Patents Assigned to ABB
  • Patent number: 11624024
    Abstract: A thermochromic polymer composition including a base polymer material; a temperature sensitive material, which changes a color of the thermochromic polymer composition in response to a temperature change; and a stabilizer, which enhances stability performance of the thermochromic polymer composition. The thermochromic polymer composition which has a good thermochromic performance and good thermal performance and thus could provide a visible indication of the overheat condition. An electrical device is formed from the thermochromic polymer composition. A further embodiment of the process for preparing the thermochromic polymer composition and forming the electrical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Nan Li, Jiansheng Chen, Yan Gao, Cuicui Su, Ding Wang, Bo Qiao
  • Publication number: 20230109414
    Abstract: A method used for generating a zoomable diagram includes providing a topology diagram of at least a part of the industrial plant for interacting with components of the industrial plant; generating, for each zoom-level of the zoomable diagram, a zoomed diagram comprising a zoomed view of each one of the plurality of objects and connections, by applying at least following rules to each object: from a first predefined zoom-level, collapse all objects of a plant-segment to one object and keep only connections that cross the plant-segment's border, and introduce an plant-segment related alarm measure as a function of all alarm statuses of the plurality of objects of the plant-segment; and when interacting with the components of the industrial plant, determining, for each plant-segment, the plant-segment related alarm measure, and outputting the plant-segment related alarm measure for healing a cause of the alarm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Heiko Koziolek, Julius Rueckert, Benjamin Kloepper, Hadil Abukwaik, Pablo Rodriguez, Andreas Berlet
  • Publication number: 20230105022
    Abstract: A multi-sensor mounting system and method includes a secondary pipe and an adapter. The secondary pipe comprises a fastening device configured to fix the secondary pipe to the process pipe, and a valve that is switchable between an open state and a closed state. The adapter detachably connects a sensor module to the secondary pipe. The valve allows a sensing probe of the sensor module being inserted into the process pipe in the open state, and to block a fluid flow in the secondary pipe in the closed state, for example, for times when the sensing probe is removed from the secondary pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: David Lincoln, Paul Szasz, Sean Keeping, Andrew Holmes, Eric Yeatman, Chao Yuan, David Boyle, Samuel Yang, Daryl Williams
  • Publication number: 20230105045
    Abstract: A method of configuring a field device includes identifying an original Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture (OPC UA) server provided for a field device of the same type; creating a data set of values of parameters of the original OPC UA server; storing the created data set of the values of parameters of the original OPC UA server in a storage medium separate to the original OPC UA server; and generating a configuration for the field device comprising utilizing the created data set of the values of parameters of the original OPC UA server in the storage medium separate to the original OPC UA server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Dirk Wagener, Christian Fahrenholz, Christoph Welte, Marcus Heege
  • Publication number: 20230107923
    Abstract: An underground mine hoist and method of operating the mine hoist is provided. Unlike conventional underground mine hoists, the hoist may be operated at a production rate less than the designed maximum production rate at least part of the time to improve the life of the hoist and efficiency of operation. In order to vary the hoist production rate, an input rate and/or output rate of mined material is monitored, and the hoist production rate is varied based on such monitoring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Tim Gartner, Jerzy Katolik
  • Patent number: 11619562
    Abstract: Systems and methods for efficiently identifying gas leak locations may include traversing, by an investigator and within a search area in which a gas leak has been indicated, a route defined according to at least one of a surge-cast algorithm or a surge-spiral algorithm. The systems and methods may also include sampling, with a gas detection device carried by the investigator, an environment along the route to identify a location of the gas leak.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: J. Brian Leen, Douglas S. Baer, Susan Kasper, Zachary Plante
  • Patent number: 11618048
    Abstract: The present application is related to reducing the paint left inside the piping of the painting device. More specifically the present application is directed to a painting device that includes: a paint output part for outputting paint towards an object to be painted; a paint piping for the paint to pass through towards the paint output part; and a steel ball provided inside the paint piping; and a paint supply part supplying the paint to the paint piping from a side opposite to the paint output part. After the paint supply part stops supplying of the paint, the steel ball moves inside the paint piping towards the paint output part while the paint output part outputs the paint towards the object to be painted. The first moving fluid causes the steel ball to move inside the paint piping towards the paint output part by pushing the steel ball.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Takahiro Tawata, Kuniharu Yamauchi, Jose Rodrigues
  • Patent number: 11621135
    Abstract: An armature for an electromagnetic actuator, the armature including an armature body, at least one electrically conductive member configured for cooperation with a magnetic field generator of an electromagnetic actuator, and a connection end configured for connection of the armature to an apparatus operable by an electromagnetic actuator. The armature body also having a cellular structure. The armature may form part of an electromagnetic actuator, which in turn may be a component in a switch device. The armature may be manufactured by an additive manufacturing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Ener Salinas, Ara Bissal, Erik Johansson, Frederic Tholence
  • Patent number: 11621545
    Abstract: A low and medium voltage electrical enclosure comprising a supporting structure which defines an internal space delimited by walls forming one or more compartments housing one or more electrical apparatuses. At least one of said walls is provided with one or more venting openings that put into communication said internal space with the outside of said low voltage electrical enclosure; the venting openings are provided with a cover closing a corresponding venting opening in a first—closed—operating condition. The enclosure is provided with an actuating device adapted to open said cover in a second—open—operating condition in case of arc fault inside said internal space; said actuating device comprises an actuating mechanism having a Shape Memory Alloy-based (SMA-based) actuating element having a first dimension at first predetermined temperatures reversibly changeable into a second dimension at second predetermined temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: ABB S.p.A.
    Inventors: Pierceleste Benedetti, Alessio Bergamini, Giuseppe Nava, Federico Gamba
  • Patent number: 11619550
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a flame detector. The flame detector comprises a light guide system including a first end and a second end opposite to the first end, a light path being formed between the first end and the second end and extending along an optical axis; a first hole disposed at the first end, extending along the optical axis and forming a part of the light path, the first hole being configured to receive light emitted by a flame to be detected; and a second hole disposed at the second end, extending along the optical axis and forming a part of the light path, sizes of the first and second holes and a length of the light path being configured such that a detection angle of the light guide system is between 0.5 degrees and 3 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Jianmin Zhao, Zhenyue Zhu, Lorenzo Galfrascoli, Leo Bordignon
  • Publication number: 20230096869
    Abstract: An electric vehicle (EV) charging connector includes a contact element and a passive cooling device attached to the contact element at a connection point. The contact element and the passive cooling device form a thermal conductive arrangement. The charging connector further comprises at least one temperature sensor attached to the thermal conductive arrangement, wherein the at least one temperature sensor is configured to provide temperature data for detecting a thermal conductivity fault of the thermal conductive arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Francisco Garcia-Ferre, Ali Ugur
  • Publication number: 20230100950
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for operating a crane includes generating speed data for a drive unit of the crane such that oscillations of the crane are suppressed; providing a compatibility model configured to describe a relation between input speed reference data of a drive unit of a crane and output position reference data of the drive unit of the crane; determining position reference data of the drive unit of the crane by inputting the speed reference data into the compatibility model; and providing the position reference data of the drive unit of the crane to a control of the drive unit of the crane and controlling the drive unit of the crane according to the position reference data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Arne Wahrburg, Janne Jurvanen, Matias Niemela, Mikael Harry Holmberg
  • Publication number: 20230094819
    Abstract: A device and method for measuring humidity of a constant flowing sample gas of a combustion process includes transporting the sample gas at a specific temperature above the dew point temperature to a cooling-region having a temperature equal to or lower than a temperature at which water in the sample gas condenses, cooling the sample gas in the cooling-region to at least the condensation temperature, so that water condenses, purging the condensate, determining the temperature of a position in a condensation-region of the cooling-region, and calculating the humidity content of the sample gas based on the determined temperature using calibration data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Jose Malvar, Dominik Hoegenauer, Anna Gutberlet, Carolin Seubert, Stefan Flip, Stefan Bleil
  • Publication number: 20230094914
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of generating a training data set for training an artificial intelligence module includes providing first and second data sets, the first data set including first data elements indicative of a first operational condition, the second data set including second data elements indicative of a second operational condition that matches the first operational condition. The method further comprises determining a data transformation for transforming the first data elements into the second data elements; applying the data transformation to the first data elements and/or to further data elements of further data sets, thereby generating a transformed data set; and generating a training data set for training the AI module based on at least a part of the transformed data set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Benedikt Schmidt, Ido Amihai, Arzam Muzaffar Kotriwala, Moncef Chioua, Felix Lenders, Dennis Janka, Martin Hollender, Jan Christoph Schlake, Hadil Abukwaik, Benjamin Kloepper
  • Patent number: 11613018
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automatic restocking different items in retail store environments having POS locations for the items are disclosed. The method includes, for a first item of the different items, storing at least one first item parameter uniquely identifying the first item. The method includes determining, based on the at least one first item parameter, a first autonomous movement control scheme for manipulation of the first item by a robotic arm. The method includes executing, by the robotic arm, the first control scheme, the executing including shelving the first item on the shelf. The method includes evaluating, by a processor or a user of the robotic arm, the executing for the first item according to at least one predetermined first performance criteria. The method includes determining and storing, based on the evaluating, an updated first control scheme for subsequent executing by the robotic arm for the first item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Gregory A. Cole, Gregory F. Rossano, Jordi Artigas, Harald Staab, Thomas A. Fuhlbrigge, Carlos Martinez, Sangeun Choi, Jianjun Wang, Xiongzi Li
  • Patent number: 11616364
    Abstract: An electrical load system includes one or more electrical loads, a power transfer switch, and an electronic control system. The power transfer switch is coupled with and can provide power to one or more electrical loads from a first power source or a second power source. The electronic control system evaluates a source impedance of the first source and controls the power transfer switch in response to the source impedance of the first source indicating a fault condition of the first power source that would interrupt power from the first power source to the one or more electrical loads prior to the fault condition disrupting power from the first power source to the one or more electrical loads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventor: David E. Sharpe
  • Patent number: 11614729
    Abstract: A method of controlling a drive including one respective inverter associated with each of a plurality of servomotors in a robot. The method includes providing a PWM frequency corresponding to a frequency of switching instances for respective semiconductor switches in each of the inverters, whereby for each inverter time is divided into consecutive control cycles forming a sequence of control cycles of the inverter, each control cycle containing two, and only two, of the switching instances for each of the semiconductor switches. The method also includes spreading the respective control cycle sequences of the inverters over time such that the control cycles of each inverter are time shifted in respect to the control cycles of each of the other inverters in the power converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventor: Yang Gao
  • Patent number: 11614467
    Abstract: A fail-safe device is disclosed for ensuring compatibility and reliable operation of a Voltage Indicator System (VIS) for a medium- or high-voltage apparatus in presence of a monitoring system with: a first and second fail-safe device terminal; the first terminal being connectable to an output terminal of a coupler, the coupler being provided in a medium- or high voltage portion of the apparatus, and the second terminal being connectable to an input terminal of the VIS, which is provided in the low-voltage portion; a third and fourth fail-safe device terminal, wherein the third and fourth terminals being electrically connectable to first and second input/output terminals of the monitoring system; and an electrical circuit connecting the first and second fail-safe device terminal and being adapted to compensate for electrical failure modes of the monitoring system such, that the VIS is operable in case the electrical failure modes occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Yannick Maret, Kai Hencken
  • Patent number: 11615189
    Abstract: In some embodiments, there is provided a method for updating a gateway in a substation. The method includes receiving, at a gateway from a server, an update package assigned with a first identifier, the update package including at least one of: a configuration associated with at least one monitoring device connected to the gateway; and an application configurable to collect data from the at least one monitoring device; in response to receiving the update package, determining whether the first identifier matches a second identifier of the gateway; and in response to determining that the first identifier matches the second identifier of the gateway, updating the gateway with the received update package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Huixiang Chen, Zhui Wang, Hongzheng Chen
  • Publication number: 20230090322
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes obtaining an amount of a resource and/or capability of a process module, and dividing this amount by the maximum amount of the respective resource and/or capability to obtain a theoretical utilization of the resource and/or capability as the theoretical utilization of the process module. A pool of available process modules is searched to identify candidate process modules to replace the process module. The theoretical utilization for each candidate module is determined and an optimized topology of the plant is generated by replacing the process module with a candidate process module that has a same or a higher theoretical utilization than process module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Mario Hoernicke, Katharina Stark, Dirk Schulz