining an origination location of the ESD. A programmed computer device monitors time-varying current data related to the surface to detect ESD on the surface. The current profile for the s... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120035870 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING A PARAMETER OF A VEHICLE ELECTRICAL SYSTEM An apparatus for measuring electrical parameters for an electrical system measures a first and second parameters of the electrical system between connections to the electrical system. A processor determines a third electrical parameter of the electrical system as a func... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120022810 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR LOCATING PARTIAL DISCHARGES A method for locating partial discharges occurring at a discharge site (2) in an electric apparatus (3) with elongate geometry and generating corresponding electric pulses (4) propagating in opposite directions along the apparatus (3) from th... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120022809 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR LOCATING PARTIAL DISCHARGES A method for locating partial discharges occurring at a discharge site (2) in an electric apparatus (3) with elongate geometry and generating corresponding electric pulses (4) propagating in opposite directions along the apparatus (3) from th... | 01/26/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20110313692 | Enhanced Intelligent Patch Panel Diagnostic Management A system and method for enhanced intelligent patch panel diagnostic management. Physical layer device technology can be implemented into a patch panel to perform diagnostics of a communication channel. This diagnostic information (e.g., length of cable, location of cabl... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110270457 | System and Method for Providing Power Distribution System Information A system, method and computer program product for processing utility data of a power grid is provided. In one embodiment, the system includes a datamart comprised of a plurality of physical databases storing utility data, a plurality of applications comprising an automa... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110184673 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FAULT LOCATION A method for fault location is provided which can accurately perform a fault location process by a simple and direct calculation without requiring no synchronization of terminals. Data relating to the voltage and the current (vector quantity) at opposite ends of a power... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110178741 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FAULT LOCATION OF SERIES-COMPENSATED TRANSMISSION LINE A transmission line system, a device for fault protection and computer programs, and a method for locating a fault in a series-compensated two-terminal power transmission line including a compensating bank for providing series-compensation to the transmission line. Diff... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110166716 | INTEGRATED AND OPTIMIZED DISTRIBUTED GENERATION AND INTERCONNECT SYSTEM CONTROLLER Systems and methods for designing and controlling distributed generation resources are disclosed. Monolithic or distributed controllers control the power requests sent to each distributed generation resource to achieve optimal efficiency using rule-based and/or fuzzy lo... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110153235 | Wire System Assessment The advantageous embodiments provide a method, a computer program product, and an apparatus for monitoring a wiring system. A number of responses to signals transmitted in a portion of the wiring system are measured to form a measured signature. Design data for the port... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110153236 | ELECTRICAL ANOMALY DETECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM There are provided a method and a system for real time monitoring of a powered on electrical network in a facility in order to detect an electrical anomaly while the electrical network is in use. The system comprises a sensor data receiver for receiving real time sensor... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110144931 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HIGH-SPEED FAULT DETECTION IN DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS A method and apparatus for high-speed fault detection of circuits in power distribution networks utilizing protective relay devices (14) segmenting a distribution line (11) having Intelligent Electronic Devices (IED) (22) associated with switching d... | 06/16/2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110077866 | DISTANCE RELAY USING REAL TIME LIGHTNING DATA A distance relay apparatus, a distance relay processing system and a method for processing a distance relay are disclosed. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, the distance relay processing system, which controls a distance relay, includes a lightn... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110054813 | DEVICE FOR MONITORING THE STRUCTURE OF A VEHICLE A device for monitoring the structure of a vehicle, including an electric measurement sensor, a processing circuit connected to the sensor for converting the sensor measurements into monitoring data, and a transmitter for transmitting the monitoring data to a collecting... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110029263 | CONDUCTOR APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING WHETHER A NUMBER OF CONDUCTORS CONDUCT CURRENT An apparatus is for a conductor capable of conducting a current. The apparatus includes a global positioning system device structured to determine location of the global positioning system device, a coupling device structured to couple the global positioning system devi... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110015882 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING FAULT DETECTION AND POSITIONING PRECISION USING REFLECTOMETRY IN A WIRED ELECTRICAL NETWORK This invention relates to a method for detecting and determining the position of faults using reflectometry in a wired electrical network comprising the following steps:
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| 20100332163 | METHODS, DEVICE AND INSTALLATION FOR LOCATING A DEFECT IN AN ELECTRIC LINK A method for detecting a defect in an electric link, which transmits, at a first moment, an electric signal having a predetermined propagation speed from an end of the electric link, and detects, at a second moment, reception of an echo of the electric signal. The metho... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100312506 | DISTANCE-TO-FAULT MEASUREMENT SYSTEM CAPABLE OF MEASURING COMPLEX REFLECTION COEFFICIENTS Techniques are disclosed for computing distance-to-fault (DTF) in communication systems. The techniques can be embodied, for instance, in a DTF system that provides a multi-port probing device and DTF functionality, including computing distances to faults and the fault ... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100241374 | Failure analysis method, apparatus, and program for semiconductor integrated circuit There are provided a signal detection process that derives coordinates in a device coordinate system in analysis data for abnormal signal data included in the analysis data of a semiconductor integrated circuit obtained from a semiconductor inspection apparatus; a coord... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100235119 | LOGICAL SCHEME FOR SEVERE FAULT DETECTION The present invention relates to a method for determining location of faults in a wind power plant comprising a first plurality of wind turbines arranged in n groups, each group comprising mn wind turbines electrically arranged in series, each of the wind tur... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100217548 | Fault Region Location System A method for identifying an approximate fault location in a power transmission line comprises detecting first and second dominant frequencies in first and second recovering voltages resulting from the fault without using the velocity of either of the recovering voltages... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100211339 | DIAGNOSTIC METHOD FOR DETERMINING DEFORMATIONS IN A TRANSFORMER WINDING A diagnostic method for determining deformations in a transformer winding comprising the steps of representing the winding as a lumped parameter circuit and dividing the winding into at least two sections; generating a first set of fingerprint values based on capacitive... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100211338 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ANALYZING ELECTRIC CABLE NETWORKS USING PSEUDO-RANDOM SEQUENCES The invention relates to a method and a device for analyzing electric cable networks in order to detect and locate defects in the cables comprising at least one branch connection from which N secondary sections extend. The method involves injecting into the network, at ... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100185336 | INTEGRATED AND OPTIMIZED DISTRIBUTED GENERATION AND INTERCONNECT SYSTEM CONTROLLER Systems and methods for designing and controlling distributed generation resources are disclosed. Monolithic or distributed controllers control the power requests sent to each distributed generation resource to achieve optimal efficiency using rule-based and/or fuzzy lo... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100134117 | Method and Device for Capturing a Fault in an Electrical Supply Grid A method for detecting a ground fault in an electrical supply system includes using a combination of components and their connections within the supply system to form virtual components, allowing presetting of fault indicators for incoming and outgoing supply lines to i... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100121585 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOCATING DEFECTIVE COMPONENTS OF A CIRCUIT According to exemplary methods and systems of the present principles, the location of defective field repairable units (FRUS) of a circuit that have varying sizes or varying numbers of scan cells may be identified by employing tiles including scan cells from different F... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100079148 | UHF PARTIAL DISCHARGE AND ITS LOCATION MEASURING DEVICE FOR HIGH-VOLTAGE POWER DEVICES Disclosed is a UHF partial discharge and its location measuring device for high-voltage power devices. The measuring device includes a partial discharge sensor, an external noise sensor, an analogue-digital converter, a peak detector, a partial discharge signal processo... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100063754 | WIRE FAULT ILLUMINATION AND DISPLAY A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program product for illuminating faults in a wiring system. The wiring system is monitored for a fault during operation of the wiring system. In response to detecting the fault, a location of the fault within... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20090265122 | System and Method for Locating and Analyzing Arcing Phenomena System and method for detecting partial discharge arcing phenomena in a power network distribution system which employs a mobile receiving assemblage including a wideband antenna, a computer controllable wideband radio receiver deriving an amplitude detected output and ... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090248328 | Method and apparatus for detecting partial discharges in electrical systems A method of detecting partial discharge associated with at least a portion of an electrical system, wherein the electrical system includes at least one electrical machine electrically coupled within the electrical system, includes generating an electromagnetic field wit... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090248329 | ARC FAULT ROOT-CAUSE FINDER SYSTEM AND METHOD The present invention is directed to an arc fault root-cause finder apparatus and method for determining the root-cause of an arc fault condition. In one embodiment, the arc fault root-cause finder apparatus has a sensing base module mounted to a load panel box having a... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090230976 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TESTING ELECTRICAL INTERCONNECTS A test system including a package with interconnect paths. The package may have electrical paths that are electrically connected by the interconnect paths. The electrically connected electrical paths may yield increased data without significantly increasing the required... | 09/17/2009 |
| 20090228222 | Line Resonance Analysis System The present invention provides a method for monitoring a condition of an electrical cable, the method comprising providing a reference signal CH0 and a signal CH1, said signal CH1 being the reference signal CH0 after amplitude and phase modul... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090228223 | POWER LINE COMMUNICATION BASED AIRCRAFT POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM WITH REAL TIME WIRING INTEGRITY MONITORING CAPABILITY A power line communication-based aircraft power distribution system may allow for both power line communication (PLC) technology and spread spectrum time domain reflectometry (SSTDR) technology to be utilized in aircraft power distribution systems to achieve key mainten... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090187284 | System and Method for Providing Power Distribution System Information A system, method and computer program product for processing utility data of a power grid is provided. In one embodiment, the system includes a datamart comprised of a plurality of physical databases storing utility data, a plurality of applications comprising an automa... | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090177420 | Detection, localization and interpretation of partial discharge In order to detect, localize and interpret a partial discharge occurring in a partial discharge site along an electrical equipment, two measurement probes and a synchronization probe are installed along the electrical equipment. The measurement probes detect pulses trav... | 07/09/2009 |
| 20090150099 | Method for fault location in electric power lines A method for locating faults in three-terminal and multi-terminal power lines, applicable in electric power systems for overhead and underground cable transmission and distribution lines. The inventive method is characterised in that it measures current for fault and pr... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090105971 | System And Method For Time Domain Reflectometry Testing A TDR testing method comprises storing test data resulted from a TDR test applied on an electronic component, displaying the test data, identifying a distinctive portion of the test data corresponding to a defective location in the electronic component, modifying the di... | 04/23/2009 |
