Patents Assigned to Johnson Controls Technology Company
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Patent number: 11112129Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a centering system for a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) unit to be mounted to a curb. The centering system includes a centering wedge configured to couple to a base rail of the HVAC unit, the base rail having a lateral surface and a base surface along a length of the HVAC unit. The centering wedge includes an angled surface configured to extend between the lateral surface of the base rail and the base surface of the base rail. The angled surface is configured to contact the curb during installation of the HVAC unit to guide the HVAC unit toward a centered position on the curb.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2018Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Sriram Ramanujam, Amit R. Chothave, Karan Garg
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Publication number: 20210270510Abstract: A method of operating a chiller to avoid future surge events, the method comprises applying chiller operating data associated with a chiller as an input to one or more machine learning models; and generating a threshold for a controllable chiller variable to prevent a future chiller surge event from occurring based on an output of the one or more machine learning models, further comprising affecting operation of the chiller based on the threshold to prevent the future chiller surge event from occurring. The method enables automatic control of a chiller to avoid future chiller surge events.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2020Publication date: September 2, 2021Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Liming Yang, Thomas M. Seneczko, Curtis C. Crane, Justin P. Kauffman
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Publication number: 20210270485Abstract: A system for controlling heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning equipment includes a thermostat unit configured control the HVAC equipment and operate in at least one of a first operational state or a second, power-saving state, and a server comprising one or more processors. The processors are configured to receive one or more messages indicating changes to parameters of the thermostat unit, store the one or more messages in a storage table, receive a query from the thermostat unit responsive to the thermostat unit transitioning to the second state, the query indicating parameters of the thermostat unit and a state of the thermostat unit, retrieve, responsive to the query, a first one of the one or more message from the storage table, generate a first message based on the first one of the one or more messages and the query, and transmit the first message to the thermostat unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2020Publication date: September 2, 2021Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventor: Leyla Mousavi
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Publication number: 20210271220Abstract: A system for updating a device in a building management system (BMS). The system includes a third-party device and a device manager of a control network. The device manager updates the third-party device and includes a processing circuit that determines that the third-party device has been discovered on the control network. The processing circuit further populates a template with a set of received data from the third-party device and maps the third-party device with control network based on the populated template of received data. The processing circuit further configures the third-party device to operate in the control network, wherein configuring the third-party device comprises transforming a data exchange format of the third-party device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2020Publication date: September 2, 2021Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Lisa E. Strand, Vivek V. Gupta, Benjamin D. Sanfelippo, Mark T. Fischbach, Adam Scott
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Publication number: 20210270480Abstract: An enterprise management system includes a first subsystem located at a first geographic location and including a first building device, a second subsystem located at a second geographic location and including a second building device, and one or more memory devices having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including receiving first alarm data from the first subsystem, the first alarm data indicating an alarm condition for the first building device, receiving second alarm data from the second subsystem, the second alarm data indicating an alarm condition for the second building device, and providing aggregate alarm data on a user interface based on the first alarm data and the second alarm data, the aggregate alarm data indicating a total number of alarms for the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2020Publication date: September 2, 2021Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Sandip Salunke, Mark T. Fischbach, Yogesh Jalkote, Vivek V. Gupta
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Publication number: 20210270488Abstract: A building management system includes a processing circuit configured to clone the configuration of a first device to one or more devices in a network. The building management system may be configured to determine the source device and the one or more destination devices, retrieve the configuration data from the source device, determine a configuration of the second device, determine a mapping of the source device configuration to the destination device configuration, and send one or more commands to the destination devices to configure the destination devices with properties from the source device configuration. The cloning method may thus be used to clone devices remotely, where the devices can be from different vendors or be different models and located at different locations.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2020Publication date: September 2, 2021Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Sandip Salunke, Mark Fischbach, Vivek V. Gupta
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Publication number: 20210270490Abstract: A heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) system for a building includes one or more processing circuits having one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media containing program instructions. When executed by the one or more processors, the instructions cause the one or more processors to perform operations including providing an optimization function for operating HVAC equipment over a future time period including a plurality of time steps and using the optimization function to generate a time series of temperature setpoints for the plurality of time steps in the future time period. The time series of temperature setpoints achieve a target value of the optimization function over the future time period. The operations include operating the HVAC equipment to drive indoor air temperature toward a first temperature setpoint of the time series of temperature setpoints for a first time step of the plurality of time steps.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2021Publication date: September 2, 2021Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Robert D. Turney, Jiaqi Li
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Publication number: 20210271996Abstract: A building security system of a building including one or more memory devices configured to store instructions causing one or more processors to receive door lock data collected from one or more sensors for one or more doors within the building indicating operation of the one or more doors, select a period for which the door lock data was collected, select a first door from the one or more doors of the building for which data is collected, and identify segments of the data indicating activity of the door. The instructions also apply a model to segments of the data indicating activity of the first door, compute a probability metric for each segment of the data, compute a combined probability score for the first door based on the computed probability metrics, and classify the first door as normally functioning or malfunctioning by comparing the combined probability score to a threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2020Publication date: September 2, 2021Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Donagh S. Horgan, Eamonn J. O'Toole, Jane A. Delaney, Andrew J. Keane
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Patent number: 11107390Abstract: A display device includes a front portion, a rear portion, a halo, and sides extending between the front portion and the rear portion. The front portion, the rear portion, and the sides form an enclosure. The halo includes a rim and an internal structure. The rim is positioned between the front portion and the rear portion. The internal structure is at least partially within the enclosure and includes a sweep portion and a receiving post. The receiving post and the sweep portion are configured to receive light emitted by one or more light emitting devices and at least one of guide, direct, diffuse, focus, and scatter light emitted by the one or more light emitting devices out of the display device.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: John Robert Taylor, Jr., John Michael Reiszl, Damon Bryan Smith
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Patent number: 11105516Abstract: A panel assembly for a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a base panel having a sheet and a flange formed around a perimeter of the sheet, where the flange includes a plurality of openings, a stiffener bracket configured to couple to the flange and reinforce the base panel, and a liner panel configured to couple to the flange and reinforce the base panel, where the plurality of openings is configured to interchangeably couple to the stiffener bracket and the liner panel.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Amit R. Chothave, Karan Garg, Stephen C. Wilson, Sriram Ramanujam
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Patent number: 11105539Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system. The system includes a primary heat transfer loop configured to be disposed at least partially outside of a building, and the primary heat transfer loop includes a heat exchanger, a compressor configured to compress a refrigerant, where the refrigerant is reactive, a condenser configured to receive and condense the refrigerant, and an expansion device configured to reduce a temperature of the refrigerant. The system further includes a secondary heat transfer loop configured to circulate a two-phase fluid at least partially inside the building, wherein the two-phase fluid is less reactive than the refrigerant.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventor: Douglas A. Kester
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Publication number: 20210266240Abstract: A device with embedded intrusion detection includes a housing, a first processing circuit configured to perform one or more functions, a communication path configured to communicate data between the first processing circuit and one or more other components, and a second processing circuit. The second processing circuit is configured to monitor the data transmitted on the communication path, determine whether the device is in a compromised state based on the monitored data, and initiate a corrective action responsive to a determination that the device is in the compromised state. The first processing circuit and the second processing circuit are contained within the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2020Publication date: August 26, 2021Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Seán Phillips, George Silviu Sosiade, Vincent Hamilton, Miguel Morillo Iruela
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Publication number: 20210262684Abstract: A building management system (BMS) for optimizing network traffic. The system includes a user device that includes a user interface that is configured to display a control application for the BMS. The system further includes a routing device comprising a processing circuit, the processing circuit configured to receive an application request from the control application, gather a plurality of responses from one or more data objects, wherein the plurality of responses include a set of data object properties to satisfy the application request, perform a conversion process that converts the plurality of responses into a converted number of responses requested in the application request, wherein the converted number of responses contains the set of data object properties, and provide the converted number of responses to the control application to satisfy the application request.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2020Publication date: August 26, 2021Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventor: Adam Scott
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Patent number: 11099530Abstract: A method for operating a subplant included in a central plant includes obtaining instruction-based equipment models associated with devices included in the subplant and comprises operating points that define an operation of the devices, generating, for each instruction-based equipment models, a geometric equipment model using the operating points from a particular instruction-based equipment model, the geometric equipment model defining at least one operating domain associated with the particular device, merging geometric equipment models to form a geometric subplant model, the geometric subplant model defining an operation of the subplant comprising devices associated with the geometric equipment models, receiving a desired operating point comprising a load value, determining, relative to the desired operating point, a nearest operating point on the geometric subplant model, setting the nearest operating point on the geometric subplant model as an actual operating point, and operating the subplant at the actType: GrantFiled: August 23, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Andrew J. Przybylski, John H. Burroughs, Michael J. Wenzel
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Patent number: 11098922Abstract: An adjustable mounting assembly for a fan motor includes a frame defining a space configured to receive the fan motor and a plurality of mounting legs configured to mount the frame to a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) unit. A length of each mounting leg of the plurality of mounting legs is adjustable.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Ravindra B. Salunkhe, Bhushan C. Kadu, Makrand N. Yarolkar, Shridhar V. Vernekar, Vishal S. Jagtap, Pankaj B. Avhad
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Publication number: 20210254850Abstract: A space controller includes a housing, a sensor, a communications interface, a camera lens, a camera, a display, and a processing circuit. The sensor and the communications interface are coupled to the housing. The sensor is configured to generate sensor data that is indicative of a condition of an environment surrounding the housing. The communications interface is configured to communicate with a controlled device. The camera and the processing circuit are positioned within the housing. In particular, the camera is aligned with the camera lens. The display is configured to display images received from the camera and to receive user input. The processing circuit is configured to identify the environmental condition based on the sensor data and to operate the controlled device based on the environmental condition and the user input.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2021Publication date: August 19, 2021Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventor: Timothy E. Field
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Patent number: 11092166Abstract: An improved variable geometry diffuser (VGD) mechanism for use with a centrifugal compressor. This VGD mechanism extends substantially completely into the diffuser gap so that the VGD mechanism may be used more fully to control other operational functions. The VGD mechanism may be used to minimize compressor backspin and associated transient loads during compressor shut down by preventing a reverse flow of refrigerant gas through the diffuser gap during compressor shutdown, which is prevented because the diffuser gap is substantially blocked by the full extension of the diffuser ring. During start-up, transient surge and stall also can be effectively eliminated as gas flow through the diffuser gap can be impeded as load and impeller speed increase, thereby alleviating the problems caused by startup loads at low speeds. The VGD mechanism can be used for capacity control as well so as to achieve more effective turndown at low loads.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Steven T. Sommer, Jeb W. Schreiber, Justin P. Kauffman, Kurt F. Nenstiel
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Patent number: 11092954Abstract: Systems and methods of generating performance index for connected equipment in a building management system are provided. The connected equipment measures monitored variables and generates status codes. The system obtains data points of the monitored variables and the status codes from past N time units, and connected equipment specific parameters. The system performs first performance checks for the connected equipment using the status codes from the past N time units. The system performs second performance checks using the data points of the monitored variables from the past N time units, the connected equipment specific parameters, and a set of predetermined rules. The system determines individual performance check indicators based on the first performance checks and the second performance checks using first weights each determined based on a different timing. The system generates an overall performance index for the connected equipment using the individual performance check indicators and second weights.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Steven R. Vitullo, Kelsey C. Schuster, Michael R. Rhodes, Riley P. Shelton, John F. Kuchler
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Patent number: 11090595Abstract: An adjustable filter track system for a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a filter track including a guideway and a bracket that form a recess configured to receive a first filter in a first configuration of the adjustable filter track system, a plurality of receptacles formed in the guideway and aligned along a length of the guideway, and a plurality of inserts, where, in a second configuration of the adjustable filter track system, each insert of the plurality of inserts is configured to be disposed in a corresponding receptacle of the plurality of receptacles and extend outwardly from the guideway to secure a second filter between the plurality of inserts and the bracket, where the second filter has a different thickness than the first filter.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Ravindra B. Salunkhe, Bhushan C. Kadu
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Patent number: 11092346Abstract: A zoning system for a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a temperature control device configured to monitor a temperature in a zone of a structure for conditioning by the HVAC system and configured to send a wireless control signal including data based on the temperature, and a damper actuator configured to be associated with the zone and configured to adjust a position of a damper to control an airflow into the zone, where the damper actuator is configured to receive the wireless control signal from the temperature control device and configured to adjust the position of the damper based on the data.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventor: Shaun B. Atchison