Patents by Inventor Mats Larsson

Mats Larsson 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).

  • Publication number: 20140379157
    Abstract: Converter stations have real and reactive power set points initially determined as part of a main loadflow analysis routinely performed on the AC power system connected to the converter stations. Viable real and/or reactive power set points for the converter stations can be identified by calculating real and/or reactive power set point candidates for the converter stations before the main loadflow analysis is performed again on the AC power system. The power set point candidates are calculated based on information determined as part of a previous iteration of the main loadflow analysis on the AC power system. The power set point candidates which violate an operating constraint imposed on the AC power system are identified, and a region of valid power set points is defined for the converter stations that excludes the power set point candidates which violate an operating constraint imposed on the AC power system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Debrup Das, Reynaldo Nuqui, Mats Larsson
  • Patent number: 8911662
    Abstract: A powder for use in the powder metallurgical manufacture of components is provided. Particularly the subject matter concerns an iron or iron based powder intended for the powder metallurgical manufacturing of components. It is especially suitable for manufacturing of components wherein self-lubricating properties are desired. The subject matter further relates to a method of manufacturing a component from said powder and an accordingly produced component. A diffusion-bonded powder comprising iron or iron-based particles, and particles diffusion-bonded to the iron or iron-based particles is provided. The said particles diffusion-bonded to the iron or iron-based particles may comprise an alloy of Cu and 5% to 15% by weight of Sn. A component is provided which is at least partly formed from such a diffusion-bonded powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Hoganas AB
    Inventor: Mats Larsson
  • Patent number: 8914250
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for determining a length quantity of a power transmission line, which connects a first location with a second location. A first signal having a first carrier frequency is provided at the first location. The first signal is transmitted from the first location to the second location via the power transmission line. A second signal having a second frequency is provided at the second location. A first phase difference between the first signal and the second signal is measured at the second location, and the length quantity is calculated from the measured phase difference. In the system, a second receiver at the second location is configured to receive the first signal having the first carrier frequency from the first location. A frequency generator creates the second signal having the second frequency at the second location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: ABB Research Ltd
    Inventors: Dacfey Dzung, Mats Larsson
  • Publication number: 20140326824
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining angle of incidence for a projectile in the path of the projectile from launcher to target, which projectile is guidable and substantially or partially roll-stable and comprises a control system and at least two actuators with associated control members, in which the following steps are included: determination of applied force for pitch control by evaluation of the moment upon the actuators of the projectile, determination of applied force for yaw control by evaluation of the moment upon the actuators of the projectile, calculation of the pitch component ? of the angle of incidence and of the yaw component ? of the angle of incidence, based on comparison between the evaluated moments and reference data for moments. The invention also relates to a GNC system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: BAE Systems Bofors AB
    Inventor: Mats Larsson
  • Patent number: 8858675
    Abstract: A powder metallurgical combination is provided comprising an iron-based powder A comprising core particles of iron to which core particles nickel is diffusion alloyed and wherein said nickel diffusion alloyed to said core particles comprises 4-7% (preferably 4.5-6%) by weight of said iron-based powder A, and a powder B substantially consisting of particles of pure iron. Further a method is provided for preparing a powder metallurgical combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Hoganas AB (Publ)
    Inventor: Mats Larsson
  • Publication number: 20140303918
    Abstract: A method, resonance handling device and computer program product are disclosed for handling resonances in a power transmission system. The resonance handling device can include a resonance frequency determining unit configured to obtain measurements (y1, y2, yr) from measurement devices in the power transmission system, apply the measurements in at least one state space model (M1, M2) and determine modal resonance frequencies (?j) in the system based on the application of the system measurements in the state space model, and an activity determining unit configured to determine the modal activity of at least one of the resonance frequencies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: ABB RESEARCH LTD
    Inventors: Mats LARSSON, Valentin Bürgler, Priscilla Owen, Michael Geiger
  • Patent number: 8734561
    Abstract: A bonded metallurgical powder composition including: an iron-based powder having a weight average particle size in the range of 20-60 ?m, in an amount of at least 80 percent by weight of the composition, graphite powder in an amount between 0.15-1.0 percent by weight of the composition, a binding agent in an amount between 0.05-2.0 percent by weight of the composition, a flow agent in an amount between 0.001-0.2 percent by weight of the composition; wherein the graphite powder is bound to the iron-based powder particles by means of the binding agent, and wherein the powder composition has an apparent density of at least 3.10 g/cm3 and a hall flow rate of at most 30 s/50 g. Also, a method for producing a sintered component with improved strength from the inventive composition, as well as to a heat treated sintered component produced according to said method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Hoganas AB (Pub)
    Inventor: Mats Larsson
  • Publication number: 20140139528
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for visualizing and displaying a state of a power transmission network to an operator, for the supervision of the network. The method and system are provided for visualizing or contouring a power transmission network state by displaying to an operator output data values interpolated at output data locations from input data including geographically distributed input data sensor locations and corresponding dynamically updated input data values. The method includes dividing a geographical area of interest into triangles, wherein a triangle vertex is defined at each input data location within the area, determining, for each triangle, closest input data locations according to a closeness criteria, and interpolating by weighting or scaling at each output data location within a triangle the input data values of a number of closest input data locations to generate output data values corresponding to the output data locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: ABB RESEARCH LTD
    Inventors: Martin NAEF, Mats LARSSON
  • Publication number: 20140077920
    Abstract: Inductor core including: a base core portion having a first surface and an opposite second surface; an inner core portion extending from the first surface in a direction transverse to the first surface; an outer core portion extending, in the direction transverse to the first surface, from the first surface to an end surface of the outer core portion, the outer core portion at least partly surrounding the inner core portion, thereby forming a space around the inner core portion for accommodating a winding; wherein the first surface includes a recess for accommodating a connection portion of the winding, said recess extending at least a part of a distance between the inner core portion and the outer core portion, and wherein the outer core portion presents a slit extending from said end surface towards the recess, and wherein the second surface comprises a first protrusion oppositely arranged to the recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: HÖGANÄS AB (PUBL)
    Inventors: Ola Andersson, Mats Larsson, Peter Rauch
  • Patent number: 8606416
    Abstract: A system and method of controlling an electricity generating system that includes at least one intermittent energy source generating plant are disclosed. An exemplary method includes calculating actual operating parameters of the at least one intermittent energy source generating plant; calculating forecast operating parameters of the at least one intermittent energy source generating plant; generating intermittent energy source contingency definitions from such actual operating parameters and forecast operating parameters; analysing the intermittent energy source contingency definitions to provide contingency analyses; and controlling the electricity generating system in dependence upon such contingency analyses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: ABB Research Ltd.
    Inventors: Mats Larsson, Adrian Timbus, Carsten Franke, Jorge Naccarino
  • Patent number: 8543246
    Abstract: The present disclosure is concerned with controlling distributing of electrical power in a power distribution region. To effectively control the distribution of power in the distribution region, the substation of the region is provided with a distribution controller or Intelligent Substation Control System (ISCS). The distribution controller is connected to various process devices, which in turn are connected to primary devices of the region. The process devices send data corresponding to the primary devices to the distribution controller, and the distribution controller includes a processor which proposes a set of actions based on the received data. Further, the distribution controller includes a coordinating device which selects the final action from the set of proposed actions. The final action is implemented on the primary devices of the distribution region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: ABB Research Ltd.
    Inventors: Cherry Yuen, Andrew Paice, Mats Larsson, Christian Frei
  • Publication number: 20130226538
    Abstract: Methods for detecting network model data errors are disclosed. In some examples, methods for detecting network model data errors may include splitting a network model into a first plurality of portions, executing an algorithm on each of the portions, identifying a portion for which the algorithm is determined to be non-converged, splitting the identified portion into a second plurality of portions, repeating the executing, identifying and splitting the identified portion until a resulting identified portion is smaller than a predefined threshold, and examining the resulting identified portion to identify plausible data errors therein. In some examples, examining the resulting identified portion to identify plausible data errors therein may include executing a modified algorithm, which may include an augmented measurement set, on the identified portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: ABB RESEARCH LTD.
    Inventors: Vaibhav D Donde, Ernst Scholtz, Mats Larsson, Yan Zhang, Mani Subramanian, John Finney
  • Patent number: 8509955
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for controlling a distribution of electrical power in a power distribution network having a first power distribution region and a second power distribution region. The first power distribution region can include first primary devices that interact with first process devices, and the second power distribution region can include second primary devices that interact with second process devices a distribution controller including a standardized description of the first region. A first distribution controller can be connected to the first process devices, can control a distribution of electrical power in the first power distribution region, and can identify, following a network reconfiguration, an orphan network section that is disconnected from the first region and connected to the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: ABB Research Ltd
    Inventors: Mats Larsson, Christian Frei, Adrian Timbus, Cherry Yuen
  • Patent number: 8467839
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a display panel connected to a body and able to occupy a first and second position with respect to the body, and an input panel connected to the body and able to occupy a first and second position with respect to the body. When the display panel and the input panel both occupy their respective first position, the input panel hides part of the display panel. When the display panel occupies its first position and the input panel occupies its second position, the display panel hides at least part of the input panel. When the display panel occupies its second position, the input panel is movable from its first position to its second position and/or movable from its second position to its first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications AB
    Inventors: Rajeev Rema Shanmugam, Mohanraj Manoharan, Mats Larsson, Gunnar Klinghult
  • Publication number: 20120219450
    Abstract: A bonded metallurgical powder composition including: an iron-based powder having a weight average particle size in the range of 20-60 ?m, in an amount of at least 80 percent by weight of the composition, graphite powder in an amount between 0.15-1.0 percent by weight of the composition, a binding agent in an amount between 0.05-2.0 percent by weight of the composition, a flow agent in an amount between 0.001-0.2 percent by weight of the composition; wherein the graphite powder is bound to the iron-based powder particles by means of the binding agent, and wherein the powder composition has an apparent density of at least 3.10 g/cm3 and a hall flow rate of at most 30 s/50 g. Also, a method for producing a sintered component with improved strength from the inventive composition, as well as to a heat treated sintered component produced according to said method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: HOGANAS AB (PUBL)
    Inventor: Mats Larsson
  • Publication number: 20120187611
    Abstract: A metal powder composition including: an iron or iron-based powder composition, and a lubricating combination including a substance A, a substance B, and a substance C; wherein: substance A is a polyolefin, substance B is chosen from a group of saturated and unsaturated fatty acid amides, saturated and unsaturated fatty acid bisamides, saturated fatty alcohols and fatty acid glycerols, and substance C is an amide oligomer having a molecular weight between 500 g/mol and 30 000 g/mol; and wherein the amounts of respective substances A, B and C in weight percent of the iron or iron-based powder composition are: 0.05?A+B<0.4 wt %, C?0.3 wt %, A+B+C?2.0 wt %, and the relation between substances A and B is: B/A>0.5. Also, a method of producing a metal powder composition and a method for producing a green component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2010
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: HOGANAS AB (PUBL)
    Inventors: Mats Larsson, Karin Olsson, Hilmar Vidarsson
  • Patent number: 8170723
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to power system sensitivities as computed from power flow parameters and control parameters of a Power Flow Control Device (PFC). To this end, control parameter variations are applied to or generated by a PFC, and comprise variations in a control input u, a control effort e (injected series voltage, inserted series reactance), or a control effect q (power flow, active power transfer, phase-shift, current). A power flow response measuring unit measures a variation of a power flow response such as current, active or apparent power, in a way sufficiently synchronized with the control parameter variation to allow establishing an unambiguous causal relationship or correspondence in the form of a power system sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: ABB Research Ltd.
    Inventors: Bertil Berggren, Mats Larsson, Tord Bengtsson, Petr Korba, Alexandre Oudalov
  • Publication number: 20110252922
    Abstract: A method is provided for producing a diffusion alloyed powder consisting of an iron or iron-based core powder having particles of an alloying powder containing Cu and Ni bonded to the surface of the core particles, comprising providing a unitary alloying powder capable of forming particles of a Cu and Ni containing alloy, mixing the unitary alloying powder with the core powder, and heating the mixed powders in a non-oxidizing or reducing atmosphere to a temperature of 500-1000° C. during a period of 10-120 minutes to convert the alloying powder into a Cu and Ni containing alloy, so as to diffusion bond particles of the Cu and Ni alloy to the surface of the iron or iron-based core powder. The alloying powder may be a Cu and Ni alloy, oxide, carbonate or other suitable compound that on heating will form a Cu and Ni alloy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Inventor: Mats Larsson
  • Publication number: 20110251810
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for determining a length quantity of a power transmission line, which connects a first location with a second location. A first signal having a first carrier frequency is provided at the first location. The first signal is transmitted from the first location to the second location via the power transmission line. A second signal having a second frequency is provided at the second location. A first phase difference between the first signal and the second signal is measured at the second location, and the length quantity is calculated from the measured phase difference. In the system, a second receiver at the second location is configured to receive the first signal having the first carrier frequency from the first location. A frequency generator creates the second signal having the second frequency at the second location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: ABB RESEARCH LTD
    Inventors: Dacfey DZUNG, Mats LARSSON
  • Patent number: 8022575
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and controller for damping multimode electromagnetic oscillations in electric power systems which interconnect a plurality of generators and consumers. The controller for damping such oscillations includes a phasor measurement unit (PMU) and a power oscillation damper (POD) controller. Each oscillating mode signal is damped and then superposed to derive a control signal. A feedback controller is used to feedback the control signal to a power flow control device in the power system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: ABB Research Ltd
    Inventors: Petr Korba, Mats Larsson