Patents by Inventor Edward Earl Eiland

Edward Earl Eiland 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).

  • Power quality management system and methods of controlling phase unbalance
    Patent number: 9190846
    Abstract: A power quality management system includes a plurality of phase balancers, each phase balancer including single phase converters coupled between two phase lines and a plurality of controllers to control the plurality of phase balancers. Each controller includes a voltage unbalance detection module to detect amount of voltage unbalance in a plurality of phase lines and a voltage unbalance compensation module to generate reference current commands for each of the single phase converters to reduce the voltage unbalance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Edward Earl Eiland, Owen Jannis Samuel Schelenz, Nitin Nandkumar Joshi
  • POWER QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20130286697
    Abstract: A power quality management system includes a plurality of phase balancers, each phase balancer including single phase converters coupled between two phase lines and a plurality of controllers to control the plurality of phase balancers. Each controller includes a voltage unbalance detection module to detect amount of voltage unbalance in a plurality of phase lines and a voltage unbalance compensation module to generate reference current commands for each of the single phase converters to reduce the voltage unbalance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Edward Earl Eiland, Owen Jannis Samuel Schelenz, Nitin Nandkumar Joshi