Patents by Inventor Bernhard Deck

Bernhard Deck 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).

  • Patent number: 11842452
    Abstract: A method for positioning a virtual object in an image of a scene including a real object is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a signal from a short-range wireless transmitter arranged at a predetermined position relative to the real object and determining a location and orientation of the portable device relative to the short-range wireless transmitter based on the received signal. The image of the scene is displayed with the virtual object, wherein the position of the virtual object in the image is based on the determined location and orientation of the portable device relative to the short-range wireless transmitter and on the predetermined position of the short-range wireless transmitter relative to the real object. A system, a portable device and a computer program product is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Energy Ltd
    Inventors: Bernhard Deck, Stephan Gerspach, Michele Luvisotto
  • Publication number: 20220189126
    Abstract: A method for positioning a virtual object in an image of a scene including a real object is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a signal from a short-range wireless transmitter arranged at a predetermined position relative to the real object and determining a location and orientation of the portable device relative to the short-range wireless transmitter based on the received signal. The image of the scene is displayed with the virtual object, wherein the position of the virtual object in the image is based on the determined location and orientation of the portable device relative to the short-range wireless transmitter and on the predetermined position of the short-range wireless transmitter relative to the real object. A system, a portable device and a computer program product is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Bernhard DECK, Stephan GERSPACH, Michele LUVISOTTO
  • Patent number: 11121537
    Abstract: An intelligent fuse provides the operational status of the power network upon which the fuse is installed to a mobile device of a remote user. A fuse electronic circuit embedded in the fuse holder of the fuse captures the characteristic values of the power network and transmits the data to the mobile device. The mobile device has an application installed thereon to calculate the distance to fault location from the recording fuse using the fuse electronic circuit-captured data. The fuse electronic circuit-captured data is further used to visualize the data collected at the measurement points of the electrical system upon which the fuse is installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: James D. Stoupis, Bernhard Deck, Mirrasoul Mousavi, Dmitry Ishchenko
  • Publication number: 20200194991
    Abstract: An intelligent fuse provides the operational status of the power network upon which the fuse is installed to a mobile device of a remote user. A fuse electronic circuit embedded in the fuse holder of the fuse captures the characteristic values of the power network and transmits the data to the mobile device. The mobile device has an application installed thereon to calculate the distance to fault location from the recording fuse using the fuse electronic circuit-captured data. The fuse electronic circuit-captured data is further used to visualize the data collected at the measurement points of the electrical system upon which the fuse is installed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: James D. Stoupis, Bernhard Deck, Mirrasoul Mousavi, Dmitry Ishchenko
  • Patent number: 10424909
    Abstract: An intelligent fuse provides the operational status of the power network upon which the fuse is installed to a mobile device of a remote user. A fuse electronic circuit embedded in the fuse holder of the fuse captures the characteristic values of the power network and transmits the data to the mobile device. The mobile device has an application installed thereon to calculate the distance to fault location from the recording fuse using the fuse electronic circuit-captured data. The fuse electronic circuit-captured data is further used to visualize the data collected at the measurement points of the electrical system upon which the fuse is installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: James D. Stoupis, Bernhard Deck, Mirrasoul Mousavi, Dmitry Ishchenko
  • Patent number: 9887530
    Abstract: A protection relay is disclosed that generates a trip signal to operate a circuit breaker in case of a fault condition. A first module provides measurement and analysis of power parameters of the power line connecting the power equipment that is being protected, the protection being provided by generating a first trip signal for operating a circuit breaker connected in the power line. One or more second modules can boost performance of the protection relay by measurement and analysis of power parameters-to generate a second trip signal for operating a circuit breaker connected in the power line. The first trip signal and the second trip signal are logically combined to generate a trip signal that operates the circuit breaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Hariram Satheesh, Bernhard Deck, GN Krishnamoorthy, Mallikarjun Kande, Sanjeev Koul, Naman Raval, Nayan Shah, Vishal H. Shah
  • Patent number: 9818565
    Abstract: A design of a protection relay, and interface with an operator of a protection relay, are disclosed. The protection relay can include a base relay for measurement of line current and for generation of a trip signal, a base Human Machine Interface (HMI) for user specifying of a base setting of an operating parameter of the protection relay, and an optionally active Human Machine Interface (HMI) unit having a processing unit to manage plural activities with controlled power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Bernhard Deck, Vijay Shah, Indresh Bhatia, Jatin Parmar, Niraj Suthar
  • Patent number: 9609609
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments for updating a controller of a primary device of a power substation. An actual time is received from a time server via a cell phone communication network with a mobile device and the actual time is sent with the mobile device via a local wireless communication network to the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Bernhard Deck, Thomas Küng
  • Patent number: 9523972
    Abstract: An exemplary method and apparatus are directed to distributed waveform recording for fault monitoring and analysis of a fault condition in a power distribution system. One or more instrument transformers along with merging units and a plurality of Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) distributed in a plurality of hierarchical levels. The distributed waveform recording corresponds to a fault event at different levels in the power distribution system data is carried out by at least two devices configured to detect an event for recording and perform waveform recording. The data used for waveform recording and the data for detection of the event are based on a single stream of the sampled measured value data and are thereby are time synchronized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Vivek Gopalakrishnan, Sasi Kumar S. R., Bernhard Deck
  • Patent number: 9507006
    Abstract: An exemplary method for calibrating a current transducer of the Rogowski type including a Rogowski coil sensor and an electronic device is performed by determining and correcting the sensitivity of the current transducer of the Rogowski type through the measurement of the self-inductance LRCCT of the coil using the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Joris Pascal, Rolf Disselnkötter, Franz Zurfluh, Bernhard Deck
  • Patent number: 9477976
    Abstract: A system for transmitting product information of a product is described. The system contains a product with an electronic controller for acquiring and/or storing product information, wherein the product information comprises standard information about the product and current product information, a barcode generating component for generating a barcode for representing the product information, wherein the barcode generating means is connected to the product for data transfer or is integrated into the product, and a barcode updating device for updating the barcode on the basis of the standard information about the product and current product information. There is furthermore an acquisition module for the information acquisition of the product information from the barcode by means of an image recording device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: ABB Research Ltd.
    Inventors: Bernhard Deck, Werner Vogt, Lorenzo Gulli, Kornel Scherrer
  • Publication number: 20160308345
    Abstract: An intelligent fuse provides the operational status of the power network upon which the fuse is installed to a mobile device of a remote user. A fuse electronic circuit embedded in the fuse holder of the fuse captures the characteristic values of the power network and transmits the data to the mobile device. The mobile device has an application installed thereon to calculate the distance to fault location from the recording fuse using the fuse electronic circuit-captured data. The fuse electronic circuit-captured data is further used to visualize the data collected at the measurement points of the electrical system upon which the fuse is installed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: James D. Stoupis, Bernhard Deck, Mirrasoul Mousavi, Dmitry Ishchenko
  • Patent number: 9366715
    Abstract: A method of determining a fault direction parameter of a fault on an AC transmission line of a power distribution system relative to a measurement location of the transmission line. The method includes measuring a time-dependent AC current of the transmission line at the measurement location to obtain time-domain current data indicative of the measured current, obtaining a time of the fault on the transmission line, identifying first and second times by identifying a periodically re-occurring feature of the current data, such that the fault time is between the first and second times, extracting, from the current data, an offset indicative parameter indicative of a time offset of the current at the fault time and between the first and second times, calculating an offset direction parameter by comparing the offset indicative parameter to a non-offset indicative parameter, and establishing the fault direction parameter based on the offset direction parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: ABB Research Ltd.
    Inventors: Abhisek Ukil, Bernhard Deck, Vishal H. Shah
  • Patent number: 9250282
    Abstract: A method of determining a fault parameter of a fault on an AC transmission line 10 of a power distribution system 1 relative to a measurement location 12 of the transmission line 10 comprising: measuring a time-dependent current of the transmission line 10 at the measurement location 12; transmitting a current signal indicative of the measured current to a decision logic section 36, the current signal comprising a plurality of pre-fault current values and a plurality of post-fault current values; determining, by the decision logic section 36, a plurality of phase difference values indicative of respective phase differences between respective pre-fault current values and respective post-fault current values; accumulating the plurality of phase difference values into an accumulated phase difference parameter; obtaining the fault parameter by comparing the accumulated phase difference parameter to a threshold value; and outputting the determined fault parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: ABB RESEARCH LTD
    Inventors: Abhisek Ukil, Bernhard Deck, Vishal H. Shah
  • Patent number: 9237064
    Abstract: The invention provides a communication system for a power distribution network, which comprises at least two distribution domains, each of the domains includes one management device and at least one electrical device. The management device is configured as connected with the electrical devices within its domain, and is further configured as capable of collect information from the electrical devices. The system also comprises a communication link, which is arranged for the management devices of different domains, and the management devices are configured as capable of directly exchanging information through the link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: ABB RESEARCH LTD.
    Inventors: Zhao Wang, Bernhard Deck, Jukka Kinnunen
  • Publication number: 20150270697
    Abstract: A protection relay is disclosed that generates a trip signal to operate a circuit breaker in case of a fault condition. A first module provides measurement and analysis of power parameters of the power line connecting the power equipment that is being protected, the protection being provided by generating a first trip signal for operating a circuit breaker connected in the power line. One or more second modules can boost performance of the protection relay by measurement and analysis of power parameters-to generate a second trip signal for operating a circuit breaker connected in the power line. The first trip signal and the second trip signal are logically combined to generate a trip signal that operates the circuit breaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Applicant: ABB RESEARCH LTD
    Inventors: Hariram SATHEESH, Bernhard DECK, GN KRISHNAMOORTHY, Mallikarjun KANDE, Sanjeev KOUL, Naman RAVAL, Nayan SHAH, Vishal H. SHAH
  • Patent number: 9048697
    Abstract: This specification discloses an intelligent and digitalized process level interface which is referred to herein as an Intelligent Process Interface (IPI). The input of the IPI includes both analog and digital channels and therefore the IPI can be used for substations in transition or retrofit stages with both conventional and non-conventional primary devices. The IPI acts not only as a digitalized interface, but also as an intelligent supervisory and control unit for switching functions. The architecture of the IPI is flexible and allows for the functionality to be distributed to several devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: ABB RESEARCH LTD
    Inventors: Zhao Wang, Bernhard Deck, Jianping Wang
  • Publication number: 20150028850
    Abstract: An exemplary method for calibrating a current transducer of the Rogowski type including a Rogowski coil sensor and an electronic device is performed by determining and correcting the sensitivity of the current transducer of the Rogowski type through the measurement of the self-inductance LRCCT of the coil using the electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: ABB TECHNOLOGY AG
    Inventors: Joris PASCAL, Rolf DISSELNKÖTTER, Franz ZURFLUH, Bernhard DECK
  • Publication number: 20140341209
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments for updating a controller of a primary device of a power substation. An actual time is received from a time server via a cell phone communication network with a mobile device and the actual time is sent with the mobile device via a local wireless communication network to the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Inventors: Bernhard DECK, Thomas KÜNG
  • Publication number: 20140136002
    Abstract: An exemplary method and apparatus are directed to distributed waveform recording for fault monitoring and analysis of a fault condition in a power distribution system. One or more instrument transformers along with merging units and a plurality of Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) distributed in a plurality of hierarchical levels. The distributed waveform recording corresponds to a fault event at different levels in the power distribution system data is carried out by at least two devices configured to detect an event for recording and perform waveform recording. The data used for waveform recording and the data for detection of the event are based on a single stream of the sampled measured value data and are thereby are time synchronized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: ABB RESEARCH LTD
    Inventors: Vivek GOPALAKRISHNAN, Sasi KUMAR S.R., Bernhard DECK