Patents by Inventor Pascal Becker

Pascal Becker 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: 12601764
    Abstract: An electric circuit arrangement and to a measuring method for the galvanically separate, AC/DC-sensitive residual-current measurement, the measuring method including registering a residual current (Id) by means of a measuring current transformer having a toroid and precisely one secondary winding; supplying power to the secondary winding and generating a time-modulated, binary measuring signal (V) having a corresponding dwell time (Th, T1) in a first state (S1) and a second state (S2) by means of a driver circuit having an oscillation circuit; evaluating the dwell times (Th, T1) by means of a computing unit and outputting a residual-current measured value (Im, I'm) by a data interface, wherein the driver circuit having the oscillation circuit forms an integral structural unit in the form of a driver module, which is supplied with a shared, unipolar operating voltage (Ub) by a power-supply device together with the computing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignee: Bender GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Pascal Becker
  • Publication number: 20250370442
    Abstract: A method of simulating a process section of an industrial process is provided. The method comprises obtaining a model of mechanical flows within the process section and obtaining a state-based control logic describing interactions between equipment associated to the process section. The method further comprises providing a simulation model for the process section based on the model of mechanical flows and the control logic and simulating the process section based on the simulation model. Providing the simulation model comprises automatically interpreting the model of mechanical flows and the control logic; and automatically integrating interactions between the model of mechanical flows and the control logic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2025
    Publication date: December 4, 2025
    Inventors: Mario Hoernicke, Katharina Stark, Nicolai Schoch, Sten Gruener, Pascal Becker, Roland Braun, Nafise Eskandani, Sara Emilie Thode, Lukas Linsbauer
  • Publication number: 20250298777
    Abstract: A method for facilitation of FAIR data in a domain of a drive system, drive product and/or drive application includes providing a formal description of one or more elements and/or of one or more interrelations of the one or more elements in the domain of the drive system, drive product and/or drive application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2025
    Publication date: September 25, 2025
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Nicolai Schoch, Virendra Ashiwal, Pascal Becker
  • Publication number: 20250299017
    Abstract: A method for obtaining a domain-informed machine learning/artificial intelligence, ML/AI, model for drive analytics includes obtaining first data indicative of a set of data points, wherein each data point is associated with a behavior of a drive apparatus and/or drive system. The method further comprises obtaining second data indicative of domain knowledge comprising physics knowledge associated with a behavior of the drive apparatus and/or drive system and/or with an environment of the drive apparatus and/or drive system. The method further comprises training a machine learning/artificial intelligence, ML/AI, model by jointly utilizing the first data and the second data to obtain the domain-informed ML/AI model for drive analytics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2025
    Publication date: September 25, 2025
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Chen Song, Virendra Ashiwal, Pascal Becker, Nicolai Schoch
  • Publication number: 20250299039
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing one or more surrogate neural networks for execution on resource-constrained device, such as an edge device, the method comprising retrieving a trained initial neural network trained to make predictions for a set of classes of input data, selecting a subset of classes among the set of classes, the subset comprising one or more classes, creating a copy of the initial neural network, obtaining a surrogate neural network, the obtaining comprising retraining the copy of the initial neural network to make predictions for the subset of classes, wherein, for the retraining, predictions of the trained initial neural network are used as ground truth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2025
    Publication date: September 25, 2025
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Pascal Becker, Nicolai Schoch, Virendra Ashiwal
  • Publication number: 20250299027
    Abstract: A method for obtaining an artificial intelligence (AI) agent applicable on a drive application. The method comprises obtaining training data indicative of predetermined drive operational data related to predetermined drive applications and/or of predetermined drive parameters related to the predetermined drive applications. The method further comprises training a large language model-, LLM-, based generative AI agent using the obtained training data to identify at least one of the following: first drive parameters related at least partly to the drive application, and relationships among the first drive parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2025
    Publication date: September 25, 2025
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Virendra Ashiwal, Nicolai Schoch, Pascal Becker
  • Patent number: 12072366
    Abstract: A method and an electric circuit arrangement for determining a branch insulation resistance and a branch leakage capacitance of a line branch to be monitored in a branched, ungrounded power supply system having active conductors and a measuring voltage fed centrally by a controllable measuring voltage source and a residual current caused by the measuring voltage being registered using a current sensor in the line branch to be monitored. The centrally supplied measuring voltage is formed over a generator period having a characteristic signal form defined via the frequency composition. By this (frequency) modulation of the measuring voltage, information is transmitted from the central feed location of the measuring voltage to the current sensor disposed in the line branch to be monitored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Bender GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Pascal Becker
  • Publication number: 20240151748
    Abstract: An electric circuit arrangement and to a measuring method for the galvanically separate, AC/DC-sensitive residual-current measurement, the measuring method including registering a residual current (Id) by means of a measuring current transformer having a toroid and precisely one secondary winding; supplying power to the secondary winding and generating a time-modulated, binary measuring signal (V) having a corresponding dwell time (Th, T1) in a first state (S1) and a second state (S2) by means of a driver circuit having an oscillation circuit; evaluating the dwell times (Th, T1) by means of a computing unit and outputting a residual-current measured value (Im, I'm) by a data interface, wherein the driver circuit having the oscillation circuit forms an integral structural unit in the form of a driver module, which is supplied with a shared, unipolar operating voltage (Ub) by a power-supply device together with the computing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventor: Pascal BECKER
  • Publication number: 20240012042
    Abstract: A method and an electric circuit arrangement for determining a branch insulation resistance and a branch leakage capacitance of a line branch to be monitored in a branched, ungrounded power supply system having active conductors and a measuring voltage fed centrally by a controllable measuring voltage source and a residual current caused by the measuring voltage being registered using a current sensor in the line branch to be monitored. The centrally supplied measuring voltage is formed over a generator period having a characteristic signal form defined via the frequency composition. By this (frequency) modulation of the measuring voltage, information is transmitted from the central feed location of the measuring voltage to the current sensor disposed in the line branch to be monitored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventor: Pascal Becker
  • Patent number: 11867718
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for identifying and locating cyclic momentary insulation faults in an ungrounded power supply system, the method comprising the steps: detecting a fault current caused by the momentary insulation fault as a differential current in the branch circuit to be monitored and displaying the temporal progression of the differential current via a differential current signal by means of a differential current sensor; providing a processing signal which temporally describes a process sequence of a process taking place in the consumer; correlating the differential current signal with the processing signal in a computing unit in order to yield a correlation signal as a measure for a temporal match between the differential current signal and the processing signal; signaling the momentary insulation fault via the computing unit by means of a signaling signal if the correlation signal shows the temporal match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Bender GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Dieter Hackl, Karl Schepp, Pascal Becker
  • Patent number: 11789060
    Abstract: A grounded socket and a method for insulation fault location in an ungrounded power supply system including insulation monitoring by a standard insulation monitoring device superimposing a measuring voltage on the ungrounded power supply system for determining an insulation resistance of the ungrounded power supply system. The grounded socket includes a housing having electrical contacts, a signaling device for signaling an insulation state, and a current measuring device for detecting and evaluating a differential current, the current measuring device having a measuring current transformer and evaluating electronics, and the current measuring device being configured for high-resolution detection and evaluation of a measuring current driven by the measuring voltage as a differential measuring current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: BENDER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Pascal Becker, Karl Schepp
  • Publication number: 20230125797
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for identifying and locating cyclic momentary insulation faults in an ungrounded power supply system, the method comprising the steps: detecting a fault current caused by the momentary insulation fault as a differential current in the branch circuit to be monitored and displaying the temporal progression of the differential current via a differential current signal by means of a differential current sensor; providing a processing signal which temporally describes a process sequence of a process taking place in the consumer; correlating the differential current signal with the processing signal in a computing unit in order to yield a correlation signal as a measure for a temporal match between the differential current signal and the processing signal; signaling the momentary insulation fault via the computing unit by means of a signaling signal if the correlation signal shows the temporal match.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Dieter Hackl, Karl Schepp, Pascal Becker
  • Patent number: 11573250
    Abstract: An electric circuit arrangement and a measuring method for a galvanically insulated, AC/DC sensitive differential current measurement having a high resolution having: a toroid current transformer having at least one secondary winding for detecting a differential current; a driver circuit for powering the secondary winding; a first oscillator circuit for controlling the driver circuit and for generating a time-modulated binary oscillator signal having dwell times in a state 1 and a state 2; a second oscillator circuit for determining the corresponding dwell time in the states 1 and 2 in high resolution by means of a clock signal having a clock rate independent of the oscillator signal; an evaluation device for evaluating the dwell time; and a data interface for outputting a differential-current measuring value; the driver circuit and the second oscillator circuit each being realized as structurally individual, integrated circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Bender GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Pascal Becker
  • Publication number: 20210382104
    Abstract: A grounded socket and a method for insulation fault location in an ungrounded power supply system including insulation monitoring by a standard insulation monitoring device superimposing a measuring voltage on the ungrounded power supply system for determining an insulation resistance of the ungrounded power supply system. The grounded socket includes a housing having electrical contacts, a signaling device for signaling an insulation state, and a current measuring device for detecting and evaluating a differential current, the current measuring device having a measuring current transformer and evaluating electronics, and the current measuring device being configured for high-resolution detection and evaluation of a measuring current driven by the measuring voltage as a differential measuring current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Pascal Becker, Karl Schepp
  • Publication number: 20210318359
    Abstract: An electric circuit arrangement and a measuring method for a galvanically insulated, AC/DC sensitive differential current measurement having a high resolution having: a toroid current transformer having at least one secondary winding for detecting a differential current; a driver circuit for powering the secondary winding; a first oscillator circuit for controlling the driver circuit and for generating a time-modulated binary oscillator signal having dwell times in a state 1 and a state 2; a second oscillator circuit for determining the corresponding dwell time in the states 1 and 2 in high resolution by means of a clock signal having a clock rate independent of the oscillator signal; an evaluation device for evaluating the dwell time; and a data interface for outputting a differential-current measuring value; the driver circuit and the second oscillator circuit each being realized as structurally individual, integrated circuits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventor: Pascal Becker
  • Publication number: 20210231717
    Abstract: A method and device for determining a division of a total insulation resistance and of a total system leakage capacitance in an ungrounded power supply system. The basic idea is to determine how the total insulation resistance is divided into partial insulation resistances and how the total system leakage capacitance is divided into partial system leakage capacitances between the active conductors of the ungrounded power supply system from displacement voltages measured between each of the active conductors of the ungrounded power supply system based on values determined in advance for the total insulation resistance and for the total system leakage capacitance of the ungrounded power supply system. By evaluating the displacement voltages in terms of their changes in amplitude, their frequency and their phasing, conclusions can be drawn as to the division of the total insulation resistance and of the total system leakage capacitance between the individual active conductors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Dieter Hackl, Oliver Schaefer, Pascal Becker, Karl Schepp
  • Patent number: 11002776
    Abstract: A method and device for determining a division of a total insulation resistance and of a total system leakage capacitance in an ungrounded power supply system. The basic idea is to determine how the total insulation resistance is divided into partial insulation resistances and how the total system leakage capacitance is divided into partial system leakage capacitances between the active conductors of the ungrounded power supply system from displacement voltages measured between each of the active conductors of the ungrounded power supply system based on values determined in advance for the total insulation resistance and for the total system leakage capacitance of the ungrounded power supply system. By evaluating the displacement voltages in terms of their changes in amplitude, their frequency and their phasing, conclusions can be drawn as to the division of the total insulation resistance and of the total system leakage capacitance between the individual active conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: BENDER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Dieter Hackl, Oliver Schaefer, Pascal Becker, Karl Schepp
  • Publication number: 20200025813
    Abstract: A method and device for determining a division of a total insulation resistance and of a total system leakage capacitance in an ungrounded power supply system. The basic idea is to determine how the total insulation resistance is divided into partial insulation resistances and how the total system leakage capacitance is divided into partial system leakage capacitances between the active conductors of the ungrounded power supply system from displacement voltages measured between each of the active conductors of the ungrounded power supply system based on values determined in advance for the total insulation resistance and for the total system leakage capacitance of the ungrounded power supply system. By evaluating the displacement voltages in terms of their changes in amplitude, their frequency and their phasing, conclusions can be drawn as to the division of the total insulation resistance and of the total system leakage capacitance between the individual active conductors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Dieter Hackl, Oliver Schaefer, Pascal Becker, Karl Schepp