Patents by Inventor Roberto Rosso

Roberto Rosso 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: 20240063736
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for parameterizing a converter, in particular a converter of a wind power installation, comprising the steps of: defining an operating situation of the converter in which the converter is electrically connected to an electric machine; simulating and/or operating the converter in the operating situation; acquiring an acoustic, in particular vibroacoustic, quantity of the electric machine; and determining a parameter for the converter in consideration of the acoustic quantity for the operating situation, in particular such that the acoustic quantity is minimized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Roberto Rosso, Johannes Warsinski, Christoph Greiwe
  • Patent number: 11774994
    Abstract: Provided is a control module of a converter, in particular a power converter of a wind power installation, which is configured to control the converter in such a way that the converter emulates a behavior of a synchronous machine, comprising an, in particular internal, control loop which has an, in particular adjustable, virtual admittance by means of which the converter is controlled in order to emulate the behavior of the synchronous machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: Roberto Rosso, Sönke Engelken, Marco Liserre
  • Patent number: 11705734
    Abstract: A wind farm, having a nominal power, for feeding electrical power into a supply network, comprising: wind power installations, a wind farm network and a stabilization unit connected to the wind farm network and arranged between the installations and the supply network. The stabilization unit increases a stability of the wind farm and comprises: an energy storage device which is set up to provide an electrical power, an intermediate circuit which is connected to the storage device and which is set up to conduct at least the electrical power provided by the storage device, an inverter connected to the intermediate circuit and set up to form at least the electrical power provided by the storage device, and a control unit set up to control at least the inverter such that the stabilization unit at the wind farm appears, statically as well as dynamically, like an electromechanical synchronous machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: Roberto Rosso, Sönke Engelken, Marco Liserre
  • Publication number: 20230188051
    Abstract: A method for controlling a converter, preferably a generator-side active rectifier of a power converter of a wind power installation. The method includes specifying a target value for the converter, specifying a carrier signal for the converter, capturing an actual value, determining a distortion variable from the target value and the actual value and determining driver signals for the converter on the basis of the distortion variable and the carrier signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Roberto Rosso, Johannes Warsinski
  • Publication number: 20230187943
    Abstract: A method for controlling a converter, preferably a generator-side active rectifier of a power converter of a wind power installation, comprising: specifying a target value for the converter; specifying a carrier signal for the converter; capturing an actual value; determining a distortion variable from the target value and the actual value; and determining driver signals for the converter on the basis of the distortion variable and the carrier signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Roberto Rosso, Johannes Warsinski
  • Publication number: 20230188065
    Abstract: A method for controlling a converter, preferably a generator-side active rectifier of a power converter of a wind power installation, comprising: specifying a target value for the converter; specifying a carrier signal for the converter; capturing an actual value; determining a distortion variable from the target value and the actual value; and determining driver signals for the converter on the basis of the distortion variable and the carrier signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Roberto Rosso, Johannes Warsinski
  • Patent number: 11646583
    Abstract: A wind farm for supplying electrical power into a supply grid. The farm includes wind power installations, a farm grid connecting the installations, and a power flow control device. The power flow control device is configured to connect the farm grid and the supply grid such that an electrical power generated by the installations can be supplied into the supply grid. The power flow control device has at least: a DC link configured to conduct at least the electrical power generated by the installations, an electrical energy store connected to the DC link, an inverter connected to the DC link and configured to inject at least the electrical power generated by the installations into the supply grid, and a controller configured to drive the inverter in such a way that the farm, at the supply grid, in the steady state appears to be dynamic like an electromechanical synchronous machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: Roberto Rosso, Sönke Engelken, Marco Liserre
  • Patent number: 11585320
    Abstract: A method for controlling a multiphase separately excited synchronous generator in a wind turbine is provided. The generator has a stator and an armature having an excitation input, connected to an excitation controller, for inputting an excitation current or an excitation voltage. The stator has a stator output, connected to a rectifier, for delivering stator currents. The rectifier is controllable to control the stator currents by detecting a speed of the armature or rotor, determining a setpoint power to be delivered by the generator or the turbine based on the speed, determining an excitation current or voltage based on the detected speed and determined setpoint power, inputting the excitation current or voltage by excitation controller at the excitation input, determining the stator currents as setpoint stator currents based on the speed and the setpoint power, and controlling the rectifier to set the stator currents to the setpoint stator currents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: Roberto Rosso, Jair Cassoli, Sönke Engelken, Amgad Eldeib
  • Patent number: 11566601
    Abstract: Provided is a control circuit of a converter, in particular a power converter of a wind power installation, configured to control the converter in such a way that the converter emulates a behavior of a synchronous machine. The control circuit includes a power module for calculating a power change depending on a detected power and a correction module for setting a power set point, in particular for the converter, depending on the calculated power change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: Roberto Rosso, Sönke Engelken, Marco Liserre
  • Publication number: 20220360139
    Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling an active rectifier connected to a stator of a wind power installation using field-oriented control. The generator comprises a stator having an axis of rotation around which the rotor is mounted. The method includes predefining rotor-fixed d and q coordinates for at least one 3-phase stator current of the generator and determining at least one alternating component for the rotor-fixed d and/or q coordinate depending on a detected amplitude and detected phase position of an electrical power oscillation on the generator and taking account of a rotor position representing a mechanical position of the rotor in relation to the stator. The method includes adding the alternating component for the rotor-fixed d and/or q coordinate to the rotor-fixed d and/or q coordinate to form a modified d and/or q coordinate, and controlling the active rectifier at least depending on the modified d and/or q coordinate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Jair CASSOLI, Roberto ROSSO
  • Publication number: 20220045516
    Abstract: A wind farm for supplying electrical power into a supply grid. The farm includes wind power installations, a farm grid connecting the installations, and a power flow control device. The power flow control device is configured to connect the farm grid and the supply grid such that an electrical power generated by the installations can be supplied into the supply grid. The power flow control device has at least: a DC link configured to conduct at least the electrical power generated by the installations, an electrical energy store connected to the DC link, an inverter connected to the DC link and configured to inject at least the electrical power generated by the installations into the supply grid, and a controller configured to drive the inverter in such a way that the farm, at the supply grid, in the steady state appears to be dynamic like an electromechanical synchronous machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Roberto ROSSO, Sönke ENGELKEN, Marco LISERRE
  • Publication number: 20220045517
    Abstract: A wind farm, having a nominal power, for feeding electrical power into a supply network, comprising: wind power installations, a wind farm network and a stabilization unit connected to the wind farm network and arranged between the installations and the supply network. The stabilization unit increases a stability of the wind farm and comprises: an energy storage device which is set up to provide an electrical power, an intermediate circuit which is connected to the storage device and which is set up to conduct at least the electrical power provided by the storage device, an inverter connected to the intermediate circuit and set up to form at least the electrical power provided by the storage device, and a control unit set up to control at least the inverter such that the stabilization unit at the wind farm appears, statically as well as dynamically, like an electromechanical synchronous machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Roberto ROSSO, Sönke ENGELKEN, Marco LISERRE
  • Patent number: 11043817
    Abstract: A method for feeding electrical power into a three phase electrical power supply network at a network connection point, in particular by means of a wind power installation, using an inverter, comprising the following steps: detecting an electrical network voltage, in particular at the network connection point, determining a virtual generator voltage using a machine model that emulates a behavior of a synchronous machine, preparing the detected network voltage for comparison with the virtual genera-tor voltage, predefining a setpoint current as predefinition for an infeed current as a function of the virtual generator voltage and as a function of the network voltage prepared for comparison, and generating the infeed current depending on the setpoint current and feeding the generated infeed current at the network connection point into the electrical power supply network, wherein preparing the detected network voltage for comparison with the virtual generator voltage comprises transforming the detected network v
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbH
    Inventors: Jair Cassoli, Truong Duc Trung, Roberto Rosso, Sönke Engelken
  • Publication number: 20210172418
    Abstract: Provided is a control circuit of a converter, in particular a power converter of a wind power installation, configured to control the converter in such a way that the converter emulates a behavior of a synchronous machine. The control circuit includes a power module for calculating a power change depending on a detected power and a correction module for setting a power set point, in particular for the converter, depending on the calculated power change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Roberto Rosso, Sönke Engelken, Marco Liserre
  • Publication number: 20210173423
    Abstract: Provided is a control module of a converter, in particular a power converter of a wind power installation, which is configured to control the converter in such a way that the converter emulates a behavior of a synchronous machine, comprising an, in particular internal, control loop which has an, in particular adjustable, virtual admittance by means of which the converter is controlled in order to emulate the behavior of the synchronous machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Roberto Rosso, Sönke Engelken, Marco Liserre
  • Publication number: 20200350842
    Abstract: A method for controlling a multiphase separately excited synchronous generator in a wind turbine is provided. The generator has a stator and an armature having an excitation input, connected to an excitation controller, for inputting an excitation current or an excitation voltage. The stator has a stator output, connected to a rectifier, for delivering stator currents. The rectifier is controllable to control the stator currents by detecting a speed of the armature or rotor, determining a setpoint power to be delivered by the generator or the turbine based on the speed, determining an excitation current or voltage based on the detected speed and determined setpoint power, inputting the excitation current or voltage by excitation controller at the excitation input, determining the stator currents as setpoint stator currents based on the speed and the setpoint power, and controlling the rectifier to set the stator currents to the setpoint stator currents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: Roberto ROSSO, Jair CASSOLI, Sönke ENGELKEN, Amgad ELDEIB
  • Publication number: 20200091728
    Abstract: A method for feeding electrical power into a three phase electrical power supply network at a network connection point, in particular by means of a wind power installation, using an inverter, comprising the following steps: detecting an electrical network voltage, in particular at the network connection point, determining a virtual generator voltage using a machine model that emulates a behavior of a synchronous machine, preparing the detected network voltage for comparison with the virtual genera-tor voltage, predefining a setpoint current as predefinition for an infeed current as a function of the virtual generator voltage and as a function of the network voltage prepared for comparison, and generating the infeed current depending on the setpoint current and feeding the generated infeed current at the network connection point into the electrical power supply network, wherein preparing the detected network voltage for comparison with the virtual generator voltage comprises transforming the detected network v
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Jair CASSOLI, Truong Duc TRUNG, Roberto ROSSO, Sönke ENGELKEN
  • Patent number: 8583843
    Abstract: Disclosed is a communications control bus. The bus comprises an IMB slave CPU, at least two registers, and a three bit data connector, which connects the two registers. The connector permits transmission of a three bit data signal between the two registers. A network interconnects the two registers and the IMB slave CPU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Inventor: Roberto Rosso
  • Publication number: 20110106996
    Abstract: Disclosed is a communications control bus. The bus comprises an IMB slave CPU, at least two registers, and a three bit data connector, which connects the two registers. The connector permits transmission of a three bit data signal between the two registers. A network interconnects the two registers and the IMB slave CPU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventor: Roberto Rosso