Patents by Inventor Tero Virtala

Tero Virtala 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: 20230349683
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for determining the distance to a fault location of a power line to be protected in an electric power system, the method including: configuring the power line to be protected into a plurality of segments, obtaining a plurality of line settings separately for each of the plurality of segments configured, and using the line settings obtained to determine a fault location of the power line to be protected, wherein the line settings include at least one of impedance, resistance, reactance, length, compensation factor, angle. Also disclosed is an intelligent electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventor: Tero VIRTALA
  • Patent number: 10809287
    Abstract: A method and system for measuring alternating-current system quantities through measurement connections producing frequency-dependent errors, in which method the analog signal of at least one measurement channel is sampled at a selected an approximately measured frequency fm at a multiple frequency fs, creating a base series depicting a period on each measurement channel, from each base series the fundamental frequency and the magnitude or phase-angle values or both of at least one harmonic frequency component are calculated with the aid of Fourier analysis or similar, each of which is corrected with the aid of a calibrated frequency-dependent function k(f), when the selected quantities are calculated from the calibrated values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Arcteq Relays Oy
    Inventor: Tero Virtala
  • Publication number: 20190204370
    Abstract: A method and system for measuring alternating-current system quantities through measurement connections producing frequency-dependent errors, in which method the analog signal of at least one measurement channel is sampled at a selected an approximately measured frequency fm at a multiple frequency fs, creating a base series depicting a period on each measurement channel, from each base series the fundamental frequency and the magnitude or phase-angle values or both of at least one harmonic frequency component are calculated with the aid of Fourier analysis or similar, each of which is corrected with the aid of a calibrated frequency-dependent function k(f), when the selected quantities are calculated from the calibrated values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventor: Tero Virtala
  • Publication number: 20160195574
    Abstract: A method and system for measuring alternating-current system quantities through measurement connections producing frequency-dependent errors, in which method the analog signal of at least one measurement channel is sampled at a selected an approximately measured frequency fm at a multiple frequency fs, creating a base series depicting a period on each measurement channel, from each base series the fundamental frequency and the magnitude or phase-angle values or both of at least one harmonic frequency component are calculated with the aid of Fourier analysis or similar, each of which is corrected with the aid of a calibrated frequency-dependent function k(fn), when the selected quantities are calculated from the calibrated values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventor: Tero Virtala