Patents Assigned to Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
  • Patent number: 11920806
    Abstract: A leak detection system of a heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a sensor configured to detect a UV tracer in a monitored gas volume of the HVAC system. The leak detection system also includes a controller communicatively coupled to the sensor. The controller is configured to modify operation of the HVAC system in response to the sensor detecting the UV tracer in the monitored gas volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: William F. McQuade, Neelkanth Gupte
  • Patent number: 11920833
    Abstract: A heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a refrigerant loop having a compressor, where the compressor is configured to circulate a refrigerant through the refrigerant loop, a first heat exchanger disposed along the refrigerant loop, where the first heat exchanger is configured to place the refrigerant in a first heat exchange relationship with a working fluid, and an air handling unit having a second heat exchanger, where the second heat exchanger is configured to place the working fluid in a second heat exchange relationship with an airflow, and where the air handling unit is isolated from the first heat exchanger to reduce or eliminate mixing of refrigerant with the airflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Ryan L. Snider, Rajiv K. Karkhanis, Chandra S. Yelamanchili, Curtis W. Caskey, Kevin R. Stockton, Nicholas P. Mislak, Douglas A. Kester, Troy E. Smith
  • Publication number: 20240070343
    Abstract: Systems and methods for guided installation of building equipment are provided. A request for a wiring diagram for wiring a first piece of building equipment to a second piece of building equipment is received from a user device. One or more first wiring configurations associated with the first piece of building equipment and one or more second wiring configurations associated with the second piece of building equipment are identified. Based on the one or more first wiring configurations and the one or more second wiring configurations, an equipment-specific wiring configuration for wiring the first piece of building equipment to the second piece of building equipment is automatically selected. A graphical user interface including a wiring diagram illustrating the equipment-specific wiring configuration is provided to the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventor: Gregory T. Reichl
  • Publication number: 20240068850
    Abstract: An airflow sensor system for an air duct including a damper positioned therein is provided. The controller is configured to determine, via a first pressure sensor, a first airflow measurement based on a first one or more pressure measurements. The controller is further configured to determine, via a second pressure sensor and a damper position sensor, a second airflow measurement based on a second one or more pressure measurements and one or more damper position measurements. The first airflow measurement and the second airflow measurement have a first uncertainty value and a second uncertainty value associated therewith. The controller is further configured to determine an estimated airflow based on weighted values of the first airflow measurement and the second airflow measurement. The weighted values are based on the airflow measurements and the uncertainty values associate therewith.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Brennan Fentzlaff, Mark G. Freund, Jon Douglas
  • Publication number: 20240068693
    Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) fault prediction system for a building including a processing circuit including a processor and memory, the memory having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the processing circuit to receive HVAC data relating to a plurality of HVAC components, the HVAC data indicating performance of the plurality of HVAC components, generate, based on the received HVAC data, a univariate prediction model and a multivariate prediction model, generate, using the received HVAC data, one or more predicted operational parameters for the plurality of HVAC components corresponding to a future time period, and execute at least one of the univariate prediction model or the multivariate prediction model on the one or more predicted operational parameters to predict a HVAC fault associated with at least one of the plurality of HVAC components to occur during the future time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Priti SHINDE, Kathiresan RAJAGOPAL, Abu Bakr KHAN, Young M. Lee
  • Patent number: 11913453
    Abstract: The present application provides a slide valve, wherein the slide valve is configured to regulate a load of a twin-screw compressor. The slide valve comprises a slide valve body, wherein the slide valve body has a connecting end and a free end, the connecting end is configured to connect to a slide valve connecting rod of the twin-screw compressor, and the slide valve is driven to slide by the slide valve connecting rod. A cavity is formed in the free end of the slide valve body, and the slide valve has a passage configured to fluidly couple the cavity with an external fluid to reduce air flow pulsations on a suction side of the twin-screw compressor and thereby reduce overall air flow pulsations in the twin-screw compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP, Johnson Controls Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (Wuxi) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shengmei Yang, Shahebaz Malik
  • Patent number: 11913656
    Abstract: A wireless waveguide system for a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system. The wireless waveguide system includes a sensor that detects an environmental condition and directs a signal indicative of the environmental condition along an interior of a ductwork. A signal sensor detects a strength of the signal within the interior of the ductwork. A repeater that operates based on the strength of the signal detected by the signal sensor and repeats the signal along a communication path at least partially within the interior of the ductwork to a controller of an HVAC unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Tri V. Ky, Allison M. Ahern, David C. Ullenberg
  • Patent number: 11914353
    Abstract: A control system configured to serve one or more energy loads in a building comprises equipment configured to consume, produce, or store one or more resources including electricity, water, natural gas, steam, hot thermal energy, cold thermal energy, or electrical energy. The control system includes an asset allocator configured to receive an input model that describes a physical layout of the equipment and create a net list that defines connections between the equipment using the input model. The asset allocator is configured to discover one or more systems of interconnected equipment and one or more groups of equipment using the net list, formulate an optimization problem using the systems and groups of equipment, and operate the equipment according to the optimization problem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventor: Andrew J. Przybylski
  • Patent number: 11913655
    Abstract: A building management system (BMS) for filtering a fluid within a building is shown. The system includes one or more sensors configured to measure one or more characteristics of a first fluid within an air duct of the BMS and measure one or more characteristics of a second fluid after the second fluid has been filtered. The system further includes a pollutant management system configured to receive data from the one or more sensors and control a filtration process. The filtration process selects a filter of a plurality of filters based on at least one of a level of the one or more characteristics of the first fluid or the one or more characteristics of the second fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Timothy C. Gamroth, Michael J. Wenzel, Mohammad N. ElBsat, David S. Eidson, James Burke, Kirk H. Drees, Thomas M. Seneczko
  • Patent number: 11916694
    Abstract: A building system of a building including one or more memory devices having instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to identify a capability of an entity in a building graph, the building graph including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges, the plurality of nodes representing entities of the building including the entity and the capability, the plurality of edges representing relationships between the entities of the building and the capability. The instructions cause the one or more processors to receive a command to perform an operation associated with the entity, the operation associated with the capability of the entity and provide the command to perform the operation associated with the entity to an operating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLP
    Inventors: Justin J. Ploegert, Dominick James O'Dierno, Brian Scott Otto
  • Patent number: 11914337
    Abstract: Systems and methods for building management utilizing adaptive edge processing are disclosed. The building system can store gateway components on storage devices. The gateway components can facilitate communication with a cloud platform and facilitate communication with a physical building device. The building system can identify a computing system of the building that is in communication with the physical building device. The physical building device can store one or more data samples. The building system can deploy the gateway components to the computing system responsive to identifying that the computing system is in communication with the physical building device. The gateway components can cause the computing system to communicate with the physical building device to receive the one or more data samples and cause the computing system to communicate the one or more data samples to the cloud platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLP
    Inventors: Miguel Galvez, Eric G. Lang
  • Patent number: 11906196
    Abstract: A mounting assembly for a fan of a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a frame configured to couple to the HVAC system. The frame includes a support rail having a flange. The mounting assembly includes a first guide rail coupled to the frame and having a first lip extending at an oblique angle relative to the flange. The mounting assembly also includes a second guide rail coupled to the frame and having a second lip extending at the oblique angle relative to the flange. The first and second lips are configured to support and guide translation of a chassis of the fan toward the support rail such that the chassis of the fan engages with the flange. The flange is configured to support the fan offset from the first and second lips in an installed configuration of the fan with the mounting assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: April Mae Eberly Diehl, Kevin Lee Stein, Jeffrey Joseph Ronald, John Russel Lauver, III, Craig Eric Adams
  • Patent number: 11906192
    Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system. The HVAC system includes a sensor that detects a temperature of a heater of a heating component and emits a signal indicative of the temperature. A flow management device controls a flow of electricity or fuel from a power source to the heating component. A controller receives the signal from the sensor and operates the flow management device to block the flow of electricity or fuel to the heating component when the signal is indicative of the temperature being above a set point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventor: Stephen C. Wilson
  • Patent number: 11906184
    Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) unit includes an energy recovery wheel, a first exhaust fan configured to draw a first air flow across the energy recovery wheel and discharge the first air flow from the HVAC unit, a second exhaust fan configured to draw a second air flow across the energy recovery wheel and discharge the second air flow from the HVAC unit, and a controller configured to operate the first exhaust fan and the second exhaust fan in an economizer mode and configured to operate the first exhaust fan and suspend operation of the second exhaust fan in an energy recovery mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLP
    Inventors: Marcel P. Ferrere, Jr., Rajiv K. Karkhanis, Aron M. Seiler
  • Patent number: 11906188
    Abstract: An energy efficient heat pump for a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a compressor system configured to direct a working fluid flow along a working fluid circuit of the energy efficient heat pump. The compressor system includes a first compressor configured to direct the working fluid flow in a first direction along the working fluid circuit and a second compressor configured to direct the working fluid flow in a second direction along the working fluid circuit, opposite the first direction. The energy efficient heat pump also includes a controller communicatively coupled to the first compressor and the second compressor, where the controller is configured to operate the first compressor and suspend operation of the second compressor in a cooling mode of the energy efficient heat pump and to operate the second compressor and suspend operation of the first compressor in a heating mode of the energy efficient heat pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Andrew Leroy Hjortland, Jonathan David Douglas
  • Patent number: 11906211
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventor: Douglas A. Kester
  • Patent number: 11899723
    Abstract: One implementation of the present disclosure is a building system of a building including one or more memory devices having instructions stored thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive a selection including a context and a twin function and generate an operation to monitor a building graph based on the context, the operation identifying whether one or more new events are added to the building graph, the one or more new events affecting a processing result. The instructions cause the one or more processors to cause the twin function to execute responsive to identifying the one or more new events added to the building graph that affect the processing result, execute the twin function based on the one or more new events and the context to generate the processing result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLP
    Inventors: Trent Mark Swanson, Richard J. Campero, Justin J. Ploegert, Dominick J. O'Dierno, Brian Scott Otto
  • Patent number: 11900287
    Abstract: A model predictive maintenance (MPM) system for building equipment. The MPM system includes an equipment controller configured to operate the building equipment to affect a variable state or condition in a building. The MPM system includes an operational cost predictor configured to predict a cost of operating the building equipment over a duration of an optimization period. The MPM system includes a budget manager configured to generate one or more budget constraints. The MPM system includes an objective function optimizer configured to optimize an objective function subject to the one or more budget constraints to determine a maintenance and replacement schedule for the building equipment. The objective function includes maintenance and replacement costs of the building equipment and the predicted cost of operating the building equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Robert D. Turney, Sudhi R. Sinha, Michael J. Wenzel, Mohammad N. Elbsat
  • Patent number: 11903152
    Abstract: A trim plate for a wall mounting assembly is shown. The trim plate includes a body defined by a first end and a second end opposite the first end, the first end defining a front section and the second end defining a rear section, the body defining a passageway extending from the rear section, through the body, to the front section. The body includes a plurality of mounting holes formed through the body and spaced apart from one another around the passageway. The body further includes a positioning feature formed outward from the passageway and spaced apart from the mounting holes. The positioning feature is defined by rearwardly extending walls partially surrounding an aperture formed through the front section of the body, the rearwardly extending walls defining a pocket formed therebetween, the pocket extending along the rear section beyond the aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Richard David Friend, Justin C. Pasquale
  • Patent number: D1016595
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Derek Joseph Boyes, Frederick Michael McBride