Patents by Inventor Christopher Ganz

Christopher Ganz 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).

  • Publication number: 20160086339
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for providing cartographic information of an electrical component in a power network. The cartographic information may include geographic coordinates and a type of the electrical component. The method can include obtaining a visual representation of the electrical component, wherein the visual representation contains location information about where the visual representation was made; determining the geographic coordinates of the electrical component based on the location information of the visual representation; and identifying the type of the electrical component by matching the visual representation with the predefined models relating to available kind of electrical components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: ABB TECHNOLOGY AG
    Inventors: Olivier STEIGER, Christopher GANZ, Yannick MARET, Aldo DAGNINO
  • Patent number: 6775986
    Abstract: In a gas turbine having a combustion chamber (6) and a first row of guide vanes (3) arranged on the outflow side of the combustion chamber (6), a plurality of temperature sensors (8) for measuring temperature value, and a plurality of means (7;71,72,73,74,75,76) for introducing fuel into the combustion chamber (6), which means can be controlled on the basis of the temperature values, the temperature sensors (8) are spectrometers, are designed to measure a combustion-gas temperature and are arranged so as to measure a gas temperature which prevails immediately in front of the first row of guide vanes (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Alstom Technology LTD
    Inventors: Christopher Ganz, Wolfgang Weisenstein
  • Publication number: 20040083011
    Abstract: In a control system (11) for controlling an apparatus and/or a process (10), said control system (11) being based on a finite state machine defined by a finite number of states Si (i∈{1, . . . ,n}=:S), exactly one of which said finite state machine may reside in at any given time, and for at least one first state Sk, a number Nk,l of allowed transitions tk,l(m) to at least one second state S1, with k, l∈S, m=1, . . . ,Nk,l, information made available to an operator is enhanced by a graphical representation of the finite state machine that the control system (11) is configured to produce, and that comprises at least two states S&agr; and S107 and at least one allowed transition between said two states S&agr; and S&ohgr;.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2003
    Publication date: April 29, 2004
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Christopher Ganz, Andrew Paice
  • Publication number: 20020178730
    Abstract: In a gas turbine having a combustion chamber (6) and a first row of guide vanes (3) arranged on the outflow side of the combustion chamber (6), a plurality of temperature sensors (8) for measuring temperature values, and a plurality of means (7;71,72,73,74,75,76) for introducing fuel into the combustion chamber (6), which means can be controlled on the basis of the temperature values, the temperature sensors (8) are spectrometers, are designed to measure a combustion-gas temperature and are arranged so as to measure a gas temperature which prevails immediately in front of the first row of guide vanes (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2002
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Inventors: Christopher Ganz, Wolfgang Weisenstein