Patents by Inventor Pedro Rodriguez

Pedro Rodriguez 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: 8847620
    Abstract: A missing stator slot wedge in an electrical machine can be detected by analyzing a current spectrum of the machine in a high frequency area. A current spectrum is provided from a current measurement, and values of the current spectrum in the high frequency area used to determine whether a stator slot wedge is missing or not. The conclusion can be based on values of a relative current amplitude IdB or on presence of certain harmonics in the high frequency area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: ABB Research Ltd.
    Inventors: Cajetan Pinto, Pedro Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 8823307
    Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for monitoring including detecting internal faults especially inter-turn faults of a synchronous generator and thus protecting the synchronous generator. The synchronous generator includes a winding for each phase of a power network, a terminal for each phase arranged on a terminal side of the synchronous generator, and connected to the respective winding, the terminals on the terminal side are connected to an electrical power network, and the synchronous generator is arranged to input power to the electrical power network by means of the terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: ABB Research Ltd.
    Inventors: Zoran Gajic, Mustafa Ibrahim, Antonis Marinopoulos, Pedro Rodriguez, Jianping Wang, Liwei Wang
  • Publication number: 20140117912
    Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for monitoring including detecting internal faults especially inter-turn faults of a synchronous generator and thus protecting the synchronous generator. The synchronous generator includes a winding for each phase of a power network, a terminal for each phase arranged on a terminal side of the synchronous generator, and connected to the respective winding, the terminals on the terminal side are connected to an electrical power network, and the synchronous generator is arranged to input power to the electrical power network by means of the terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Inventors: Zoran Gajic, Mustafa Ibrahim, Antonis Marinopoulos, Pedro Rodriguez, Jianping Wang, Liwei Wang
  • Publication number: 20140109679
    Abstract: For identifying a fault in an electrical machine vibration is measured in a plurality of radial directions of the stator. On the basis of the vibration measurements a vibration frequency and a mode shape of the vibration at this frequency is determined. Characteristics of the vibration in terms of both the vibration frequency and the mode shape are used to identify a fault condition of the electrical machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Inventor: Pedro Rodriguez
  • Publication number: 20140067138
    Abstract: The invention relates to a virtual controller of electromechanical characteristics for a static power converter that includes a PLC (23) (power loop controller), which receives, at the input thereof, the power difference (?P) between the input power (Pin) (power delivered to the converter by the primary source) and the power delivered to the grid (Pelec) and is able to modify online the parameters of the virtual inertia coefficient and the damping factor as a function of the desired response and of the grid conditions for different frequency ranges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: ABENGOA SOLAR NEW TECHNOLOGIES, S.A.
    Inventors: Pedro Rodríguez Cortés, José Ignacio Candela García, Joan Roberto Delgado, Remus Teodorescu
  • Publication number: 20140049228
    Abstract: The invention relates to a synchronous power controller for a generation system based on static power converters, said controller comprising two main blocks referred to as: block 1 (electric block) (10) and block 2 (electromechanical block) (20), electric block 1 (10) being, in turn, formed by a virtual electrical characteristic controller (11) and a virtual 10 admittance controller (12) and the electromechanical block 2 (20) being formed by a virtual electromechanical characteristic controller (21) and an inertia and damping factor controller (22).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventors: Pedro Rodríguez Cortés, José Ignacio Candela Garcia, Joan Rocabert Delgado, Remus Teodorescu
  • Publication number: 20140049233
    Abstract: The invention relates to a virtual admittance controller based on static power converters, comprising a control loop into the inlet of which is injected the difference in voltage between a virtual internal voltage (e) and the voltage at the network connection point (v). Said difference in voltages feeds a virtual admittance processor (13) that determines the value of a reference current (i*) that it communicates to a current source (14), said current source physically injecting said current into the network (15).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: Abengoa Solar New Technologies, S.A.
    Inventors: Pedro Rodríguez Cortés, José Ignacio Candela Garcia, Joan Rocabert Delgado, Remus Teodorescu
  • Publication number: 20140049285
    Abstract: A method for discovering demagnetisation faults of a permanent magnet synchronous generator, such as a wind power generator. The method is performed during operation of the synchronous generator and includes measuring the vibration of the stator, performing a frequency analysis of the vibration, and deducing whether the generator suffers from demagnetization of a permanent magnet, from the vibration analysis. Moreover, geometric eccentricity faults and electric short circuit faults may also be detected from the vibration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventor: Pedro Rodriguez
  • Publication number: 20140015250
    Abstract: A wind turbine includes a grid side converter coupled to a grid via a power line. The method includes determining a first active power reference and a first reactive power reference indicating a requested amount of active power and reactive power, respectively, depending on at least a wind turbine operation strategy; determining a positive and negative sequence components of a grid voltage; determining indications of an actual amount of active power and reactive power to be supplied by the grid side converter to the grid, respectively; generating a parameters defining a proportion of positive sequence current component and negative sequence current component to be injected by the grid side converter in order to supply active power and reactive power; and supplying, with the grid side converter, active and reactive power to the power line based on the current reference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/S
    Inventors: Remus Teodorescu, Pedro Rodriguez, Alvaro Luna Alloza, Amit Kumar Gupta
  • Publication number: 20130303386
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for identifying differential activation of a bisubstrate protein modifying enzyme between samples, comprising: (i) incubating a first sample with x different concentrations of the non-protein substrate of said enzyme, wherein x is 2 or greater than 2; (ii) quantifying modification of a polypeptide in said sample at each of the x different concentrations of the non-protein substrate; (iii) determining the affinity of said enzyme for said non-protein substrate; (iv) repeating steps (i) to (iii) for a second or subsequent sample; and (v) comparing the affinity of said enzyme for said non-protein substrate between said samples; wherein a difference in affinity of said enzyme for said non-protein substrate between samples is indicative of differential activation of said enzyme between samples. The present invention also provides a method for identifying an in vivo substrate of a bisubstrate protein modifying enzyme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Inventors: Pedro Rodriguez Cutillas, Bart Vanhaesebroeck, Luisa Marie Beltran
  • Publication number: 20130214811
    Abstract: A missing stator slot wedge in an electrical machine can be detected by analysing a current spectrum of the machine in a high frequency area. A current spectrum is provided from a current measurement, and values of the current spectrum in the high frequency area used to determine whether a stator slot wedge is missing or not. The conclusion can be based on values of a relative current amplitude IdB or on presence of certain harmonics in the high frequency area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Inventors: Cajetan Pinto, Pedro Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 8508073
    Abstract: Methods and mechanisms to simultaneously regulate two or more supply voltages provided to an integrated circuit by a voltage regulator. In an embodiment of the invention, a voltage regulation message exchanged between the integrated circuit and the voltage regulator includes an identifier indicating two or more supply voltages selected from a plurality of supply voltages provided to the integrated circuit by the voltage regulator, where the voltage regulation message relates to the indicated two or more supply voltages. In another embodiment, the voltage regulation message indicates a desired supply voltage level to which the indicated two or more supply voltages are to transition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Hung-Piao Ma, Alon Naveh, Gil Schwarzband, Annabelle Pratt, Jorge Pedro Rodriguez, Joseph T. Dibene, II, Sean M. Welch, Kosta Luria, Edward R. Stanford
  • Publication number: 20130015715
    Abstract: Methods and mechanisms to simultaneously regulate two or more supply voltages provided to an integrated circuit by a voltage regulator. In an embodiment of the invention, a voltage regulation message exchanged between the integrated circuit and the voltage regulator includes an identifier indicating two or more supply voltages selected from a plurality of supply voltages provided to the integrated circuit by the voltage regulator, where the voltage regulation message relates to the indicated two or more supply voltages. In another embodiment, the voltage regulation message indicates a desired supply voltage level to which the indicated two or more supply voltages are to transition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Inventors: Hung-Piao Ma, Alon Naveh, Gil Schwarzband, Annabelle Pratt, Jorge Pedro Rodriguez, Joseph T. Dibene, II, Sean M. WeIch, Kosta Luria, Edward R. Stanford
  • Patent number: 8163481
    Abstract: Methods are provided for isolation of chromatin fractions of nucleoproteins containing histone H1, H2A, H2B, H3 and H4 proteins and/or histone H1, H2A, H2B, H3 and/or H4 proteins, from intact cells. The methods preserve original patterns of covalent modifications of the histone proteins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignees: University of Pittsburgh - of the Commonwealth Systems of Higher Education, University of Wyoming
    Inventors: Pedro Rodriguez-Collazo, Sanford Harrison Leuba, Jordanka Zlatanova
  • Publication number: 20120070844
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for quantifying modified peptides in a sample, the method comprising: (a) obtaining peptides from the sample; (b) adding reference modified peptides to the peptides obtained in step (a) to produce a mixture of peptides and reference modified peptides; (c) carrying out mass spectrometry (MS) on said mixture of peptides and reference modified peptides to obtain data relating to the peptides in the sample; and (d) comparing the data relating to the peptides in the sample with data in a database of modified peptides using a computer programme; wherein the database of modified peptides is compiled by a method comprising: (i) obtaining peptides from a sample; (ii) enriching modified peptides from the peptides obtained in step (i); (iii) carrying out liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) on the enriched modified peptides obtained in step (ii); (iv) comparing the modified peptides detected in step (iii) to a known reference database in order to identify the
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: QUEEN MARY & WESTFIELD COLLEGE
    Inventors: Pedro Rodriguez Cutillas, Bart Vanhaesebroeck
  • Patent number: 8067932
    Abstract: This invention deals with an advanced Real-time Grid Monitoring System (RTGMS) suitable for both single-phase and three-phase electric power systems. This invention provides an essential signal processing block to be used as a part of complex systems either focused on supervising and diagnosing power systems or devoted to control power processors interacting with the grid. This invention is based on a new algorithm very suitable for real-time characterization of the grid variables under distorted and unbalanced grid conditions. The main characteristic of this invention is the usage of a frequency-locked loop, based on detecting the grid frequency, for synchronizing to the grid variables. It results in a very robust system response in relation to existing technique based on the phase-angle detection since grid frequency is much more stable variable than the grid voltage/current phase-angle, mainly during grid faults.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Gamesa Innovation & Technology, S.L.
    Inventors: Remus Teodorescu, Pedro Rodriguez
  • Publication number: 20110285380
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a grid monitoring system, in particular a grid monitoring system enabling real-time monitoring of grid variables, e.g. voltage and current, in electrical power systems, such as single or three-phase networks. The grid monitoring system comprises a harmonic detection unit being adapted to subtract harmonics of an input signal before feeding the input signal to a plurality of signal generators in the harmonic detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2009
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Inventors: Pedro Rodriguez, Remus Teodorescu
  • Publication number: 20110199153
    Abstract: Methods and mechanisms to simultaneously regulate two or more supply voltages provided to an integrated circuit by a voltage regulator. In an embodiment of the invention, a voltage regulation message exchanged between the integrated circuit and the voltage regulator includes an identifier indicating two or more supply voltages selected from a plurality of supply voltages provided to the integrated circuit by the voltage regulator, where the voltage regulation message relates to the indicated two or more supply voltages. In another embodiment, the voltage regulation message indicates a desired supply voltage level to which the indicated two or more supply voltages are to transition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Inventors: Hung-Piao Ma, Alon Naveh, Gil Schwarzband, Annabelle Pratt, Jorge Pedro Rodriguez, Joseph T. Dibene, II, Sean M. Welch, Kosta Luria, Edward R. Stanford
  • Publication number: 20110201518
    Abstract: The invention provides novel healthy kidney biomarkers useful in the monitoring of renal function and in the prognosis and diagnosis of renal dysfunctions, especially those related to graft rejection. The invention further relates to methods for aiding in the evaluation, and design of personalized therapies in transplantation nephrology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Inventors: F. Luis Quintana Porras, Amanda Sole Gonzales, Elisenda Bañôn-Maneus, Josep, M Campistol, Pedro Rodriguez Cutillas
  • Patent number: 7932639
    Abstract: Methods and mechanisms to simultaneously regulate two or more supply voltages provided to an integrated circuit by a voltage regulator. In an embodiment of the invention, a voltage regulation message exchanged between the integrated circuit and the voltage regulator includes an identifier indicating two or more supply voltages selected from a plurality of supply voltages provided to the integrated circuit by the voltage regulator, where the voltage regulation message relates to the indicated two or more supply voltages. In another embodiment, the voltage regulation message indicates a desired supply voltage level to which the indicated two or more supply voltages are to transition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Hung-Piao Ma, Alon Naveh, Gil Schwarzband, Annabelle Pratt, Jorge Pedro Rodriguez, Joseph T. Dibene, II, Sean M. Welch, Kosta Luria, Edward R. Stanford