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Power Parameter

Power Parameter patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.

11/30/06 - 20060271312 - System and method for detecting impaired electric power equipment
The present invention is directed to a system and method for detecting impaired electric power equipment. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention may receive electromagnetic radiation and process the resulting signal. For example, signal processing may be used to identify electromagnetic radiation having a particular pattern that is characteristic ...

10/26/06 - 20060241880 - Methods and apparatus for monitoring power flow in a conductor
An energy monitoring device includes means for sensing current in a power line and generating an analog signal representative thereof. The energy monitoring device includes means for generating a digital representation of the current. The energy monitoring device includes means for assuming a voltage value and calculating at least one ...

10/26/06 - 20060241879 - Arc detection and handling in radio frequency power applications
A radio frequency power delivery system comprises an RF power generator, arc detection circuitry, and control logic responsive to the arc detection circuitry. A dynamic boundary is computed about the measured value of a parameter representative of or related to the power transferred from the power generator to a load. ...

10/26/06 - 20060241878 - Surface paneling module, surface paneling module arrangement and method for determining the distence of surface paneling modules of the surface paneling module arrangement to at least one reference position, processor arrangement, textile fabric structure
The invention relates to a surface paneling module that includes a power supply connection and a data transfer interface as well as a processor that is coupled to the power supply connection and the data transfer ...

10/12/06 - 20060229831 - Power line parameter analysis method and system
A method and apparatus is disclosed for determining the incident energy of a system. Specifically, there is provided a technique comprising measuring a voltage of an ac waveform, causing a resonant ring in the ac waveform, measuring a frequency of the resonant ring, computing a line impedance based upon the ...

09/28/06 - 20060217906 - Voltage fault detection and protection
A fault detection and protection circuit can include a comparing circuit (e.g., a comparator or a detector) that can be connected to a power line supplying power to an electronic device being tested. The comparing circuit can be configured to detect a fault in which the power line is shorted ...

09/28/06 - 20060217905 - Power supply with performance display
A power supply with performance display is disclosed. The computer power supply mainly has a power converter, a control module, and a display. The control module receives and processes the operating signals from the power converter, and then sends those processed signals to a display in a numerical value form. ...

08/24/06 - 20060190198 - Measurement/acquisition system for electric information
An electric-information measurement/acquisition system comprising a sensor unit, a measurement unit, and an acquisition unit. The sensor unit includes sensors for detecting properties such as the voltage, current, temperature, and moisture,. The measurement unit includes: an A/D conversion unit for performing A/D conversion of the properties thus obtained at a ...

06/29/06 - 20060142960 - Method of calculating effective power relating to capacitor, method of measuring effective power consumed by capacitor, capacitor selection method, calculation apparatus for calculating effective power relating to capacitor, and recording medium storing t
In a method of calculating effective power relating to a capacitor, the waveform of a periodic voltage applied to a capacitor is set. The capacitance of a desired capacitor is input. The waveform of the periodic voltage applied to both ends of the capacitor is subjected to Fourier expansion. More ...

06/15/06 - 20060129339 - Power meter
The computational resources of a digital power meter can be reduced by utilizing an interrupt requested in anticipation of interrupt latency to perform real-time tasks, an approximation of a root mean square load current at an earlier time to compensate for a phase shift between the load current and the ...

06/01/06 - 20060116830 - Methods and systems for identifying recurrent patterns
Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying recurrent patterns. In one embodiment, a method comprises: estimating a power spectral density of a time series; determining a duration-level associated with a peak in the power spectral density; and aggregating the time series at the duration-level to obtain a recurrent pattern. ...

04/13/06 - 20060080051 - Power management scheme for external batteries
In a method and system for managing power provided to a load, a power supply system includes a first power peripheral operable to receive and convert a first type of power to a second type of power. Also included in the power supply system is a second power peripheral operable ...

04/06/06 - 20060074573 - Method and apparatus for sizing a power processing device serving multiple drive units
A method for determining supply requirements for a motor control system includes determining a performance profile for each of a plurality of drive units. A power supply parameter for each drive unit is generated based on the performance profiles. The power supply parameters for the drive units are combined to ...

03/09/06 - 20060052958 - Power management integrated circuit
A power management intergrated circuit for monitoring a parameter of a power system is disclosed. The integrated circuit comprises an analog front end operative to receive and at least one of amplify, attenuate and filter analog signals representative of at least one of voltage and current in a power system ...

02/16/06 - 20060036380 - Electric plug having display means to indicate consumed power and electric energy
An electric plug is disclosed which includes a detection circuit, which detects electric current and voltage and removes high frequency noises from power supply; an electric energy measuring and converting circuit, which receives detected signal from the detection circuit and outputs a corresponding electric energy signal; a microprocessor, which proceeds ...

02/16/06 - 20060036379 - Power supply monitor
There is provided a power supply monitor circuit comprising a positive supply monitoring input, a negative supply monitoring input, and a voltage divider connected between the positive and negative supply monitoring inputs and having an intermediate node providing a potential intermediate those on the positive and negative supply monitoring inputs. ...

01/05/06 - 20060004531 - Method and apparatus for anti-islanding protection of distributed generations
An apparatus for anti-islanding protection of a distributed generation with respect to a feeder connected to an electrical grid is disclosed. The apparatus includes a sensor adapted to generate a voltage signal representative of an output voltage and/or a current signal representative of an output current at the distributed generation, ...

12/29/05 - 20050288877 - Method and apparatus for instrument transformer reclassification
Systems and methods for reclassifying instrument transformers. A line mounted device that includes a sensor that can be attached to a power line. The line mounted device generates data or representations of the power parameters of the power line. A processor in the line mounted device produces modified representations of ...

12/29/05 - 20050288876 - Method and apparatus for instrument transformer reclassification
Systems and methods for reclassifying instrument transformers. A line mounted device that includes a sensor that can be attached to a power line. The line mounted device generates data or representations of the power parameters of the power line. A processor in the line mounted device produces modified representations of ...

12/08/05 - 20050273281 - System and method for power quality analytics
The disclosed embodiments comprise a power quality analysis system, device, and method. The combination of at least one power quality parameter value, power quality event properties, non-power quality properties, and time properties is used to create power quality information that is descriptive of power quality events. The power quality information ...

12/08/05 - 20050273280 - Statistical method and apparatus for monitoring parameters in an electric power distribution system
Dynamic thresholds statistically derived are used to define normal conditions at a specific site in an electric power distribution system. High and low and/or caution and alarm thresholds for various parameters are generated as multiples of the standard deviation of the long-term average of measured values calculated from samples gathered ...

10/20/05 - 20050234662 - Method and apparatus for calibrating a frequency domain reflectometer
A calibration system is provided for calibrating frequency domain reflectometers in the field by using both the scattering parameters of the multi-port junction determined at the factory and changing the offset and gain terms used in generating a complex reflection coefficient by using internal calibrated loads so that heavy, cumbersome ...

09/22/05 - 20050209798 - Energy consumption in electrical drive
the data from the control unit related to the state of the AC motor is utilized so that in predetermined one or several measurement time periods, at predetermined measurement intervals at the measurement points (ti), the state data is read, and the measurement values of power and frequency (Pi, fi) ...

09/08/05 - 20050197791 - Switching regulator and image forming apparatus and its control method
A switching regulator has an input voltage detection circuit which inputs a voltage applied to a rectifier diode 7 connected in series with the secondary side of a transformer and generates a voltage signal Vvp corresponding to the voltage, and a calculation unit which calculates a voltage value Vin inputted ...

08/25/05 - 20050187726 - Detecting electromechanical oscillations in power systems
The detection of electromechanical oscillations in power systems and the estimation of their parameters (frequency ƒ and damping ξ) is based on a linear time-varying model. The parameters of the linear model are on-line adapted by means of Kalman filtering techniques to approximate the measured signal y (representing the behaviour ...

08/25/05 - 20050187725 - Method and apparatus for monitoring power quality in an electric power distribution system
A composite power quality indication generated from user weighted statistical contributions of selected system parameters provides an overall indication of power quality in an electric power distribution system. The user defined weightings are maintained over time by continually updating sensitivities that normalize the component contributions to the composite power quality ...

08/11/05 - 20050177327 - Method and apparatus for profiling power performance of software applications
Techniques for profiling systems, such as mobile or embedded devices, are provided. The techniques can profile code executing on these systems based on power used by that code. The system may profile power usage for the entire system or a subsystem, component, or functional unit thereof, for example. The system ...

07/28/05 - 20050165565 - Compressor performance approximation using bin analysis data
A method of calculating energy usage for compressor groupings including the steps of providing bin data for a specific geographical location; inputting desired compressor models and quantities of compressors; inputting compressor data including desired loading characteristics of the compressors; and calculating performance data including energy usage of the compressor grouping. ...

07/21/05 - 20050159907 - Method and apparatus for vlsi clock gated power estimation using lcb counts
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program are provided for modeling algorithm for power consumption with improved accuracy. The improved model allows for variable operation of Local Clock Buffers (LCBs), which consume significant amounts power. Also, the amount of power consumed by each LCB can be varied. These variations ...

07/14/05 - 20050154543 - Power saving effect display device in an inverter device
A power-saving effect displaying unit includes a power-consumption computing unit that calculates power consumption based on a voltage obtained by an output-voltage computing unit and a current obtained by a current detecting unit. A power-saving-effect generating unit acquires a power-saving effect based on the power consumption. A display displays an ...

06/30/05 - 20050143940 - Method of determining the imbalance of a laundry drum
Before a washing machine is switched over to a very high spin speed in the spin program of the washing machine, the existing imbalance due to irregular distribution of laundry in the drum should be checked. If the imbalance is too strong, the spin program should be interrupted if there ...

06/23/05 - 20050137812 - Ultrasonic flowmeter
A low power ultrasonic flowmeter to be powered by a two wire power supply loop is described, comprising: an ultrasonic flow sensor (1, 27), a signal processing unit (13) for determining a measurement result based on measurements performed by the ultrasonic flow sensor (1, 27), an input/output unit (15) to ...



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