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公开(公告)号:US20210172641A1
公开(公告)日:2021-06-10
申请号:US17181972
申请日:2021-02-22
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Shaun B. Atchison , Brian D. Rigg
Abstract: The present disclosure includes a control board including a switchable input/output port. The switchable I/O port may provide a switchable communication bus capable of selectively supporting one of multiple different communication protocols and may provide a switchable power bus capable of selectively conducting electrical power from one of multiple different power supplies. As such, the control board may communicatively and/or electrically couple to a wide range of devices. To that end, the control board may support the dynamic interchange and reconfiguration of devices coupled to the control board, allowing a control system including the control board greater operational flexibility.
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公开(公告)号:US10948213B2
公开(公告)日:2021-03-16
申请号:US15633381
申请日:2017-06-26
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Shaun B. Atchison , Theresa N. Gillette , John W. Uerkvitz , Jedidiah O. Bentz
IPC: G05B15/02 , F24F11/62 , F24F11/30 , F24F11/65 , F24F11/56 , F24F110/12 , F24F120/12 , F24F120/10 , F24F11/47 , F24F110/10 , F24F11/32 , F24F11/46 , F24F140/60
Abstract: An HVAC system includes HVAC components configured to adjust environmental conditions within a space. A control system is in communication with the HVAC components and is configured to execute in an efficiency operation mode. The efficiency operation mode is configured to receive configuration data related to the space and operational values for the HVAC components, monitor environmental parameters such as outdoor ambient temperature, indoor ambient temperature, and occupancy of the space, monitor an energy usage of the HVAC components based on the current operational values, determine new operational values configured to reduce the energy usage for the HVAC components based on the monitored energy usage and the environmental parameters, and transmit the new operating values to the HVAC components.
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公开(公告)号:US20210018201A1
公开(公告)日:2021-01-21
申请号:US16684200
申请日:2019-11-14
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Steven A. Tice , Shaun B. Atchison , Noel A. Grajeda-Trevizo , Andrew M. Boyd
Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a controller for a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system. The controller is configured to operate in a first defrost mode or a second defrost mode, determine that feedback from a first sensor of the HVAC system is unavailable, receive feedback from a second sensor of the HVAC system, and operate the HVAC system in the second defrost mode instead of the first defrost mode in response to unavailability of the feedback from the first sensor and based on the feedback from the second sensor.
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公开(公告)号:US10830479B2
公开(公告)日:2020-11-10
申请号:US15991965
申请日:2018-05-29
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Shaun B. Atchison , Theresa N. Gillette
IPC: F24F11/59 , F24F11/61 , F24F11/54 , F24F120/20 , F24F110/10 , F24F11/523
Abstract: The present disclosure includes a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system having a control system suitable to control operation of a device in the HVAC system. The control system may include a zone control panel that may maintain an instance of each schedule used by one or more devices in the HVAC system to operate. Further, the zone control panel may include a set of one or more status flags, which may each indicate whether data associated with a respective flag is available to be retrieved. Accordingly, the zone control panel may communicate information, such as an update to a schedule, rapidly between devices in the HVAC system.
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公开(公告)号:US10788231B2
公开(公告)日:2020-09-29
申请号:US15920728
申请日:2018-03-14
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Shaun B. Atchison , Noel A. Grajeda-Trevizo
Abstract: Presently disclosed is a fault condition management system of a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system. The system includes a controller having a user interface with a display and a lockout status indicator. The controller is configured to determine that the HVAC system is in a plurality of fault conditions and to individually present, on the display of the user interface, a respective fault code corresponding to each respective fault condition of the plurality of fault conditions in a repeating loop. Each respective fault code is presented for a fault code presentation duration followed by a rest duration. The controller is configured to control illumination of the lockout status indicator during the fault code presentation duration of each respective fault code to indicate a respective lockout status of the corresponding respective fault condition.
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公开(公告)号:US10747527B2
公开(公告)日:2020-08-18
申请号:US15983645
申请日:2018-05-18
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Shaun B. Atchison , Theresa N. Gillette , Jonathan A. Burns
IPC: G06F9/44 , G06F8/656 , H04L29/08 , F24F11/49 , F24F11/58 , G06F9/445 , F24F11/61 , F24F11/52 , F24F11/32 , G06F8/71 , G06F8/65 , G05B19/042 , G06F9/4401
Abstract: A system for performing software updates for building devices of a building includes a thermostat associated with one of multiple zones of the building and a controller. The controller includes a processing circuit configured to store thermostat software in a memory device of the processing circuit, the stored software being software for the thermostat and determine, by communicating with the thermostat, whether thermostat software run on the thermostat is newer or older than the thermostat software stored in the memory device. The processing circuit is configured to update the thermostat software run on the thermostat with the thermostat software stored in the memory device in response to a determination that the thermostat software run on the thermostat is older than the thermostat software stored in the memory device and operate building equipment to control an environmental condition of the building.
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公开(公告)号:US20200217550A1
公开(公告)日:2020-07-09
申请号:US16252264
申请日:2019-01-18
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Andrew M. Boyd , Brian D. Rigg , Shawn A. Hern , Cody J. Kaiser , Tom R. Tasker , Shaun B. Atchison , Jedidiah O. Bentz , John W. Uerkvitz , Aneek M. Noor , Drew H. Carlton
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system including a thermal light detector configured to detect a heat indication within a conditioned space. The HVAC system further includes a controller configured to receive feedback indicative of the heat indication from the thermal light detector and, based on the feedback, correlate the heat indication with a categorized event of a plurality of categorized events. The controller is further configured to adjust operation of the HVAC system based on the categorized event.
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公开(公告)号:US10605469B2
公开(公告)日:2020-03-31
申请号:US15648328
申请日:2017-07-12
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Tyler P. McCune , Shawn A. Hem , Brian D. Rigg , Jedidiah O. Bentz , Aneek M. Noor , Theresa N. Gillette , Tom R. Tasker , Shaun B. Atchison
Abstract: In one embodiment of the present disclosure, a heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a refrigerant circuit configured to flow a refrigerant. The refrigerant circuit includes a compressor configured to compress the refrigerant, a condenser configured to receive the refrigerant from the compressor and to condense the refrigerant, a valve configured to receive a first portion of the refrigerant from the condenser and to decrease a pressure of the first portion of the refrigerant, and an evaporator configured to receive the first portion of the refrigerant from the condenser and configured to evaporate the first portion of the refrigerant. The refrigerant circuit also includes a refrigerant sub-circuit configured to receive a second portion of the refrigerant from the condenser and to convert thermal energy of the second portion of the refrigerant to electrical energy.
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公开(公告)号:US20200003467A1
公开(公告)日:2020-01-02
申请号:US16044317
申请日:2018-07-24
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Aneek M. Noor , Jedidiah O. Bentz , Shaun B. Atchison , John W. Uerkvitz , Drew H. Carlton
Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system may include a refrigerant loop to circulate refrigerant, a first valve, a second valve, a sensor to measure parameters of the refrigerant, a refrigerant tank fluidly coupled to the refrigerant loop via the valves, and control circuitry communicatively coupled to the sensor, the first valve, and the second valve. The control circuitry may determine environmental conditions and detect whether an undercharge or overcharge condition is present in the refrigerant loop based at least in part on the environmental conditions and the measured parameters. The control circuitry may also instruct the first valve to open when the undercharge condition is detected to facilitate flowing refrigerant from the refrigerant tank into the refrigerant loop and instruct the second valve to open when the overcharge condition is detected to facilitate flowing refrigerant from the refrigerant loop into the refrigerant tank.
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公开(公告)号:US20190353392A1
公开(公告)日:2019-11-21
申请号:US15991985
申请日:2018-05-29
Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
Inventor: Shaun B. Atchison
IPC: F24F13/14 , F24F11/56 , G01K15/00 , F24F11/80 , F24F11/63 , G01K13/02 , G06F3/0482 , G06F3/0487
Abstract: The present disclosure includes an HVAC system that includes a plurality of dampers each corresponding to one building zone of a plurality of building zones, a plurality of sensors each corresponding to the one of the plurality of building zones, and a control board communicatively coupled with the plurality of dampers and sensors. The control board includes a plurality of status light sources, each corresponding to one damper the plurality of dampers, a plurality of communication light sources each corresponding to one sensor of the plurality of sensors, and a microcontroller programmed to control operation of equipment in the HVAC system. The microcontroller is configured to perform “a hardware test mode” to facilitate diagnosis of the plurality of dampers by causing the plurality of status light sources to sequentially execute a first light scheme or a second light scheme in response to instructions to the plurality of dampers.
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