Patents Assigned to Smart House Limited Partnership
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Patent number: 5101191Abstract: An automated system for providing different services within a house includes an appliance coordination data network for communicating relatively low speed appliance digital data within a house, a high capacity data network for transferring high speed digital data within the house, an energy distribution system for distributing energy throughout the house, an analog services distribution system for distributing conventional analog signals throughout the house and a video services distribution network for distributing video services throughout the house. The appliance coordination network interfaces with the energy distribution system to control the flow of energy to appliances throughout the house responsive to a digital request or interrogation signal that is emitted from the appliance itself.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 1990Date of Patent: March 31, 1992Assignee: Smart House Limited PartnershipInventors: David J. MacFadyen, Robert G. Edwards, Kenneth P. Wacks, Daniel J. Foley
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Patent number: 5045823Abstract: The present invention utilizes a coupling tap that contains two parallel communication paths from the connection at a coaxial cable to a tap output, to which a device can be connected. One path passes high frequency signals of 30-900 megahertz, while the other passes lower frequency communication signals of 0-5 megahertz as well as DC power. Furthermore, each tap may contain a line isolating inductor that, when a particular tap is in use, isolates the portion of the coaxial cable that continues on past the tap in use for signals from 0-5 megahertz. This eliminates reflections and other line disturbances from entering the tap in use.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 1989Date of Patent: September 3, 1991Assignee: Smart House Limited PartnershipInventor: E. Lane Nichols, III
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Patent number: 5043531Abstract: A wiring layout for new home construction in which primarily two different cables distribute various electrical signals from a central location to different rooms in a home. The first cable, an AC power and internal communications cable, is a ribbon cable containing power conductors and digital data conductors. A predetermined number of lengths of this ribbon cable form that number of branches from the central location to different areas of the home. The second cable, the external communications cable, is a cable containing coaxial conductors and twisted wire pairs in one casing. This cable is run from the central location to a splitter. A predetermined number of lengths of the second cable are then run from the splitter to selected locations in some or all the rooms. The resulting layout from this combination branch-star layout allows efficient transmission of signals through a home and enables reduced installation costs.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 1990Date of Patent: August 27, 1991Assignees: Smart House Limited Partnership, AMP IncorporatedInventors: Charles E. Gutenson, Lincoln R. Roberts, Vernon R. Miller
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Patent number: 4947278Abstract: A remote control power disconnect circuit for providing a ground fault across an electrical outlet when an unsafe condition such as a lost neutral or shorting of the AC power switch is detected. The remote control power disconnect circuit is placed at each electrical outlet within a dwelling and applies AC power to the outlet only when an appliance (load) is plugged into the outlet and no fault condition is detected. However, when a fault condition is detected, the circuit also functions to apply a ground fault across the outlet and to shut-off the supply of AC power to the outlet. Then, once the fault condition has been remedied, the circuit may be remotely reset so that AC power may again be applied to the electrical outlet.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 1989Date of Patent: August 7, 1990Assignee: Smart House Limited Partnership LimitedInventor: Edward L. Nichols, III
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Patent number: 4899217Abstract: An automated system for providing different services within a house includes an appliance coordination data network for communicating relatively low speed appliance digital data within a house, a high capacity data network for transferring high speed digital data within the house, an energy distribution system for distributing energy throughout the house, an analog services distribution system for distributing conventional analog signals throughout the house and a video services distribution network for distributing video services throughout the house. The appliance coordination network interfaces with the energy distribution system to control the flow of energy to appliances throughout the house responsive to a digital request or interrogation signal that is emitted from the appliance itself.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 1987Date of Patent: February 6, 1990Assignee: Smart House Limited PartnershipInventors: David J. MacFadyen, Robert G. Edwards, Kenneth P. Wacks, Daniel J. Foley
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Patent number: 4899129Abstract: An automated system for providing different services within a house includes an appliance coordination data network for communicating relatively low speed appliance digital data within a house, a high capacity data network for transferring high speed digital data within the house, an energy distribution system for distributing energy throughout the house, an analog services distribution system for distributing conventional analog signals throughout the house and a video services distribution network for distributing video services throughout the house. The appliance coordination network interfaces with the energy distribution system to control the flow of energy to appliances throughout the house responsive to a digital request or interrogation signal that is emitted from the appliance itself.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 1988Date of Patent: February 6, 1990Assignee: Smart House Limited PartnershipInventors: David J. MacFadyen, Robert G. Edwards, Kenneth P. Wacks, Daniel J. Foley