Patents Assigned to ABB
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Publication number: 20230075818Abstract: The present disclosure is directed at a façade server. The façade server provides a configurable façade having a configurable address space and serving as an interface for a client and to provide a mapping between the configurable address space of the façade and a data space and/or an address space of an external server.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Roland Braun, Thomas Gamer, Ralf Jeske, Anders Trosten, Jeff Harding, Mario Hoernicke, Sten Gruener
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Publication number: 20230069976Abstract: A method for transporting a message from an end device in an industrial plant over an Ethernet network with extended functionality for time-sensitive communication includes obtaining the message from a control application of the end device, mapping the message, based at least in part on the content of the message, to at least one functionality for time-sensitive communication converting the message into Ethernet frames; encoding a request to transport the message; transmitting the Ethernet frames; decoding the request; and forwarding the message on the Ethernet network according to the requested functionality for time-sensitive communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Alexander Gogolev, Johan Åkerberg, Jörgen Bror Gade, Mallikarjun Kande
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Publication number: 20230073341Abstract: A system and method for operating measuring devices in a process plant includes providing at least one measuring device for detecting at least one measuring variable, the measuring device having comprises at least one memory means for storing actual configuration data; providing at least one controller unit having at least one additional memory means in which projected configuration data is stored; the controller unit does not have write access to the measuring device with respect to the actual configuration data; and wherein the at least one measuring device and the at least one controller unit are connected via at least one network; comparing the actual configuration data and the projected configuration data, and when the configuration data correspond, allowing a data communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Stefan Bollmeyer, Armin Dittel, Holger Grosse, Georg Horst, Tilo Merlin, Dirk Wagener
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Publication number: 20230074570Abstract: An industrial plant operator intervention system for use in an industrial plant includes a processing unit configured to monitor and analyze industrial plant operation data to detect an anomaly in the industrial plant operation data that warrants initiating an operator intervention, and in response to detecting the anomaly, automatically determine a user interface configuration of a user interface to be presented to a designated operator who is to perform the operator intervention. The user interface configuration is determined on the basis of technical context data, including industrial plant operation data associated with the anomaly, and on the basis of operator data pertaining to the designated operator, in such a manner that an anomaly-related and operator-specific user interface configuration is obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Andrea Macauda, Raja Sivalingam, Chandrika K R, Matthias Berning, Dawid Ziobro, Sylvia Maczey, Pablo Rodriquez, Benjamin Kloepper, Reuben Borrison, Marcel Dix, Benedikt Schmidt, Hadil Abukwaik, Arzam Muzaffar Kotriwala, Divyasheel Sharma, Gayathri Gopalakrishnan, Simon Linge, Marco Gaertler, Jens Doppelhamer
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Publication number: 20230072474Abstract: A power distribution equipment personnel safety system includes a vicinity sensor and a power distribution equipment sensor. An outer envelope having a door or cover to an interior of the power distribution equipment is monitored by a vicinity sensor data and a processing unit determines a position of a person in the area outside of the door/cover using vicinity sensor data. When the outer envelope is disturbed where one or more doors or one or more covers are open or not correctly closed or one or more covers are removed, the processing unit determines a personnel safety state and at least one action comprising utilization of the personnel safety state.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Tomas Kozel, Jiri Pokorny, Marco Egman, Callisto Gatti, Bilal Sarfraz
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Patent number: 11598424Abstract: A sealing device (10) for providing a fluid-tight sealing of a joint comprising a first part (30) and a second part (32) with a relative movement in between. The sealing device (10) comprises: an outer sealing part (12) designed to contact the first part and the second part, an inner sealing part (14) designed to contact the first part and the second part, and a spacing structure (16) connecting the outer sealing part (12) and the inner sealing part (14). The outer sealing part (12) and the inner sealing part (14) define an intermediate space (18) between the outer sealing part (12) and the inner sealing part (14). The outer sealing part (12) and the inner sealing part (14) are being configured to seal off the intermediate space (18) from both an exterior and an interior of the joint, and the intermediate space (18) is configured to be influid contact with both the first part (30) and the second part (32).Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2018Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Shanghua Li, Jiangwei Huang
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Patent number: 11600454Abstract: A contact assembly for an electrical device and a method for making such an assembly are presented. The contact assembly comprises a substrate and a contact material disposed on the substrate. The contact material comprises a composite material comprising a refractory material and a matrix material. The matrix material has a higher ductility than the refractory material. The composite material further comprises a core region and an outer region bounding the core region, the core region having a higher concentration of the refractory material than the outer region. The method applies cold spraying a blended feedstock to produce a layer that includes the composite material described above.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2019Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Katherine Marjorie Coughlin, Leonardo Ajdelsztajn, Jeffrey Jon Schoonover, Samuel Stephen Kim, Linda Yvonne Jacobs, Maxime Michel Pean
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Patent number: 11602061Abstract: A field of enclosures for electronics and electrical components within electric devices, such as electric drive devices for industrial applications, e.g. for working machine and marine applications, and more particularly to an electronics enclosure arrangement for an electric device, and to an electric device. The electronics enclosure arrangement according to the present invention is arranged for an electric device, the electric device including one or more circuit boards and electronics components assembled on the one or more circuit boards, wherein the electronics enclosure arrangement includes an electronics enclosure cover; and an at least one volume element part, arranged in the space between the electronics enclosure cover and the one or more circuit boards with the electronics components.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Hanna Rapinoja, Pertti Seväkivi, Teemu Salmia
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Patent number: 11601006Abstract: A DC voltage distribution arrangement and method of controlling a DC voltage distribution system, the DC voltage distribution system including a DC voltage bus, a fuel cell electrically connected to the DC voltage bus, an energy storage and an energy storage converter, wherein the input of the energy storage converter is connected to the energy storage and the output of the energy storage converter is connected to the DC bus. The method comprises providing a DC voltage reference for the energy storage converter, the energy storage converter controlling the voltage of the DC voltage bus by providing power from the energy storage or to the energy storage, detecting power flow of the energy storage converter, and changing the DC voltage reference on the basis of the detected power flow to change the power taken from the fuel cell.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Arber Haxhiu, Sami Kanerva, Ricky Riyadi Chan
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Patent number: 11598663Abstract: A transducer for non-invasive measurement includes: a shear-type piezoelectric element; and a host material. The shear-type piezoelectric element is mounted to a first face of the host material. A second face of the host material is mountable to a wall of a vessel that holds a liquid. When the second face of the host material is mounted to the wall of the vessel, the transducer when activated at an activation frequency launches a Lamb wave into the wall of the vessel. The transducer is designed such that a phase velocity of the Lamb wave in the wall of the vessel is greater than a speed of sound in the liquid held by the vessel.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2021Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Christof Bernhard, Frank Kassubek, Miklos Lenner, Detlef Pape
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Publication number: 20230062725Abstract: A system and method for protecting an electric power distribution system integrated with a hybrid machine-learning model includes a plurality of field protection systems, a plurality of electrical switching circuits, and a local area network. Data from each of the plurality of field protection systems that is connected to the electrical switching circuits that are configured for protecting the electric power distribution system, is transmitted to the cloud. The received data is processed to identify a change in patterns and compute an error related to the HMLM in comparison with the processed data. The HMLM that is implemented in the plurality of FPS is calibrated to minimize the error and send updates to develop a new decision making firmware thereby to control actuation of the plurality of the electrical switching circuits.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Mayukha Pal, Alok Kumar Bharati, Satish Shamsundar Belkhode
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Patent number: 11592321Abstract: A system for dynamically adjusting an operation of a magnetostrictive position sensor is provided. The system includes a controller configured to receive an electrical signal from the magnetostrictive position sensor that includes a response pulse, identify factory calibration data that correlates initial recorded values of amplitudes of response pulses received from the magnetostrictive position sensor at different locations of a position magnet along a length of the magnetostrictive position sensor, identify an initial amplitude of the response pulse based on the factory calibration data, calculate a difference between the initial amplitude and an amplitude of the response pulse, determine if the difference is greater than a threshold value, and generate an alert in response to determining that the difference is greater than the threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventor: Wilfredo Fernando Baluja
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Patent number: 11594944Abstract: A method for controlling a synchronous double stator electric machine. A first stator and a first set of magnetic poles on a common rotor forms a first electric machine. A second stator and a second set of magnetic poles on the rotor forms a second electric machine. The first electric machine and the second electric machine is shifted mechanically by a predetermined angle. An electrical shift is produced to the control of at least the mechanically shifted electric machine with a respective frequency converter in order to at least partly compensate for the mechanical shift in the mechanically shifted electric machine.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Áron Szücs, Juhani Mantere, Jahirul Islam
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Patent number: 11594386Abstract: A medium voltage switching pole includes: a fixed contact of a vacuum interrupter; a movable contact of the vacuum interrupter; a piston; at least one electrical contact; a first terminal; and a second terminal. The fixed contact is fixedly connected to the first terminal. The movable contact is fixedly connected to the piston. The piston moves within the second terminal along an axis. The at least one electrical contact makes an electrical connection between the piston and the second terminal. An outer surface of the piston and an inner surface of the second terminal are arranged such that: when in an open configuration the fixed contact and movable contact are separated, at least one first radial line perpendicular to the axis extends through locations of the at least one electrical contact, and a first distance along the at least one first radial line extends from the outer surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Dietmar Gentsch, Christian Reuber
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Publication number: 20230060063Abstract: A modulator for a flying-capacitor type multilevel converter receives, at an input, a time-variant reference signal and provides, at an output, a sequence of target levels, to provide switching signals for switching between discrete output levels of the multilevel converter according to the shape of the reference signal. The modulator determines a critical level as an intermediate output level of the multilevel converter which is closest to the level of the reference signal; and outputs only target levels corresponding to output levels different from the critical level.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Mario Schweizer, Daniel Christen, Hemant Bishnoi
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Publication number: 20230059240Abstract: A charging cable for an electric vehicle includes at least two power lines configured for conducting a charging current, and two high-frequency communication lines being separate and extending in parallel to the power lines and configured for transmitting a charging information between a charger and an electric vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Gertjan Koolen, Cristoforo Emanuele La Rosa, Lars Bech, Miguel Rodriguez Escude, Jim van-der-Heijden, Stefan Raaijmakers
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Patent number: 11587856Abstract: Solid state switching device including: a pair of line terminals including first and second line terminals for electrical connection with a corresponding phase conductor of an electric line; a switching assembly including one or more solid state power switches, the switching assembly having a first and second power terminals electrically connected with the first and second lines terminals, respectively; a heat sink element in thermal coupling with the switching assembly to adsorb heat from the switching assembly; an additional heat extraction arrangement to extract heat from the switching assembly and convey at least a portion of the adsorbed heat along the phase conductor through the first and second line terminals.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2018Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Paolo Antonello, Luca Ghezzi, Yu Du, Taosha Jiang, Rostan Rodrigues
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Patent number: 11588483Abstract: In one aspect, a quasi-resonant turn-off circuit is provided. The quasi-resonant turn-off circuit is couplable in parallel with a pair of anti-parallel thyristors. The quasi-resonant turn-off circuit includes a resonant capacitor and an energy recovery circuit. The resonant capacitor is configured to supply a charge to the pair of anti-parallel thyristors to decrease a turn-off time of the pair of anti-parallel thyristors. The energy recovery circuit is configured to recharge the resonant capacitor using remnant energy left in parasitic inductances coupled to the quasi-resonant turn-off circuit after the pair of anti-parallel thyristors is off.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2022Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Xiaoqing Song, Yu Du, Yuzhi Zhang, Harshang Shah
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Patent number: D979623Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AGInventor: Xiaodong Cao
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Patent number: D980094Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventor: Manuel Oriol
