The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 1982
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1977
Thomas H Putman, Penn Hills, PA (US);
Laszlo Gyugyi, Penn Hills, PA (US);
Michael B Brennen, Wilkins Township, Allegheny County, PA (US);
Electric Power Research Institute, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A voltage regulator is taught for maintaining the terminal voltage of a three phase transmission line at a fixed reference value. The voltage regulator system utilizes the reactance of the transmission line in conjunction with reactive current from a VAR generator to compensate for the voltage effect of line current as it flows through the line reactance. The VAR generator is of the parallel capacitor-inductor type where the inductor is controlled by a thyristor switch. The conduction of the thyristor is controlled by utilizing a control system which generates an error signal based on the half period average of line voltage. The error signal is converted to a signal which is proportional to flux linkages by an integrator and then compared with the integral of the voltage signal for determining the conduction angle of the thyristor switches.