Intel Corporation

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Tomm Aldridge

Robert Fite

Casey R Winkel

Donald S Gardner

Barrett M Faneuf

John L Gustafson

Zhaohui Chen

Wei C Jin

Annabelle Pratt

Donovan D Van Sleet

James Y Song

Eric Cabot Hannah

Krishnan Ravichandran

Lilly Huang

Rinkle Jain

Stephen W Montgomery

William E Berry

Ted Dibene

Eugene Gorbatov

Devadatta V Bodas

Scott Bruce Clendenning

Harish Krishnamurthy

Pavan Kumar

Charles W Holzwarth

Joseph T Dibene, Ii

Cary L Pint

Yang Liu

Pranav Sanghadia

Eyran Eylon

Shiraz Saleem

Barrett Fanuef

A method for monitoring and reporting conditions of motors and transformers, the steps including: first, collecting measurements and data using at least one sensor to measure performance indicators of at least one motor or transformer; next, analyzing and processing the data using local computing hardware and software connected to the at least one sensor; then, transmitting the data to a cloud based analytics system for further processing and storage of the data and analytics results; lastly, making the stored analytics results available to a user through user interface processing.

Method and device to monitor and automatically report electric motor and transformer conditions

Methods of increasing an energy density of an energy storage device involve increasing the capacitance of the energy storage device by depositing a material into a porous structure of the energy storage device using an atomic layer deposition process, by performing a procedure designed to increase a distance to which an electrolyte penetrates within channels of the porous structure, or by placing a dielectric material into the porous structure. Another method involves annealing the energy storage device in order to cause an electrically conductive substance to diffuse to a surface of the structure and form an electrically conductive layer thereon. Another method of increasing energy density involves increasing the breakdown voltage and another method involves forming a pseudocapacitor. A method of increasing an achievable power output of an energy storage device involves depositing an electrically conductive material into the porous structure.

Method of increasing an energy density and an achievable power output of an energy storage device

Techniques for providing a synthetic price are described herein. The techniques may include a method of synthetic price provisioning including identifying a device operating in a consumption entity, wherein the device operates at least partially based on a pricing signal provided by an energy provider. Optimal operation is determined based on the device and other devices in the consumption entity. The method includes providing a synthetic pricing signal to replace the pricing signal provided by the energy provider such that the devices operate according to the optimization model.

Synthetic pricing for devices in an energy management system

An energy storage device includes a middle section () including a plurality of double-sided porous structures (), each of which contain multiple channels () in two opposing surfaces () thereof, an upper section () comprising a single-sided porous structure () containing multiple channels () in a surface () thereof, and a lower section () including a single-sided porous structure () containing multiple channels () in a surface () thereof.

Energy storage device, method of manufacturing same, and mobile electronic device containing same

Methods and systems may provide for receiving a set of voltage samples corresponding to a line voltage of a leg in an electrical system and conducting a time domain analysis to identify one or more loads in the electrical system. Additionally, the time domain analysis may be used to identify one or more loads in the electrical system. In one example, conducting the time domain analysis involves classifying events with respect to cross correlation, shape magnitude, transient amplitude, transient duration, run delta and/or standard deviation.

Electrical load identification using system line voltage

Methods and systems may provide for identifying, and distinguishing between electrical loads using time and frequency domain analysis of at least one property of an alternating current during a transient event. In one example, time and frequency domain features may be computed from the voltage signatures of an ON event. A support vector machine classifier may then be trained using the feature vectors (including the time and frequency domain features) for known devices. The trained support vector machine may classify or identify an unknown electrical device using a feature vector as input.

Electrical load identification during an on event using a support vector machine classifier

An energy storage structure includes an energy storage device containing at least one porous structure () that contains multiple channels (), each one of which has an opening () to a surface () of the porous structure, and further includes a support structure () for the energy storage device. In a particular embodiment, the porous structure and the support structure are both formed from a first material, and the support structure physically contacts a first portion () of the energy storage device and exposes a second portion () of the energy storage device.

Energy storage structure, method of manufacturing a support structure for same, and microelectronic assembly and system containing same

Techniques to enable voltage regulators to adjust for coming load changes are presented herein. In some embodiments, a functional block such as a microprocessor core having an associated clock signal is powered by at least one switching-type voltage regulator. When the functional block is about to require an increased level of power, the associated clock is provided to drive the at least one regulator switches overriding their normal drive signal, which has a lower frequency. Thus, the switches are driven at a higher frequency sufficiently prior to (e.g., just ahead of) the load change to reduce the amount of droop that would otherwise occur.

Voltage regulator with drive override

A voltage regulator may include a voltage converter to generate an output voltage based on an input voltage and a control signal. The voltage regulator may also include a control loop to adjust the control signal based on a magnitude of an error between a digital representation of the output voltage and an adaptive digital reference voltage. Additionally, the voltage regulator can have adaptive voltage positioning logic to modify the adaptive digital reference voltage based on the magnitude of the error.

Adaptive voltage positioning logic for voltage regulators

In some embodiments, a voltage regulator device may include a switched capacitor voltage regulator to receive an input voltage and to provide an output voltage to a load, and a control unit to receive information related to a desired output voltage for the switched capacitor voltage regulator and to determine a desired input voltage for the switched capacitor voltage regulator based on the desired output voltage and selected operation mode or modes of switched capacitor voltage regulator. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.

Switched capacitor voltage regulator with high efficiency over a wide voltage range

Methods and devices capable of measuring, analyzing, and monitoring electrical energy consumption of appliances and devices within a building are provided. Voltage sensors that are optionally connected to electrical socket outlets are employed within a building or section of a building to infer the identity of electricity-consuming devices and the amount of power the devices are consuming individually and collectively. Energy use inferencing devices according to embodiments of the invention provide ease of installation, simplicity, manageability, and ease-of-use that can engender deployment by electricity consumers, such as, home owners and businesses.

Inferencing energy usage from voltage droop

The invention relates to a method and apparatus for producing aligned carbon nanotube thermal interface structures using batch and continuous manufacturing processes. In a batch process a capacitor is immersed in a bath containing a slurry of thermoplastic polymer containing randomly oriented carbon nanotubes and energized to create an electrical field to orient the carbon nanotubes prior to curing. In a continuous process, slurry carried by a conveyor receives the nanotube aligning electric field from capacitors positioned on both sides of the conveyor bearing the slurry.

Method and apparatus for producing aligned carbon nanotube thermal interface structure

A 'digital data stream,' 'binary sequence' or word can be generated by a logic circuit such as a processor and the sequence can be converted to a series of pulses such that the content of the sequence can be utilized to accurately control/drive a plurality of power transistors. Accordingly, a regulated voltage can be provided through such a data type output of a processor. Thus, a standard processor that executes data processing operations can provide a low level logic signal as a serial digital transmission, possibly a four bit word, and control a power supply without significant modification. To achieve such a conversion the processor can be capacitively coupled to a voltage level shifter and a delay module to provide a plurality of power transistor drive signals. The converter can be wholly integrated onto a processor or motherboard to eliminate devices and stand alone assemblies that are commonly required in data processing systems.

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