201 |
Power Generation and Control System |
US14755182 |
2015-06-30 |
US20150303696A1 |
2015-10-22 |
Stanton Kee Nethery |
A power generation and control system is easily installed in a consumer household, a business, or and end-user establishment for generating power and preventing power from flowing to a power grid from a consumer circuit during a power outage. A communications transceiver is adapted to transmit an enabling signal for enabling power generation only after the control system has been installed. The control system can be adapted to replace an existing circuit breaker in a household circuit box and prevents power from traveling from consumer power generators to the grid during a power outage. In the same manner that end-users can add appliances to existing circuits, end-users can easily add additional power generation devices without hiring a professional electrician and without worrying about causing harm to utility workman during power outages. |
202 |
Energy Efficient Electrical Appliance without Phantom Power Consumption |
US14247253 |
2014-04-08 |
US20150288221A1 |
2015-10-08 |
Yang Pan |
An energy efficient appliance is switched off completely from a main power supply when it is not in operation to deliver designed functionalities. An auxiliary power supply is employed to provide power for receiving restarting signal from a remote control device. In one embodiment, the auxiliary power supply receives power wirelessly from the remote control device to switch on the main power supply. In another embodiment, the auxiliary power supply receives power by harvesting energy available in environment. In still another embodiment, the auxiliary power supply is a replaceable or rechargeable battery. The appliance includes televisions, digital video recorders, air conditioners, lighting systems, audio systems and microwave ovens. The appliance may also include a door open system for a home or for an automobile. |
203 |
INSTALLATION FIXTURE FOR INSTALLING DEVICES ON POWER LINES |
US14732992 |
2015-06-08 |
US20150270689A1 |
2015-09-24 |
Woody J. Gibson; Michael L. Timmer; David L. Ayers; Julie A. Couillard |
An installation fixture for installing a device on a power line is disclosed. The fixture includes a lower cradle that may receive one part of the device, an upper cradle that may receive another part of the device, and a base. The installation fixture may be installed on a worker carrier for a boom truck or the like. The orientation of the lower cradle may be adjusted relative to the base to facilitate the installation on the power line. The upper cradle may be moved between an open position (where the parts may be loaded into the fixture) and a closed position (where the power line is captured between the two parts of the device) and at which time that parts can be secured together. |
204 |
Arrangement and method for avoiding stray currents in wind power plants |
US14126525 |
2012-06-18 |
US09112384B2 |
2015-08-18 |
Ralf Hagedorn |
The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for avoiding stray currents in a wind power plant. There is an insulating power source having a galvanic decoupled secondary side, an electrical load coupled to the secondary side of the insulating power source through an electrical conductor and a stray current sensitive mechanical component of the wind power plant. The insulating power source is located at a first side of the stray current sensitive mechanical component and the load is located at a second side of the stray sensitive mechanical component. The electrical conductor is coupled to a common ground potential at the second side. |
205 |
Power system including an electret for a power bus |
US13241862 |
2011-09-23 |
US09093867B2 |
2015-07-28 |
John A. Kovacich; John Trublowski |
A power system for an alternating current power bus includes an electret operatively associated with the alternating current power bus. The electret includes an output having an alternating current voltage when the alternating current power bus is energized. A rectifier includes an input electrically interconnected with the output of the electret and an output having a direct current voltage responsive to the alternating current voltage of the output of the electret. A powered device includes an input electrically interconnected with the output of the rectifier. The powered device is powered responsive to the direct current voltage of the output of the rectifier. |
206 |
VEHICLE-MOUNTED ELECTRIC ROTATING MACHINE |
US14514583 |
2014-10-15 |
US20150102782A1 |
2015-04-16 |
Hideaki NAKAYAMA; Harumi HORIHATA |
A vehicle-mounted electric rotating machine includes a field winding wound on a rotor for magnetizing a field pole of the rotor, a stator winding for generating an AC voltage in accordance with a rotating magnetic field generated by the field pole, a power converter for converting the AC voltage to a DC voltage and outputting the DC voltage through a first power supply line connected to an output terminal thereof, and a load dump handling section for performing a load dump protection operation when a voltage of the output terminal of the power converter exceeds a threshold voltage. The load dump handling section is supplied with operating power through a second power supply line provided separately from the first power supply line. |
207 |
OPERATING METHOD FOR A WIND PARK |
US14510811 |
2014-10-09 |
US20150028593A1 |
2015-01-29 |
Aloys Wobben |
The present invention concerns a method of operating a wind park having a plurality of wind power installations. A wind power installation includes an electrical energy storage means associated with the wind power installation to store electrical energy which is consumed for starting up the wind power installation after stoppage and consumed for emergency shutdown of the wind power installation. In some embodiments, the wind power installation includes a control system to control taking of energy from the electrical energy storage means for an emergency shutdown procedure such that a sufficient emergency shutdown reserve is maintained in the electrical energy storage means to start a first wind power installation without consuming energy from a network. |
208 |
STORAGE BATTERY CONTROL APPARATUS, STORAGE BATTERY CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE BATTERY SYSTEM |
US14374669 |
2013-11-08 |
US20150008884A1 |
2015-01-08 |
Yuki Waki; Tatsuya Mizobata; Minoru Takazawa |
A storage battery control apparatus includes: a storage battery state detection unit which obtains a remaining SOC which is an SOC of a storage battery at the start of a supply and demand control period; an offset power value determination unit which determines an offset power value that is a power value indicating charge or discharge; an adjustment instruction value obtainment unit which obtains an adjustment instruction value indicating a state of charge and discharge of the storage battery; and a charge and discharge control unit which performs control of discharging power from the storage battery to the grid or charging power from the grid to the storage battery, the power having a magnitude of a first power value which is a power value obtained by adding the offset power value to the adjustment instruction power value indicated by the adjustment instruction value. |
209 |
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT OF AN ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE |
US14362856 |
2012-12-07 |
US20140336840A1 |
2014-11-13 |
Jay Craig Geinzer; John Christopher Shelton; Brett Lance Galura |
Approaches for managing and maintaining a state of charge of an energy storage device by adjusting (biasing) responses to electrical grid operator commands to perform ancillary services are disclosed. In embodiments, methods and systems regulate a set point regulation in an energy system. In an embodiment, a method determines when the set point needs to be changed, calculates a new set point, and moves the output of the system from an old set point to the new set point at a defined ramp rate. The method then incorporates, as part of a set point algorithm, the capability to restore the energy storage device to a desirable state of charge (SOC). Embodiments implement Dynamic Bias, SOC and Signal Bias Range Maintaining, Operational Limits, and Fixed Signal Bias algorithms and perform Intelligent Algorithm Selection to manage and maintain the SOC of an energy storage device by biasing responses to grid operator commands. |
210 |
UNIVERSAL VOLTAGE CONVERTER AND INDUCTIVE POWER COUPLING |
US14236466 |
2012-08-07 |
US20140306546A1 |
2014-10-16 |
Gerardus Lucien Mathildus Jansen; Funda Sahin Nomaler; Can Nemlioglu; Ronald Hans Van Der Voort |
The present invention relates to a Voltage converter (100) for converting an input voltage (V10) to an output voltage (V20) comprising an input circuitry (102) for receiving the input voltage (V10) from a power supply (112), wherein the input circuitry includes chopper means (110) for chopping a voltage (V12) derived from the input voltage (V10) at a chopper frequency to a chopped voltage (V14), an inductive transformer unit (106) for transforming the chopped voltage (V14) to a chopped AC voltage (V16), and an output circuitry (104) for converting the chopped AC voltage (V16) of the inductive transformer unit (106) to the output voltage (V20) having a lower frequency than the chopper frequency. |
211 |
SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ELECTRICAL POWER TO A WIND TURBINE COMPONENT |
US14222990 |
2014-03-24 |
US20140291990A1 |
2014-10-02 |
Marc SALA LLUMÀ; Ramon PIÑANA ÀVILA |
Systems for providing electrical power to one or more wind turbine electrical components is provided comprising an electrical grid and an auxiliary power source for providing electrical power, and one or more wind turbines. Each of the wind turbines includes a wind turbine generator, one or more electrical components, a main voltage transformer for connecting the wind turbine generator to the grid and a switchgear arranged between the main voltage transformer and a point of connection to the grid. One or more switches for alternately connecting either said electrical grid or said auxiliary power source to the switchgears of the wind turbines are provided. The switchgears comprise a switchgear voltage transformer, the switchgear voltage transformer includes primary and secondary windings, the primary windings receiving power from the electrical grid or auxiliary power source, and the secondary windings delivering electrical power to the wind turbine electrical components. |
212 |
Power line energy harvesting power supply |
US12569446 |
2009-09-29 |
US08594956B2 |
2013-11-26 |
John Fredrick Banting; Bruce W. McBee |
A current transforming harvester (“CTH”) is capable of producing power from a conductor on a preexisting power grid without alteration of the conductor or the preexisting power grid. The CTH includes a current transformer (“CT”) that captures energy via magnetic flux from the conductor. The CT is substantially circular and includes two halves called a “split core,” which allow the CT to easily attach to the conductor without opening the circuit in which the conductor operates. A clamping mechanism of the CTH may secure the CTH to the conductor via a pair of spring-biased clamp pads. The CTH includes circuitry that converts the magnetic flux energy captured by the CT into electrical energy suitable for consumption by an electrical device. |
213 |
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HARVESTING POWER FROM AN OVERHEAD TRANSMISSION CONDUCTOR |
US13773131 |
2013-02-21 |
US20130214736A1 |
2013-08-22 |
Andrew John Phillips; Chris Engelbecht; Eric Engdahl |
An apparatus and method of harvesting power for charging batteries of a robot traversing an overhead transmission conductor is disclosed. The apparatus is adapted to harvest power from the overhead transmission conductor and provide a DC voltage for charging a battery and includes a first shield wire bonded to a structure that is grounded to the earth, a second shield wire isolated from the structure, and a charging station. The first shield wire, second shield wire, structure, and earth form a loop into which induced currents flow. The charging station is electrically connected to the second shield wire and adapted to convert induced currents flowing along the second shield wire into a DC voltage for charging a battery of the charging station. |
214 |
Power Supply for a Charge and Electricity Production Plant |
US13766496 |
2013-02-13 |
US20130208522A1 |
2013-08-15 |
Pascal Monjean; Jerome Auguste |
A power supply system for a charge is provided. The power supply system includes a converter connected in input to a current source and in output to a charge, the converter being able to deliver a direct current to the charge and allow the circulation of the current in a single direction, from the current source to the charge and a circulation bus for an electric current, including a first end and a second end. The power supply system further includes a device for injecting an additional alternating voltage and at the second end of the circulation bus, the injection device being connected to the second end and a device for recovering the additional injected alternating voltage, the recovery device being connected between the first end of the bus and the charge, so as to supply the charge with electrical current. |
215 |
ADVANCED TOPOLOGIES FOR OFFSHORE POWER SYSTEMS |
US13521792 |
2011-01-27 |
US20130121846A1 |
2013-05-16 |
Jose L. Gilarranz; Kenneth Devito |
A variable speed compression system that is driven by a variable frequency high speed motor that receives power from a high frequency generation unit that is driven by a high speed gas turbine is provided. The speed of the turbine may be varied to control the output frequency of the high frequency generation unit, thus controlling the output of the compression system by controlling the speed of the turbine driving the generation unit. |
216 |
EMERGENCY SYSTEM |
US13521474 |
2011-01-28 |
US20120281802A1 |
2012-11-08 |
Shinji Niida |
An emergency system of nuclear facility includes a gas turbine generator 35 serving as an emergency power supply that can supply power to the nuclear facility, a separation valve 38 that can separate an interior and an exterior of a containment vessel 10 from each other at a time of an accident in the nuclear facility, a battery 39 that can supply power to the separation valve 38 at a time of loss of the power from the external power supply, and a control device 32 that can control operations of the gas turbine generator 35, the separation valve 38, and the battery 39, wherein when loss of the power from the external power supply and an accident in the nuclear facility occur, the control device 32 starts the gas turbine generator 35 and closes the separation valve 38 to which power is supplied from the battery 39. |
217 |
Auxiliary power supply with a coupling capacitor between a high voltage line and ground |
US12624516 |
2009-11-24 |
US08072192B2 |
2011-12-06 |
Lennart Angquist |
A power supply apparatus includes a coupling capacitor arranged to be connected on its first end to ground; a transformer including a primary winding and a secondary winding; a first rectifier bridge connected in parallel with the secondary winding; and an energy storage, to which a load is arranged to be connected. The primary winding is arranged to be connected between a second end of the coupling capacitor and a high voltage transmission line such that all current between the second end of the coupling capacitor and the high voltage transmission line passes through the primary winding. The energy storage is arranged to be charged by means of a current passing through the first rectifier bridge. Furthermore, the power supply apparatus includes a bypasser. A corresponding three-phase apparatus is also presented. |
218 |
Method of Recovering Power Losses In A Residential, Commercial, or Industrial Facility |
US12915442 |
2010-10-29 |
US20110116212A1 |
2011-05-19 |
Timothy A. Rosemore; James Owings; Shawn Ferrell |
Disclosed is a method of installing a passive electrical element, or voltage control guard (VCG), in an electrical circuit of a circuit breaker box in an electrical network of a residential, industrial, or commercial facility. The VCG has an inherent capacitance, resistance, and inductance and has at least two electrical leads that are installed to establish a parallel connection on a neutral bus bar in the circuit breaker box, with a portion of a current on neutral bus bar flowing through the VCG. When the VCG is properly installed, the VCG converts wasted or lost power in the electrical network to useable power, thereby reducing the total electrical consumption of the facility. |
219 |
Energy supply system and method related thereto |
US12294200 |
2006-03-23 |
US07936091B2 |
2011-05-03 |
Lennart Ängquist; Per Halvarsson; Bengt Stridh; Torbjörn Ringvall |
An energy supply system adapted for supplying energy to equipment on a high voltage platform. The system includes a fuel cell and an effectuating capacitor. The system also includes an intermediate storage and supply unit. This unit stores energy from the fuel cell and supplies energy to the effectuating capacitor via an electric transforming unit. A high voltage platform including the energy supply system. An electrical network including the platform. A method for supplying energy to equipment on a high voltage platform. |
220 |
Power Generation and Control System |
US12544338 |
2009-08-20 |
US20100052429A1 |
2010-03-04 |
Stanton Kee Nethery, III |
A power generation and control system is easily installed in a consumer household, a business, or an end-user establishment for generating power and preventing power from flowing to a power grid from a consumer circuit during a power outage A communications transceiver is adapted to transmit a permission signal for allowing power generation only after the control system has been installed. The control system can be adapted to replace an existing circuit breaker in a household circuit breaker box and prevents power from traveling from consumer power generators to the grid during a power outage. In the same manner that end-users can add appliances to existing circuits, end-users can easily add additional power generation devices without hiring a professional electrician and without worrying about causing harm to utility workman during power outages. |