Patents Assigned to Johnson Controls Technology Company
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Patent number: 11365897Abstract: A refrigerant leak management system includes a controller is configured to receive a signal indicative of a refrigerant pressure within a refrigerant circuit and determine whether the refrigerant pressure is indicative of a refrigerant leak in the refrigerant circuit. In response to determining that the refrigerant pressure is indicative of the refrigerant leak, the controller is configured to activate a fan configured to motivate air proximate the refrigerant circuit.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventor: Norman J. Blanton
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Patent number: 11360447Abstract: A building management system of a building includes 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 agents, each agent of the agents paired with one entity of a plurality of entities of an entity database, wherein the entity database includes relationships between the entities, wherein the entities represent physical building entities of the building comprising building equipment or building spaces. The instructions cause the one or more processors to communicate, by the plurality of agents, data of the physical building entities via a plurality of agent communication channels and perform, by the plurality of agents, one or more operations for the plurality of entities based on the data.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPANYInventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Erik S. Paulson, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Kelsey Carle Schuster
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Patent number: 11353832Abstract: A building automation system (BAS) includes building equipment located within a building and a BAS network configured to facilitate communications between the building equipment. The building equipment operate to affect a variable state or condition within the building. The BAS includes a BAS-BIM integrator configured to receive BAS points from the BAS network and to integrate the BAS points with a building information model (BIM). The BIM includes a plurality of BIM objects representing the building equipment. The BAS includes an integrated BAS-BIM viewer configured to use the BIM with the integrated BAS points to generate a user interface. The user interface includes a graphical representation of the BIM objects and the BAS points integrated therewith.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPANYInventors: Ashok Sridharan, Samuel Uk Kim, Erik Paulson, Mel Anthony Faeldonea
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Patent number: 11353831Abstract: A building automation system (BAS) includes building equipment located within a building and a BAS network configured to facilitate communications between the building equipment. The building equipment operate to affect a variable state or condition within the building. The BAS includes a BAS-BIM integrator configured to receive BAS points from the BAS network and to integrate the BAS points with a building information model (BIM). The BIM includes a plurality of BIM objects representing the building equipment. The BAS includes an integrated BAS-BIM viewer configured to use the BIM with the integrated BAS points to generate a user interface. The user interface includes a graphical representation of the BIM objects and the BAS points integrated therewith.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2019Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPANYInventors: Ashok Sridharan, Jayesh Patil, Subrata Bhattacharya, Abhigyan Chatterjee
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Patent number: 11342881Abstract: A fan assembly is provided. The fan assembly includes a fan, a motor that is coupled to the fan, and a variable frequency drive (VFD) that is coupled to the motor. The motor includes a maximum rated speed that is greater than a maximum structural speed limit of the fan, and the VFD includes a current output limit configured to limit an operational speed of the motor to be less than or equal to the maximum structural speed limit of the fan.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Harold J. Dubensky, James K. Spitzer, Roderick Ray Sentz, Kevin R. Stockton
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Patent number: 11327451Abstract: A building management system of a building includes 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 agents, each agent of the agents paired with one entity of a plurality of entities of an entity database, wherein the entity database includes relationships between the entities, wherein the entities represent physical building entities of the building comprising building equipment or building spaces. The instructions cause the one or more processors to communicate, by the plurality of agents, data of the physical building entities via a plurality of agent communication channels and perform, by the plurality of agents, one or more operations for the plurality of entities based on the data.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2019Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPANYInventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Erik S. Paulson, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Kelsey Carle Schuster
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Publication number: 20220138492Abstract: A method of labeling building data comprises receiving, by a labeling system, a plurality of strings relating to data associated with a building, wherein the plurality of strings are received from one or more building devices, segregating the plurality of strings based on at least one semantic element included in the plurality of strings, clustering the plurality of strings based on at least one related element shared by at least a portion of the plurality of strings, labeling at least some of the plurality of strings based on the segregated and clustered plurality of strings, and generating a digital representation of the building using the labeled strings.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2021Publication date: May 5, 2022Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Erik S. Paulson, Ambuj Shatdal, ZhongYi Jin, Chenlu Zhang, Youngchoon Park
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Publication number: 20220137570Abstract: A method for commissioning a building comprises identifying a building asset within a digital representation of a building having one or more parameters describing relationships of the building asset within the building, controlling one or more other building assets included within the digital representation to change an environmental parameter of the building, monitoring a response of at least one of the building asset or one of the one or more other building assets to the change in the environmental parameter, generating a parameter for the digital representation associated with the building asset based on the monitoring, and updating the digital representation using the parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2021Publication date: May 5, 2022Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Erik S. Paulson, Ambuj Shatdal, ZhongYi Jin, Chenlu Zhang, Youngchoon Park
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Publication number: 20220137569Abstract: A method for generating a graph data structure comprises receiving, by one or more processors, data associated with a building, generating one or more space nodes in the graph data structure corresponding to spaces within the building based on the data, generating one or more asset nodes in the graph data structure corresponding to assets within the building based on the data, associating sensor data with the one or more asset nodes based on the data, classifying the sensor data based on the data, and generating a relationship between at least two of the one or more space nodes, the one or more asset nodes, and the classified sensor data.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2021Publication date: May 5, 2022Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Erik S. Paulson, Ambuj Shatdal, ZhongYi Jin, Chenlu Zhang, Youngchoon Park
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Patent number: 11307538Abstract: A web services platform operates to monitor and control equipment of a building management system. The web services platform includes a data collector and a timeseries service. The data collector is configured to collect feedback samples provided by one or more sensors of a building management system and generate one or more feedback timeseries including a plurality of the feedback samples.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPANYInventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Erik S. Paulson
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Patent number: 11307543Abstract: A building automation system (BAS) includes building equipment located within a building and a BAS network configured to facilitate communications between the building equipment. The building equipment operate to affect a variable state or condition within the building. The BAS includes a BAS-BIM integrator configured to receive BAS points from the BAS network and to integrate the BAS points with a building information model (BIM). The BIM includes a plurality of BIM objects representing the building equipment. The BAS includes an integrated BAS-BIM viewer configured to use the BIM with the integrated BAS points to generate a user interface. The user interface includes a graphical representation of the BIM objects and the BAS points integrated therewith.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Ashok Sridharan, Jayesh Patil, Subrata Bhattacharya, Abhigyan Chatterjee
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Patent number: 11293554Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed toward a sealing system for a motor that includes a first sealing element configured to be circumferentially disposed around a rotor shaft of the motor. The sealing system also includes a second sealing element configured to be circumferentially disposed around the rotor shaft. A sealing tip of the first sealing element is configured to lift from a surface of the rotor shaft in response to a pressurized fluid directed between the first sealing element and the second sealing element. Additionally, the first sealing element and the second sealing element are configured to radially float around the rotor shaft.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2018Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventor: Paul W. Snell
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Publication number: 20220100802Abstract: A building management system (BMS) includes memory devices having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by processors, cause the processors to perform operations including obtaining a BMS ontology data model defining a plurality of BMS model classes and relationships between the BMS model classes, obtaining a plurality of BMS object definitions including equipment definitions defining a plurality of different types of equipment and point definitions defining a plurality of different types of points, assigning a BMS model class selected from the plurality of BMS model classes to each of the plurality of BMS object definitions, generating a semantic site model by classifying a plurality of BMS objects associated with a building site according to the BMS object definitions and the BMS model classes assigned thereto, and controlling building equipment using the semantic site model.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2020Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Kunal Saini, Gerald A. Asp, Matthew T. Trawicki, Craig A. Lind
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Patent number: 11287166Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a condenser assembly for a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system that includes a condenser coil having a plurality of tubes configured to flow a refrigerant therethrough for heat transfer between the refrigerant and a flow of air passing across the plurality of tubes, and a porous material having a plurality of fluid retaining passages, in which the plurality of fluid retaining passages is configured to receive a fluid and enable the flow of air to pass through the porous material and transfer of thermal energy to between the fluid and the flow of air. The porous material is disposed upstream of the condenser coil with respect to the flow of air such that the flow of air passes through the porous material before passing across the plurality of tubes.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Mujibul R. Mohammad, Anil V. Bhosale, Baskaran K, Neelkanth S. Gupte
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Publication number: 20220090805Abstract: A method for determining a stability of a building device includes receiving time series data from building equipment regarding a first operational parameter of the building equipment, determining, for one or more time steps of the time series data, a deviation between a setpoint and a recorded value of the first operational parameter, calculating, for the one or more time steps, a trapezoidal area based on an absolute value of the deviation and a length of a time step, calculating a stability index value for the building equipment by summing the trapezoidal areas for a subset of the one or more time steps over a time horizon, and initiating an automated response based on the stability index value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2020Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Steven R. Vitullo, Kelsey Carle Schuster, Michael Richard Rhodes, Jonathan Cox
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Publication number: 20220092500Abstract: A control system includes building equipment configured to consume electrical energy and generate thermal energy, electrical energy storage configured to store and discharge electrical energy, and a controller. The controller is configured to determine, for a plurality of time steps within a time horizon, an amount of electrical energy to store in the electrical energy storage or discharge from the electrical energy storage using a value function. The value function includes an expected revenue from participating in an incentive-based demand response (IBDR) program, an expected cost of participating in the IBDR program, and a penalty cost based on an amount by which a predicted output of the building equipment or the electrical energy storage changes between time steps within the time horizon. The controller is configured to control the electrical energy storage to store or discharge the amount of electrical energy determined using the value function.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Kirk H. Drees, Michael J. Wenzel, Robert D. Turney
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Patent number: 11280503Abstract: An outdoor unit of a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a cabinet defining a cabinet interior of the outdoor unit and separating the cabinet interior from an external environment surrounding the outdoor unit. The outdoor unit also includes an interface between the cabinet interior and the external environment and configured to enable an air flow between the cabinet interior and the external environment. The outdoor unit also includes a plastic guard disposed over the interface.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Karla D. Alvarez Cavazos, Ryan L. Snider
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Patent number: 11280524Abstract: In an embodiment of the present disclosure, a heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVAC&R) system includes a variable speed drive (VSD) enclosure. The VSD enclosure includes a main drive line variable speed drive (VSD) configured to supply power to a motor, and an oil pump variable speed drive (VSD) configured to supply power to a pump. The pump is configured to supply oil to one or more moving parts of the HVAC&R system. Additionally or in the alternative to the oil pump VSD, the VSD enclosure includes a magnetic bearing controller and/or a magnetic bearing controller power supply. The magnetic bearing controller is configured to control magnetic bearings of the HVAC&R system.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2018Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Scott Victor Slothower, Ajit Wasant Kane, Seth Kevin Gladfelter, Jeb William Schreiber
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Patent number: RE48999Abstract: A monitor display unit mounted on a surface and in electronic communication with a system or device to be monitored, comprising a face plate, a back plate having at least a portion of a side edge being translucent or transparent, a logic controller, and at least one light-emitting device in electronic communication with the controller. Actuation of the light-emitting device causes light to pass through the side edge of the back plate, thereby being visible to a viewer at an angle that can be generally parallel to the surface on which the display unit is mounted.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: John Robert Taylor, Jr., John Michael Reiszl
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Patent number: RE49069Abstract: A monitor display unit mounted on a surface and in electronic communication with a system or device to be monitored, comprising a face plate, a back plate having at least a portion of a side edge being translucent or transparent, a logic controller, and at least one light-emitting device in electronic communication with the controller. Actuation of the light-emitting device causes light to pass through the side edge of the back plate, thereby being visible to a viewer at an angle that can be generally parallel to the surface on which the display unit is mounted.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2019Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: John Robert Taylor, Jr., John Michael Reiszl