APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING ORDER OF POWER DEVICES IN POWER GENERATION SYSTEM

• Main Authors: IRAN YOSKOVITCH, GIL LITMANOVITCH, AMIR FISHELOV, LIOR HANDELSMAN, OHAD GIDON, YAKIR LOEWENSTERN, DAVID BRAGINSKY, YOAV GALIN, SELA GUY
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 25.06.2020
• Subjects: CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTINGELECTRIC POWER; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER; ELECTRICITY; GENERATION; GENERATION OF ELECTRIC POWER BY CONVERSION OF INFRA-REDRADIATION, VISIBLE LIGHT OR ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT, E.G. USINGPHOTOVOLTAIC [PV] MODULES; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY

To provide a method for determining the order of power devices connected through a series string.SOLUTION: A power generation system includes a hardware processor implementing the following steps for: (i) commanding at least one of a plurality of power devices to adjust an electrical output parameter; (ii) instructing at least one transmission power device to transmit an electrical signal; (iii) instructing at least one reception power device to receive an electrical signal, recording at least one value of the received electrical signals, and sending at least one value of the received electrical signals; (iv) receiving at least one value of the received electrical signals; and (v) analyzing a value of at least one of the received electrical signals to determine order of at least some of the plurality of power devices.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 18 【課題】直列ストリングで接続する電力デバイスの順序を判定するための方法を提供する。【解決手段】以下の方法を実施するハードウェアプロセッサを備える発電システム。（ｉ）複数の電力デバイスのうちの少なくとも一つに、電気出力パラメータを調整するように命令し、（ｉｉ）少なくとも一つの送信電力デバイスに、電気信号を送信するように命令し、（ｉｉｉ）少なくとも一つの受信電力デバイスに、電気信号を受信し、受信した電気信号のうちの少なくとも一つの値を記録し、受信した電気信号のうちの少なくとも一つの値を送るように命令し、（ｉｖ）受信した電気信号のうちの少なくとも一つの値を受信し、（ｖ）複数の電力デバイスのうちの少なくとも一部の順序を判定するように、受信した電気信号のうちの少なくとも一つの値を分析するように構成される。【選択図】図１８