Patents Assigned to Johnson Control Technology Company
  • Patent number: 11365897
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventor: Norman J. Blanton
  • Patent number: 11360447
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
    Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Erik S. Paulson, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Kelsey Carle Schuster
  • Patent number: 11353832
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
    Inventors: Ashok Sridharan, Samuel Uk Kim, Erik Paulson, Mel Anthony Faeldonea
  • Patent number: 11353831
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
    Inventors: Ashok Sridharan, Jayesh Patil, Subrata Bhattacharya, Abhigyan Chatterjee
  • Patent number: 11342881
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Harold J. Dubensky, James K. Spitzer, Roderick Ray Sentz, Kevin R. Stockton
  • Patent number: 11327451
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
    Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Erik S. Paulson, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Kelsey Carle Schuster
  • Publication number: 20220138492
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Erik S. Paulson, Ambuj Shatdal, ZhongYi Jin, Chenlu Zhang, Youngchoon Park
  • Publication number: 20220137570
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Erik S. Paulson, Ambuj Shatdal, ZhongYi Jin, Chenlu Zhang, Youngchoon Park
  • Publication number: 20220137569
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Erik S. Paulson, Ambuj Shatdal, ZhongYi Jin, Chenlu Zhang, Youngchoon Park
  • Patent number: 11307538
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
    Inventors: Youngchoon Park, Sudhi R. Sinha, Vijaya S. Chennupati, Vaidhyanathan Venkiteswaran, Erik S. Paulson
  • Patent number: 11307543
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Ashok Sridharan, Jayesh Patil, Subrata Bhattacharya, Abhigyan Chatterjee
  • Patent number: 11293554
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventor: Paul W. Snell
  • Publication number: 20220100802
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Kunal Saini, Gerald A. Asp, Matthew T. Trawicki, Craig A. Lind
  • Patent number: 11287166
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Mujibul R. Mohammad, Anil V. Bhosale, Baskaran K, Neelkanth S. Gupte
  • Publication number: 20220090805
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Steven R. Vitullo, Kelsey Carle Schuster, Michael Richard Rhodes, Jonathan Cox
  • Publication number: 20220092500
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Kirk H. Drees, Michael J. Wenzel, Robert D. Turney
  • Patent number: 11280503
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Karla D. Alvarez Cavazos, Ryan L. Snider
  • Patent number: 11280524
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Scott Victor Slothower, Ajit Wasant Kane, Seth Kevin Gladfelter, Jeb William Schreiber
  • Patent number: RE48999
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: John Robert Taylor, Jr., John Michael Reiszl
  • Patent number: RE49069
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: John Robert Taylor, Jr., John Michael Reiszl