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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8095354 | Power consumption peak estimation program for LSI and device therefor As a program tool of the embodiment estimating the peak of power consumption, primary processing is performed in which logic simulation is executed in a first time period to extract operation data of a gated clock for every predetermined section within the first tim... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8073669 | Method and apparatus for detecting clock gating opportunities in a pipelined electronic circuit design A pipeline electronic circuit and design methodology enables power conservation in the stages of the pipeline via a simulation that identifies clock-gating opportunities among the stages of the pipeline. In one embodiment, simulation results assist a designer in the... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8065131 | Configurable system and method for power and process plant modeling A method for simulating an industrial plant includes generating a library of industrial plant component types using user input. The library includes properties of the component types and rules to generate scripts in accordance with property values. The method furthe... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8036872 | Systems and methods for performing automatic real-time harmonics analyses for use in real-time power analytics of an electrical power distribution system A system for conducting performing real-time harmonics analysis of an electrical power distribution and transmission system is disclosed. The system includes a data acquisition component, a power analytics server and a client terminal. The data acquisition component... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8014992 | Electric power system training simulation software and process for electric power system training A time driven, computer simulation based electric power system training software package designed to train power system operators is used with an existing set of electric power system modeling algorithms, such as sold under the Powerworld™ brand. The software pack... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010336 | Power restoraton system for electrical power network A method for simulating the configuration of an electrical power network for robust power restoration method is described. The method involves analyzing an electrical network topology in respect of electrical power sources, electrical bridges and other associated da... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7974826 | Energy system modeling apparatus and methods A computer-implemented method for modeling and/or improving operational performance of an energy system includes providing a graphical user interface configured to allow a user to manipulate equipment icons into an energy system model representation, using modular, ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7966168 | Method and apparatus for sizing a drive unit for multiple applications with varying voltage requirements A method for sizing components of a motor control system powered by a power supply includes receiving an upper nominal line voltage parameter for the power supply. A lower nominal line voltage parameter for the power supply is received. A first performance measure o... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7921005 | Method for selecting conductors of an overhead power transmission line Methods for selecting a conductor configuration of an overhead power transmission line tension section between two dead-end towers when the conductor configuration includes at least two different types of conductors. Geographical profile information and overhead pow... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7844439 | Systems and methods for real-time protective device evaluation in an electrical power distribution system A system for providing real-time modeling of protective device in an electrical system under management is disclosed. The system includes a data acquisition component, a virtual system modeling engine, and an analytics engine. The data acquisition component is commu... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7844440 | Systems and methods for real-time dynamic simulation of uninterruptible power supply solutions and their control logic systems A system for real-time modeling of uninterruptible power supply (UPS) control elements protecting an electrical system is disclosed. The system includes a data acquisition component, a power analytics server and a client terminal. The data acquisition component acqu... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7840396 | Systems and methods for determining protective device clearing times used for providing real-time predictions about arc flash events A system for making real-time predictions about an arc flash event on an electrical system is disclosed. The system includes a data acquisition component, an analytics server and a client terminal. The data acquisition component is communicatively connected to a sen... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7840395 | Systems and methods for predictive monitoring including real-time strength and security analysis in an electrical power distribution system A system for performing real-time failure mode analysis of a monitored system is disclosed. The system includes a data acquisition component, an analytics server and a client terminal. The data acquisition component is communicatively connected to a sensor configure... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7818159 | Intelligent system and method for monitoring generator reactive power limit using machine model parameters Disclosed herein are an intelligent system and method for monitoring a generator reactive power limit using machine model parameters. The intelligent system and method for monitoring a generator reactive power limit using machine model parameters can calculate a max... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7774187 | Safety protection instrumentation system and method of operating the system A safety protection instrumentation system for a nuclear reactor is constructed by using digital logic. The digital logic includes functional units in which output logic patterns corresponding to all input logic patterns are verified in advance and a functional modu... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7756696 | Simulation system of technical plant A simulation system includes a simulation computer having a Web server and a client computer with an Internet browser. On the simulation computer, a process engineering process model of a technical plant is available, to which access can be made by the client comput... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7742910 | Mechanism for estimating and controlling di/dt-induced power supply voltage variations A system for delivering power to a device in a specified voltage range is disclosed. The system includes a power delivery network, characterized by a response function, to deliver power to the device. A current computation unit stores values representing a sequence ... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7720667 | Method and system for estimating power consumption of integrated circuitry First hardware is for executing first software in response to macros that describe integrated circuitry, and for generating a set of constants in response to the execution of the first software. Second hardware is for receiving the set of constants from the first ha... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7711538 | Method and apparatus for soft-sensor characterization of batteries A method and apparatus for simulating the operation of a rechargeable battery. A value is obtained for at least one parameter that describes an internal state of the battery. The obtained value is used for calculating a prediction value for a characteristic of the b... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7640152 | Accurate pin-based memory power model using arc-based characterization A pin-based memory power modeling method using arc-based characterization includes steps as follows. All power arcs of a memory model are identified and characterized. A power arc is selected from the identified and characterized power arcs. Output bus switching pow... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7490030 | Power modelling of a circuit Stimulation signals (22) are applied to a first circuit model (20) and the power behaviour of the circuit being modelled is determined from the behaviour of the first circuit model (20). In parallel, the same stimulation signals (22) are ... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7483826 | Group-based BCU methods for on-line dynamical security assessments and energy margin calculations of practical power systems This invention relates to a method of determining stability of unstable equilibrium point (UEP) computed by using BCU method, comprising selecting UEP computed by using BCU method, obtaining a test vector Xtest for the selected UEP, say XUEP us... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7469204 | Method and apparatus for calculating voltage drop A method for performing voltage drop calculations in an alarm circuit comprises creating a circuit to be controlled. A first device is selected from a list of devices to add to the circuit. An estimated power supply of the first device is calculated using modified n... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7444208 | Electrical system wiring diagram generating system, and power supply device and program used for the same Each of connection data 11, . . . , or 15, of the downstream side of a socket 1, . . . , or 5 or a panel board 6, 7, or 8 in a power supply direction, is generated in a tap 16, a UPS 25 and 35, or a term... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7421378 | Power signature diagnosing In a diagnosing method for an apparatus having movable mechanical components and a diagnosing device, an instantaneous total supply of power is measured and recorded as a function of time. A dynamic physical power-flow model of the driven apparatus is created. The m... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7398192 | Variable structure in physical modeling A method and apparatus programmatically define structure within a physical modeling environment. The system and corresponding method of modeling, provides a computationally based modeling environment in which a physical entity can be modeled parametrically and hiera... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398194 | Distributed energy resources An improved method for analyzing power systems; in particular, power systems that may incorporate distributed energy resources (DER), that provides a thorough determination of the potential for network performance improvement that DER could provide, independent of n... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7395198 | Techniques for powering an electronic device with simulated backup power supply communications An electronic system has a powerable device (e.g., one or more storage processors), a power supply assembly adapted to provide power from an external power source to the powerable device, and a data communications cable interconnected between the powerable device an... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7383167 | Methods and systems for modeling power plants A modular method of modeling a power plant includes selecting a major component module model from a library of component module models for each major component of the power plant, with each major component module representing a power plant major component of a uniqu... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383452 | Electronic device and method for initiating powering-up of a processor in the electronic device A device and method for making a peripheral device compliant with a power management standard, such as the USB standard, are described. The device includes a power management unit (PMU) and a timing unit. The PMU is coupled to a battery pack and to a processor of th... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7376541 | Accurate pin-based memory power model using arc-based characterization A pin-based memory power modeling method using arc-based characterization includes steps as follows. All power arcs of a memory model are identified and characterized. A power arc is selected from the identified and characterized power arcs. Output bus switching pow... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7370213 | Power supply unit and computer A series power supply circuit and a switching power supply circuit are combined within a single power supply unit. The switching power supply circuit provides an efficiency lower than that of the series power supply circuit under a light load and provides an efficie... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370039 | Method and system for optimizing configuration classification of software A method and system to minimize to redundancy in testing a new software system by utilizing a knowledge base is provided. The knowledge base may be represented in a form of a decision tree including leaf nodes which store previously tested optimal configurations. Wh... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7367018 | System and method for organizing and sharing of process plant design and operations data Computer method and apparatus for managing process and plant engineering data for chemical or other engineering processes across applications. The method and apparatus include a respective class view for each of multiple software applications, a composite class view... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366649 | Method for generating and evaluating a table model for circuit simulation A method for generating and evaluating a table model for circuit simulation in N dimensions employing mathematical expressions for modeling a device. The table model uses an unstructured N-dimensional grid for approximating the expressions. The method includes the s... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363208 | Power consumption estimation A process for deriving a power transfer function of a circuit. The power transfer function can be used to represent the real time power consumption of a circuit based on the status of the inputs. In one embodiment, the power transfer function is derived from frequen... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356411 | Method for acquiring and interpreting transient electromagnetic measurements A method for interpreting transient electromagnetic survey data includes measuring transient response of a medium over a plurality of switching events. The measured transient response to a first one of the current switching events is modeled. Transient response to t... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356431 | Method for testing an input/output functional board A computer-based method for testing an input/output functional board is provided. The method includes the steps of: obtaining control information of the computer; testing devices coupled with the input/output functional board by using the control information; and de... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356383 | Methods and apparatus for optimizing combined cycle/combined process facilities Methods and systems for operating combined cycle electrical generating plants is provided. The method includes simulating the electrical power plant performance, simulating the steam utilizing process plant performance, parameterizing plant equipment and plant perfo... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353490 | Power network synthesizer for an integrated circuit design A plan for a power network for an integrated circuit device is automatically preparing in two stages. In a first stage, a number of simplified plans are prepared on a global scale, without regard to design rule checking constraints and routing blockages. Next, the s... | 04/01/2008 |
