Patents Assigned to ABB
  • Patent number: 10158219
    Abstract: An electric field control device for a high voltage cable includes a stress cone and a field grading adapter, wherein the stress cone and the field grading adapter are chemically bonded by vulcanization. An electric installation includes a power cable and the electric field control device. A method for producing the electric field control device is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: ABB HV CABLES (SWITZERLAND) GMBH
    Inventors: Fredrik Fälth, Markus Saltzer, Santhosh Bvmp, Hossein Ghorbani
  • Publication number: 20180358282
    Abstract: An electronic power module, including at least one semiconductor component, which is arranged on a support, as well as a cooling element, which is in thermal contact with the semiconductor component, wherein the support includes a semiconductor material and, at the same time, serves as a cooling element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicants: AUDI AG, ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Andreas APELSMEIER, Günter VETTER
  • Publication number: 20180358187
    Abstract: A disconnector device is provided for disconnecting an electrical circuit, wherein the electrical circuit is switched by a contactor between an open position and a closed position, the disconnector device using the contactor for disconnecting the electric circuit. The disconnector device locks the contactor in the open position, in which open position contacts of the contactor are in a first position disconnecting the electrical circuit. An arrangement including the disconnector device and a contactor is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Gunnar Johansson, Markus Angell, Alfred Nilsson, Linnea Johansson
  • Patent number: 10153120
    Abstract: A bypass switch provides a bypass path between a first terminal and a second terminal. The bypass switch includes: a first set of electrical contacts respectively connected to the first terminal and the second terminal; a second set of electrical contacts respectively connected to the first terminal and the second terminal; and a movable member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Erik Doré, Henrik Breder, Ola Jeppsson
  • Patent number: 10153629
    Abstract: An electrical joint is provided. The electrical joint includes a first conductive component, a second conductive component, and a thermal cooling interface positioned between the first and second conductive components, the thermal cooling interface including a base plate coupled to the first conductive component, and a plurality of walls extending orthogonally from the base plate towards the second conductive component, the plurality of walls defining a plurality of cooling channels that channel air therethrough to facilitate cooling the first and second conductive components, wherein the first conductive component, the thermal cooling interface, and the second conductive component are electrically coupled in series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventor: Peter James Greenwood
  • Patent number: 10153085
    Abstract: A transformer includes a magnetic core, a first winding assembly inductively coupled to the magnetic core, and a second winding assembly inductively coupled to the first winding assembly. The magnetic core includes a winding leg. The first winding assembly includes a plurality of first layers, and the second winding assembly includes a plurality of second layers. The first and second winding assemblies are concentrically wound around the winding leg in an interleaved configuration, where at least one of the plurality of second layers is disposed between two of the plurality of first layers, and at least one of the plurality of first layers is disposed between two of the plurality of second layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventor: Juan José Gutiérrez Estrada
  • Patent number: 10150214
    Abstract: A robot and method for controlling an industrial robot, which has a first robot arm, a second robot arm, a joint defining a kinematic pair between the first and second robot arms, an actuator for generating relative movement between the first and second robot arms, and a robot controller for controlling the movements of the actuator. The method includes the steps of: determining a presence of a first torque indication at the actuator to be interpreted as a first command to the robot controller; repeatedly obtaining an external torque value (?ext) to obtain an external torque behavior; comparing the external torque behavior with the first torque indication; and executing a robot function corresponding to the first command upon detecting that the external torque behavior corresponds to the first torque indication. The obtained external torque behavior depends on a reference torque value (?ref) obtained from a dynamic model of the robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Henrik Jerregård, Tomas Groth
  • Publication number: 20180350546
    Abstract: A bypass switch provides a bypass path between a first terminal and a second terminal. The bypass switch includes: a first contact device; a second contact device; and a plunger being moveable from an initial state, via a first state, to a second state, wherein in the initial state the first terminal and second terminal are conductively separated; in the first state a movement of the plunger causes the first contact device to close a first conductive connection between the first terminal and the second terminal; and in the second state the plunger mechanically forces the second contact device to close a second conductive connection between the first terminal and the second terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Henrik BREDER, Ola JEPPSSON
  • Patent number: 10148618
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for network isolation. For example, nodes within a mesh of devices may be configured with routing rules, main routing tables, and alternative routing tables, such as at a layer-3 network layer. The routing rules may specify that packets received from downstream are to be routed upstream to either a gateway or a backhaul device for evaluation as to whether such packets are allowed to be communicated back downstream to destination recipients using main routing tables. An isolation rule may be configured to specify whether to block or allow packets. In an example, the gateway may either block or allow packets based upon whether a source and destination are within a same virtual local area network or are within different virtual local area networks. In this way, selective device isolation may be provided, such as at the layer-3 network layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Danurahardjo Tjahjono, Prabhat Regmi
  • Patent number: 10148122
    Abstract: A system is provided. The system includes a plurality of uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs), a ring bus, a plurality of chokes, each choke of said plurality of chokes electrically coupled between a respective UPS of said plurality of UPSs and the ring bus, and a plurality of series compensators, each series compensator of the plurality of series compensators electrically coupled between an associated choke of the plurality of chokes and the ring bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Raghothama Reddy, Silvio Colombi, William J. Schmitt, John P. Skliutas
  • Patent number: 10148411
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a secure one-step IEEE 1588 clock using either a symmetric or asymmetric protection scheme. Clocks of mission-critical or highly-available devices in industrial automation systems connected to a communication network are synchronized by sending, by a master clock, a synchronization message, e.g., a single message of the one-step-clock type according to IEEE 1588, including a time stamp, and by receiving and evaluating, by a slave clock, the synchronization message. A synchronization component or module of the master clock prepares, or composes, prior to a projected send time, a synchronization message including a time stamp of the projected send time, and secures the synchronization message in advance of the projected send time. Securing the synchronization message occurs by suitable cryptographic means allowing for authentication of the time stamp at a receiving slave clock. At the projected send time, the secured synchronization message is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: ABB Research Ltd
    Inventors: Hubert Kirrmann, Jean-Charles Tournier
  • Patent number: 10145903
    Abstract: Methods and systems for monitoring devices in a power distribution system are described. In one example, a method for use in a power distribution system including a plurality of devices is described. The method includes receiving a plurality of data signals associated with the power distribution system, determining a measurement error value associated with the power distribution system based on the plurality of data signals, comparing the determined measurement error value to a dynamic threshold, and generating an alert when the determined measurement error value exceeds the dynamic threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Marcelo Esteban Valdes, Thomas Frederick Papallo, Jr., Theodore Drummond Hill, III, Jeremy David Smith
  • Patent number: 10146217
    Abstract: A method for controlling real world objects in an industrial installation, which is performed in a server node and includes the steps of: receiving a connection establishment request having a user identity; authenticating the user identity; establishing a connection; receiving a service request, wherein the service request includes a reference to an aspect object and a reference to an aspect of the aspect object; forwarding the service request and the user identity to a service dispatcher module; determining a target service provider from the reference to the aspect object by querying a directory server module; and sending the service request and the user identity to the target service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Thomas Pauly, Hans Thilderkvist, Jeff Harding
  • Patent number: 10146945
    Abstract: The invention relates to a central data collection apparatus. The central data collection apparatus comprises an interface for receiving data relating to devices arranged at a plurality of different installation sites. A data storage stores the data received via the interface. A data distributor is configured to receive a request for data regarding a specific device identified in the request from a user equipment, to access the user credential storage for determining the access rights of the, to determine what, parts of the data regarding the identified device the user is authorized to receive and to allow the user equipment to access the part of the data the user is authorized to access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz Ag
    Inventors: Johannes Ylinen, Mika Luotojarvi, Riku Hyttinen, Simo Säynevirta
  • Patent number: 10147579
    Abstract: An electrical device includes a power connector coupleable to a cable. The power connector defines an interior space and a cable opening, the power connector arranged to receive the cable into the interior space through the cable opening. The electrical device further includes a barrier arranged to at least partially cover the cable opening, said barrier comprising an inner collar and an outer collar, each of said inner collar and said outer collar arranged to receive at least a portion of the cable therethrough, wherein said outer collar circumscribes said inner collar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Tyler Braden Diomedi, Suresh M, Justin Dubrosky, Fernando Jorge De Sousa Braga, Leonardo Dorea Mascarenhas, Yogesh Ingole, Mariusz Duda, Tapas Ranjan Rout, Jorge Juan Bonilla Hernandez
  • Patent number: 10144494
    Abstract: An arrangement and a method for installing a propulsion unit to a hull of a ship. The propulsion unit comprises an upper part of the propulsion unit attachable to the hull of the ship and a lower part of the propulsion unit where to a propeller shaft is rotatably supported, and the upper part of the propulsion unit having flanges to attach the flanges tightly to the hull, and wherein there is an aperture in the bottom of the hull where to the propulsion unit is to be installed. The arrangement comprises a plurality of watertight covers covering openings in the bottom of the hull and a plurality of watertight covers covering openings in the top of the upper part of the propulsion unit, wherein the arrangement comprises a removable hull-side cover covering at least the opening under it, and at least one removable propulsion unit side cover covering the opening under it and facing the opening, and the removable covers are bolted from the hull-side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Jani Hakala, Kimmo Kokkila, Petri Säkkinen
  • Patent number: 10147572
    Abstract: An embedded pole is provided which includes a conductive path and a movable contact. The movable contact is selectively movable between a first position in which the conductive path is closed and a second position in which the conductive path is open. An insulation element is coupled to and selectively movable in conjunction with the movable contact. The embedded pole further includes a sensor coupled to the insulation element and operable to detect a displacement of the insulation element that corresponds to a movement of the movable contact between the first position and the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Bin Huo, Wenhua Que, Xuewei Sun, Lijuan Kong, Xian Yang
  • Patent number: D835052
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: ABB Oy
    Inventors: Timo Jokiniemi, Rainer Kolmonen, Aki Suutarinen, Patrik Rabb, Anu-Riikka Mäki, Matti Rajala, Juri Fredlund
  • Patent number: D835053
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: ABB Oy
    Inventors: Timo Jokiniemi, Rainer Kolmonen, Aki Suutarinen, Patrik Rabb, Anu-Riikka Mäki, Matti Rajala, Juri Fredlund
  • Patent number: D835054
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: ABB Oy
    Inventors: Timo Jokiniemi, Rainer Kolmonen, Aki Suutarinen, Patrik Rabb, Anu-Riikka Mäki, Matti Rajala, Juri Fredlund