Patents by Inventor Thierry Dufaure

Thierry Dufaure 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).

  • POWER AUTOMATION INSTALLATION AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A POWER AUTOMATION INSTALLATION
    Publication number: 20140142777
    Abstract: In order to simplify and design the configuration in particular of a power automation installation with a comparatively high number of power automation devices in such a way that as far as possible no interruption of operation is necessary, a method for operating a power automation installation is proposed, wherein the power automation installation includes a plurality of power automation devices and at least one higher-level installation control device for controlling and/or monitoring the power automation devices. An additional power automation device is connected to the concentrator device and automatic configuration of the concentrator device is carried out by the incorporation of a device description file of the additional power automation device into a concentrator data model of the concentrator device. There is also provided a corresponding power automation installation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Inventors: Henry Dawidczak, Thierry Dufaure, Heiko Englert