Patents Assigned to Crestron Electronics
  • Patent number: 11613926
    Abstract: A roller shade comprising a roller tube, a shade material attached to the roller tube, and a shade drive unit adapted to rotate the roller tube to lower or raise the shade material. The shade drive unit comprises a spring adapted to counterbalance the shade drive unit, a spring carrier, and a spring fastener. The spring carrier comprises a cylindrical barrel, wherein one of the first and second ends of the spring is concentrically positioned over the cylindrical barrel of the spring carrier. The spring fastener comprising a body having a curved bottom surface adapted to be positioned over one of the first and second ends of the spring and attached to the cylindrical barrel of the spring carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce Ryan Dahlgren, Michael Campagna
  • Patent number: 11591850
    Abstract: A motorized shade for covering an architectural opening that can be actuated by touching its shade material. The motorized shade comprises a shade material extending between an upper end and a lower end and a motor drive unit operably connected to the upper end of the shade material and comprising a motor and a motor control module adapted to control the motor to raise or lower the shade material. The shade material comprises at least partially comprises electrically conductive material. The motor control module comprises a capacitive touch sensor that is electrically connected to the upper end of the shade material via at least one electrical contact. The motor control module is adapted to detect a touch of the shade material via the capacitive touch sensor and in response control the motor to raise or lower the shade material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Campagna, Charles R. Derk, Jr., Benjamin Slivka
  • Patent number: 11589437
    Abstract: Provided herein is a lighting load control assembly, comprising: a circuit adapted to source a first lighting load controlling current to a lighting load and sink a second lighting load controlling current from the lighting load through a single common circuit element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: John Torre
  • Patent number: 11575353
    Abstract: An audio amplifier system is described herein, comprising: an amplifier adapted to amplify an audio signal and comprising an output enable/disable input, the amplifier further adapted to receive an output enable signal at the output enable/disable input that enables/disables an output of the amplifier; a Zobel network connected to the output of the audio amplifier and comprising a Zobel capacitor and a Zobel resistor arranged such that they form a high pass frequency filter function and wherein the Zobel network is adapted to be substantially resistive when a frequency of an audio signal output from the audio amplifier is within a first frequency range; a mirroring resistor connected in parallel to the Zobel resistor and adapted to mirror a power that is dissipated in the Zobel resistor, and wherein a printed circuit board upon which the mirroring resistor is located is adapted to conduct heat generated by the mirroring resistor; a negative temperature coefficient (NTC) resistor located in close proximity to
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Buono
  • Patent number: 11572737
    Abstract: Shade assembly comprising a roller tube, shade material connected to the roller tube, and a motor disposed inside the roller tube and adapted to rotate the roller tube to roll and unroll the shade material. The shade assembly further comprise a motor head disposed at a terminal end of the roller tube and comprises a contact pin and a first locking member, and an installation bracket adapted to be secured to an architectural structure and comprises a contact pad and a second locking member, wherein the motor head is stationary with respect to the installation bracket when the roller tube rotates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Campagna
  • Publication number: 20230031632
    Abstract: A hem bar assembly adapted to secure to a shade material of a roller shade that selectively covers or uncover an architectural opening. The hem bar assembly comprises a first hem bar portion adapted to attach to a second hem bar portion. The first hem bar portion comprises a longitudinal flexible locking member recessed in the inner wall of the first hem bar portion and comprising a channel longitudinally extending therein. The hem bar assembly further comprises a longitudinal spline comprising a longitudinal male plug adapted to wedge and retain the shade material within the locking member channel of the first hem bar portion. The hem bar assembly is configured to attach to the shade material without welding and in exposed, half-wrap, or full-wrap configurations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Victor M. Menendez
  • Patent number: 11560753
    Abstract: A motorized shade comprising a motor adapted to lower or raise a shade material for selectively covering an architectural opening based on a position of the sun. The motorized shade comprises a controller adapted to drive the motor phase according to a startup sequence by ramping up amplitude form an initial amplitude to a startup amplitude and ramping up frequency from an initial frequency to a drive frequency, drive the motor phase according to a full drive sequence to move the shade material by driving the motor phase according to a sinusoidal waveform at a set maximum amplitude and at a drive frequency, and drive the motor phase according to a wind down sequence by reducing frequency from the drive frequency to an end frequency and reducing the amplitude from the maximum amplitude to an end amplitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Campagna, Benjamin Slivka, Luis J. Rivera
  • Publication number: 20230012542
    Abstract: An innovative system for transmitting encrypted 1-bit audio over an Ethernet network comprises using an omni-directional micro-electrical-mechanical system acoustic sensor element to provide an analog input signal to a sigma-delta modulator that then creates a pulse density modulated 1-bit data stream, at an audio oversampling rate, to a first input of a first exclusive-or (XOR) logic gate. The second input of the XOR logic gate is simultaneously presented with a first pseudo-random 1-bit data stream, at the same audio oversampling rate, thereby resulting in an encrypted pulse density modulated (PDM) 1-bit data stream at the output of the XOR logic gate. The encrypted PDM 1-bit data stream is clocked into a first-in first-out (FIFO) memory at the audio oversampling rate and is clocked out of the first FIFO memory as Ethernet PDM frame data packages at a predetermined Ethernet PHY transfer rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Philip L. Kirkpatrick
  • Patent number: D976283
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Fonti, Srinivas Vunnava, Delix Alex, Donald Florczak, Sae Jhun, Xiaofeng Xu, Peter Wang
  • Patent number: D978089
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Sae Jhun
  • Patent number: D979500
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Buono
  • Patent number: D979501
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Buono
  • Patent number: D979502
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Buono
  • Patent number: D979503
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Buono
  • Patent number: D979504
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Buono
  • Patent number: D979505
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Buono
  • Patent number: D979535
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Sae Jhun, Wendy Feldstein
  • Patent number: D980164
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Buono
  • Patent number: D980174
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Sae Jhun
  • Patent number: D981994
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Wendy Feldstein, Sae Jhun, Howie Balch, Don Florczak, Chetan Khanna, Gautham Basti