Patents by Inventor Joachim Ralf Laschinski

Joachim Ralf Laschinski 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: 8373308
    Abstract: A solar power plant includes at least one photovoltaic module for generating power to be fed in a multi-phase grid. At least one inverter is provided for converting a direct voltage generated by the at least one photovoltaic module into an alternating mains voltage. A mains transformer is coupled to receive the alternating mains voltage from the inverter. The inverter is coupled to a primary side of the mains transformer. A direct voltage source coupled between an output of the at least one inverter and an input of the mains transformer such that a potential of the at least one photovoltaic module is displaced and that a bias voltage is set which is different from zero volts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: SMA Solar Technology AG
    Inventors: Guenther Cramer, Bernd Engel, Frank Greizer, Joachim Ralf Laschinski
  • Patent number: 7564013
    Abstract: A method of matching the power of a photovoltaic system producing electric energy by which a working point at which the system produces maximum power is set by changing the working point in an MPP matching process and by comparing the system power, which changes as a result thereof, is intended to be suited both for stationary characteristic curves and for non stationary generator characteristic curves and to be easy to carry out so that the best working point is always set, even when the system is subjected to external interfering factors. This is achieved in that one or several additional control steps or control cycles are performed in order to track during the matching process a power point changing under external impact for a working point of even higher power to be set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: SMASolar Technology AG
    Inventors: Gerald Leonhardt, Christian Kühnel, Joachim Ralf Laschinski, Sven Bremicker, Oliver Arend, Gerd Bettenwort, Wolfgang Kurt Reichenbächer
  • Patent number: 7471073
    Abstract: A method of finding a power maximum of a photovoltaic generator using an MPP regulator of a photovoltaic current converter by means of which a maximum generator power is set at an operating point of the generator's characteristic curve is intended to supply improved efficiency when the generator is partially shadowed. This is achieved by switching the MPP regulator off in order to next load and/or unload the generator to allow a new operating point of the generator's characteristic curve to set and by next switching the MPP regulator on again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: SMA Technologie AG
    Inventors: Gerd Bettenwort, Christian Kühnel, Oliver Arend, Joachim Ralf Laschinski, Gerald Alexander Leonhardt, Wolfgang Kurt Reichenbächer
  • Patent number: RE43719
    Abstract: A method of matching the power of a photovoltaic system producing electric energy by which a working point at which the system produces maximum power is set by changing the working point in an MPP matching process and by comparing the system power, which changes as a result thereof, is intended to be suited both for stationary characteristic curves and for non stationary generator characteristic curves and to be easy to carry out so that the best working point is always set, even when the system is subjected to external interfering factors. This is achieved in that one or several additional control steps or control cycles are performed in order to track during the matching process a power point changing under external impact for a working point of even higher power to be set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: SMA Solar Technology AG
    Inventors: Gerald Leonhardt, Christian Kuehnel, Joachim Ralf Laschinski, Sven Bremicker, Oliver Arend, Gerd Bettenwort, Wolfgang Kurt Reichenbacher