Patents by Inventor Moussa KAFAL

Moussa KAFAL 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: 20230384358
    Abstract: A device (10) for monitoring the operation of a plurality of electrical cables, connection or coupling accessories, switchgear and transformers, included in a meshed electrical network, has a plurality of end branches (16) and a plurality of intermediate branches (14) comprises the meshed electrical network, at least two inductive sensors (12) suitable for detecting a partial discharge occurring in the meshed electrical network and a means (18) for locating the source of the partial discharge (PD).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Samuel GRIOT, Dimitri CHARRIER, Moussa KAFAL
  • Patent number: 11333699
    Abstract: A method for characterizing a fault in a transmission line network, the method includes the steps of: obtaining a first measured time reflectogram Rm from a signal previously injected into the network, obtaining a second time reflectogram Rs corresponding to the network in the absence of faults, determining the time difference Rref between the first measured time reflectogram Rm and the second time reflectogram Rs, identifying, in the time difference Rref, an amplitude peak characterizing the presence of a fault and its time abscissa indicating the position of the fault, simulating a plurality of time reflectogram hypotheses each corresponding to the network comprising a fault at the identified position, each hypothesis being associated with a different value of at least one parameter characteristic of the fault, selecting the time reflectogram hypothesis closest to the time difference Rref.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Moussa Kafal, Wafa Ben Hassen
  • Publication number: 20210278452
    Abstract: A method for characterizing a fault in a transmission line network, the method includes the steps of: obtaining a first measured time reflectogram Rm from a signal previously injected into the network, obtaining a second time reflectogram Rs corresponding to the network in the absence of faults, determining the time difference Rref between the first measured time reflectogram Rm and the second time reflectogram Rs, identifying, in the time difference Rref, an amplitude peak characterizing the presence of a fault and its time abscissa indicating the position of the fault, simulating a plurality of time reflectogram hypotheses each corresponding to the network comprising a fault at the identified position, each hypothesis being associated with a different value of at least one parameter characteristic of the fault, selecting the time reflectogram hypothesis closest to the time difference Rref,
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Moussa KAFAL, Wafa BEN HASSEN
  • Publication number: 20210141011
    Abstract: A method for characterizing a fault in a network of at least one transmission line, the method includes the steps of: injecting a first reference signal into the network, acquiring a first measurement of the first reference signal after its propagation in the network, temporally reversing the measurement to generate a second reference signal, injecting the second reference signal into the network, acquiring a second measurement of the second reference signal after its propagation in the network, calculating the intercorrelation between the second measurement and the second reference signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Wafa BEN HASSEN, Esteban CABANILLAS, Moussa KAFAL
  • Publication number: 20200371150
    Abstract: A computer-implemented iterative method for reconstructing the topology of a cable network, includes the steps of: obtaining a measured time reflectogram Rm from a signal previously injected into the cable network, initially simulating a plurality of cable network hypotheses (Hi,j), and then iteratively executing the following steps: obtaining, for each simulated cable network hypothesis (Hi,j), an associated simulated time reflectogram Rm, evaluating, for each simulated cable network hypothesis (Hi,j), an error criterion E(Ri,j-Rm) between the measured time reflectogram Rm and the simulated time reflectogram Rm, applying, to the simulated cable networks, an optimization algorithm having the function of producing a plurality of modified cable networks having, overall, a reduced error criterion E(Ri,j-Rm), replacing the simulated cable networks from the previous iteration with the modified cable networks for the following iteration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Jaume BENOIT, Moussa KAFAL