Patents by Inventor Ronald Plath

Ronald Plath 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: 10476251
    Abstract: A high-voltage device for receiving a high-voltage cable having a conductor designed to conduct an electrical current and a cable insulation surrounding the conductor, includes an insulation and a waveguide. The insulation includes an at least partly transparent or translucent field control unit from a siloxane polymer which is designed to at least partly surround the cable insulation of the high-voltage cable, the siloxane polymer including, in at least one portion of the field control unit, covalently bonded fluorophores and/or dielectric pigments. The waveguide is arranged such that a light signal caused by a partial discharge in the field control unit can be coupled from the field control unit into the waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignees: IPH Institut “Prueffeld fuer elektrische Hochleistungstechnik” GmbH, Polymerics GmbH, HPS Berlin GmbH Hochspannungspruefungen & Beratung
    Inventors: Gerd Heidmann, Aniela Leistner, André Leistner, Daniel Siebler, Philipp Rohwetter, Wolfgang Habel, Ronald Plath
  • Publication number: 20180062370
    Abstract: A high-voltage device for receiving a high-voltage cable having a conductor designed to conduct an electrical current and a cable insulation surrounding the conductor, includes an insulation and a waveguide. The insulation includes an at least partly transparent or translucent field control unit from a siloxane polymer which is designed to at least partly surround the cable insulation of the high-voltage cable, the siloxane polymer including, in at least one portion of the field control unit, covalently bonded fluorophores and/or dielectric pigments. The waveguide is arranged such that a light signal caused by a partial discharge in the field control unit can be coupled from the field control unit into the waveguide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicants: IPH lnstitut "Prueffeld fuer elektrische Hochleistungstechnik" GmbH, Polymerics GmbH, HPS Berlin GmbH Hochspannungspruefungen & Beratung, BAM Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung
    Inventors: Gerd HEIDMANN, Aniela LEISTNER, André LEISTNER, Daniel SIEBLER, Philipp ROHWETTER, Wolfgang HABEL, Ronald PLATH
  • Patent number: 9146268
    Abstract: Method and device for monitoring the status of a sheath voltage arrester of a cable system, a verification signal being supplied to a measuring loop which comprises the sheath voltage arrester and a measurement signal which is subsequently produced in accordance with the frequency-dependent impedance of the sheath voltage arrester being measured at the measuring loop in order to establish the status of the sheath voltage arrester by evaluating the measurement signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: OMICRON ELECTRONICS GMBH
    Inventors: Harald Emanuel, Ronald Plath, Ole Kessler
  • Patent number: 8760171
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for determining partial discharges at an electrical component (10). In the case of the method, an electrical signal that comprises partial discharge pulses due to the partial discharges at the electrical component (10) is detected. Through filtering of the electrical signal by means of n filters (18-20) having n differing filter characteristics, n filtered partial discharge signals are generated. Respectively one of the filtered partial discharge signals is assigned, respectively, to one of the n filters (18-20), n being greater than or equal to two. Finally, the partial discharges are determined by linking the n filtered partial discharge signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Omicron Electronics GmbH
    Inventors: Caspar Steineke, Harald Emanuel, Ronald Plath
  • Publication number: 20110298475
    Abstract: Method and device for monitoring the status of a sheath voltage arrester of a cable system, a verification signal being supplied to a measuring loop which comprises the sheath voltage arrester and a measurement signal which is subsequently produced in accordance with the frequency-dependent impedance of the sheath voltage arrester being measured at the measuring loop in order to establish the status of the sheath voltage arrester by evaluating the measurement signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: OMICRON ELECTRONICS GMBH
    Inventors: Harald Emanuel, Ronald Plath, Ole Kessler
  • Publication number: 20110291666
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for determining partial discharges at an electrical component (10). In the case of the method, an electrical signal that comprises partial discharge pulses due to the partial discharges at the electrical component (10) is detected. Through filtering of the electrical signal by means of n filters (18-20) having n differing filter characteristics, n filtered partial discharge signals are generated. Respectively one of the filtered partial discharge signals is assigned, respectively, to one of the n filters (18-20), n being greater than or equal to two. Finally, the partial discharges are determined by linking the n filtered partial discharge signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2009
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: OMICRON Electronics GmbH
    Inventors: Caspar Steineke, Harald Emanuel, Ronald Plath