Patents Assigned to ABB AS
  • Publication number: 20250018489
    Abstract: A brazing method for providing a brazed joint. The method comprises directly brazing an AgC contact to a Cu carrier using an active braze.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Christoph Kenel, Markus Hoidis
  • Publication number: 20250023349
    Abstract: A method for performing asset and energy management for an electrical distribution system includes receiving measurement data of plurality of input variables of electrical distribution system; generating coefficient matrix for each output variable used for asset and energy management, based on effects of plurality of input variables on corresponding output variable, using sparse regression. The coefficient matrix comprises one or more input variables from plurality of input variables. Furthermore, the method comprises determining plurality of system representations for each output variable, based on corresponding coefficient matrix. Each of plurality of system representations indicates relationship between one or more input variables and the corresponding output variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: ABB S.p.A.
    Inventors: Mayukha Pal, Barin Karmakar, Vineeth Reddy
  • Publication number: 20250020736
    Abstract: A method for estimating a consumed lifetime of the energy storage device includes measuring a time-series of an environmental relative humidity and a related temperature of the energy storage device; and estimating, based on the time-series and on a moisture diffusion model of the energy storage device, the consumed lifetime of the energy storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Lorenzo Privitera, Kai Hencken, Gerd Schlottig, Elsi-Mari Borrelli, Wojciech Wysocki, Bartlomiej Adamczyk
  • Patent number: 12198871
    Abstract: An electrical switch including a frame, an operating shaft, and a bridge member movable in a depth direction relative to the frame by rotation of the operating shaft, wherein the depth direction is parallel with a rotation axis of the operating shaft, and wherein the operating shaft is adapted to exert a first opening force to the bridge member during an opening event. The electrical switch includes an anti-tilting member movable in a lateral direction relative to the frame by rotation of the operating shaft, the lateral direction being perpendicular to the depth direction, wherein the anti-tilting member is adapted to exert a second opening force to the bridge member during the opening event, the second opening force being parallel to the first opening force and spaced apart from it in the lateral direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventor: Fredrik Strand
  • Patent number: 12198870
    Abstract: A capacitor assembly including at least one capacitor each having a first end and a second end spaced apart in a longitudinal direction, and a first terminal and a second terminal located at the first end of the capacitor, the first end being provided with a first surface, and the second end being provided with a second surface; a heat sink having a first cooling surface; and a connection system connecting the at least one capacitor heat conductively to the heat sink such that the second surface of each of the at least one capacitor is in heat conductive connection with the first cooling surface. The connection system is to in contact with the first surface of each of the at least one capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Toni Nygren, Asko Mielonen, Joonas Puukko
  • Patent number: 12196497
    Abstract: A heat dissipation device is provided herein. The heat dissipation device includes an evaporator chamber at least partially filled with a working fluid to be evaporated when being heated by a heat source; at least one condenser chamber for receiving evaporated working fluid and for condensing the evaporated working fluid, wherein the condenser chamber is interconnected with the evaporator chamber in a fluid conductive manner; and at least one air fin element interconnected between the condenser chamber and one of a further condenser chamber and a side wall of the heat dissipation device; wherein the air fin element has a triply periodic surface providing air fins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Daniele Torresin, Bruno Agostini, Andrey Petrov
  • Patent number: 12197177
    Abstract: A method, computer program and computer program product for allowing update of digital objects as well as to an edge node and process control system including an edge node. The edge node obtains a copy of an original digital object from a process control server, the original object having a number of aspects and being provided according to a first process control data format, provides the copy as a modified object in a second data format that is open for applications external to the process control system, in which second data format the modified object compromises a number of data models receive an update of the modified object from the application, where the update includes a new data model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Nori Ahari, Anders Trostén
  • Patent number: 12197192
    Abstract: A method for controlling an industrial process includes providing process data of the industrial process to an active instance of a control software as input, based on this input, updating an internal state of the active instance of the control software that is characterized by a set of internal variables of this active instance; based on this updated internal state, determining an output signal and outputting this output signal to at least one piece of equipment that is configured to alter a state, and/or a behavior, of the industrial process. The method further includes providing a prioritized subset of the internal variables that characterize the state of the active instance to at least one further instance of a control software that is configured to take over control of the industrial process in case of a failure and/or malfunction of the active instance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Julius Rueckert, Heiko Koziolek, Sten Gruener, Staffan Andersson
  • Publication number: 20250013279
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for determining an energy load distribution in a system, comprising: receiving total energy load data of the system, wherein the total energy load data comprises individual energy load data of a plurality of assets; determining at least one energy load peak in the total energy load data; disaggregating the total energy load data into the individual energy load data of the plurality of assets; providing the disaggregated individual energy load data of the plurality of assets for further processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Bernhard Primas, Arzam Muzaffar Kotriwala, Matthias Schloeder, Matthias Biskoping, Georg Gutermuth
  • Publication number: 20250014322
    Abstract: A robotic system capable of being trained with a plurality of images that are synthetically augmented from an initial image data set includes a training system toward that end. An image augmentation system includes in one form a neural network trained to generate synthetic images using a generative adversarial network which includes the ability to synthesize images having various poses with adjustments to image parameters such as light and color among potential others. In another form the image augmentation system includes a set of images projected or transformed from its original pose to a number of different poses using an affine transform, and the ability to progress across an entire dimensional space of anticipated robot movements which produce various potential poses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Qilin Zhang, Yinwei Zhang, Biao Zhang, Jorge Vidal-Ribas
  • Publication number: 20250012642
    Abstract: A thermal conductivity detector device includes a chamber defining an inlet channel and an outlet channel. A temperature sensing element is positioned proximal to the outlet channel to detect temperature of a fluid flowing through the chamber from the inlet channel to the outlet channel. The temperature sensing element includes a body defined in a cylindrical shape with a through passage and, the through passage defines an inner surface for the flow of a fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Subhashish Dasgupta, Max Bailey, Jason Lewis, Steve Hardy, Steve Lakey, John Hester, Ryan Holsapple
  • Publication number: 20250012745
    Abstract: A thermal conductivity detector device includes a chamber defined with an inlet channel and an outlet channel. A temperature sensing element is positioned proximal to the outlet channel and a plurality of passages is defined between the inlet channel and the outlet channel. The plurality of passages is structured to direct a fluid from the inlet channel to impinge on the temperature sensing element to detect the temperature of the fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Subhashish Dasgupta, Michael May, Jason Lewis
  • Patent number: 12191620
    Abstract: A terminal block unit for an input/output device of a modular process control system includes two slot elements configured to receive two redundant signal conditioning units. The terminal block unit is configured to be housed in a pair of two adjacent slot elements of a module termination unit of an input/output device. The terminal block unit provides a parallel connection of the redundant signal conditioning units to a field device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Robert Norberg, Bernd Wansner, Thomas Keul, Stefan Pook, Ulf Hansson, Joerg Schubert, Jorgen Aslund
  • Patent number: 12190094
    Abstract: A method for updating a process control system having a plurality of different hardware units includes providing a firmware data package, connecting a computing unit to an interface unit, transferring the firmware data package to the interface unit, providing current status data comprising information about the different hardware unit and information about the current firmware versions of the different hardware unit, checking whether the different hardware unit and the current firmware versions are compatible with the firmware update data for the different hardware units based on the current status data, and determining a checking result. When the checking result is positive, firmware update data in the different hardware unit is installed, and when the checking result is negative, an incompatibility message is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Stefan Pook, Andreas Wahlmann, Andreas Stueckelmaier
  • Publication number: 20250003903
    Abstract: A thermal conductivity detector device includes a chamber defined with an inlet channel and an outlet channel. The chamber is of an elliptical shape having at least two opposing sides of the chamber defined in an arcuate shape. The chamber is defined in the shape of a venturi. A temperature sensing element is positioned within the chamber. The temperature sensing element is configured to determine the temperature of a fluid flowing through the chamber from the inlet channel towards the outlet channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Subhashish Dasgupta, Michael May, Jason Lewis, Jason Aaron Lawrence, Steve Lakey, Steve Hardy, Max Bailey, Ryan Holsapple, John Hester
  • Publication number: 20250004464
    Abstract: There is provided an explainer system for explaining an alarm raised by a machine learned model of an industrial automation system. The explainer system is configured to: receive model output from the machine learned model trained to predict anomalous behaviour in the industrial automation system and to raise the alarm; process the model output using at least one prediction explanation technique to identify at least one influential feature which contributed to the model output; use the identified at least one influential feature to extract contextual information from at least one machine-readable information source pertaining to the industrial automation system; and prepare the extracted contextual information for display to an operator of the industrial automation system, to enable the operator to select an appropriate action to take in response to the alarm for ensuring proper functioning of the industrial automation system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Santonu Sarkar, Hadil Abukwaik, Reuben Borrison, Divyasheel Sharma, Marcel Dix, Chandrika K R, Deepti Maduskar, Marie Christin Platenius-Mohr, Benjamin Kloepper
  • Publication number: 20250004436
    Abstract: A process control system comprising at least one module termination unit, at least one adapter module arranged on the module termination unit and configured to communicate with a field device, and at least one controller module arranged on the module termination unit and configured to process data from the adapter module, wherein the adapter module and the controller module are connected to each other by a peer-to-peer connection, in particular through the module termination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Thomas Keul, Huan Shi, Wendy Liu, Tina-TingTing Hong
  • Patent number: 12181444
    Abstract: A method for detecting a position anomaly of a test object on a workpiece, the method including capturing an image of the test object to obtain image data; determining a real position of the test object in relation to the testing robot based on the image data; moving a testing sensor carried by the testing robot into contact with the test object based on the real position; acquiring test data of the test object by means of the testing sensor when the testing sensor is in contact with the test object; and detecting a position anomaly of the test object based on a comparison between a test object position and a reference position, the test object position being based on the real position, based on the test data and/or based on a position of the testing robot when the testing sensor is in contact with the test object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: August Ramle, Göran Bergström, Johanna Hesslind
  • Patent number: 12184669
    Abstract: A method for determining whether a power system is encountering a malicious attack is provided. The method comprises: receiving a plurality of first phasor measurement unit (PMU) measurements from a plurality of PMUs of the power system; determining a plurality of expected PMU measurements associated with a future time period based on an optimization algorithm that uses differences between a plurality of consecutive predictive entries and the plurality of first PMU measurements; receiving, from the plurality of PMUs, a plurality of second PMU measurements associated with the future time period; determining whether the power system is encountering the malicious attack based on comparing the plurality of expected PMU measurements with the plurality of second PMU measurements; and executing an action based on whether the power system is encountering the malicious attack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Mohammad Razeghi-Jahromi, David Lee Coats, James D. Stoupis
  • Patent number: D1056009
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Xingjie Li, Xianfeng Deng, Xiuxiu Yin