Patents Examined by Chun Cao
  • Patent number: 11287860
    Abstract: Provided is an ambient temperature estimating device, ambient temperature estimating method, program, and system that are able to realize both high robustness and high ambient temperature estimation accuracy. An ambient temperature estimating device includes a neural network, a temperature acquisition unit configured to acquire one or more temperature values inside the ambient temperature estimating device, and a neural network calculator configured to estimate an ambient temperature around the ambient temperature estimating device using the neural network. Input values inputted to the neural network by the neural network calculator include the temperature values acquired by the temperature acquisition unit and a heat source control value for controlling a heat source inside the ambient temperature estimating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: EIZO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Bamba, Mamoru Ogaki, Koichi Tanoiri, Keita Hashi, Takuya Matsuda
  • Patent number: 11287150
    Abstract: The present application relates to an environment control system. The environment control system is capable of detecting variations of natural environment and artificial environment, and control the use of electronic devices automatically or semi-automatically. Based on collected information stored in a built-in storage module, the environment control system may calculate and learn the user's habit of use with respect to the electronic devices using network connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: CHENGDU QIXINGTIAN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AGENCY LTD.
    Inventors: Shan Guan, Tao Zhao
  • Patent number: 11290298
    Abstract: A modular door and frame that can be manufactured and supplied to end users with various combinations of intelligent features. The intelligent features allow functions to be performed by the door and/or frame. Also, conditions or events to be detected and monitored at the intelligent door and/or remote locations. Data relating to the various functions, events, or conditions can be communicated across a network that is communicatively coupled to the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: EDST, LLC
    Inventors: Dave Marcinkowski, Thomas Mandry
  • Patent number: 11287868
    Abstract: A power monitoring and loss prevention system includes actuators installed in lower level components of a primary power system, such as tap boxes of a power busway for an aisle of a data center. The power monitoring and loss prevention system redirects high frequency sampled power flow data to one or more computing devices that determine if power flows in the primary power system are at threshold levels that are likely to cause higher-level circuit breakers of the primary power system to be tripped. If so, the power monitoring and loss prevention causes one or more of the actuators to divert discrete lower level loads that are receiving power from the primary power system to instead receive power from a reserve power system such that power flows in the primary power system that may cause the higher level breakers of the primary power system to trip are avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David D Sturm, Nigel McGee, Eamonn Delaney
  • Patent number: 11275429
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to obtain first parameters characterizing an operating state of information technology (IT) resources of a data center and second parameters characterizing an operating state of cooling systems of the data center, to determine an overall operating state of the data center by aggregating the first and second parameters, to identify a power consumption profile based on the overall operating state, and to perform a joint training of first and second reinforcement learning agents based on the overall operating state and the power consumption profile. The processing device is also configured to generate first controls for the heterogeneous IT resources utilizing the first reinforcement learning agent and second controls for the cooling systems utilizing the second reinforcement learning agent, the first and second controls being configured to reduce power consumption while maintaining specified performance benchmarks for workloads executing in the data center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Ashutosh Singh, Michael David Shepherd
  • Patent number: 11268716
    Abstract: A building management system includes a communications bus, field devices connected to the communications bus, a cloud service including a machine learning engine; and a controller for an HVAC device. The controller communicates with the communications bus and the cloud service and is configured to transmit messages through the communications bus to the field devices, compile a list of connected field devices, receive sample data from the connected field devices, and transmit the sample data from the connected field devices to the cloud service. The controller is further configured to receive identifying characteristics for each of the connected field devices from the cloud service and to select a control logic file for the HVAC device based on the identifying characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Sourav Bandyopadhyay, Sushant Trivedi
  • Patent number: 11269361
    Abstract: The present invention provides techniques for recovering hydrocarbon fluids in a process flow, including recovering bitumen from a coarse tailings line. The apparatus includes a signal processor that responds to signaling containing information about the presence of a hydrocarbon fluid in a process flow; and determines corresponding signaling to control the diversion of the hydrocarbon fluid from the process flow remaining based on the signaling received. The hydrocarbon fluid may be bitumen, including bitumen flowing in a course tailings line. The signal processor receives the signaling from a velocity profile meter having sensors arranged around a circumference of a process pipe containing information about a fluid flow velocity at various levels or heights within the process pipe, including a wrap-around velocity profile meter having multiple sensing arrays located radially at a top position of 0°, a bottom position of 180°, and intermediate positions 45°, 90° and 135°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignees: CIDRA CORPORATE SERVICES INC., SUNCOR ENERGY INC.
    Inventors: John Viega, Perry W. McKechnie, Marek J. Dominski
  • Patent number: 11262725
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for monitoring a manufacturing process, comprising the steps of: detecting a workpiece with a sensor unit of a portable device, sending the information acquired by the sensor unit to a database and applying a workpiece-specific data set, detecting the workpiece before, during and/or after carrying out a machining step or a handling step on the workpiece by the sensor unit of the portable device, updating the data set stored in the database before, during and/or after carrying out a machining step or handling step on the workpiece. The manufacturing process can, for example, relate to the machining of a board-shaped workpiece, such as a solid wooden board, a chipboard, a MDF board, a HDF board, or a workpiece made of another wood material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Inventors: David Frick, Manuel Friebolin, Joachim Graf, Andreas Kuehne
  • Patent number: 11256232
    Abstract: A method and device for thermal mitigation. The communications device including a first radio communications subsystem configured to operate according to a first radio communications protocol and a second radio communications subsystem configured to operate according to a second radio communications protocol. The first radio communications subsystem includes a temperature sensor and an electronic processor configured to determine, via the temperature sensor, a first temperature indicative of a temperature of the second radio communications subsystem, compare the first temperature to at least one predetermined temperature threshold, and deactivate the second radio communications subsystem when the first temperature exceeds a predetermined temperature threshold of the at least one predetermined temperature threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Yehuda Rokach, Mark Antilla, Mark A. Boerger, David H. McClintock, Liang Xu
  • Patent number: 11249538
    Abstract: The present application teaches methods and apparatuses related to providing dynamic auxiliary port power management including providing a first current to a first auxiliary port and a second current to a second auxiliary port, determining a system power level in response to the first current and the second current, comparing the system power level to a system power level threshold, and providing a third current to the second auxiliary port in response to the system power level exceeding the system power level threshold, the third current having a lower amperage than the second current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Wallace, Dean Knight, Kristin Medin
  • Patent number: 11243005
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for determining the cause of a fault in a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system are described herein. One device includes a memory, and a processor configured to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to receive operational data associated with an HVAC system, receive control logic associated with a controller of the HVAC system, determine a cause of a fault occurring in the HVAC system based, at least in part, on the operational data associated with the HVAC system and the control logic of the controller of the HVAC system, and provide the cause of the fault occurring in the HVAC system to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Nagasree Poluri, Seema P, Deenadayalan Karunakaran, Evan John Kingston, Manish Gupta
  • Patent number: 11243587
    Abstract: A data processing device according to one or more embodiment is disclosed. The data processing device may include a first power-on reset circuit that generates a first power-on reset signal depending on power source voltage, and a processor that activates based on a first power-on reset signal generated by the first power-on reset circuit and that runs software. The processor determines if the normal first power-on reset signal is used to cause the processor to activate and run the software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: SANKEN ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takanaga Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11237605
    Abstract: Systems and methods for cooling large numbers of computing devices in a data center are disclosed. The computing devices have cooling fans that can have their fan speed set by management instructions. The devices are mounted in racks in a two-dimensional array and connected via network switches with ports corresponding to their location in the racks. The computer devices are oriented so that their cooling fans all exhaust waste heat to one side of the rack. Instructions are sent to the computing devices to set one or more attributes such as fan speed, operating frequency and voltage according to one ore more patterns. The patterns can be linear or nonlinear and can be shifted, rotated, or changed over time periodically or based on temperature or other performance measurements from the computing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Core Scientific, Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence Kom, Thomas Fuller
  • Patent number: 11240939
    Abstract: A heat dissipation control method includes determining a total power consumption of a heat generating component and a heat dissipating component, determining a heat dissipation parameter based on the total power consumption of the heat generating component and the heat dissipating component, and controlling an operating state of the heat dissipating component based on the heat dissipation parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jui-Chan Fan, Jeng-Meng Lai
  • Patent number: 11231760
    Abstract: Integrated circuits (ICs)—depending on a current workload—may exceed thermal cooling budgets. As a result, ICs often implement thermal sensors to measure temperatures at junctions or hot spots along the IC. Due to a distance between the thermal sensors and the various junctions, a thermal offset may be added to the temperature readings from the thermal sensors to more accurately estimate the temperature at the junctions. To account for different workload distributions—e.g., asymmetric or symmetric—the systems and methods described herein may dynamically adjust the thermal offsets. As a result, the efficiency of the IC may be increased as thermal settings for the IC may take into account the ability of the thermal cooling budget to effectively cool the IC under a current operating condition—thereby reducing premature throttling back or shutting down of power to the IC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Gu, Tao Li, Chad Plummer, Brian Lawrence Smith
  • Patent number: 11231193
    Abstract: The present application relates to an environment control system. The environment control system is capable of detecting variations of natural environment and artificial environment, and control the use of electronic devices automatically or semi-automatically. Based on collected information stored in a built-in storage module, the environment control system may calculate and learn the user's habit of use with respect to the electronic devices using network connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: CHENGDU QIXINGTIAN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AGENCY LTD.
    Inventors: Shan Guan, Tao Zhao
  • Patent number: 11226666
    Abstract: A power failure prevention system and method with a power management mechanism are provided. A switch circuit is connected to a first terminal of an inductor. An energy storage circuit is connected to the switch circuit. A pre-charged circuit is connected to an input power source and a second terminal of the inductor. A pre-charging control circuit is connected to the pre-charged circuit and configured to obtain a voltage of a node between the pre-charged circuit and the second terminal of the inductor, a voltage of the switch circuit or a voltage of the energy storage circuit as a pre-charged voltage. The input power source pre-charges the pre-charged circuit. When the pre-charging control circuit determines that the pre-charged voltage is higher than or equal to a reference voltage, the pre-charging control circuit controls the pre-charged circuit, allowing the input power source to charge the energy storage circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: ANPEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chun-Kai Hsu, Chih-Heng Su, Chih-Yuan Chen
  • Patent number: 11221664
    Abstract: An example display includes a user interface. The user interface is to receive an indication to change a power state. The display includes a communication engine to determine a power state of the computing device communicatively coupled to the communication engine. The display includes a power engine to, based on the power state of the computing device, determine whether to communicate the indication to change the power state to the computing device. The power engine is to, based on the indication to change the power state, alter a power state of the display. The communication engine is to communicate the indication to change the power state to the computing device based on a determination to do so.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Roger D Benson, Wen-Shih Chen, Charles Shaver
  • Patent number: 11215372
    Abstract: A damper system is configured for installation in ductwork including a duct supplying conditioned air through a register boot to a register vent. A damper is movable between a closed position and an open position. A control module includes a control module housing, a controller, a power supply and a transceiver. The controller monitors a remaining energy level of the power supply and transmits a first low battery message via the transceiver when the remaining energy level drops to a first energy threshold. The controller instructs the damper assembly to move to a predetermined position and to transmit a second low battery message via the transceiver when the remaining energy level drops to a second energy threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Ademco Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Gonia, David J. Emmons, Nathan Carlson, Madhu T. Chandrashekar
  • Patent number: 11209889
    Abstract: Status information including remaining battery power is collected from a management target device. Subsequent operations of the device are identified from an operation schedule management collection. Battery consumptions corresponding to subsequent operations of the device are estimated from KPI management collection that includes information representing relationships between battery consumptions and operations with respect to each of a plurality of devices. The battery life of the device is predicted based on the estimated battery consumptions and the remaining battery power represented by the collected status information. A circuit schedule of a maintenance engineer is determined based on the predicted battery life, the schedule including necessity of dispatch of the maintenance engineer to the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Mizuno, Soichi Takashige, Keisuke Hatasaki