Patents Assigned to ABB
  • Patent number: 11784014
    Abstract: A breaking device for interrupting current includes an electrically conducting outer member, an electrically conducting inner member arranged radially inside the outer member with respect to a breaking axis and an electrically insulating or semiconducting breaking member arranged radially between the outer member and the inner member with respect to the breaking axis, where the breaking member is arranged to move along the breaking axis from a starting position to a protruding position in which the breaking member protrudes from a space within the outer member for interrupting a current between the outer member and the inner member and the breaking member includes an inner tubular element and an outer tubular element, where the outer tubular element is joined to an outer surface of the inner tubular element thereby defining a recess between the outer tubular element and the inner tubular element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: ABB S.p.A.
    Inventors: James Mannekutla, Zichi Zhang, Lars Jonsson, Julia Viertel, Alessio Bergamini
  • Patent number: 11784583
    Abstract: An electrical converter includes a main converter for generating a first output voltage and a converter cell for converting the first output voltage into a second output voltage. A method for operating an electrical converter includes: receiving a reference voltage for the electrical converter; pulse width modulating the reference voltage with a first modulation frequency for generating a first switching signal for the main converter; switching the main converter with the first switching signal to generate the first output voltage; estimating the first output voltage from the first switching signal; determining a voltage error by subtracting the estimated first output voltage from the reference voltage; pulse width modulating the voltage error with a second modulation frequency, which is higher than the first modulation frequency, for generating a further switching signal for the converter cell; and switching the converter cell with the further switching signal to generate the second output voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Mario Schweizer, Tobias Geyer, Ioannis Tsoumas
  • Patent number: 11784015
    Abstract: A switch-fuse module and a ring main unit. The switch-fuse module includes: a housing having therein a first enclosure including a first insulating gas and a second enclosure including a second insulating gas; at least one switch disconnector arranged within the first enclosure; and at least one fuse at least partially surrounded by the second enclosure; wherein each of the first insulating gas and the second insulating gas has a global warming potential less than a global warming potential of SF6, and the first enclosure is different and separate from the second enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Terje Thingstad Pettersen, Ståle Talmo, Stanley Lohne, Elham Attar
  • Patent number: 11780093
    Abstract: A method of controlling an industrial actuator, the method including receiving a manual input in the form of a displacement of an input element; in response to the manual input being a displacement of the input element from the neutral position in a first input direction, controlling the industrial actuator to move in a forward direction along a movement path and with a speed corresponding to a magnitude or a speed of the displacement from a neutral position; and in response to the manual input being a displacement of the input element from the neutral position in a second input direction, controlling the industrial actuator to move in a backward direction along the movement path and with a speed corresponding to a magnitude or a speed of the displacement from the neutral position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Martin Nordvall, Jonas Brönmark, Håkan Fortell
  • Patent number: 11784581
    Abstract: A converter and a method of operating a converter. The converter comprising a DC link capacitor, an upper arm (S1) and a lower arm (S4) with switching cells in series, an upper switch (S2) and a lower switch (S3). The upper switch (S2) and the lower switch (S3) are connected together and the connection point forming an output voltage terminal (a). The converter comprising further an upper valve component and a lower valve component, which are arranged such that the upper valve component allows current from the center point of the DC link capacitor towards the upper arm and the lower valve component allows current from the lower arm towards center point of the DC link capacitor. A current path through the upper valve component or the lower valve component comprises inductance to form a resonance circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Federico Bertoldi, Kalle Ilves, Nan Chen
  • Patent number: 11782202
    Abstract: A light guide receptacle for mounting a plurality of light guides in the interior of a housing part, with a plurality of light bulkheads, is configured to arrange the plurality of light guides, which are mechanically coupled to one another by means of a web, in each case in intermediate spaces between two light bulkheads of the plurality of light bulkheads and to optically decouple spatially adjacent light guides from one another by means of the respective light bulkhead, wherein the plurality of light bulkheads are integrated components of the housing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: ABB AG
    Inventor: Stefan Gutermuth
  • Patent number: 11781943
    Abstract: An arrangement for monitoring an antifriction bearing of a rotating shaft of a rotating electric machine. The arrangement includes: one or more capacitor electrodes to measure a capacitive shaft displacement parameter; one or more of the following additional measurement sensors; a microphone to measure a bearing noise parameter, a voltage sensor to measure a bearing current parameter, and/or an optical pyrometer to measure a shaft heat parameter; and one or more processors configured to evaluate a condition of the antifriction bearing based on the capacitive shaft displacement parameter and one or more of the following: the bearing noise parameter, the bearing current parameter, and/or the shaft heat parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Jari Jäppinen, Olli Liukkonen, Timo Holopainen, Markku Niemelä, Ville Särkimäki
  • Patent number: 11780688
    Abstract: Present disclosure provide a conveyor, a conveying system having the same, and a method of manufacturing the conveyor. The conveyor comprises a carrying member adapted to carry an object to be conveyed. The conveyor also comprises a plurality of rollers arranged under the carrying member and adapted to be guided to move along guide rails in a first direction. The conveyor further comprises a first magnetic engaging portion arranged to extend from a lower surface of the carrying member to a position near to the guide rails in a second direction normal to the first direction, and adapted to interact with a second magnetic engaging portion on the guide rails, to generate a driving force for driving the conveyor in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventor: Hao Gu
  • Patent number: 11785749
    Abstract: A method of controlling the cooling of servers in a data center including a plurality of server racks each including a plurality of servers, the cooling being provided by aisle cooling units via a cold isle and by server fans, wherein the method includes: obtaining temperature measurements from temperature sensors in the data center, performing an optimization of the total power consumption of the aisle cooling units and of the servers based on the temperature measurements, with constraints on a cold aisle temperature and on an air flow level of the aisle cooling units, and controlling the aisle cooling units based on the optimization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Winston Garcia-Gabin, Kateryna Mishchenko
  • Patent number: 11782026
    Abstract: A measurement device for measuring properties of a metal sheet processed in a rolling mill, including: an inspection coil set including a transmitter coil and a receiver coil, the transmitter coil being configured to apply a time-varying magnetic field to the metal sheet, and the receiver coil being configured to detect a magnetic field transient produced from the metal sheet. The property of the metal sheet is derivable from the magnetic field transient. A correction coil set, for detecting a spatial deviation of the metal sheet from a reference plane, each correction coil being connectable to a capacitor to form a respective resonance circuit having a resonance frequency. The correction coils are resonated at the respective resonance frequency. A shift in the resonance frequency in the presence of the metal sheet is detectable and the spatial deviation is derivable from the shifts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Martin Zlatanski, Thomas Wiik
  • Publication number: 20230314194
    Abstract: An Electromagnetic (EM) flowmeter includes pair of coils powered by currents for generating electromagnetic fields, and pair of electrodes for measuring electromotive forces generated by interaction of electromagnetic and flow fields in fluid. To improve measurements during flow distortion, a system configures current in the pair of coils based on a relation between a distance of the EM flowmeter from flow distorting features in the flow pipe and the characteristic length of the EM flowmeter. Further, based on configuration of current in the pair of coils, signals are generated due to electromotive forces and are measured to estimate flow in the pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventor: Subhashish Dasgupta
  • Publication number: 20230314241
    Abstract: A method for validating an invasive temperature measurement system includes providing a first temperature data of the invasive temperature measurement system of a medium, the medium surrounded by a vessel wall enclosing the medium; providing a second temperature data of a non-invasive temperature measurement system, the non-invasive temperature measurement system thermally contacting an outside surface of the vessel wall enclosing the medium; determining a temperature of the medium based on the second temperature data medium properties and properties of the vessel wall; and comparing the first temperature data with the determined temperature of the medium to validate the invasive temperature measurement system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Joerg Gebhardt, Guruprasad Sosale, Wilhelm Daake, Karsten Schroeder, Subhashish Dasgupta, Patric Ackermann, Horst Schwanzer
  • Publication number: 20230314961
    Abstract: A device for positioning a shadow mask includes a mask application tool, the mask application tool comprising an inner body comprising, at an end surface of the inner body, one or more magnets. The mask application tool further comprises a hollow outer body for receiving the inner body, the outer body comprising, at an end surface of the outer body, a mask socket and one or more guide elements for positioning the mask application tool on a substrate tray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Johannes Felix Holger Schmitt, Jan Somboonvong, Stefan Bleil, Dominik Hoegenauer
  • Publication number: 20230318957
    Abstract: An edge utility management method includes receiving an application to be deployed on an edge device, wherein the application comprises a plurality of separately-deployable application parts; obtaining application profiles for one or more of the applications parts; obtaining hardware profiles for one or more hardware resources of the edge device; deploying the application parts to selected hardware resources based on the application profiles and the hardware profiles; and facilitating communication between the deployed application parts during execution of the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Andreas Burger, Nicolas Coppik, Jens Heuschkel, Jens Doppelhamer
  • Publication number: 20230314528
    Abstract: A method for estimating battery degradation includes acquiring battery parameters, characteristics of calendar ageing wearing, cycle ageing wearing coefficient BWC2, wherein BWC1 is a function of State of Charge and BWC2 is a function of charging/dis-charging rate, acquiring and/or calculating instantaneous values of SoC and C-rate of a battery in a defined period, reading instantaneous values of calendar ageing wearing coefficient BWC1 and/or instantaneous values of cycle ageing wearing coefficient BWC2 corresponding to instantaneous values of SoC and C-rate of a battery acquired previously, using characteristics of calendar ageing wearing coefficients acquired and determining value of calendar ageing wearing index BWI1 by referring integrated instantaneous values of BWC1 determined to the integrated instantaneous values of BWC1 for a period of nominal operation time with maximum allowable value of the SoC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Kacper Sowa, Adam Ruszczyk, Carlos Nieto
  • Patent number: 11776768
    Abstract: An electrical switch including a neutral contact adjustment system adapted for adjusting a position of a neutral contact opening surface relative to at least one phase contact opening surface such that the neutral contact adjustment system has a first operating state which is adapted to provide a simultaneous break operation in which a movable neutral contact disconnects simultaneously with at least one movable phase contact during an opening event, and a second operating state which is adapted to provide a late-break operation in which the movable neutral contact disconnects later than the at least one movable phase contact during the opening event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventor: Fredrik Strand
  • Patent number: 11776779
    Abstract: A switching apparatus is provided herein. The switching apparatus includes: (i) a first pole terminal, a second pole terminal and a ground terminal, (ii) a first contact arrangement including a first fixed contact member and a first movable contact member, (iii) a second contact arrangement including a second fixed contact member and a second movable contact member, (iv) a vacuum chamber wherein the second fixed contact and the second movable contact are enclosed and can be coupled or decoupled, and (v) an electrically conductive coupling lever pivoted on the second movable contact member and reversibly movable about a second rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Emanuele Morelli, Dietmar Gentsch, Jacopo Bruni
  • Patent number: 11774941
    Abstract: A system and method provides an impact list of affecting equipment elements that affect an industrial sub-process. The method comprises the steps of selecting, in a topology model, the sub-process, wherein the sub-process is an equipment element that is a part of an industrial plant or process, and wherein the topology model is a graph, whose nodes represent equipment elements and whose edges represent interconnections between the equipment elements; traversing the nodes of the topology model, wherein the traversing starts from the selected sub-process and uses a traversing strategy; and for each of the at least one equipment elements, if the equipment element affects the industrial sub-process by an affecting degree greater than a first predefined affecting degree, adding the equipment element to the impact list of affecting equipment elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Hadil Abukwaik, Jens Doppelhamer, Marcel Dix, Benjamin Kloepper, Pablo Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 11776775
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a switch assembly for a detection unit of a switchgear or controlgear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Changzhou Yang, Liming Xu, Liqun Huang
  • Patent number: 11773721
    Abstract: A turbine speed probe diagnostic system is provided. The turbine includes a speed probe and a speed reading circuit. A speed lead connects the speed probe and speed reading circuit together to transmit speed signals from the speed probe to the speed reading circuit. A speed probe diagnostic circuit is also provided for connection to the speed lead. An isolation switch is provided to isolate the speed probe diagnostic circuit during normal operation when the speed reading circuit is receiving speed signals from the speed probe. When no speed signals are being received, the isolation switch closes and the speed probe diagnostic circuit performs a test on the speed probe or speed lead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Camilo Lopez, Mark Foltz, Steve Miller, Kevin Dowdell, Mark Wieland, Alan Majors