Patents by Inventor Bernhard Sofaly

Bernhard Sofaly has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10186870
    Abstract: A method for the feeding of electrical current into a line branch of an electrical installation that is protected by a line protection fuse and is designed for a current up to a maximum permissible value includes feeding into the line branch an electrical current from an external energy supply network and electrical current from an energy generating system. The method further includes limiting the feeding in of the electrical current into the line branch from the external energy supply network by the line protection fuse, which prescribes a limit value for the electrical current fed into the line branch, and controlling the feeding in of the electrical current generated by the energy generating system so that no more than a specific, but variable maximum current is fed into the line branch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: SMA Solar Technology AG
    Inventors: Bernhard Sofaly, Oliver Prior
  • Publication number: 20160181810
    Abstract: A method for the feeding of electrical current into a line branch of an electrical installation that is protected by a line protection fuse and is designed for a current up to a maximum permissible value includes feeding into the line branch an electrical current from an external energy supply network and electrical current from an energy generating system. The method further includes limiting the feeding in of the electrical current into the line branch from the external energy supply network by the line protection fuse, which prescribes a limit value for the electrical current fed into the line branch, and controlling the feeding in of the electrical current generated by the energy generating system so that no more than a specific, but variable maximum current is fed into the line branch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Bernhard Sofaly, Oliver Prior
  • Patent number: 9203324
    Abstract: A method for limiting an output power of an inverter having an output bridge and an upstream boost converter includes determining a first measurement variable representative of a bridge temperature and a second measurement variable representative of an output power of the inverter. The method also includes determining a third measurement variable representative of a generator voltage at generator connections of the inverter or a fourth measurement variable representative of an output voltage at a power output of the inverter, and reducing the output power supplied to a power supply grid to a reduced power value. The reduced power value is determined based on the first measurement variable, the second measurement variable and at least one of the third and fourth measurement variables. A control device having such functionality is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: SMA Solar Technology AG
    Inventors: Oliver Kirsch, Lars Bethke, Bernhard Sofaly
  • Publication number: 20130301315
    Abstract: A method for limiting an output power of an inverter having an output bridge and an upstream boost converter includes determining a first measurement variable representative of a bridge temperature and a second measurement variable representative of an output power of the inverter. The method also includes determining a third measurement variable representative of a generator voltage at generator connections of the inverter or a fourth measurement variable representative of an output voltage at a power output of the inverter, and reducing the output power supplied to a power supply grid to a reduced power value. The reduced power value is determined based on the first measurement variable, the second measurement variable and at least one of the third and fourth measurement variables.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Inventors: Oliver Kirsch, Lars Bethke, Bernhard Sofaly
  • Publication number: 20100108919
    Abstract: An optical sensor chip, especially for an optical jamming protection device has a one-dimensional or two-dimensional array of photo-sensitive elements, especially photodiodes, a number of pre-processing switching circuits for respectively processing a detection signal of each element, and a programmable interface between the array and the pre-processing switching circuits, a pre-processing switching circuit being associable with each element by the interface. An optical jamming protection device has an emitter unit which is designed in such a way as to emit radiation in a spatial area, a detector unit for detecting a radiation field from the spatial area, and a control unit designed to identify an obstacle in a pre-determined monitoring region in the spatial area, by evaluating output signals of the detector unit. To this end, the detector unit comprises an above-mentioned sensor chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventor: Bernhard Sofaly