IP Library Granted Patent US 12,228,593
Granted Patent B2
US 12,228,593 · App. 17/691,585 · Granted Feb 18, 2025

Control method of an electrotechnical device

Inventors: Marcel Chevalier (Grenoble, FR); Didier Van Dooren (Tullins, FR)
Assignee: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
G01R19/003G01K13/00G01R31/56G01R31/66
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Patent No.
US 12,228,593
App. No.
17/691,585
Granted
Feb 18, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for monitoring an electrotechnical device, the electrotechnical device including three phases respectively connected to three phases of an electrical network and the method making it possible to determine an alert on the basis of a comparison between specific parameters associated with each of the phases and obtained from temperature and current measurements on each of the phases.

Claims (22)

1. A method for monitoring an electrotechnical device, the electrotechnical device comprising three phases respectively connected to three phases of an electrical network, the method comprising:

measuring, for each phase, a plurality of temperature values within a determined time interval,

measuring, for each phase, a plurality of current values within the determined time interval,

determining, for each phase, a plurality of specific parameters, each specific parameter being determined based on a temperature value and on a current value of the corresponding phase, measured at corresponding times of the determined time interval,

comparing specific parameters of the phases over the determined time interval, the specific parameters including all or some of the plurality of specific parameters of the phases, wherein comparing the specific parameters includes comparing evolution of the specific parameters of one of the phases of the three phases with evolution of the specific parameters of at least one of the other phases of the three phases over the time interval, and

determining an alert on the basis of the comparison.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the current values are RMS current values and the specific parameters correspond to the temperature values divided by the squares of the RMS current values measured at the corresponding times of the determined time interval.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the comparison comprises determining a regression function for the specific parameters for each of the phases over the determined time interval and comparing the regression functions.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein comparing the regression functions comprises comparing respective gradients, the functions being linear functions.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein an alert is determined on the basis of the comparison when a difference between a first gradient of a regression function associated with a first phase and a second gradient of a regression function associated with a second phase is greater than a determined alert coefficient threshold.

6. The method according to claim 4 , wherein a sum of the squares of the residuals is determined for each of the phases based on their respective linear regression function.

7. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the regression function for a phase is determined using a least squares method.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the determined alert comprises a notification indicating a possible connection fault between the electrotechnical device and the electrical network.

9. The method according to claim 8 , wherein the alert comprises an identifier of a phase on which a possible connection fault has occurred.

10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the alert comprises an alert message sent to a server, the alert message comprising an identifier of the electrotechnical device and at least one of an identifier of a phase of the electrotechnical device and an operating duration of the electrotechnical device.

11. A method for processing alert messages by way of a server, the method for processing alert messages comprising the server receiving a plurality of alert messages obtained using the method according to claim 10 , each alert message being associated with an electrotechnical device by an identifier and an operating duration, the method for processing alert messages further comprising at least one of:

identifying a type of electrotechnical device comprising a manufacturing defect based on the alert messages, or

determining a fault function for a type of electrotechnical device based on the alert messages.

12. The method for processing alert messages according to claim 11 , wherein each alert message is further associated with a phase of the identified electrotechnical device, and wherein the method for processing alert messages comprises identifying a manufacturing defect or connection fault with a phase of a type of device based on the alert messages.

13. An electrotechnical system comprising an electrotechnical device comprising three phases respectively connected to three phases of an electrical network, the electrotechnical system further comprising at least three temperature sensors designed to measure a temperature on each of the phases, the electrotechnical system further comprising a computer designed to control the electrotechnical system according to the method of claim 1 .

14. A processing device comprising a computer configured to implement the method according to claim 11 .

15. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer- readable medium having instructions stored thereon for causing the method of claim 1 to be performed when the instructions are executed by a computer.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 10, 2022
From: CHEVALIER, MARCEL; VAN DOOREN, DIDIER
To: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SAS
Reel/Frame 059226/0322 →
Priority Claims (1)
FR 2103011 · Mar 25, 2021 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20220308097A1 · Sep 29, 2022
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