Patents Assigned to ABB
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Publication number: 20210407750Abstract: An enclosure for a circuit breaker that includes a particle trap that is integrated into at least one foot of the enclosure. The enclosure can be configured to house a circuit interrupter and seal a dielectric insulating medium within an interior region of the enclosure. The particle trap can include an opening that extends through at least an inner side of a wall of the enclosure and into an adjacent foot such that the opening is in fluid communication with the interior region of the enclosure. Additionally, the opening of the particle trap can radially extend within both the wall of the enclosure and the foot between a first side and a second side of the particle trap.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2019Publication date: December 30, 2021Applicant: ABB Power Grids Switzerland AGInventors: Paul Jason VLADUCHICK, Elizabeth BALLARD, Jared P. JOHNSTON
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Patent number: 11211816Abstract: A static transfer switch is provided for supplying power to a load alternately from two different power sources. Switching between the two power sources may occur within a fraction of one electrical cycle. In response to sensing degraded performance in the power source supplying the load, resonant turn off circuits connected directly to the main switches of two phases of the power source are actuated to commutate the respective main switches. The main switch of the third phase is commutated with one or more of the resonant turn off circuits through the delta side of a transformer connected to the three phases of the power source.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Veerakumar Bose, Thomas Kendzia, III, Christopher Alan Belcastro
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Patent number: 11211818Abstract: A power supply assembly including a load supply converter system and energy saving transfer route both connected electrically to a load connection. The energy saving transfer route bypasses the load supply converter system, and includes a bypass switch system having a first bypass switch and second bypass switch connected in series. A control system of the power supply assembly is adapted to provide a system diagnostic operation including providing a diagnostic state for the bypass switch system by controlling the first bypass switch into a non-conducting state, and controlling the second bypass switch into a conducting state, generating a diagnostic voltage in an output of the load supply converter system, and detecting a short circuit incident if an electric current flowing through the bypass switch system exceeds a predetermined short circuit threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventor: Esa-Kai Paatero
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Patent number: 11211248Abstract: A method for p-type doping of a silicon carbide layer includes first implantation step of implanting aluminum dopants into a preselected region of the silicon carbide layer by ion implantation, an annealing step of annealing the silicon carbide layer after performing the first implantation step, a second implantation step of implanting beryllium dopants into the preselected region by ion implantation before the annealing step. A ratio of the total aluminum dose in the first implantation step to the total beryllium dose in the second implantation step is in a range between 0.1 and 10.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: ABB Power Grids Switzerland AGInventors: Giovanni Alfieri, Vinoth Sundaramoorthy
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Patent number: 11211860Abstract: A tubular linear switched reluctance machine includes a segmented translator having a non-magnetic material body and ring segments of magnetic material axially separated from each other and provided on the body. The ring segments are distributed along the axial direction of the body. The machine also includes a stator arranged to electromagnetically interact with the segmented translator, wherein the stator has a plurality of coaxially arranged annular modules, and a respective annular non-magnetic spacer arranged between each pair of subsequently arranged modules.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2016Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventor: Minos Beniakar
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Patent number: 11208919Abstract: The invention relates to an exhaust gas turbine, comprising a turbine rotor (12) having a plurality of turbine rotor blades (2) with a turbine rotor blade height H. The exhaust gas turbine further comprises a diffuser arrangement (20) having a transverse diffuser (1) and an exhaust gas collection chamber (9). The transverse diffuser (1) is arranged downstream of the turbine rotor blades (2). The transverse diffuser (1) has a curved diffuser channel (13) which opens into the exhaust gas collection chamber (9) at a diffuser channel outlet (17). A M/H ratio between an axial extension M of the exhaust gas collection chamber (9) and the turbine rotor blade height H has a value of 1.0?M/H?4.6 and a P/H ratio between a radial extension P of the diffuser arrangement (20) and the turbine rotor blade height H has a value of 2.7?P/H?4.9. A D/H ratio between a radial expansion D of the diffuser channel section (13) and the turbine rotor blade height H has a value of 2.5?D/H?3.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2018Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AGInventors: Stephan Senn, Christoph Mathey
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Patent number: 11209078Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a transmission gear and a deceleration mechanism including the same. The transmission gear includes a metal ring; and a plastic gear member integral with the metal ring by injection molding, the metal ring is coaxially wrapped in the plastic gear member and provided with a locating portion for locating the metal ring in an injection mold, the plastic gear member having an outer circumference that is tooth-shaped, and the plastic gear member being formed with an input hole thereon through which an input shaft passes, an outer ring surface of the metal ring being adjacent to the outer circumference, and an inner ring surface of the metal ring having a diameter greater than or equal to that of the input hole. Since almost no shrinkage occurs to the plastic gear member during injection molding, such a transmission gear has good dimensional accuracy, strength and rigidity.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Hao Gu, Zhiqiang Tao
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Patent number: 11212931Abstract: A subsea installation. The subsea installation comprises a tank containing an insulation fluid or other fluid, a heat generating electric apparatus positioned at least partly within the tanks, and a pressure compensator being in fluid communication with the tank and being configured to compensate volume variations of the insulation fluid or the other fluid by performing an expansive and a contracting movement. The subsea installation comprises further means for heating the insulation fluid or the other fluid, said means for heating being configured to provide heating to the insulation fluid or the other fluid with the heat generating electric apparatus is in a non-operating state in order to reduce the volume variations of the insulation fluid or the other fluid.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventor: Markku Launonen
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Method for industrial robot commissioning, industrial robot system and control system using the same
Patent number: 11207781Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods to provide a method for calibrating a touchscreen coordinate system of a touchscreen with an industrial robot coordinate system of an industrial robot for industrial robot commissioning and industrial robot system and control system using the same. In one form the systems and methods include attaching an end effector to the industrial robot; (a) moving the industrial robot in a compliant way until a stylus of the end effector touches a point on the touchscreen; (b) recording a position of the stylus of the end effector in the industrial robot coordinate system when it touches the point of the touchscreen; (c) recording a position of the touch point on the touchscreen in the touchscreen coordinate system; and calculating a relation between the industrial robot coordinate system and the touchscreen coordinate system based on the at least three positions of the end effector stylus and the at least three positions of the touch points.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Hao Gu, Qingwei Li, Jinsong Li, Jihuan Tian, Liwei Qi, Jianjiang Wang -
Patent number: 11211786Abstract: A communications and processing module is provided. The communications and processing module is electrically coupleable to a circuit breaker to provide the circuit breaker with additional capabilities. The communications and processing module includes a housing, at least one electrical contact positioned in the housing, an output lug positioned in the housing, wherein an electrical path is defined between the at least one electrical contact and the output lug, at least one sensor positioned in the housing and operable to sense at least one operating condition of the circuit breaker, and at least one communications interface positioned in the housing and communicatively coupled to the at least one sensor, the communications interface operable to receive data from the at least one sensor that is indicative of the at least one sensed operating condition to facilitate exporting the received data to a remote computing device.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2017Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Leonardo Dorea Mascarenhas, Tapas Ranjan Rout, Rafael Enrique Higuera
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Patent number: 11209370Abstract: A web manufacturing supervision system for monitoring properties of a web being transported in a moving direction during a web manufacturing process, includes: a) a radiation source for illuminating a first spot on the web; b) a tunable first detector for capturing signal radiation emanating from the first spot within a signal wavelength band; the signal wavelength band being adjustable to one of at least a first wavelength band and a second wavelength band; c) a second detector for capturing reference radiation emanating from the first spot within a reference wavelength band; d) control means for alternatingly tuning the signal wavelength band to the first wavelength band and the second wavelength band and measuring the signal at both wavelength bands simultaneously.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2018Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventor: Michael Ohora
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Patent number: 11212936Abstract: A power connector includes an outer casing couplable to a chassis such that the outer casing is positioned between sides of the chassis. The power connector also includes a body movably coupled to the outer casing. The body is movable between a first position and a second position. The body extends beyond the outer casing when in the first position. The body positioned entirely within the outer casing when in the second position.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2018Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: ABB Power Electronics Inc.Inventors: Mark Allen Johnson, Edward Clark Fontana, Charles Edward Higby
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Publication number: 20210398742Abstract: An electrical component includes a ferromagnetic core with a first and a second leg; a primary winding with a first primary winding portion arranged around the first leg of the ferromagnetic core and a second primary winding portion arranged around the second leg of the ferromagnetic core; wherein the first primary winding portion and the second primary winding portion each include parallel connectable conductors arranged around the ferromagnetic core in a cross section with the conductors being radially displaced with respect to each other at radial row positions, wherein the number of conductors of the first primary winding portion is equal the number of conductors of the second primary winding portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2019Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: ABB Power Grids Switzerland AGInventors: Thomas Bernhard GRADINGER, Uwe DROFENIK
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Publication number: 20210396307Abstract: A housing for a plastic gearbox and associated plastic gearbox and a robot. The housing includes a body including an inner engaging portion circumferentially arranged on an inner surface of the body, the inner engaging portion adapted to be engaged with a transmission assembly of the plastic gearbox; and an adjusting mechanism arranged around the body and operable to squeeze the body inwardly to reduce an inner diameter of the body. By using the adjusting mechanism to squeeze the body of the housing inwardly, the fit error between the inner engaging portion and the transmission assembly can be compensated in an efficient way. Furthermore, the adjusting mechanism is a part of the housing and thus the body of the housing which is made of plastic does not need to be too thick, which makes injection molding easier and manufacturing precision improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2018Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Hao Gu, Jibo Yang, Han Chen, Wei Song, Jiafan Zhang
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Publication number: 20210398741Abstract: A transformer includes a transformer core having a first core leg having a first longitudinal axis and second core leg having a second longitudinal axis; a first low voltage (LV) winding arranged around the first core leg, a first high voltage (HV) winding arranged around the first LV winding; a second low voltage (LV) winding arranged around the second core leg; and a second high voltage winding arranged around the second LV winding, wherein the first HV winding is provided with a first HV connector and a second HV connector each extending substantially perpendicular away from the first longitudinal axis, and wherein the second HV winding is provided with a third HV connector and a fourth HV connector each extending substantially perpendicular away from the second longitudinal axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2019Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: ABB Power Grids Switzerland AGInventors: Uwe DROFENIK, Thomas GRADINGER, Bernhard WUNSCH
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Patent number: 11205235Abstract: The present application relates to a method and apparatus for estimating throughput of a production line, the method including: a data obtaining step, a bottleneck work station selecting step, a first correcting step, a second correcting step as well as a throughput estimating step.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Heqing Sun, Cheng Li, Hao Gu, Xinyu Fang
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Patent number: 11206318Abstract: Illustrative embodiments of systems and methods for providing interoperability between multiple data providers and/or customers are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method may include receiving, by a first server, a second gateway associated with a second server, wherein the second gateway is configured to translate data into a second protocol associated with the second server; deploying, by the first server, the second gateway on the first server; receiving, by the first server, a first request for first data from the second server; transferring, by the first server in response to receiving the first request, the first data into the second gateway; and translating, by the second gateway, the first data into the second protocol.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2019Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Karl Eric Harper, Divyasheel Sharma
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Patent number: 11205952Abstract: Current source rectifier (CSR) systems and methods for a power source including three phase lines are disclosed. One illustrative CSR system includes a rectifier operable to receive an AC input voltage and provide a DC output voltage and a controller communicatively coupled to the rectifier. The rectifier comprises first, second, and third phase legs including a plurality of switches with each switch coupled to an associated phase line of the three phase lines. The controller is operable to (i) control operation of the plurality of switches in accordance with a first switching sequence when measured input voltages on at least two phase lines of the three phase lines are outside of the predetermined voltage range and (ii) control operation of the plurality of switches in accordance with a second switching sequence when the measured input voltages on the at least two phase lines are within the predetermined voltage range.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2020Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AGInventor: Lorenzo Giuntini
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Publication number: 20210391697Abstract: The fire shield enclosure makes use of a set of external metal shields that can be attached to a wall mounted variable frequency drive (VFD) in the field either before or after the VFD has been installed for the purpose of providing adequate protection from a fire as defined by a UL2043: Fire Test for Heat and Visible Smoke Release (UL2043 fire test). The fire shield enclosure pertains to a VFD for which may use a polymer material as an integral part of its enclosure housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2020Publication date: December 16, 2021Applicant: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Brian J. Baldwin, Stephen C. Zenobia, IV, Charles J. Paddock
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Publication number: 20210391770Abstract: A motor comprises a rotor; a stator arranged outside the rotor about a central axis of the rotor; a tubular enclosure arranged outside the stator about the central axis and contacting the stator, the tubular enclosure comprising a fluid channel and circumferential rabbets, the fluid channel extending between a first end and a second end of the tubular enclosure, the circumferential rabbets being arranged at the ends of the tubular enclosure and comprising respective corners; sealing rings arranged at the respective corners of the circumferential rabbets; and a pair of covers coupled to the respective ends of the tubular enclosure by mating with the circumferential rabbets, the pair of covers pressing the respective sealing rings and closing the fluid channel at the ends of the tubular enclosure.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2018Publication date: December 16, 2021Applicant: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Yun Su, Fengqing Lin, Guangming Xie, Lijun Liu