Patents by Inventor Leonard J. Kovalsky

Leonard J. Kovalsky 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: 11728649
    Abstract: Disclosed is a reactance-injecting module and its method of use to balance the currents among the phases of polyphase electric power transmission lines or to manage power flow among alternate paths, where the reactance-injecting module has high-speed, dedicated communication links to enable the immediate removal or reduction of injected reactance from all phases of a phase balancing cluster when a fault is detected on any one of the multiple phases. The reactance-injecting module may communicate information on a detected fault to the other reactance-injecting modules of the phase balancing cluster within 10 microseconds after the fault is detected to allow the phase balancing cluster to eliminate injected reactance from all phases within a time that is short compared to a cycle of the alternating current, such as 1 millisecond after the fault is detected. This provides extremely fast neutralization of injected reactance to minimize interference with fault localization analyses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Smart Wires Inc.
    Inventors: Leonard J. Kovalsky, Hamed Khalilinia, Niloofar Torabi, Michael T. Garrison Stuber, Sana Tayyab, Adeel Ahmad Khan, Haroon Inam
  • Publication number: 20210313806
    Abstract: Disclosed is a reactance-injecting module and its method of use to balance the currents among the phases of polyphase electric power transmission lines or to manage power flow among alternate paths, where the reactance-injecting module has high-speed, dedicated communication links to enable the immediate removal or reduction of injected reactance from all phases of a phase balancing cluster when a fault is detected on any one of the multiple phases. The reactance-injecting module may communicate information on a detected fault to the other reactance-injecting modules of the phase balancing cluster within 10 microseconds after the fault is detected to allow the phase balancing cluster to eliminate injected reactance from all phases within a time that is short compared to a cycle of the alternating current, such as 1 millisecond after the fault is detected. This provides extremely fast neutralization of injected reactance to minimize interference with fault localization analyses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Leonard J. Kovalsky, Hamed Khalilinia, Niloofar Torabi, Michael T. Garrison Stuber, Sana Tayyab, Adeel Ahmad Khan, Haroon Inam
  • Patent number: 11063433
    Abstract: Disclosed is a reactance-injecting module used to balance the currents among the phases of polyphase electric power transmission lines or to manage power flow among alternate paths, where the reactance-injecting module has high-speed, dedicated communication links to enable the immediate removal of injected reactance from all phases of a phase balancing cluster when a fault is detected on any one of the multiple phases. The reactance-injecting module may communicate information on a detected fault to the other reactance-injecting modules of the phase balancing cluster within 10 microseconds after the fault is detected to allow the phase balancing cluster to eliminate injected reactance from all phases within 1 millisecond after the fault is detected. This provides extremely fast neutralization of injected reactance to minimize interference with fault localization analyses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Smart Wires Inc.
    Inventors: Leonard J. Kovalsky, Hamed Khalilinia, Niloofar Torabi, Michael T. Garrison Stuber, Sana Tayyab, Adeel Ahmad Khan, Haroon Inam
  • Publication number: 20200195009
    Abstract: Disclosed is a reactance-injecting module used to balance the currents among the phases of polyphase electric power transmission lines or to manage power flow among alternate paths, where the reactance-injecting module has high-speed, dedicated communication links to enable the immediate removal of injected reactance from all phases of a phase balancing cluster when a fault is detected on any one of the multiple phases. The reactance-injecting module may communicate information on a detected fault to the other reactance-injecting modules of the phase balancing cluster within 10 microseconds after the fault is detected to allow the phase balancing cluster to eliminate injected reactance from all phases within 1 millisecond after the fault is detected. This provides extremely fast neutralization of injected reactance to minimize interference with fault localization analyses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Leonard J. Kovalsky, Hamed Khalilinia, Niloofar Torabi, Michael T. Garrison Stuber, Sana Tayyab, Adeel Ahmad Khan, Haroon Inam
  • Patent number: 4833389
    Abstract: In a load commutated induction motor drive stability is achieved in a runaway situation by generating in response to the motor speed reference signal a signal representative of the desired power factor angle and in using such signal to delay by that much the gating pulses controlling the current-sourced inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1989
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: Leonard J. Kovalsky, Alberto Abbondanti