公开(公告)号：US09683540B2

公开(公告)日：2017-06-20

申请号：US14384071

申请日：2013-03-11

Applicant: ABB Technology AG

Inventor： Friedrich Winkler ,  Georg Traxler-Samek ,  Stefan Linder

IPC: F03B13/06 ,  H02M7/483 ,  H02J3/36 ,  H02K7/18 ,  F01D19/00 ,  H02P27/14 ,  H02H7/04 ,  H02P1/52 ,  H02J3/42 ,  H02P9/00 ,  H02P25/022 ,  H02H3/02 ,  H02P9/04 ,  H02P9/08 ,  H02P25/024

CPC classification number: F03B13/06 ,  F01D19/00 ,  H02H3/02 ,  H02H7/04 ,  H02J3/36 ,  H02J3/42 ,  H02K7/1807 ,  H02M7/483 ,  H02P1/52 ,  H02P9/00 ,  H02P9/04 ,  H02P9/08 ,  H02P25/022 ,  H02P25/024 ,  H02P27/14 ,  Y02E60/17 ,  Y02P80/116

Abstract: A pumped-storage power plant, such as an electric unit can include a frequency converter and a rotating electric synchronous machine, the machine being provided in a cavern. The frequency converter can include at least two elements which can be used as inverters or as rectifiers according to the operating mode of the machine, for example during the operation of the motor or during the operation of the generator. The machine-side element can be provided within the cavern, and the network-side element can be provided outside of the cavern.

公开(公告)号：US20170170824A1

公开(公告)日：2017-06-15

申请号：US14965385

申请日：2015-12-10

Applicant: ABB Technology AG

Inventor： Yu Du ,  Hongrae Kim ,  Taosha Jiang

IPC: H03K17/94 ,  H03K17/687

CPC classification number: H03K17/94 ,  H01C7/02 ,  H01C7/06 ,  H01H2085/0283 ,  H03K17/687

Abstract: A resettable solid state fuse that automatically restores an interrupted circuit after an overcurrent event is cleared. The resettable solid state fuse can include one or more switching devices, such as, for example, a normally-on power semiconductor, and one or more positive temperature coefficient (PTC) resistive elements. The switching device is structured to extend the voltage rating of the resettable fuse, allowing the solid state resettable fuse to attain both a relatively elevated voltage rating and a relatively elevated electrical current rating while using a PTC resistive element. According to certain embodiments, the solid state resettable fuse can be tripped by a cascaded PTC resistive element, thereby providing a passive electronic device that can operate in the absence of electronic sensing, detection, and tripping, as well as without reliance on an auxiliary power supply.

公开(公告)号：US09678919B2

公开(公告)日：2017-06-13

申请号：US14477369

申请日：2014-09-04

Applicant: ABB Technology AG

Inventor： Cornelius Heckrott ,  Henrik Pind

IPC: G06F13/42 ,  G06F13/40 ,  H04L25/02

CPC classification number: G06F13/4286 ,  G06F13/4072 ,  H04L25/028

Abstract: A communication module is disclosed for Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) which can implement the EIA-485 standard, including an intelligent hardware support that can allow a known software-based collision detection function to detect collisions independently of the location of the message sources on the transmission line. The hardware support can enable both a “strong signal driving” mode as well as a “weak signal driving” mode. In the weak mode, a biasing, or attenuating, or voltage-dividing resistor can be temporarily inserted between a transmitter, or voltage source, and the transmission line.

公开(公告)号：US20170149217A1

公开(公告)日：2017-05-25

申请号：US14949917

申请日：2015-11-24

Applicant: ABB Technology AG

Inventor： Rahul Pawar

IPC: H02B1/56

CPC classification number: H02B1/565 ,  H02B13/025

Abstract: A switchgear enclosure includes a first circuit breaker compartment having an opening therein defining a first air outlet. A second circuit breaker compartment is adjacent to and vertically below the first circuit breaker compartment. A first door is associated with the first circuit breaker compartment and a second door is associated with the second circuit breaker compartment, with each door having an opening therein defining a door air inlet. A main bus compartment is adjacent to at least the second circuit breaker compartment and has an opening therein defining a second air outlet. An air passage fluidly connects the second circuit breaker compartment with the main bus compartment so that air entering through the door air inlet of the second door can flow into the main bus compartment via the air passage and flow out of the second air outlet.

公开(公告)号：US09658260B2

公开(公告)日：2017-05-23

申请号：US14017597

申请日：2013-09-04

Applicant: ABB Technology AG

Inventor： Xiaoming Feng ,  Vaibhav Donde ,  Ernst Scholtz

IPC: G01R21/00 ,  G01R19/25 ,  H02J3/36

CPC classification number: G01R19/2513 ,  H02J3/36 ,  Y02E60/60 ,  Y02E60/74 ,  Y04S10/30

Abstract: A power system grid is decomposed into several parts and decomposed state estimation steps are executed separately, on each part, using coordinated feedback regarding a boundary state. The achieved solution is the same that would be achieved with a simultaneous state estimation approach. With the disclosed approach, the state estimation problem can be distributed among decomposed estimation operations for each subsystem and a coordinating operation that yields the complete state estimate. The approach is particularly suited for estimating the state of power systems that are naturally decomposed into separate subsystems, such as separate AC and HVDC systems, and/or into separate transmission and distribution systems.

公开(公告)号：US20170141693A1

公开(公告)日：2017-05-18

申请号：US14939792

申请日：2015-11-12

Applicant: ABB Technology AG

Inventor： Arash Rahnamaee ,  Hongrae Kim ,  Zhiguo Pan

IPC: H02M5/458

CPC classification number: H02M5/458 ,  H02M7/4826

Abstract: A power converter includes an output converter having a 3-phase or higher output, an inductor coupled to the output converter and a switch device coupled to the inductor. The switch device charges the inductor via a DC input during a first stage of a switching cycle of the switch device. The output converter discharges the inductor to a load coupled to the 3-phase or higher output during a second stage of the switching cycle. The output converter includes a phase leg for each phase of the 3-phase or higher output, each phase leg having a first thyristor device connected in series with a second thyristor device. Each phase of the 3-phase or higher output originates between the first thyristor device and the second thyristor device of the corresponding phase leg.

公开(公告)号：US09653238B2

公开(公告)日：2017-05-16

申请号：US14688217

申请日：2015-04-16

Applicant: ABB TECHNOLOGY AG

Inventor： Dietmar Gentsch

IPC: H01H33/662 ,  H01H33/666

CPC classification number: H01H33/66207 ,  H01H33/666 ,  H01H2033/6623

Abstract: An exemplary embedded pole part with an isolating housing, which accommodates a vacuum interrupter as well as electric terminals by an injected embedding material, wherein the injected embedding material is filled with silica based on silicon dioxide as filler material, and the silica is silica fume, which includes amorphous, non-porous spheres of silicon dioxide and agglomerates thereof.

公开(公告)号：US09620319B2

公开(公告)日：2017-04-11

申请号：US14245777

申请日：2014-04-04

Applicant: ABB Technology AG

Inventor： Fabio Mannino ,  Gabriele Valentino De Natale

IPC: G01R31/327 ,  H01H50/00 ,  H01H47/10 ,  H01H83/12 ,  H01H1/00 ,  H01H83/06 ,  H01H83/20

CPC classification number: H01H50/00 ,  G01R31/3278 ,  H01H1/0015 ,  H01H47/10 ,  H01H83/06 ,  H01H83/12 ,  H01H2083/203

Abstract: An exemplary coil actuator for an associated switching device which can be actuated during its operation from an open position to a closed position to allow a current to flow therethrough and from the closed position to the open position to interrupt such flowing from flowing therethrough. The coil actuator includes a coil electromagnet arranged to move between a rest position and an actuating position, wherein movement from the rest position to the actuating position is suitable to cause the actuation of the switching device; and an electronic component arranged to count an operation time which is indicative of the duration of the actuation of the switching device.

公开(公告)号：US09620302B2

公开(公告)日：2017-04-11

申请号：US13918577

申请日：2013-06-14

Applicant: ABB Technology AG

Inventor： Matthias Schmidt ,  Thomas Brenneis ,  Jörg Knospe

IPC: H01H3/24 ,  H01H33/34 ,  H01H9/00 ,  H01H35/38 ,  H01H3/30

CPC classification number: H01H3/24 ,  H01H3/301 ,  H01H33/34 ,  H01H35/38 ,  H01H2009/0083

Abstract: A storage module for a hydraulic stored-energy spring mechanism for operating a high-voltage switch, for example a high-voltage circuit breaker, having a spring element which acts to store energy and having a fluid for transmitting the energy of the spring element, by a moving storage piston, to a piston rod for operating the high-voltage switch, wherein the storage piston projects into the housing which is filled with fluid and the housing forms a pressurized storage reservoir for the fluid. The pressurized storage reservoir is connected to a hydraulic system of the stored-energy spring mechanism by at least one channel element which projects into the pressurized storage reservoir and a pressurized channel which is connected to the channel element. The storage piston closes a subregion of the channel element starting from a specific piston stroke “s”.

公开(公告)号：US09609609B2

公开(公告)日：2017-03-28

申请号：US14449512

申请日：2014-08-01

Applicant: ABB Technology AG

Inventor： Bernhard Deck ,  Thomas Küng

IPC: H04L12/06 ,  H04W56/00 ,  H04J3/16 ,  H04Q9/00 ,  H04J3/06

CPC classification number: H04W56/0015 ,  H04J3/0602 ,  H04J3/1688 ,  H04Q9/00

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments for updating a controller of a primary device of a power substation. An actual time is received from a time server via a cell phone communication network with a mobile device and the actual time is sent with the mobile device via a local wireless communication network to the controller.