Patents Assigned to Johnson Control Technology Company
  • Patent number: 11226598
    Abstract: A building system includes one or more storage devices having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive an unstructured user question from a user device of a user and query a graph database based on the unstructured user question to extract context associated with the unstructured user question from contextual information of a building stored by the graph database, wherein the graph database stores the contextual information of the building through nodes and edges between the nodes, wherein the nodes represent equipment, spaces, people, and events associated building and the edges represent relationships between the equipment, spaces, people, and events. The instructions further cause the one or more processors to retrieve data from one or more data sources based on the context and compose a presentation based on the retrieved data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: George R. Oliver, Justin J. Ploegert, Karl F. Reichenberger, Sudhi R. Sinha, Sujith Ebenezer, Youngchoon Park
  • Patent number: 11221155
    Abstract: A control system for a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a controller. The controller is configured to control the HVAC system to condition an air flow based on first feedback from a first sensor of the HVAC system, receive second feedback from a second sensor of the HVAC system, and control the HVAC system to condition the air flow based on the second feedback instead of the first feedback when the first feedback from the first sensor being no longer available. The first feedback is indicative of a first operating parameter of the HVAC system, and the second feedback is indicative of a second operating parameter of a refrigerant flowing through the HVAC system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Shaun B. Atchison, Steven A. Tice, Noel A. Grajeda-Trevizo, Andrew M. Boyd
  • Patent number: 11221151
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) unit having a refrigerant circuit including a heat exchanger, an expansion valve, and a compressor. The heat exchanger includes a first coil and a second coil packaged in a common support structure. The HVAC unit further has a flow control system configured to direct refrigerant flow to the first coil from the expansion valve in a cooling mode of the HVAC unit and to the first coil from the compressor in a reheat mode of the HVAC unit, and configured to direct refrigerant flow to the second coil from the expansion valve in both the cooling mode and the reheat mode of the HVAC unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Swapnil V. Mohite, Nivedita Nath, Ravindra B. Salunkhe, Ritesh D. Rokade, Anil V. Bhosale, Ketan S. Khedkar
  • Patent number: 11221600
    Abstract: A building management system includes (i) one or more building systems including equipment configured to serve one or more spaces in a building and (ii) one or more circuits. The one or more circuits are configured to receive an input to invoke a control strategy to modify a condition of the one or more spaces; define an output of the control strategy where the output relates to a modification that impacts at least one of a location, an equipment type, or a point type; perform a query to identify one or more points associated with the output where the one or more points are defined in terms of at least one of the location, the equipment type, or the point type; and automatically modify one or more values of the one or more points to implement the control strategy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Suvidha Raina, Ryan A. Piaskowski, Charles C. Xing, Jason T. Sawyer, Judhajit Sarkar
  • Publication number: 20210406789
    Abstract: A system including one or more memory devices having instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive a request from a service provider to be added to a trusted network of service providers, receive health safety data of a health data stream associated with the service provider and risk data of a risk data stream indicating risk levels associated with the service provider, determine that the service provider meets a level of heath safety by correlating the health safety data of the health data stream with the risk data of the risk data stream, receive a request from a device for a service provider recommendation of the trusted network of service providers, and provide an indication of the service provider to the device in response to a reception of the request for the service provider recommendation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Robert B. Locke, Richard J. Campero, John D. Perkins, Karl F. Reichenberger
  • Publication number: 20210407690
    Abstract: A system including one or more memory devices having instructions stored thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive a request from a user device of a user to add the user to a trusted user service, receive health behavior data of a health behavior data stream associated with behavior relating to a spread of an infectious disease at a physical location, determine whether the user meets one or more health safety levels based on the health behavior data stream, add the user to the trusted user service in response to a determination that the user meets the one or more health safety levels, and generate an access indication for the user to access the physical location at one or more particular times in response to the determination that the user meets the one or more health safety levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Robert B. Locke, Richard J. Campero, John D. Perkins, Karl F. Reichenberger
  • Patent number: 11208905
    Abstract: A fan assembly for a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) unit includes a hub having a fan blade extending therefrom. The fan assembly includes a fan pitch adjuster configured to engage the fan blade and to adjust a pitch of the fan blade relative to the hub in response to movement of the fan pitch adjuster relative to the hub. The fan assembly also includes a motor shaft coupled to the fan pitch adjuster and to the hub, where the motor shaft is configured to drive rotation of the fan pitch adjuster and the hub. The fan assembly further includes an actuator coupled to the fan pitch adjuster and configured to axially move the fan pitch adjuster along the motor shaft and relative to the hub to adjust the pitch of the fan blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Anil V. Bhosale, Dhanunjaya R. Koka, Shubham J. Walke, Atul R. Sonawane, Krishna Anegundi, Sethuram Parameswaran, Sachin S. Ghorpade
  • Patent number: 11210617
    Abstract: A building management system includes building equipment configured to consume electrical energy and generate thermal energy, thermal energy storage configured to store at least a portion of the thermal energy generated by the building equipment and to discharge the stored thermal energy, electrical energy storage configured to store electrical energy purchased from a utility and to discharge the stored electrical energy, and a controller. The controller is configured to determine, for each time step within a time horizon, an optimal amount of electrical energy stored or discharged by the electrical energy storage by optimizing a value function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Kirk H. Drees, Michael J. Wenzel, Robert D. Turney
  • Patent number: 11209181
    Abstract: A heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) includes a processor and a plurality of sensors. The plurality of sensors can collect a first set of data indicative of environmental conditions of a structure in which the HVAC control device is located. The HVAC control device can control operational settings of an HVAC system that can supply conditioned air to the structure and operate the HVAC system in a default mode. The HVAC control device can also receive a second set of data collected by one or more sensors of a secondary input device and receive a signal from the secondary input device. Additionally, the HVAC control device can implement an override mode of the control device based on the signal. Implementation of the override mode effectuates a change in the operational settings of the HVAC system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Shaun B. Atchison, Theresa Thy N. Gillette, John W. Uerkvitz
  • Patent number: 11209187
    Abstract: A condensate drain system for a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a heat exchanger having a plurality of tubes configured to receive ambient air and fluidly coupled to a drain via a conduit, a valve positioned along the conduit between the plurality of tubes and the drain, where the valve is configured to enable a flow of condensate from within the plurality of tubes toward the drain in an open position and the block the flow in a closed position, and a controller configured to adjust a position of the valve based on feedback indicative of an operational state of the HVAC system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventor: Madhuka M. Jayarathne
  • Patent number: 11204192
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an adjustable fluid flow system for a temperature control system having a heat exchanger including a plurality of channels configured to transmit working fluid and direct the working fluid through a selection of two or more channel sections. The adjustable fluid flow system includes a first chamber defining a first flow path that is aligned with a first channel section of the two or more channel sections, wherein the first chamber includes a first outlet in fluid communication with the first flow path, and a second chamber defining a second flow path that is aligned with a second channel section of the two or more channel sections, wherein the second chamber includes a second outlet in fluid communication with the second flow path. The adjustable fluid flow system further includes a damper configured to adjust a flow of air along the first flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Kevin R. Stockton, Nicholas P. Mislak
  • Patent number: 11199819
    Abstract: A building system includes one or more storage devices having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive an unstructured user question from a user device of a user and query a graph database based on the unstructured user question to extract context associated with the unstructured user question from contextual information of a building stored by the graph database, wherein the graph database stores the contextual information of the building through nodes and edges between the nodes, wherein the nodes represent equipment, spaces, people, and events associated building and the edges represent relationships between the equipment, spaces, people, and events. The instructions further cause the one or more processors to retrieve data from one or more data sources based on the context and compose a presentation based on the retrieved data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: George R. Oliver, Justin J. Ploegert, Karl F. Reichenberger, Sudhi R. Sinha, Sujith Ebenezer, Youngchoon Park
  • Patent number: 11199356
    Abstract: A refrigeration system includes a chiller with an integrated free cooling system and refrigeration system. In certain embodiments, the chiller may be a single package unit with all equipment housed within the same support frame. The chiller may generally include three modes of operation: a first mode that employs free cooling, a second mode that employs free cooling and implements a refrigeration cycle, and a third mode that uses the free cooling system provide additional cooling capacity for the refrigeration system. The free cooling system includes an independent loop configured to transfer heat from a cooling fluid circulating within the free cooling system to the ambient air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: William L. Kopko, Mustafa K. Yanik
  • Publication number: 20210382861
    Abstract: A building system of a building, the building system comprising one or more memory devices storing instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive building metadata, the building metadata describing a plurality of components of the building, generate, based on the building metadata, a plurality of entities, each of the plurality of entities representing one of the plurality of components, and determine, based on the building metadata, relationships between the plurality of entities. The instructions cause the one or more processors to generate a plurality of metadata strings in a universal building schema comprising a plurality of characters representing a first entity of the plurality of entities, one or more second entities of the plurality of entities related to the first entity, and one or more relationships between the first entity and the one or more second entities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: ZhongYi Jin, Erik S. Paulson, Simin Zhou, Ryan A. Piaskowski, Youngchoon Park
  • Publication number: 20210383276
    Abstract: A building system including one or more memory devices configured to store instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to generate building recommendations based on recommendation requests with a model of a first model type when less than a predefined amount of model training data is available and receive feedback data on the recommendation requests generated by the model of the first model type. The instructions cause the one or more processors to transition from generating the building recommendations by the model of the first model type to a second model of a second model type by comparing performance of the first model type to the second model type based on the feedback data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Vish Ramamurti, Wenwen Zhao, Chenlu Zhang, Kelsey Carle Schuster, Young M. Lee
  • Patent number: 11196814
    Abstract: A controller in a building management system (BMS) includes an integrated wireless network processor chip. The integrated wireless network processor chip includes a wireless radio, a processor, and memory. The wireless radio is configured to exchange data communications with one or more BMS devices controlled by the controller. Both the processor and memory are in communication with the wireless radio and located on the same chip as the wireless radio. The memory includes communication stacks configured to facilitate communications using a building automation and control network communications protocol and a Wi-Fi communications protocol. The integrated wireless network processor chip receives data from the BMS devices via the wireless radio, formats the data using the processor, stores the data in the memory, and sends the data via the wireless radio without requiring any additional processing or communications components outside the integrated wireless network processor chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Christopher Brophy, Kim K. Weller, Daniel R. Gottschalk, Ryan J. Bykowski, Tom Z. Zhuang
  • Publication number: 20210373510
    Abstract: A building system including one or more memory devices configured to store instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive training data including acronym strings and tag strings, train a sequence to sequence neural network based on the training data, receive an acronym string for labeling, the acronym string comprising a particular plurality of acronyms, and generate a tag string for the acronym string with the sequence to sequence neural network, wherein the sequence to sequence neural network outputs a tag of the tag string for one acronym of the particular plurality of acronyms based on the one acronym and contextual information of the acronym string, wherein the contextual information includes other acronyms of the particular plurality of acronyms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Surajit Borah, Santle Camilus, ZhongYi Jin, Vish Ramamurti, Young M. Lee
  • Publication number: 20210373509
    Abstract: A building system including one or more memory devices configured to store instructions thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive training data including acronym strings and tag strings, train a statistical model based on the training data, receive an acronym string for labeling, the acronym string comprising a particular plurality of acronyms, and generate a tag string for the acronym string with the statistical model, wherein the statistical model outputs a tag of the tag string for one acronym of the particular plurality of acronyms based on the one acronym and contextual information of the acronym string, wherein the contextual information includes other acronyms of the particular plurality of acronyms, wherein the statistical model implements a many to many mapping between the particular plurality of acronyms and a plurality of target tags.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Surajit Borah, Santle Camilus, ZhongYi Jin, Vish Ramamurti, Young M. Lee, Jason B. Koh
  • Publication number: 20210373753
    Abstract: A building energy management includes building equipment, one or more data platform services, a timeseries database, and an energy management application. The building equipment operate to monitor and control a variable and provide raw data samples of a data point associated with the variable. The timeseries database stores a plurality of timeseries associated with the data point. The plurality of timeseries include a timeseries of the raw data samples and the one or more optimized data timeseries generated by the data platform services based on the raw data timeseries. The energy management application generates an ad hoc dashboard including a widget and associates the widget with the data point. The widget displays a graphical visualization of the plurality of timeseries associated with the data point and includes interactive user interface options for switching between the plurality of timeseries associated with the data point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Sudhi Sinha, Justin Ploegert
  • Patent number: 11182047
    Abstract: A building management system includes a plurality of devices of building equipment configured to provide status data. The building management system also includes an equipment management server configured to assign and store parent-child relationships for the plurality of devices of building equipment. The equipment management server is also configured to monitor the status data to detect faults and generate a fault visualization interface. The fault visualization interface provides provide a list of the devices with detected faults, allows a user to select one or more of the devices from the list, and presents a parent-child relationship widget for the selected device. The parent-child relationship widget includes a list of parent devices for the selected device and a list of child devices for the selected device. Each device on the lists of parent devices and child devices has a status indicator indicating whether the device is in a fault condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Rajesh C. Nayak, Subrata Bhattacharya, Abhigyan Chatterjee, Samit Sen, Tulshiram Vitthalrao Waghmare, Tushar Shripad Joshi