Patents Assigned to ABB
  • Publication number: 20230016668
    Abstract: A method includes training a first control model by utilizing a first set of input data as first input, resulting in a trained first control model; copying the trained first control model to a second control model, wherein, after copying, the second input layer and the plurality of second hidden layers is identical to the plurality of first hidden layers, and the first output layer is replaced by the second output layer; freezing the plurality of second hidden layers; training the second control model by utilizing the first set of input data as second input, resulting in a trained second control model; and running the trained second control model by utilizing a second set of input data as second input, wherein the second output outputs the quality measure of the first control model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Benedikt Schmidt, Ido Amihai, Moncef Chioua, Arzam Kotriwala, Martin Hollender, Dennis Janka, Felix Lenders, Jan Christoph Schlake, Benjamin Kloepper, Hadil Abukwaik
  • Patent number: 11557886
    Abstract: A cable conduit comprises at least one cable, a tube, which accommodates the cable in an interior space and a sensor for sensing an environmental condition in the interior space of the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Pierre Elser, Peter Schuster, Yannick Maret, Rudi Velthuis
  • Patent number: 11555568
    Abstract: A two-piece fitting for corrugated tubing having a body and one or more snap rings. Each snap ring is securely housed within the body near an opening to an inner area of the body. A plurality of first and second slots can extend in opposing directions through a ring wall of the snap ring. The first slots can, at least in part, define ring fingers having retention projections, and which are configured to provide an inwardly directed spring force at least at a first end of the snap ring. The second slots extend into at least some of the ring fingers, and can provide a second end of the snap ring with a generally outwardly directed spring force. An inner surface of the snap ring can be outwardly tapered at the second end of the snap ring to reduce the force used to insert the tube through the snap ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventor: Phillip Taylor
  • Patent number: 11556111
    Abstract: A method for controlling an industrial process includes: determining, by a process controller, based at least in part on a set of current values and/or past values of state variables of the industrial process, a set of control outputs to be applied to at least one actor and/or lower-level controller configured to cause a performing of at least one physical action on the process; querying, based on at least a subset of the set of current values and/or past values of state variables and on at least a subset of the set of control outputs, a trained machine-learning model configured to output a classification value, and/or a regression value, that is indicative of a propensity of a watching human operator to at least partially override the control outputs delivered by the process controller; and determining that the classification value, the regression value, and/or the propensity, meets a predetermined criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Subanatarajan Subbiah, Benjamin Kloepper
  • Patent number: 11557973
    Abstract: A power converter is provided. The power converter includes an input side having a first input winding and a second input winding coupled in electrical series to the first input winding. The power converter also includes an output side having a first output winding and a second output winding coupled in electrical parallel to the first output winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Power Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Arturo Silva, Loc Ngo, Richard Yeager, Jouni Uusitalo
  • Patent number: 11557944
    Abstract: A rotor assembly system for a manufacturing cell includes a central robotic system comprising a multi-axial central robot and a conveyor platform and one or more multi-axial auxiliary robotic systems secured at one or more locations within the cell. The conveyor platform is operable to move the central robot within the cell. The central robotic system and the one or more auxiliary robotic systems are configured to perform a plurality of rotor manufacturing processes on at least one rotor component in coordination with one another, and the central robotic system is configured to transfer the at least one rotor component between one or more rotor manufacturing processes of the plurality of rotor manufacturing processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignees: Ford Global Technologies, LLC, ABB, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark E Briscoe, Nick Sochacki, Al Marrocco, Jeffrey Cameron, Michael Mollan
  • Patent number: 11558237
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and control system for monitoring plurality of equipment in industrial plant connected over SNMP based network. Each of plurality of equipment is associated with a server which is communicatively connected with client. One or more equipment which are capable of reporting monitoring objects are identified using a configuration file. Further, polling for monitoring objects based on capability data associated with one or more equipment is performed. Secure configuration of plurality of equipment in SNMP based network is achieved. Management of network traffic is performed. Unauthorized extraction of monitoring objects is reduced in the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Nandan Rao, Arijit Bose, A Pavan Kumar Tatavarthi, Richard Deverson
  • Publication number: 20230010651
    Abstract: A system and method for collecting data regarding operation of a robot using, at least in part, responses from a first operation model to an input of sensed data from a plurality of sensors. The collected data can be used to optimize the first operation model to generate a second operation model. While the first operation model is being optimized, a train data-driven model that utilizes an end-to-end learning approach can be generated that is based, at least in part, on the collected data. Both the second operation model and the train data-driven model can be evaluated, and, based on such evaluation, a determination can be made as to whether the train data-driven model is reliable. Moreover, based on a comparison of the models, one of the second operation model and the train data-driven model can be selected for validation, and if validated, used in the operation of the robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Biao Zhang, Saumya Sharma, Yixin Liu, Jianjun Wang, Jorge Vidal-Ribas, Jordi Artigas, Ramon Casanelles
  • Publication number: 20230011609
    Abstract: A self-powered IED for a pole-mounted auto-recloser connected to an electric line includes a main control module and a lockout indication module. The main control module determines a fault in the electric line and trips the auto-recloser. During a permanent fault in the electric line, the auto-recloser is remained open, and the main control module activates a lockout state by generating a lockout set signal. The lockout indication module comprises a light source and super-capacitors. The super-capacitors provide stored charges to the light source when the lockout state is activated to provide notification throughout the lockout state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Nishith Patel, Pravin Vadhiyar, Lohith V
  • Publication number: 20230009270
    Abstract: An anomaly detection and recovery system (ADRS) for an open platform communications united architecture (OPC UA)-based industrial automation network that includes OPC UA devices includes an anomaly detector is configured to monitor an OPC UA traffic stream comprising OPC UA messages of the OPC UA devices and analyze the OPC UA traffic stream using OPC UA semantics of the industrial automation network for anomaly detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Heiko Koziolek, Sten Gruener, Julius Rueckert, Andreas Burger
  • Patent number: 11549832
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for explosion resistance include an analysis compartment isolated from a control compartment. A feed-through extends between the analysis compartment and the control compartment for extension of cabling therethrough, the feed-through hermetically sealed to block against flow of fluids between the analysis and control compartments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Michael J. May, Don Adams, Brian C. Smith, Tony E. Moore, Brian J. Robertson
  • Patent number: 11548158
    Abstract: A system and method that automatically resolves conflicts among sensor information in a sensor fusion robot system. Such methods can accommodate converging ambiguous and divergent sensor information in a manner that can allow continued, and relatively accurate, robotic operations. The processes can include handling sensor conflict via sensor prioritization, including, but not limited, prioritization based on the particular stage or segment of the assembly operation when the conflict occurs, overriding sensor data that exceeds a threshold value, and/or prioritization based on evaluations of recent sensor performance, predictions, system configuration, and/or historical information. The processes can include responding to sensor conflicts through comparisons of the accuracy of workpiece location predictions from different sensors during different assembly stages in connection with arriving at a determination of which sensor(s) is providing accurate and reliable predictions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Biao Zhang, Jianjun Wang, Yixin Liu, Saumya Sharma, Jorge Vidal-Ribas, Jordi Artigas, Ramon Casanelles
  • Patent number: 11549471
    Abstract: A filter muffler includes a front element, a rear element, and a plurality of damping elements arranged between the front element and the rear element, where the damping elements are arranged radially around a central axis of the filter muffler such that a flow channel is formed between adjacent damping elements, where respective outflow-side ends of the damping elements have a diffuser element which has an outflow-side tapering, and where an angle ? between two opposite sides of the diffuser element is selected from a range of 1°???8°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Heinz-Jürgen Feld, Marcel Joho
  • Patent number: 11551035
    Abstract: A method for evaluating data is based on a computational model, the computational model comprising model data, a training function and a prediction function. The method includes training the computational model by: receiving training data and training result data for training the computational model, and computing the model data from the training data and the training result data with the training function. The method includes predicting result data by: receiving field data for predicting result data; and computing the result data from the field data and the model data with the prediction function. The training data may be plaintext and the training result data may be encrypted with a homomorphic encryption algorithm, wherein the model data may be computed in encrypted form from the training data and the encrypted training result data with the training function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Johannes Schneider, Matus Harvan, Sebastian Obermeier, Thomas Locher, Yvonne-Anne Pignolet
  • Patent number: 11551893
    Abstract: An electrical system includes an enclosure for housing an electrical device. The enclosure includes a door with an operating handle connected to a first shaft that turns the electrical device on or off when the door is closed. The operating handle is further operable to simultaneously rotate a cam assembly, which in turn rotates a second shaft which displaces an interlock mechanism for engagement or disengagement to a busway structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventor: Mateusz A. Sadowski
  • Publication number: 20230006939
    Abstract: A method for establishing time-sensitive communication from at least one end device in an industrial plant into an Ethernet network with extended functionality for time-sensitive communication includes obtaining a first information model of the at least one end device, obtaining a second information model of the Ethernet network; determining first configuration information; determining second configuration information; transmitting the first configuration information to the at least one end device; and transmitting the second configuration information to the at least one network device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Alexander Gogolev, Johan Åkerberg, Mallikarjun Kande
  • Publication number: 20230001808
    Abstract: An electric vehicle charging plug includes a housing for connecting to an electric vehicle, a main housing, a sensor comprising at least one conductive path embedded in a wall or arranged on the surface of the housing and/or main housing, and a control unit wherein the sensor is configured to detect the crack of the housing and/or the main housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Adam Michalik, Renata Porebska, Artur Zawadzki, Marcin Bialas, Wojciech Wysocki, Dariusz Bednarowski
  • Patent number: 11546099
    Abstract: A method for enabling communication over a cellular network between a first communication device of a first substation and a second communication device of a second substation. The substations are connected to a power transmission line. The method includes the steps of: receiving multicast communication from the first communication device, wherein the multicast communication including a plurality of multicast packets, and each multicast packet includes a phasor value associated with the first substation and a sequence number; receiving an acknowledgement from the second communication device, the acknowledgement including a plurality of sequence numbers of the most recently received multicast packets, that the second communication device has received from the first communication device; and determining a packet loss to the second communication device when there is a mismatch between the sequence numbers of the acknowledgment, when compared with the sequence numbers of the received multicast communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Morgan Johansson, Gargi Bag, Petri Hovila, Luka Lednicki
  • Patent number: 11543237
    Abstract: A method for inspection of a target object, the method including irradiating a reference surface having a non-flat reference profile with radiation; determining reference response data based on detected radiation having interacted with the reference surface; irradiating a target object with radiation, the target object including a target surface having a non-flat target profile corresponding to the reference profile; determining inspection response data based on detected radiation having interacted with the target object; and determining at least one parameter of the target object based on the reference response data and the inspection response data. An alternative method; a control system for controlling an emitter system and a detector system; and an inspection system including a control system, an emitter system and a detector system, are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Jacobus Lodevicus Martinus Van Mechelen, Deran Maas, Andreas Frank
  • Patent number: 11542979
    Abstract: Seal arrangement (48) comprising a plug member (46) configured to seal a through opening (12) in a wall (10); a pressing section (74); and a cover member (70) configured to be connected to the plug member (46) and configured to force the pressing section (74) to press a sealing element (72), arranged laterally outside the plug member (46), towards the wall (10). A kit of parts and a method for sealing a through opening (12) in a wall (10) and for painting the wall (10) are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Henrik Carlsson Bohm, Mats Olsson, Stefan Danielsson