Patents by Inventor Andreas Knobloch
Andreas Knobloch has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240125446Abstract: A lighting device (1) for a vehicle headlamp is provided. The lighting device includes an illuminant (2), a collimator (4), a mirror device (5) with a reflection surface (5a), and a DMD device (6). The mirror device (5) is arranged downstream of the collimator (4), wherein the reflection surface (5a) of the mirror device (5) is configured to reflect a first part of the light from the illuminant and to transmit a second part of the light from the illuminant. The mirror device (5) is configured in such a way that the reflected part is free of UV light and the transmitted part has UV light. The DMD device (6) is configured to modulate and deflect the first part of the light from the illuminant.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Andreas HÖLZL, Christian KNOBLOCH, Stefan MITTERLEHNER
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Publication number: 20230187942Abstract: In a method for operating a power supply plant having a plurality of inverters and a plant controller connected to the inverters for communication, the power supply plant has a grid connection, which is connected to an AC voltage grid. Via the grid connection, the inverters exchange electrical interchange powers with the AC voltage grid such that the power supply plant exchanges a total interchange power, composed of the respective electrical interchange powers, with the AC voltage grid. By means of a respective regulator, the inverters adjust their respective interchange powers depending on a respective deviation of a voltage profile of a grid voltage from a respective reference profile with respect to a respective reference frequency and/or depending on a respective voltage amplitude differential between a respective grid voltage and a respective reference voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2023Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: Andreas Knobloch, Christian Hardt, Mats Bernsdorff, Daniel Premm
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Patent number: 11658487Abstract: An energy generation system provides balancing power for an AC voltage grid, and comprises a photovoltaic generator and an energy store, wherein the energy generation system exchanges a total electrical power with the AC voltage grid (1), wherein the total power exchanged is set as a function of a current maximum PV power, a predefinable basic PV power between zero and the maximum PV power and a provided or requested balancing power. When no balancing power is requested: a total basic power, which comprises the basic PV power can be fed in; When a negative balancing power is requested: the PV power can be reduced compared to the basic PV power; When a positive balancing power is requested: a battery power can be drawn from the energy store if the requested positive balancing power is greater than the difference between the maximum PV power and the basic PV power.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: SMA Solar Technology AGInventor: Andreas Knobloch
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Publication number: 20230084081Abstract: A method for stabilizing a DC voltage in a DC grid that includes a DC bus connected to a higher-order grid and to which an energy generating system and at least one load are connected. A variable electric grid output is exchanged between the DC bus and the higher-order grid in order to keep the DC voltage in the DC bus at a nominal voltage. The energy generating system includes a PV generator connected to the DC bus via a DC-to-DC converter and which exchanges an electric generator output with the DC bus. In a normal operating mode, the generator output is set to a normal operating output by the DC-to-DC converter on the basis of an MPP output of the PV generator. In a grid support mode, the generator output is set to a grid support output on the basis of the DC voltage in the DC bus in order to counteract a power imbalance between the electric power supplied in total to the DC bus and the power drawn in total from the DC bus.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2022Publication date: March 16, 2023Inventor: Andreas Knobloch
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Publication number: 20220304184Abstract: An inverter with a rated power of at least 3 kVA includes a first assembly which includes a first printed circuit board and a DC/AC converter stage, and a second assembly which includes a second printed circuit board and an EMC filter for the DC/AC converter stage. The first printed circuit board is mounted on a heat sink and lies substantially flat on the heat sink, and the DC/AC converter stage has converter components which comprise power semiconductors, chokes and link circuit capacitors. The chokes and the link circuit capacitors are arranged together on one side of the first printed circuit board, and the heat sink is arranged on the opposite side of the first printed circuit board, and the chokes and/or the power semiconductors are thermally connected to the heat sink via the first printed circuit board and a thermally conductive material arranged between the first printed circuit board and the heat sink.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Inventors: Klaus Rigbers, Thomas Wappler, Gerrit Braun, Andreas Knobloch, Matthias Rehbein
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Patent number: 11409316Abstract: A method for operating an energy generation system containing a photovoltaic generator and an inverter, wherein electric power is transferred between the inverter and an AC voltage grid, and wherein the transferred electric power comprises an active power (P) and a reactive power (Q) is disclosed. The method includes operating the photovoltaic generator, in a first operating mode, at a maximum active power point (MPP) by way of the inverter, and setting the active power (P) of the photovoltaic generator via the inverter in a second operating mode depending on a grid frequency instantaneous value (f) and on a grid frequency rate of change (df/dt), and in the second operating mode, setting the reactive power (Q) depending on a grid voltage instantaneous value (U) and on a grid voltage rate of change (dU/dt).Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: SMA Solar Technology AGInventor: Andreas Knobloch
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Publication number: 20210328434Abstract: An energy generation system provides balancing power for an AC voltage grid, and comprises a photovoltaic generator and an energy store, wherein the energy generation system exchanges a total electrical power with the AC voltage grid (1), wherein the total power exchanged is set as a function of a current maximum PV power, a predefinable basic PV power between zero and the maximum PV power and a provided or requested balancing power. When no balancing power is requested: a total basic power, which comprises the basic PV power can be fed in; When a negative balancing power is requested: the PV power can be reduced compared to the basic PV power; When a positive balancing power is requested: a battery power can be drawn from the energy store if the requested positive balancing power is greater than the difference between the maximum PV power and the basic PV power.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventor: Andreas Knobloch
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Publication number: 20200409404Abstract: A method for operating an energy generation system containing a photovoltaic generator and an inverter, wherein electric power is transferred between the inverter and an AC voltage grid, and wherein the transferred electric power comprises an active power (P) and a reactive power (Q) is disclosed. The method includes operating the photovoltaic generator, in a first operating mode, at a maximum active power point (MPP) by way of the inverter, and setting the active power (P) of the photovoltaic generator via the inverter in a second operating mode depending on a grid frequency instantaneous value (f) and on a grid frequency rate of change (df/dt), and in the second operating mode, setting the reactive power (Q) depending on a grid voltage instantaneous value (U) and on a grid voltage rate of change (dU/dt).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventor: Andreas Knobloch
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Patent number: 10333426Abstract: A method and system for operating an inverter, which has a terminal with four conductor connectors for connection of the inverter to three outer conductors and to a neutral conductor of an AC voltage grid is disclosed. The method includes determining a connection configuration of the inverter to the AC voltage grid by actuating switching elements of a bridge circuit of the inverter to generate a zero-phase sequence system having a zero-phase sequence system current, and measuring and evaluating output currents of the inverter with respect to the zero-phase sequence system current. The method also includes identifying a presence of a connection of the neutral conductor to a conductor connector provided for connection to the neutral conductor when the zero-phase sequence system current exceeds a prescribed threshold value and identifying that the neutral conductor is not connected to the conductor connector provided for connection to the neutral conductor otherwise.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2018Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: SMA Solar Technology AGInventors: Pablo Ignacio Correa Vasquez, Andreas Knobloch
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Publication number: 20180191270Abstract: A method and system for operating an inverter, which has a terminal with four conductor connectors for connection of the inverter to three outer conductors and to a neutral conductor of an AC voltage grid is disclosed. The method includes determining a connection configuration of the inverter to the AC voltage grid by actuating switching elements of a bridge circuit of the inverter to generate a zero-phase sequence system having a zero-phase sequence system current, and measuring and evaluating output currents of the inverter with respect to the zero-phase sequence system current. The method also includes identifying a presence of a connection of the neutral conductor to a conductor connector provided for connection to the neutral conductor when the zero-phase sequence system current exceeds a prescribed threshold value and identifying that the neutral conductor is not connected to the conductor connector provided for connection to the neutral conductor otherwise.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2018Publication date: July 5, 2018Inventors: Pablo Ignacio Correa Vasquez, Andreas Knobloch
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Patent number: 9941794Abstract: In order to reduce spurious emissions of a current converter or voltage converter having at least one power switch which is actuated with an actuating signal, wherein each actuating signal comprises switch-on pulses spaced apart from one another, and wherein pulse widths of the switch-on pulses are modulated in order to meet a specification for a current or a voltage in or at the current converter or voltage converter, the pulse widths are additionally varied more quickly and more strongly than is appropriate for meeting the specification in order to change the spectrum of the spurious emissions. In this context, changes to the pulse widths when they additionally vary compared to the pulse widths that would result only owing to their modulation to meet the specification are made on the basis of successive groups of changes which each extend over a predefined number of successive switch-on pulses and in which a sum of the changes is zero in each case.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: SMA Solar Technology AGInventor: Andreas Knobloch
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Publication number: 20170019027Abstract: In order to reduce spurious emissions of a current converter or voltage converter having at least one power switch which is actuated with an actuating signal, wherein each actuating signal comprises switch-on pulses spaced apart from one another, and wherein pulse widths of the switch-on pulses are modulated in order to meet a specification for a current or a voltage in or at the current converter or voltage converter, the pulse widths are additionally varied more quickly and more strongly than is appropriate for meeting the specification in order to change the spectrum of the spurious emissions. In this context, changes to the pulse widths when they additionally vary compared to the pulse widths that would result only owing to their modulation to meet the specification are made on the basis of successive groups of changes which each extend over a predefined number of successive switch-on pulses and in which a sum of the changes is zero in each case.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2016Publication date: January 19, 2017Inventor: Andreas Knobloch