Patents by Inventor Luc Philippot

Luc Philippot 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: 6956363
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for generating an error signal which characterizes a fault current in an electrical conductor provided with two conductor ends and having charge measuring devices which are connected to each other by data lines. At least one device is attached to each end of the conductor. In the invention, charge measuring values are determined using charge measuring devices. The measured charge values take into account the direction of the charge flow and a total measured charge value is formed by addition. The error signal is generated when the total measured charge value exceeds a certain threshold value. In order to be able to detect errors in a more sensitive manner than had previously been possible, the threshold value is formed by taking into account the individual measuring tolerance of the individual charge measuring devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellscaft
    Inventors: Torsten Kerger, Yves Ngounou Ngambo, Luc Philippot
  • Patent number: 6867577
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for generating an error signal which characterizes a fault current in an electrical conductor provided with two conductor ends and having charge measuring devices which are connected to each other by data lines. At least one device is attached to each end of the conductor. In the inventive method, charge measuring values are determined using charge measuring devices. The measured charge values take into account the direction of the charge flow a total measured charge value is formed by addition. The error signal is generated when the total measured charge value exceeds a certain threshold value. According to the invention, the measured charge values are determined synchronously and determined repeatedly at regular intervals in such a way that the time interval between each sequential determination is smaller than the predefined measuring period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Torsten Kerger, Yves Ngounou Ngambo, Luc Philippot
  • Publication number: 20030076112
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for generating an error signal which characterizes a fault current in an electrical conductor (130) provided with two conductor ends (120, 123, 126, 129) and comprising charge measuring devices (100, 103, 106, 109) which are connected to each other by data lines (112). At least one device is attached to each end of the conductor. In the inventive method, charge measuring values are determined using charge measuring devices. The measured charge values take into account the direction of the charge flow and a total measured charge value is formed by addition. Said error signal is generated when the total measured charge value exceeds a certain threshold value. In order to be able to detect errors in amore sensitive manner than had previously been possible, the threshold value is formed by taking into account the individual measuring tolerance of the individual charge measuring devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2002
    Publication date: April 24, 2003
    Inventors: Torsten Kerger, Yves Ngounou Ngambo, Luc Philippot
  • Publication number: 20030058594
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for generating an error signal which characterizes a fault current in an electrical conductor (130) provided with two conductor ends (120, 123, 126, 129) and comprising charge measuring devices (100, 103, 106, 109) which are connected to each other by data lines (112). At least one device is attached to each end of the conductor. In the inventive method, charge measuring values are determined using charge measuring devices. The measured charge values take into account the direction of the charge flow a total measured charge value is formed by addition. Said error signal is generated when the total measured charge value exceeds a certain threshold value. According to the invention, the measured charge values are determined synchronously and determined repeatedly at regular intervals in such a way that the time interval between each sequential determination is smaller than the predefined measuring period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2002
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Inventors: Torsten Kerger, Yves Ngounou Ngambo, Luc Philippot
  • Patent number: 6518768
    Abstract: A method, an arrangement, and a current measurement device with which a signal that characterizes a fault current in an electrical conductor having at least three conductor ends can be produced in a particularly simple fashion. In particular, a current measurement device is provided for measuring a current in a conductor. The current measurement device includes at least one measurement value input and at least one measurement value output, and has an arithmetic unit that adds a current measurement value corresponding to the current to a measurement value present at the at least one measurement value input. A resulting summation current measurement value is output at the at least one measurement value output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Luc Philippot, Norbert Schuster
  • Patent number: 5929642
    Abstract: A method for locating a fault in an electric power transmission line to form measured precursor fault vector values of two aerial modes from sample values from currents and voltages stored immediately before and during an occurrence of the fault, using the Clarke transformation. For synchronization, the phase angle is determined from these measured vector values, so that fault vector voltage values of both aerial modes can be generated without distortion by asynchronously forming the sample values. The fault vector voltage values of one aerial mode are subtracted from those of the other aerial mode, and the resulting differences are squared. The location of the fault is determined by estimating the minimum value of the sum of the squared differences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Luc Philippot, Zhihong Chen