Patents by Inventor Eduardo Pedrosa Santos

Eduardo Pedrosa Santos 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: 11360499
    Abstract: This consists of a system capable of integrating all the control, supervision and monitoring functions of power transformers (2) equipped with on-load tap changers bringing benefits such as design simplifications, manufacturing simplifications, reductions in manufacturing costs, optimization and reduction of maintenance costs, and increased reliability of the transformer, which is promoted to the category of intelligent transformer, ready for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Smart Grids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Inventor: Eduardo Pedrosa Santos
  • Patent number: 10739799
    Abstract: A method for voltage regulation, control, protection and monitoring of state of on-load tap changers of power transformers, voltage regulators, and capacitor banks comprising: uses a voltage regulation system that has sets of voltage regulation parameters available for programming by a user. Each of these sets is adjustable in an independent manner for a given prevailing load condition. The parameters include a desired rated voltage at a load: a voltage variance percentage allowed over and below rated voltage; time delay adjustments for CDC (15) actuation in order to correct voltage; choice of linear or reverse time delay type; and parameters referring to voltage drop in the line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Inventor: Eduardo Pedrosa Santos
  • Publication number: 20200218297
    Abstract: This consists of a system capable of integrating all the control, supervision and monitoring functions of power transformers (2) equipped with on-load tap changers bringing benefits such as design simplifications, manufacturing simplifications, reductions in manufacturing costs, optimization and reduction of maintenance costs, and increased reliability of the transformer, which is promoted to the category of intelligent transformer, ready for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Smart Grids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventor: EDUARDO PEDROSA SANTOS
  • Publication number: 20160147237
    Abstract: A method for voltage regulation, control, protection and monitoring of state of on-load tap changers of power transformers, voltage regulators, and capacitor banks comprising: uses a voltage regulation system that has sets of voltage regulation parameters available for programming by a user. Each of these sets is adjustable in an independent manner for a given prevailing load condition. The parameters include a desired rated voltage at a load; a voltage variance percentage allowed over and below rated voltage; time delay adjustments for CDC (15) actuation in order to correct voltage; choice of linear or reverse time delay type; and parameters referring to voltage drop in the line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventor: Eduardo Pedrosa Santos
  • Patent number: 8547112
    Abstract: A system and method for monitoring a dielectric state of high voltage equipment. A leakage current is measured and compared to a programmed limit value. An alarm is activated if the leakage exceeds the limit value to indicate that insulation has seriously deteriorated. The leakage current measurement is verified using a comparison of individual leakage currents with a change in a vector sum of leakage currents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Inventor: Eduardo Pedrosa Santos
  • Patent number: 8441358
    Abstract: Temperature monitoring system for power transformers submerged in oil applied preferentially in transformers submerged in oil and it presents several facilities in the sense of becoming temperature monitoring more reliable and safe, with highlight for the redundant measurement of temperature of the top of the oil; self-calibration of the temperature measurement entrances by means of internal references and specific electronic circuits; timing between successive activation of the groups of forced cooling when the deactivation of monitoring system on screen; internal watches with auxiliary alimentation without battery; safety reinforced in the alarms signaling for elevated temperature and finally automatic adjustment of the alarm values of the temperature differential of the commuter of derivations in load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Inventor: Eduardo Pedrosa Santos
  • Patent number: 8442775
    Abstract: A system and method for monitoring dissolved uses in insulating oil of power transformers and other high voltage equipment includes an orifice for accessing the insulating oil, and using a monitoring system to sample the oil and measure the concentration of different gases dissolved in the oil to determine what is going on inside the high voltage equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Inventor: Eduardo Pedrosa Santos
  • Patent number: 8400320
    Abstract: System for monitoring oil level and detecting leaks in power transformers, reactors, current and potential transformers, high voltage bushings and the like, notably for a system that through the use of sensors and other electronic components measures and monitors transformers and similar equipment in real time, filled with insulating oil, with greater precision and without need for floats or mobile mechanical parts, while presenting countless facilities in the sense of making level monitoring more reliable and safer, highlighting the level error calculations, oil leak detection alarm, excess oil detection alarm during the equipment filling process and calculation of tendencies of evolution for levels among other facilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Inventor: Eduardo Pedrosa Santos
  • Patent number: 8315719
    Abstract: “DECENTRALIZED SYSTEM AND ARCHITECTURE FOR REMOTE REAL TIME MONITORING OF POWER TRANSFORMERS, REACTORS, CIRCUIT BREAKERS, INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS, DISCONNECT SWITCHES AND SIMILAR HIGH VOLTAGE EQUIPMENT FOR POWER PLANTS AND ELECTRIC POWER SUBSTATIONS”, remarkably consisting of intelligent sensors of the IED type that make concerning measurements in the high voltage equipment, interconnected through a communication network to a monitoring central computer, allowing user's remote access to the measurements and diagnosis of the equipment condition as well as emitting automatic alarms should any abnormality appear in it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Inventor: Eduardo Pedrosa Santos
  • Patent number: 8179150
    Abstract: Monitoring system in real time of the state of capacitance graded bushings of power transformers, powers reactors, current transformers, circuit breakers and similar, it is applied preferentially by power transformers; power reactors; chain transformers, circuit breakers and similar, being the system passible of accomplish the monitoring in real time of capacitance graded bushings (1), each one resulted from a capacitive “tap” to which connects a “tap” adapter (3) that, then, connects to a measuring module (4) which receives signals coming from capacitive “tap” (2) of three graded bushings (1) which form a triphase group. One or more measuring modules (4) can, if connect to an only interface man-machine module (5), by means of a serial communication (6), forming a modular system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Inventor: Eduardo Pedrosa Santos
  • Patent number: 8054609
    Abstract: System to control, protect and monitor the status of forced cooling motors for power transformers and similar, is preferably applied to power transformers and auto-transformers, and this system turns conventional (1) cooling motors into “intelligent” motors, operating in a totally autonomous manner, whose electronic module (2) is installed on the actual motor cover, more specifically on the connection box (3) and is interconnected by a communication network to a digital system (4) without the need to use any external control, protection and monitoring elements or exaggerated panels for functioning thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Inventor: Eduardo Pedrosa Santos
  • Publication number: 20110246088
    Abstract: “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING DISSOLVED GASES IN INSULATING OIL OF POWER TRANSFORMERS, REACTORS, ON-LOAD TAP CHANGERS, CURRENT TRANSFORMERS, POTENTIAL TRANSFORMERS, CONDENSIVE BUSHINGS AS WELL AS SIMILAR HIGH VOLTAGE EQUIPMENTS IMMERSED IN OIL”, remarkably consisting of a system that couples to an orifice for the insulating oil accessing, assuring to the monitoring system the access to an oil sampling with a good representativity of what is going on inside the high voltage equipment, besides allowing a simple and safe installation, and also presenting to the user several resources and interfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2010
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventor: EDUARDO PEDROSA SANTOS
  • Publication number: 20110234243
    Abstract: “Improvements Introduced in Monitoring System of Dielectric State of High Voltage Equipments with Capacitive Insulation, Such as Condensive Bushings, Current Transformers, Potential Transformers and Similar” allow to detect quick evolution insulation deteriorations and to emit correspondent alarms, being also able to verify their consistency in order to avoid false alarms as well as to automatically disconnect the equipment in case of a critical deterioration; it also allows to monitor in real time the BPDs quipped condensive bushings state as well as the bushings applied in HVDC high voltage direct current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Inventor: Eduardo Pedrosa Santos
  • Publication number: 20110160922
    Abstract: “DECENTRALIZED SYSTEM AND ARCHITECTURE FOR REMOTE REAL TIME MONITORING OF POWER TRANSFORMERS, REACTORS, CIRCUIT BREAKERS, INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS, DISCONNECT SWITCHES AND SIMILAR HIGH VOLTAGE EQUIPMENT FOR POWER PLANTS AND ELECTRIC POWER SUBSTATIONS”, remarkably consisting of intelligent sensors of the IED type that make concerning measurements in the high voltage equipment, interconnected through a communication network to a monitoring central computer, allowing user's remote access to the measurements and diagnosis of the equipment condition as well as emitting automatic alarms should any abnormality appear in it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Inventor: EDUARDO PEDROSA SANTOS
  • Publication number: 20110156918
    Abstract: System for monitoring oil level and detecting leaks in power transformers, reactors, current and potential transformers, high voltage bushings and the like, notably for a system that through the use of sensors and other electronic components measures and monitors transformers and similar equipment in real time, filled with insulating oil, with greater precision and without need for floats or mobile mechanical parts, while presenting countless facilities in the sense of making level monitoring more reliable and safer, highlighting the level error calculations, oil leak detection alarm, excess oil detection alarm during the equipment filling process and calculation of tendencies of evolution for levels among other facilities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Inventor: EDUARDO PEDROSA SANTOS
  • Patent number: 7955102
    Abstract: Electrical circuit quick connection and disconnection system with automatic short circuit of current transformer secondaries and similar devices, consists of a multipole plug (6) and receptacle (11) system with automatic short-circuit capacity between the poles (7, 12) upon initiation of disconnection between the plug (6) and the receptacle (11), without incurring in the temporary opening of the circuit, for application in current transformer (3) secondary circuits (3B) and other applications requiring the same characteristics. The system is equipped with a number N of paired poles (7, 12), being that each pair of poles (7, 12) is connected to a CT (3) secondary (3B), therefore handling the connection of N CT (3) secondaries (3B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Inventor: Eduardo Pedrosa Santos
  • Publication number: 20100114391
    Abstract: System for acquisition of data and multiplication of signalling and protection contacts in equipments of substations and electric power plants and similar, it consists in the utilization of auxiliary relays (4) for contacts multiplication (2) of devices (1) of protection and supervision as a way of entrance of the information for digital acquisition of data, also making possible that the digital acquisition of the state of the contacts (2) of the protection and supervision devices is accomplished directly in the devices properly said by means of the incorporation of simple circuits at the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventor: Eduardo Pedrosa Santos
  • Publication number: 20100109883
    Abstract: Temperature monitoring system for power transformers submerged in oil applied preferentially in transformers submerged in oil and it presents several facilities in the sense of becoming temperature monitoring more reliable and safe, with highlight for the redundant measurement of temperature of the top of the oil; self-calibration of the temperature measurement entrances by means of internal references and specific electronic circuits; timing between successive activation of the groups of forced cooling when the deactivation of monitoring system on screen; internal watches with auxiliary alimentation without battery; safety reinforced in the alarms signalling for elevated temperature and finally automatic adjustment of the alarm values of the temperature differential of the commuter of derivations in load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventor: Eduardo Pedrosa Santos
  • Publication number: 20100097076
    Abstract: Monitoring system in real time of the state of capacitance graded bushings of power transformers, powers reactors, current transformers, circuit breakers and similar, it is applied preferentially by power transformers; power reactors; chain transformers, circuit breakers and similar, being the system passible of accomplish the monitoring in real time of capacitance graded bushings (1), each one resulted from a capacitive “tap” to which connects a “tap” adapter (3) that, then, connects to a measuring module (4) which receives signals coming from capacitive “tap” (2) of three graded bushings (1) which form a triphase group. One or more measuring modules (4) can, if connect to an only interface man-machine module (5), by means of a serial communication (6), forming a modular system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2008
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Inventor: Eduardo Pedrosa Santos
  • Publication number: 20100001700
    Abstract: System for voltage regulation, control, protection and monitoring of state of changers under power transformer load, voltage regulators, capacitor banks and similar”, is preferably applied to power transformers (1) and voltage regulators and similar, through a microprocessor (2) it provides innovating functions that make up for deficiencies of currently existing voltage relays, highlighting pre-programming, by means of man-machine interface such as, for example, keyboard and display (3), or serial communication (4) of several settings and different voltage regulation parameters, each adequate setting for a certain prevailing load condition, performed by means of dry contact inputs (5), contact outputs (6) destined for self-diagnosis signaling and alarms (7); voltage regulation allows parameter selection to be made by means of daily and hourly programming through an internal clock (8); said system (S) also has the non-volatile memory function (9); CDC blocking function (10) that directly acts on the motorized
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Inventor: Eduardo Pedrosa Santos