Patents Assigned to ABB
  • Publication number: 20240348052
    Abstract: A system for managing the load profile of an electric network is provided. The system includes: a plurality of loads, and each respective load of the plurality of loads is assigned a priority, an energy storage system, and a controller. The controller is configured to determine a predicted energy usage of the electric network at an end of a time period, based on comparing the predicted energy usage to a target energy usage, determine an adjustment of the plurality of loads based on the respective priority of each respective load. Based on the adjustment of the plurality of loads and a charge of the energy storage system, the controller dynamically assigns a priority to the energy storage system, and performs the adjustment of the plurality of loads and the energy storage system using the respective priority of each respective load and the dynamically assigned priority of the energy storage system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Alexander Brissette, Fabio D'Agostino, Matteo Saviozzi
  • Publication number: 20240343528
    Abstract: A method for operating a crane, comprising providing a crane with a jib element and an indicator element, wherein the jib element and the indicator element are arranged in a first position; moving the indicator element manually from the first position to a second position; triggering a movement of the jib element from the first position to the second position after the indicator element is arranged in the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Arne Wahrburg, Silke Klose, Janne Jurvanen, Matias Niemela, Mikael Harry Holmberg
  • Publication number: 20240346160
    Abstract: A system and method for managing access to data of digital twin in industrial system includes one or more datasets of the digital twin being received from each of a plurality of devices of a hierarchical system. A state of the digital twin is determined by mapping each of the one or more datasets with pre-defined state data. Information related to a role of each of one or more users associated with each of a plurality of devices is received, and an matrix indicating the one or more users' access rights on one or more datasets is generated by mapping a state of the digital twin corresponding to each of the one or more datasets with the users' role in each. Access to one or more datasets by one or more users at each of the plurality of devices is managed based on the access matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Ravishankar Y A, Sukumara Thangavelu, Bharath Dhananjaya
  • Publication number: 20240342914
    Abstract: A method for modeling a working environment of a robot comprising providing a robot having a base, a reference point, a plurality of links by which the reference point is movably connected to the base, and sensors for detecting positions of or angles between the links, providing a controller adapted to associate a position of the reference point to detected positions or angles between of the links, installing the base in a working environment which is delimited by at least one surface, moving the reference point to at least one sample point of the at least one surface, determining the position of the sample point from positions of or angles between the links detected while the reference point is at the sample point, and inferring the position of the surface from the determined position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: René Kirsten, Nima Enayati, Arne Wahrburg, Mikael Norrlöf, Morten Akerblad
  • Patent number: 12117363
    Abstract: When a gateway, which provides one or more drivetrain domain specific knowledge services and include one or more simulation tools, receives a request relating to a drivetrain, the request containing identification information identifying one or more components of the drivetrain, and possibly one or more operation conditions, the gateway retrieves, based on the identification information, component information on one or more components of the drivetrain, the component information indicating for each component a component type. The gateway also retrieves, based on one or more component types in the component information and received one or more operation conditions, if any received, one or more values. Then the gateway uses at least the retrieved one or more values as input for a simulation; and outputs a simulation result for the drivetrain and/or for one or more of components the drivetrain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Tommi Ryyppö, Jari Jäppinen, Jan Westerlund
  • Patent number: 12119170
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for producing a magnetic powder and the use of a waste magnetic material for producing isotropic or anisotropic magnets. The method including providing a waste magnetic material including a waste magnetic chemical composition, analyzing the waste magnetic material to obtain information about the waste magnetic chemical composition thereof, adjusting the waste magnetic chemical composition to a target magnetic chemical composition to obtain an adjusted waste magnetic material, and atomizing the adjusted waste magnetic material to obtain the magnetic powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Reinhard Simon, Jacim Jacimovic, Lorenz Herrmann, Felix Greuter, Elio Perigo
  • Patent number: 12119750
    Abstract: A resonant DC/DC converter which has a first DC link, preferably including a first DC link capacitor; a DC/AC converter which has a first plurality of N>1 converter bridges connected in parallel to the first DC link; each converter bridge comprising a plurality of switches each of which may be switched between a conducting state and a non-conducting state. The resonant DC/DC converter also includes an AC intermediate circuit having an input connected to an output of the DC/AC converter and comprising: a transformer, preferably a medium frequency transformer, having a primary side and a secondary side; the primary side comprising at least one primary winding; a first plurality of N capacitors, wherein for each converter bridge, a different one from the first plurality of capacitors is connected between said converter bridge and the at least one primary winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Uwe Drofenik, Ki-Bum Park, Thomas Bernhard Gradinger
  • Patent number: 12117783
    Abstract: A system, method, and/or apparatus is provided for production processes in which online frequently derived measurements are determined use existing online and/or offline reference measurements and real-time and/or historical data to model process variables and/or product properties to achieve enhanced production goals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: ChangYuan Liu, Donald Ray Stanley, III, Andrew Daniel Steiger
  • Patent number: 12119817
    Abstract: A gate driver circuit is provided that includes a turn-on path, a turn-off path, and a fast discharge path. The turn-on path is couplable between a gate of a solid-state switch and a voltage turn-on signal (VGON) from a gate driver, where the turn-on path defines a turn-on time for the solid-state switch. The turn-off path is couplable between the gate and a voltage turn-off signal (VGOFF) from the gate driver, where the turn-off path defines a turn-off time for the solid-state switch. The fast discharge path is selectively couplable in parallel with the turn-off path during a portion of a gate-to-source voltage (VGS) transition for the solid-state switch, where the turn-off path in parallel with the fast discharge path defines a turn-off delay for the solid-state switch and each of the turn-on time, the turn-off time, and the turn-off delay are independently configurable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Xiaoqing Song, Utkarsh Raheja, Pietro Cairoli, Sayan Acharya
  • Patent number: 12117821
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a verification device for verifying a field device. The verification device comprises a repository and verification module. The repository comprises a plurality of verification definition data sets, each verification definition data set associated with a type of field device and comprises one or more sets of threshold values of one or more corresponding operational parameters for the corresponding type of field device. The verification module obtains a corresponding verification definition data set associated with the field device under verification; measures values of the operational parameters of the field device under verification in accordance with the corresponding verification definition data set and compares the measured values of the operational parameters with corresponding threshold values of the operational parameters from a set of threshold values of the operational parameters from the corresponding verification definition data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Suhas Chakravarthy, Jutty Prakash Dinesh, Shanthala Kamath, David Lincoln, Mini T T
  • Patent number: 12115509
    Abstract: A method of determining a mixing state of a medium in a container includes: transmitting a plurality of acoustic signals at least partly through the medium and receiving the plurality of acoustic signals after at least partly traversing the medium; determining at least one propagation value of at least one propagation quantity for each of the plurality of received acoustic signals to provide determined propagation values, each at least one propagation quantity being indicative of an interaction of the acoustic signals with the medium; determining at least one fluctuation value of at least one fluctuation quantity based on the determined propagation values to provide a determined at least one fluctuation value, each at least one fluctuation quantity being indicative of and/or correlating with a variance of the determined propagation values and/or with a state of a mixture; and determining the mixing state of the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Christof Bernhard, Frank Kassubek, Miklos Lenner, Detlef Pape
  • Patent number: 12119737
    Abstract: A method for controlling an electrical converter system is provided herein. The method includes determining a switching signal and a reference trajectory of at least one electrical quantity of the electrical converter system over a horizon of future sampling instants; generating a sequence of averaged switch positions from the switching signal over the horizon; determining a sequence of optimized averaged switch positions with optimized averaged switch positions by optimizing a cost function based on the sequence of averaged switch positions; determining an optimized switching signal for the current sampling interval by moving switching transitions in the switching signal, such that the average of the switching signal with the modified switching transitions equals the optimized averaged switch position; and applying at least the next switching transition of the optimized switching signal for the current sampling interval to the electrical converter system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Tobias Geyer, Annika Birth
  • Patent number: 12119704
    Abstract: An uninterruptible power supply device includes a rectifier module coupled to an electrical power grid, an inverter module coupled to the rectifier module, and a battery converter module. The rectifier module can process a higher amount of electric power as the designed electrical power provided by the inverter module to enable the uninterruptible power supply device to provide stabilization support to the electrical power grid, wherein the rectifier module comprises at least two rectifier submodules, each dimensioned to process an amount of electrical power according to a capability of the inverter module to process power. The rectifier module is configured to electrically couple the rectifier submodules selectable to process a higher amount of electric power as the inverter module to provide stabilization support to the electrical power grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Silvio Colombi, Mario Schweizer
  • Publication number: 20240337991
    Abstract: A method for establishing and/or improving a simulation model of an electrolyzer plant includes predicting one or more prediction values of at least one quantity; obtaining one or more measurement values of the same at least one quantity that relate to the same given operating state of the electrolyzer plant; determining at least one deviation of the one or more prediction values from the respective measurement values; determining from the deviation and the simulation model a contribution and/or an adjustment to the simulation model; and applying the contribution and/or the adjustment to the simulation model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Georg Gutermuth, Matthias Biskoping, Felix Lenders, Bernhard Primas, Kai Koenig, Kalpesh Bhalodi
  • Publication number: 20240339888
    Abstract: A cooling frame for cooling an electric motor is provided. The cooling frame includes a header and a plurality of fluid conduits configured to carry a fluid and facilitate an exchange of heat between the fluid and the electric motor. The header includes at least one header port for exchanging fluid into or out from the header; a first plate comprising a central opening; and a plurality of conduit ports on the first plate positioned around the central opening, wherein each conduit port is fluidly connectable to a respective fluid conduit of the plurality of fluid conduits. The header also includes a first channel fluidly connecting the at least one header port and a first conduit port of the plurality of conduit ports, and a second channel fluidly connecting a second conduit port and the at least one header port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: William E. Martin, John M. Zedek
  • Publication number: 20240339875
    Abstract: A lamination for a stator of an electric motor includes: a material sheet having a generally circular shape with a center and a radial direction, an outer contour, and an inner contour, the outer and inner contours being generally concentric with the center. The inner contour is defined by an arrangement of a plurality of teeth and a plurality of stator slots, each tooth of the plurality of teeth having one stator slot of the plurality of stator slots to a first side of the tooth and one stator slot of the plurality of stator slots to a second side of the tooth, the inner contour defining a rotor hole for receiving a rotor of the electric motor. The material sheet has a plurality of internal cooling holes arranged around the rotor hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: William E. Martin, John M. Zedek, Stephen T. Evon
  • Publication number: 20240336522
    Abstract: A method and a sensor device for evaluating residual Sulphur in a cement preheater of a cement kiln, wherein the residual Sulphur is based on the values of the fuel Sulphur content, the fuel rate of consumption, the hotmeal quality and the clinker Sulphur content. A method for evaluating blockage in a cement preheater includes evaluating the residual Sulphur in the cement preheater, determining an agglomeration rate of Sulphur compounds agglomerating on an inner surface of the cement preheater based on the residual Sulphur, and evaluating a level of blockage in at least one predetermined pathway of the cement preheater using a blockage evaluation unit, wherein the level of blockage is based on the agglomeration rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Subhash Kumar, Deepti Maduskar, Srijit Kumar, Divyasheel Sharma, Sandeep R, Vimal Raj, Kallol Purkayastha
  • Patent number: 12113693
    Abstract: A method, arrangement, computer program and computer program product for improving communication between devices of an industrial automation system running automation applications as well as to such an industrial automation system. The devices include a first and a second endpoint device of a communication path for a data stream through a time sensitive network and for which a corresponding application has an application cycle time at which the first and second endpoint device are to transmit data to each other. The first endpoint device detects a communication degradation of the data stream, which communication degradation is indicative of congestion and performs a congestion limiting activity from a group of congestion limiting activities, which group at least includes an activity of increasing the application cycle time of the data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Jörgen Gade, Maryam Vahabi, Xiaolin Jiang, Johan Åkerberg, Pietro Falco
  • Patent number: 12113456
    Abstract: Embodiments of present disclosure relate to an apparatus and a method for controlling a delta-connected cascaded multilevel converter. The apparatus (100) for controlling a delta-connected cascaded multilevel converter (110) comprises: a converter controller (102) configured to: receive current signals indicating phase currents flowing through respective phase arms of the converter (110); determine a harmonic current signal indicating a circulating current of the converter (110) from the current signals; and generate, based on the determined harmonic current signal and a reference current signal, a harmonic voltage signal to cause an amplitude of the circulating current flowing through the phase arms of the converter (110) to be a predetermined amplitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Xing Huang, Hailian Xie, Guangming Pei, Hua Wei, Min Li
  • Patent number: D1045809
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Antti Kultalahti, Andre Nordman, Jarmo Lehtimäki