Patents by Inventor Muchuan M. Chen

Muchuan M. Chen 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: 5428549
    Abstract: A fault location system comprises current and voltage transducers 10, filters 12, and a multiplexor 14, the latter outputting an interleaved stream of analog phase current and voltage signal samples, as well as neutral current samples. The analog multiplex output by the multiplexor 14 is digitized by an analog-to-digital converter 16. The output of the analog-to-digital converter 16 is fed to a digital signal processing block 18. The multiplexor necessarily introduces a time-skew between the successive samples for each channel and also introduces a time-skew between the respective channels. The system corrects the sample-to-sample time-skew for each channel, and then derives current and voltage phasors from the time-skew corrected data. Thereafter, the phasors are adjusted to correct for channel-to-channel phase-skew. In this manner, the digital signal processing block produces phasor data for each of the sampled channels. The phasor data is stored in a memory 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1995
    Assignee: ABB Power T&D Company
    Inventor: Muchuan M. Chen