Patents by Inventor Zhihan Xu

Zhihan Xu 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: 10162015
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to systems and methods for determining a fault location in a three-phase series-compensated power transmission line system by using symmetrical components-based formulas that describe various voltage and current relationships. The voltage and current relationships can be derived using a synchronous measurement procedure that is concurrently executed at a sending end and a receiving end of the first series-compensated power transmission line system. Furthermore, determining the fault location in accordance with certain embodiments of the disclosure can eliminate one or more of a need to calculate an impedance value of any of the series capacitors or the series capacitor protection elements that are a part of the three-phase series-compensated power transmission line system, a need to monitor any of the series capacitor protection elements, and a need to measure a voltage drop across any of the series capacitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Zhihan Xu, Tirath Bains, Tarlochan Sidhu, Mohammad Reza Dadash Zadeh
  • Publication number: 20170227611
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to systems and methods for determining a fault location in a three-phase series-compensated power transmission line system by using symmetrical components-based formulas that describe various voltage and current relationships. The voltage and current relationships can be derived using a synchronous measurement procedure that is concurrently executed at a sending end and a receiving end of the first series-compensated power transmission line system. Furthermore, determining the fault location in accordance with certain embodiments of the disclosure can eliminate one or more of a need to calculate an impedance value of any of the series capacitors or the series capacitor protection elements that are a part of the three-phase series-compensated power transmission line system, a need to monitor any of the series capacitor protection elements, and a need to measure a voltage drop across any of the series capacitors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Zhihan Xu, Tirath Bains, Tarlochan Sidhu, Mohammad Reza Dadash Zadeh
  • Publication number: 20170227595
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to systems and methods for determining a fault location in a three-phase series-compensated power transmission line system by using symmetrical components-based formulas that describe various voltage and current relationships in the three-phase series-compensated power transmission lines during a fault condition. Furthermore, the systems and methods for determining the fault location in accordance with certain embodiments of the disclosure can eliminate one or more of a need to calculate an impedance value of any of the series capacitors or the series capacitor protection elements that are a part of the three-phase series-compensated power transmission line system, a need to monitor any of the series capacitor protection elements, and a need to measure a voltage drop across any of the series capacitors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Zhihan Xu, Tirath Bains, Tarlochan Sidhu, Mohammad Reza Dadash Zadeh
  • Patent number: 9442152
    Abstract: A fault location system for a distribution network is disclosed. The fault location system includes at least one sensor and a fault location evaluation apparatus. The at least one sensor is located on the distribution network, for sensing current and dividing the distribution network into at least two regions. The fault location evaluation apparatus includes a fault region determination unit for determining which one of the at least two regions is a fault region where a fault occurs therein by calculating the sensed current from the at least one sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Zhilin Wu, Ilia Voloh, Lihan He, Zhihan Xu
  • Publication number: 20150048841
    Abstract: A fault location system for a distribution network is disclosed. The fault location system includes at least one sensor and a fault location evaluation apparatus. The at least one sensor is located on the distribution network, for sensing current and dividing the distribution network into at least two regions. The fault location evaluation apparatus includes a fault region determination unit for determining which one of the at least two regions is a fault region where a fault occurs therein by calculating the sensed current from the at least one sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventors: Lihan He, Ilia Voloh, Zhilin Wu, Zhihan Xu