Patents by Inventor Paola Rotondo

Paola Rotondo 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: 20130200839
    Abstract: A torsional mode damping controller system connected to a converter that drives a drive train including an electrical machine and a non-electrical machine. The controller system includes an input interface configured to receive measured data related to variables of the converter or the drive train and a controller connected to the input interface. The controller is configured to calculate at least one dynamic torque component along a section of a shaft of the drive train based on the measured data from the input interface, generate control data for a rectifier of the converter for damping a torsional oscillation in the shaft of the drive train based on the at least one dynamic torque component, and send the control data to the rectifier for modulating an active power exchanged between the converter and the electrical machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: NUOVO PIGNONE S.P.A.
    Inventors: Simon Herbert Schramm, Christof Martin Sihler, Alfredo Sebastian Achilles, Paola Rotondo
  • Publication number: 20130106330
    Abstract: A torsional mode damping controller system is connected to a converter that drives a drive train including an electrical machine and a non-electrical machine. The controller system includes an input interface configured to receive measured data related to variables of the converter or the drive train and a controller connected to the input interface. The controller is configured to calculate at least one dynamic torque component along a section of a shaft of the drive train based on the measured data from the input interface, generate control data for a rectifier and an inverter of the converter for damping a torsional oscillation in the shaft of the drive train based on the at least one dynamic torque component, and send the control data to the rectifier and to the inverter for modulating an active power exchanged between the converter and the electrical machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: NUOVO PIGNONE S.p.A.
    Inventors: Simon Herbert Schramm, Christof Martin Sihler, Alfredo Sebastian Achilles, Paola Rotondo
  • Patent number: 8344673
    Abstract: A torsional-mode damping system includes a torque sensor, a torsional damper connected to the torque sensor, a VFD controller connected to the torsional damper, and a VFD converter connected to the VFD controller, the VFD converter being configured to control an electric power supplied to the electric motor based on VFD signals generated by the VFD controller, the VFD signals being modified by a torque-correcting signal so as to dampen torsional vibrations at a natural frequency of a compression train.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Nuovo Pignone S.p.A.
    Inventors: Paola Rotondo, Einar Vaughn Larsen
  • Publication number: 20100141193
    Abstract: A torsional-mode damping system includes a torque sensor, a torsional damper connected to the torque sensor, a VFD controller connected to the torsional damper, and a VFD converter connected to the VFD controller, the VFD converter being configured to control an electric power supplied to the electric motor based on VFD signals generated by the VFD controller, the VFD signals being modified by a torque-correcting signal so as to dampen torsional vibrations at a natural frequency of a compression train.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Inventors: Paola Rotondo, Einar Vaughn Larsen