Patents Assigned to ABB
  • Patent number: 11532933
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, an energy storage system includes one or more power sources, one or more energy storage components, and one or more solid state circuit breakers disposed between the one or more power sources and the one or more energy storage components such that electrical power is exchanged between the one or more power sources to the one or more energy storage components through the one or more solid state circuit breakers. The energy storage system also includes a controller configured to operate the one or more solid state circuit breakers to control current exchanged with the one or more energy storage components and protect the one or more energy storage components from the one or more power sources during a fault condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Yu Du, Li Qi, Tong Wu
  • Patent number: 11531066
    Abstract: The invention relates to a control unit for a medium voltage switching apparatus. The control unit is adapted to carry out a diagnostic method to check operating conditions of one or more components of said electric poles. The diagnostic method includes the following steps: basing on a selected ideal position curve, obtaining one or more first curves indicative of an ideal behaviour of said switching apparatus, during an opening manoeuvre or closing manoeuvre of the switching apparatus; basing on detection signals provided by a closed-loop control arrangement of said control unit, calculating one or more second curves indicative of an actual behaviour of said switching apparatus, during an opening manoeuvre or closing manoeuvre of said switching apparatus; and carrying out a comparison procedure among said first and second curves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Andrea Bianco, Andrea Ricci, Elisabeth Lindell, Stefan Halén, Fabio Mannino
  • Patent number: 11525758
    Abstract: A method for identifying gear tooth numbers in a gearbox using data obtained from a vibration measuring device delivered to a data acquisition device and data delivered by a user to a computer device, comprising: processing data delivered by a user to the computer device, where the data comprises a gearbox ratio and a number of stages of a gearbox for calculating a potential gear tooth combination in each stage of a gearbox, calculating frequencies of characteristic features for each potential tooth combination using the data delivered at the processing data, measuring vibration signals of the gearbox, calculating a frequency spectrum from measured data delivered at the measuring, determining an amplitude of components, of the frequency spectrum delivered at the calculating a frequency spectrum at frequencies of characteristic features for each potential tooth combination delivered at the calculating frequencies of characteristic features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventor: James Ottewill
  • Patent number: 11527873
    Abstract: An inner compartment for medium voltage gas insulated switchgears includes: at least one inner compartment; and a housing. The inner compartment, or in case of several inner compartments, an inner of the inner compartment, or one of the inner compartments, is provided on an inner wall surface thereof at least partially with an insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Dietmar Gentsch, Michael Kessler, Dalibor Kopp, Christian Reuber
  • Patent number: 11526154
    Abstract: According to an aspect, there is provided method for analyzing movement. Initially, information on one or more desired movement properties for a moving element of a mechanical system powered by an electrical machine which is controlled by a drive is maintained in a memory of a wireless sensing device. The wireless sensing device including one or more sensors is detachably fixed to the moving element of the mechanical system. The one or more sensors include one or more kinematic sensors. The wireless sensing device acquire results of a plurality of measurements performed by the wireless sensing device while the moving element is in motion. During the acquiring, the wireless sensing device compares results of the plurality of measurements with the one or more desired movement properties and communicates with the drive to adjust one or more drive parameters based on the comparing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Zhongliang Hu, Mikko Kohvakka, Teemu Tanila
  • Patent number: 11524309
    Abstract: An application system for coating components with a coating agent can include: (i) an application apparatus including a printing head which ejects the coating agent from a plurality of coating agent nozzles, wherein a nozzle valve which opens for a valve opening time when a coating agent droplet is to exit the respective nozzle is attached to each individual coating agent nozzle; (ii) a coating agent infeed line by way of which the coating agent nozzles of the printing head are collectively connected; (iii) a valve control for controlling the valve opening times and valve closing times of each individual valve; and (iv) a pump by means of which the coating agent to be applied is fed to the coating agent nozzles by way of the coating agent infeed line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventor: Gunter Boerner
  • Patent number: 11527979
    Abstract: A method of controlling a 3n-phase electrical machine (7) by means of n power converters (3a, 3b) each being controlled by a respective controller, and each power converter (3a, 3b) being configured to power a respective set of three phases of the electrical machine (7), wherein the method for each controller comprises: a) obtaining measured currents (ia,1, ib,1, ic,1, ia,2, ib,2, ic,2) of the set of three phases of the electrical machine (7) controlled by the controller, b) estimating all currents ({circumflex over (?)}dq, 2, {circumflex over (?)}dq, 1) of all the other sets of three phases of the electrical machine (7), which are controlled by the other controllers, c) transforming the measured currents (ia,1, ib,1, ic,1, ia,2, ib,2, ic,2) and all the estimated currents ({circumflex over (?)}dq,2, {circumflex over (?)}dq,1) using vector space decomposition, VSD, to obtain a set of VSD currents, and d) controlling the corresponding power converter based on the VSD currents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Panagiotis Kakosimos, Rahul Kanchan
  • Patent number: 11527973
    Abstract: A method for starting a synchronous motor is provided. The synchronous motor includes a rotor for creating a first magnetic field and a stator with stator windings connected to an electrical energy converter for converting a supply voltage into a stator voltage to be applied to the stator windings to create a rotating second magnetic field interacting with the first magnetic field. The method includes applying reference stator voltages to the stator windings, where the reference stator voltages are determined from a reference current vector and a reference rotor speed, measuring stator currents, calculating an estimated rotor speed and rotor position from the applied stator voltages and the measured stator currents, calculating a speed error by subtracting the estimated rotor speed from the reference rotor speed, determining a reference torque producing current component from the speed error, and modifying the reference current vector with the reference torque producing current component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Andrey Kalygin, Christian Stulz
  • Patent number: 11521808
    Abstract: A switching apparatus for electric power distribution grids including a first switching unit having one or more first electric poles, each first electric pole being electrically connectable with a corresponding first line conductor of an electric line and including one or more solid-state switches adapted to operate in a conduction state or in an interdiction state to allow or interrupt a current flow, and a second switching unit having one or more second electric poles, each second electric pole being electrically connectable with a corresponding second line conductor of said electric line and electrically connected in series with a corresponding first electric pole of said first switching unit. The switching apparatus further includes a controller implementing a robust control logic to the operation of said first and second switching units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: ABB S.p.A.
    Inventors: Luigi-Arturo Degli Innocenti, Alessio Bergamini, Luca Omati
  • Patent number: 11518027
    Abstract: A robotic system is provided for assembling parts together. In the assembly process, both parts are moving separately with one part moving on an assembly base and another part moving on a moveable arm of a robot base. Motion data is measured by an inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensor. Movement of the robot base or moveable arm is then compensated based on the measured motion to align the first and second parts with each other and assemble the parts together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Biao Zhang, Saumya Sharma, Yixin Liu, Jianjun Wang, Will Eakins, Andrew M. Salm, Yun Hsuan Su, Jorge Vidal-Ribas, Jordi Artigas, Ramon Casanelles
  • Patent number: 11521807
    Abstract: A heat sink for a high voltage switchgear includes: a body. The body is centered around a central axis that extends in an axial direction from a first outer surface of the body to a second outer surface of the body. At least one third outer surface of the body extends from the first outer surface to the second outer surface. At least one air channel extends through the body from the first outer surface to the second outer surface. The at least one air channel is surrounded by the at least one third outer surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Michael Blaz, Oliver Baier, Gianluca Cortinovis
  • Patent number: 11520316
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method including obtaining a graphical representation including information on one or more performance metrics associated with an industrial automation device, determining a target operating point associated with the industrial automation device based at least partly on the graphical representation, obtaining a target reference value and one or more operating limits for the industrial automation device, obtaining operational information associated with usage of the industrial automation device, and determining one or more control parameters for the industrial automation device, wherein the one or more control parameters are determined based at least partly on the following: the target reference value, the one or more operating limits, the operational information, and the target operating point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Toni Kuikka, Mikko Kohvakka, Zhongliang Hu
  • Patent number: 11522627
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a controller configured to communicate over a network in a process plant, wherein the network comprises one or more native TSN devices. The controller comprises one or more process applications for controlling one or more processes in the process plant, wherein the one or more process applications includes plurality of tags corresponding to one or more process variables of the one or more processes in the process plant, a software TSN agent for receiving and transmitting packets associated with the one or more process applications on the controller, wherein the software TSN agent is configured to segregate packets associated with the one or more process applications for processing the packets in at least one of a TSN communication mode and a non-TSN communication mode; and a first network interface dedicated for TSN communication and a second network interface dedicated for non-TSN communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Mallikarjun Kande, David Mielnik, Marco Sanguineti, Thomas Heilman, Mitchell Jordan Rackovan, Rahul Kumar Gore, Ravish Kumar
  • Patent number: 11520324
    Abstract: An apparatus for prediction of the residual lifetime of an electrical system includes: an input unit; a processing unit; and an output unit. The input unit provides at least one sensor data from at least one sensor to the processing unit, the at least one sensor data including a measurement of at least one physical parameter of at least one component of an electrical system. Each sensor data is associated with a corresponding sensor and relates to a measurement of one physical parameter of a corresponding component of the electrical system. Each sensor data extends over a plurality of time windows and is assigned to a certain data class, such that sensor data at a particular time window has a value that falls into one of the data classes. For each sensor data the processing unit assigns the sensor data at each time window into a corresponding measurement window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Paul Szasz, Kai Koenig, Stephan Wildermuth, Joerg Gebhardt
  • Patent number: 11522355
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for use in an earth-fault protection in a three-phase electric network, the apparatus is configured to detect a phase-to-earth fault in the network, to determine for each of the phases of the network a phase current during the fault or a change in the phase current due to the fault, to detect a faulted phase of the network, to determine an estimate of an earth-fault current on the basis of the faulted phase and the phase currents or the changes in the phase currents, to determine a zero-sequence voltage of the electric network or a change in the zero-sequence voltage, and to determine a direction of the phase-to-earth fault from the measuring point on the basis of the estimate of the earth-fault current and the zero-sequence voltage or the change in the zero-sequence voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Ari Wahlroos, Janne Altonen
  • Publication number: 20220382234
    Abstract: A system for building data exchange includes an information modelling unit, which includes a digital twin model, a building information modelling, wherein the information modelling unit provides modelling data, an extractor configured to determine extraction data from an instance, an extractor configured to determine extraction data from an instance of the model using the modelling data, at least one converter engine, a compositor to populate the converted data into a converted instance, and a compositor to populate the converted data into a converted instance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Markus Aleksy, Reuben Borrison, Matthias Berning, Philipp Bauer, Patric Ackermann, Soeren Finster
  • Publication number: 20220384094
    Abstract: A dry high voltage (HV) instrument transformer in the form of a HV current transformer includes a core casing having a secondary winding, a top housing, a primary winding, and a dry bushing, wherein the core casing comprises an insulation containing an electrically insulating material made of PES nonwoven impregnated and cured with low viscosity epoxy. The dry HV instrument transformer in the form of a HV voltage transformer includes a bottom tank housing, a cast of a primary winding module with an embedded screen surrounding the primary winding, a field grading disc, and a core, wherein the cast of the primary winding module is made of an insulating composite containing an electrically insulating material made of PES nonwoven impregnated and cured with low viscosity epoxy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Jedrzej Banaszczyk, Bartlomiej Adamczyk, Michal Rzepecki, Wojciech Wysocki
  • Patent number: 11513068
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting a pulsed THz beam includes emitting, by THz emitter, pulsed THz radiation of outgoing pulse shape for interacting with target body; detecting, by THz detector, incoming THz radiation comprising THz pulses, and outputting, by THz detector, a raw detector data of pulse shapes of incoming THz pulses; and determining, by pulse shape reconstruction module, a reconstructed incoming pulse shape based on the raw detector data, measuring, by sensor, a time-of-flight quantity (d) affecting the time of flight of the THz radiation; and adjusting operation of at least one of THz emitter, THz detector and pulse shape reconstruction module using the time-of-flight quantity (d), for correcting for variations in time of flight of the THz radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Deran Maas, Branimir Radisavljevic, Mariya Porus, Jacobus Lodevicus Martinus Van Mechelen
  • Patent number: 11515745
    Abstract: A rotor for a permanent magnet motor, including a rotor body having a cylindrical surface having a circumference. A plurality of magnets are disposed on the cylindrical surface at spaced intervals at the circumference, each of the magnets having a base disposed on the cylindrical surface and a top oriented radially away from the base, a sloping front side and a sloping rear side defining with the base and top an isosceles trapezoid shape in a cross sectional plane normal to an axis of rotation of the rotor, the isosceles trapezoid shape being broader at the base. A plurality of magnet retainers, each magnet retainer disposed between a neighboring pair of the plurality of magnets, include angled faces that engage respective front and rear sides of adjacent pairs of the plurality of magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Ghanshyam Shrestha, Colin Tschida, Paul Humphries
  • Patent number: 11515819
    Abstract: A method for stabilizing a DC link voltage of an electrical converter, the method including: determining a DC link voltage signal for the DC link voltage of the electrical converter; determining a fluctuation signal of the DC link voltage by applying a high pass filter to the DC link voltage signal; determining a torque offset by multiplying the fluctuation signal with a gain value; and modifying a reference torque with the torque offset for controlling the electrical converter. The gain value is adjusted by: determining a DC link voltage ripple from the DC link voltage signal; and comparing the DC link voltage ripple with a threshold and, when the DC link voltage ripple is higher than the threshold, increasing the gain value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Samuli Kallio, Erno Pentzin, Mikko Vertanen