Patents by Inventor Walter Pfyl

Walter Pfyl 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: 4567424
    Abstract: In a reactive power compensator used for capacitive or inductive reactive powers in alternating-voltage networks, a capacitor is connected to an alternating-voltage network for a short time by means of a thyristor switch. In order to reduce the voltage load on the thyristor switch, a discharge circuit is connected in parallel with the capacitor. Via this circuit, the capacitor can discharge, after being disconnected from the alternating-voltage network, with such a speed that the voltage occurring at the thyristor switch is no greater than about 1.5 times the maximum network voltage. In the discharge circuit, a variable inductive reactive resistance can be a discharge circuit choke having an iron core or the primary winding of a transformer. When the capacitor is connected to the alternating-voltage network, the discharge circuit choke is unsaturated and its reactive resistnace is large (or the transformer secondary is open) so that no significant leakage current can flow via the discharge circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1986
    Assignee: BBC Brown, Boveri & Company, Limited
    Inventors: Josip Dobsa, Peter Mauchle, Walter Pfyl, Kadry Sadek
  • Patent number: 4555658
    Abstract: A compensation circuit for reactive power balance includes a capacitor, inductor and rectifier connected in series to a power system. In order to protect the rectifier from misfires of the thyristors, two discharge devices are connected in parallel to the series circuit from the common points in the series circuit. This protects the thyristors in case of a double misfire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1985
    Assignee: BBC Brown, Boveri and Company, Limited
    Inventors: Michael Hausler, Philippe Huber, Walter Pfyl, Kadry Sadek