John T Vandevanter

6366301, Apr 2, 2002

Aug 18, 1999

09/376601

Robert P. Thomas - Ellington CT
John S. Vandevanter - East Granby CT
Geoff Butland - Farmington CT

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

G09G 500

345771, 345810, 702183, 702184

A three dimensional power management control system provides control and graphical representation of a plurality of electrical devices and components of an electrical distribution system. The PMCS includes a graphical representation of tagout/lockout displays (i. e. , Danger and Ground Tags) representative of a physical lockout/tagout tag attached locally to a device of the electrical distribution system. The graphical displays include a large bit map representative of a Danger tag and a Ground Tag installed on a device, and representative symbols displayed at other graphical and tabular data displays associated with the tagged device. The implementation of the virtual lockout/tagout displays is automated using software, namely a Tagging Wizard. The Tagging Wizard provides automated configuration of the lockout/tagout graphic and the ability to install and remove virtual tagout displays associated with the graphical representation of the device of the distribution system. The Tagging Wizard logically links a one-line wizard associated with each graphical and/or tabular representation a common device to a common discrete memory tag for storing the tagged condition of a device.

6985784, Jan 10, 2006

Feb 25, 2003

10/373629

John S. Vandevanter - East Granby CT, US
Thomas F. Papallo - Farmington CT, US
Ellen E. Spahr - Farmington CT, US

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

G06F 19/00

700 95, 700286, 700 19, 361 97

There is provided a computer-implemented method for configuring a centralized circuit breaker protection system. The method includes determining configuration data for a processor in the centralized circuit breaker protection system in accordance with a parameter relating to an operation of the centralized circuit breaker protection system, and configuring the processor with the configuration data. There is also provided an apparatus for configuring a centralized circuit breaker protection system, and a storage media containing instructions for controlling a computer for configuring a centralized circuit breaker protection system.

7986503, Jul 26, 2011

Sep 15, 2003

10/662971

Thomas F. Papallo - Farmington CT, US
Gregory P. Lavoie - Bristol CT, US
John S. Vandevanter - East Granby CT, US

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

H02H 3/00

361 62, 361 64

A circuit protection system is provided that utilizes a single state definition for each of the zones of protection of the circuit to increase computational efficiency. Multiple zone protective functions can be performed on a single zone of protection and can reference the single state definition.

20030040897, Feb 27, 2003

Mar 8, 2001

09/802294

Thomas Murphy - Southington CT, US
Kelley Gourley - Minneapolis MN, US
Cliff Winkel - Eagan MN, US
Brett Bolte - Ramsey MN, US
Veronica Kertesz - Bristol CT, US
Donald Whitehead - Rockfall CT, US
James Burke - Southington CT, US
Harshad Tanna - Plainville CT, US
Subhash Garg - Bristol CT, US
A. Rao - Huderabad, IN
S.S. Lakshmi - Hyderabad, IN
Sudhir Mishra - Plainville CT, US
J. Lakshminarayana - Plainville CT, US
Pradeep Tamanna - Hyderabad, IN
B. Kumar - Vizag, IN
M. Kailashnath - Sunnyvale CA, US
Patrick Salas - Unionville CT, US
Donald Brown - Plainville CT, US
Jose Bscheider - Southbury CT, US
Grady Broadnax - Durham NC, US
Edgar Yee - Chapel Hill CT, US
Mary Doddy - Gaithersburg MD, US
Indrajit Purkayastha - Weatogue CT, US
Sara Simplot - Burlington IA, US
Dana Foster - Harwinton CT, US
John Vandevanter - East Granby CT, US
Wolfgang Meyer-Haack - Neumunster, DE

G06F015/177
G06G007/54
G06F017/50

703/018000, 709/220000, 710/009000

A power management and control system having a dynamic data exchange (DDE) server simulator for simulating supervisory management and control of electrical distribution systems is presented. The DDE server simulator is an alternative DDE server which simulates device values rather than acquiring data from real devices. The DDE server simulator generates and calculates device data from user generated electrical property profiles and updates DDE compliant clients. The DDE server simulator accepts the actual topics and item names and power profiles are user configurable with an option to apply white noise to the data, which provides true-to-life values to the user. These simulated measured values are used to calculate derived parameters and pre-set arrays provide wave form data in the proper format. Device events and trips can be interjected by the user and properly interpreted by the simulator. The data is passed to the clients via DDE.

20030212473, Nov 13, 2003

Feb 25, 2003

10/373573

John Vandevanter - East Granby CT, US

General Electric Company

H02H003/20

700/293000, 361/091100

There is provided a processing system for a power distribution system. The processing system includes a first processor for executing a first task having a first priority, and a second processor for executing a second task having a second priority.

58623914, Jan 19, 1999

Apr 3, 1996

8/626102

Patrick G. Salas - Farmington CT
Donald R. Brown - Plainville CT
Jose Bscheider - Seymour CT
Thomas A. Murphy - Southington CT
Grady W. Broadnax - Bristol CT
Edgar Yee - Chapel Hill NC
Mary A. Doddy - Farmington CT
Veronica Kertesz - Bristol CT
Indrajit Purkayastha - Weatogue CT
Sara Uecker - Burlington IA
James Burke - Southington CT
Dana Foster - Harwinton CT
John S. Vandevanter - East Granby CT
Wolfgang Meyer-Haack - Plainville CT

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

G06F 1760

39575001

The power management control system comprises a computer having standard RS485 interface cards and adapters installed in its I/O slots defining multiple industry standard Modbus RTU networks. The computer contains software for monitoring and controlling selected aspects of power usage/consumption, as described in more detail hereinafter. The Modbus RTU protocol is a well known industry standard. Devices with a Modbus RTU interface can be connected directly to the Modbus and other devices which communicate on the Commnet protocol require a Modbus concentrator. The Modbus concentrator provides an interface between the Modbus RTU protocol and the Commnet protocol, whereby these other devices can communicate through the Modbus concentrator over the Modbus. Alternatively, standard Ethernet interface cards and adapters are installed in the computer's I/O slots defining multiple standard Ethernet TCP/IP networks. The Ethernet TCP/IP protocol is a well known standard, which would allow a user of the power management control system of the present invention to use its existing LAN.