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公开(公告)号:US20200011561A1
公开(公告)日:2020-01-09
申请号:US16029246
申请日:2018-07-06
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Robert D. Turney , Liming Yang , Yunrui Wang , Yasutaka Yoshida , Kazumoto Urata , Timothy I. Salsbury , John M. House
Abstract: A variable refrigerant flow (VRF) system for a building includes a plurality of outdoor VRF units configured to heat or cool a refrigerant for use in heating or cooling the building and an extremum-seeking controller. The extremum-seeking controller is configured to determine a total power consumption of the plurality of outdoor VRF units, generate a pressure setpoint for the plurality of outdoor VRF units using an extremum-seeking control technique that drives the total power consumption toward an extremum, and use the pressure setpoint to operate the plurality of outdoor VRF units.
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公开(公告)号:US11747800B2
公开(公告)日:2023-09-05
申请号:US16418686
申请日:2019-05-21
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Mohammad N. ElBsat , Michael J. Wenzel , Zhigang Wu , Yasutaka Yoshida , Robert D. Turney , Liming Yang
IPC: G05B23/02 , G06Q30/0282
CPC classification number: G05B23/0283 , G05B23/0294 , G06Q30/0282
Abstract: An automatic work order generation system for model predictive maintenance (MPM) of building equipment including an MPM system including an equipment controller to operate the building equipment to affect an environmental condition of a building. The MPM system can perform a predictive optimization to determine a service time at which to service the building equipment. The automatic work order generation system includes an equipment service scheduler that can determine whether any service providers are available to perform equipment service within a predetermined time range of the service time. In response to determining that service providers are available to perform the equipment service, the equipment service scheduler can select a service provider and an appointment time based on one or more service provider attributes. The equipment service scheduler can generate a service work order and transmit the service work order to the service provider to schedule a service appointment.
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公开(公告)号:US11281173B2
公开(公告)日:2022-03-22
申请号:US16703514
申请日:2019-12-04
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Robert D. Turney , Michael J. Wenzel , Mohammad N. Elbsat , Liming Yang , Matthew J. Ellis , Masayuki Nonaka
IPC: G05B19/042
Abstract: An environmental control system of a building including a first building device operable to affect environmental conditions of a zone of the building by providing a first input to the zone. The system includes a second building device operable to independently affect a subset of the environmental conditions by providing a second input to the zone and further includes a controller including a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to perform an optimization to generate control decisions for the building devices. The optimization is performed subject to constraints for the environmental conditions and uses a predictive model that predicts an effect of the control decisions on the environmental conditions. The processing circuit is configured to operate the building devices in accordance with the control decisions.
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公开(公告)号:US20210148592A1
公开(公告)日:2021-05-20
申请号:US16687122
申请日:2019-11-18
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Robert D. Turney , Liming Yang , Michael J. Wenzel
Abstract: A building cooling system includes one or more cooling devices operable to affect an indoor air temperature of a building and a system management circuit. The system management circuit is configured to obtain an objective function that includes a power consumption term and a comfort term, perform an optimization of the objective function over a time horizon to determine values of the cooling capacity of the cooling devices where each value of the cooling capacity corresponds to a time step of the time horizon, and control the cooling devices based on the values of the cooling capacity of the cooling devices. The comfort term of the objective function a difference between a prediction of the indoor air temperature of the building and a temperature setpoint for the building, while the power consumption term is a function of the power consumption of the one or more cooling devices.
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公开(公告)号:US20210041839A1
公开(公告)日:2021-02-11
申请号:US16535341
申请日:2019-08-08
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Ruoyu Chen , Liming Yang , Robert D. Turney
Abstract: A method for controlling a variable refrigerant flow (VRF) system includes applying a time window to sensor data associated with the VRF system, the sensor data including input data points and having a first resolution, wherein applying the time window to the sensor data isolates a subset of the input data points; applying a timing weight to one or more input data points in the subset of the input data points to generate corrected data points having a second resolution higher than the first resolution; creating a virtual sensor and mapping the corrected data points to an output of the virtual sensor; and controlling the VRF system based on an output of the virtual sensor. The use of virtual sensors with a higher resolution than corresponding physical sensors in this manner allows for existing physical sensors to be used while improving performance of the VRF system.
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公开(公告)号:US20200011562A1
公开(公告)日:2020-01-09
申请号:US16029255
申请日:2018-07-06
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Robert D. Turney , Liming Yang , Yunrui Wang , Yasutaka Yoshida , Kazumoto Urata
Abstract: A variable refrigerant flow (VRF) system for a building. The VRF system includes at least one outdoor VRF unit configured to heat or cool a refrigerant for use in heating or cooling the building. The at least one outdoor VRF unit includes a sub-cooler and a bypass expansion valve configured to control a flow of the refrigerant through the sub-cooler and an extremum-seeking controller configured to generate a sub-cooling temperature setpoint for the at least one outdoor VRF unit. The extremum-seeking controller is configured to determine a total power consumption of the at least one outdoor VRF unit, generate a sub-cooling temperature setpoint for the at least one outdoor VRF unit using an extremum-seeking control technique that drives the total power consumption toward an extremum, and use the sub-cooling temperature setpoint to operate the at least one outdoor VRF unit.
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公开(公告)号:US11662113B2
公开(公告)日:2023-05-30
申请号:US16687122
申请日:2019-11-18
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Robert D. Turney , Liming Yang , Michael J. Wenzel
IPC: F24F11/46 , F24F11/56 , F24F11/54 , F24F11/64 , F24F11/65 , F24F11/72 , G05B19/042 , F24F11/80 , F24F110/10 , F24F110/12 , F24F140/50 , F24F140/60
CPC classification number: F24F11/46 , F24F11/54 , F24F11/56 , F24F11/64 , F24F11/65 , F24F11/72 , F24F11/80 , G05B19/042 , F24F2110/10 , F24F2110/12 , F24F2140/50 , F24F2140/60 , G05B2219/2614
Abstract: A building cooling system includes one or more cooling devices operable to affect an indoor air temperature of a building and a system management circuit. The system management circuit is configured to obtain an objective function that includes a power consumption term and a comfort term, perform an optimization of the objective function over a time horizon to determine values of the cooling capacity of the cooling devices where each value of the cooling capacity corresponds to a time step of the time horizon, and control the cooling devices based on the values of the cooling capacity of the cooling devices. The comfort term of the objective function a difference between a prediction of the indoor air temperature of the building and a temperature setpoint for the building, while the power consumption term is a function of the power consumption of the one or more cooling devices.
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公开(公告)号:US11193689B2
公开(公告)日:2021-12-07
申请号:US16441988
申请日:2019-06-14
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Robert D. Turney , Liming Yang , Yunrui Wang
IPC: F24F11/63 , F24F11/80 , F24F11/67 , F24F110/20 , F24F120/10 , F24F110/10
Abstract: A predictive heating system for a building zone includes building equipment, a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, and a predictive heating controller. The building equipment is operable to affect an environmental condition of the building zone in a heating mode of operation and a cooling mode of operation. The temperature sensor is configured to measure a temperature of the building zone. The humidity sensor is configured to measure humidify of the building zone. The predictive heating controller is configured to predict an occupancy time of the building zone over a future time period, determine a dehumidification time period before the occupancy time of the building zone, determine a heating time period before the occupancy time of the building zone, operate the building equipment to dehumidify the building zone over the dehumidification time period, and operate the building equipment to heat the building zone over the heating time period.
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公开(公告)号:US10895393B2
公开(公告)日:2021-01-19
申请号:US16029246
申请日:2018-07-06
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Robert D. Turney , Liming Yang , Yunrui Wang , Yasutaka Yoshida , Kazumoto Urata , Timothy I. Salsbury , John M. House
Abstract: A variable refrigerant flow (VRF) system for a building includes a plurality of outdoor VRF units configured to heat or cool a refrigerant for use in heating or cooling the building and an extremum-seeking controller. The extremum-seeking controller is configured to determine a total power consumption of the plurality of outdoor VRF units, generate a pressure setpoint for the plurality of outdoor VRF units using an extremum-seeking control technique that drives the total power consumption toward an extremum, and use the pressure setpoint to operate the plurality of outdoor VRF units.
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公开(公告)号:US20210270510A1
公开(公告)日:2021-09-02
申请号:US16805365
申请日:2020-02-28
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Liming Yang , Thomas M. Seneczko , Curtis C. Crane , Justin P. Kauffman
Abstract: A method of operating a chiller to avoid future surge events, the method comprises applying chiller operating data associated with a chiller as an input to one or more machine learning models; and generating a threshold for a controllable chiller variable to prevent a future chiller surge event from occurring based on an output of the one or more machine learning models, further comprising affecting operation of the chiller based on the threshold to prevent the future chiller surge event from occurring. The method enables automatic control of a chiller to avoid future chiller surge events.
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