Patents Assigned to Lutron Technology Company LLC
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Publication number: 20250116156Abstract: A motorized window treatment may include a roller tube, a motor drive unit, a mounting bracket, and a connector. The roller tube may have a flexible material attached thereto. The roller tube may have first and second ends. The roller tube may be configured to rotate about a longitudinal axis that defines a longitudinal direction. The motor drive unit may be configured to rotate the roller tube to adjust the flexible material between a raised position and a lowered position. The motor drive unit may include an end portion that is accessible via the first end of the roller tube. The connector may be configured to be disposed in the channel. The connector may be configured to electrically connect the motor drive unit to electrical wiring for powering the motor drive unit when the end portion of the motor drive unit is received within the channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2024Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicant: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventors: Melanie S. Goddard, Edward J. Blair, David A. Kirby, Mailing Ren Wu
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Patent number: 12273976Abstract: A controllable lighting device may comprise a drive circuit characterized by one or more cycles and a control circuit configured to control the drive circuit to conduct a load current through a light source of the lighting device. The control circuit may be configured to determine one or more operating parameters of the lighting device during a present cycle of the drive circuit based on a feedback signal indicative of a peak magnitude of the load current conducted through the light source. The control circuit may be able to adjust an average magnitude of the load current conducted through the light source so as to adjust an intensity of the light source towards a target intensity based on the operating parameters.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventor: Stuart W. DeJonge
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Patent number: 12273968Abstract: A multiple location load control system may comprise a main load control device and an accessory load control device. The main load control device may control an amount of power delivered to an electrical load from an AC power source using a control circuit and a controllably conductive device. The accessory load control device may be coupled to the main load control device via an accessory terminal. The accessory load control device may detect a user input for changing a characteristic of the electrical load and may send a signal to the main load control device indicating the user input. The main load control device may detect a pattern of the signal based on a threshold and further determine the user input in response to the detected pattern. The main load control device may adjust the threshold based on line/load conditions of the multiple location load control system.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventors: Quinn Brogan, Donald F. Hausman, Jr., Bauyrzhan Krykpayev, Robert C. Newman, Jr.
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Patent number: 12270251Abstract: A motorized window treatment system controls a plurality of motorized window treatments to maximize daylight autonomy, while minimizing cognitive dissonance. The system may include motorized window treatments, window sensors, and a system controller. Each motorized window treatment may be operable to adjust a respective covering material to control the amount of light entering a space. Each sensor may be mounted adjacent to at least one of the motorized window treatments, and may be configured to measure an amount of daylight shining on the sensor. The system controller may receive sensor readings from the sensors and may control the motorized window treatments in response to the sensors to keep the covering materials aligned when the sensor readings are within a predetermined amount. The system controller may dynamically group and re-group the sensors into subgroups based upon the sensor readings and may control the motorized window treatments based upon the subgroups.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventors: Stephen Lundy, Brent Protzman, Timothy Gill, Michael J. Zizza
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Patent number: 12273823Abstract: A control device may be configured to transmit messages using an adaptive transmit power. The control device may determine a transmit power for transmitting the message based on a command in the message. The control device may determine a transmit power based on a change in lighting intensity caused by the command. The transmit power may be greater when the change in lighting intensity is above a threshold than when the change in light intensity is below the threshold. The control device may determine whether the message was successfully received based on the receipt of an acknowledgement message. The control device may increase the transmit power when the message fails to be received and retransmit the message including the command at an increased transmit power. The control device may store (e.g., learn) the increased transmit power for later use.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventors: Ankit Bhutani, Richard S. Camden, Kaiming Li
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Patent number: 12273256Abstract: A load control system may include control devices configured to communicate via a network. The network may include router devices for enabling communication of messages throughout the network. Networks may enter a router optimization mode to optimize the locations of the router devices in the network. During a router optimization mode, the control devices that are communicating over the network may transmit optimization messages. In order to generate optimized network data for optimizing the network and the roles of devices on the network, potential connections may be analyzed between devices and roles of the router devices in the network may be established based on the potential connections between devices.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventor: Galen Edgar Knode
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Patent number: 12273975Abstract: A power converter circuit may include a control circuit configured to generate a drive signal for rendering a semiconductor switch conductive and non-conductive to generate a bus voltage across a bus capacitor. The control circuit may adjust a minimum operating period of the drive signal to a first value when an output power of the power converter circuit is greater than a first threshold and to a second value when the output power is less than a second threshold. The control circuit may comprise a comparator that generates the drive signal in response to a sense voltage and a threshold voltage. When operating in a standby mode, the control circuit may adjust a magnitude of the threshold voltage based on an instantaneous magnitude of an alternating-current line voltage received by the power converter circuit, such that an input current drawn by the power converter circuit is sinusoidal.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2024Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventors: Ryan M. Bocock, Quinn Brogan
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Publication number: 20250109844Abstract: A lighting device may include an elongated housing that defines a cavity. The lighting device may include plurality of emitter printed circuit boards configured to be received within the cavity. Each of the plurality of emitter printed circuit boards may include a plurality of emitter modules mounted thereto. Each of the plurality of emitter printed circuit boards may include a control circuit configured to control the plurality of emitter modules mounted to the respective emitter printed circuit board based on receipt of one or more messages. The lighting device may include a total internal reflection lens for each of the plurality of emitter printed circuit boards. The total internal reflection lens may be configured to diffuse light emitted by the emitter modules of the plurality of emitter printed circuit boards.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2024Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicant: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventors: Ryan M. Bocock, Richard S. Burberry, Christopher M. Green, Jivan J. Luu, Ananthanag Nemmani, Jaykrishna A. Shukla
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Publication number: 20250106115Abstract: A control device may be configured to form a network at a unique coordinated startup time. The control device may identify a role assigned to the control device in a previously-formed network that the control device was attached to. The control device may determine a unique coordinated startup time for the control device based on the role assigned to the control device in the previously-formed network. The control device may initiate a network formation procedure at the unique coordinated startup time for the device. For example, the network formation procedure may cause the control device to attach to another control device in the network. The network formation procedure is configured to enable the control device to assume the role assigned to the control device in the previously-formed network in the new network.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventors: Ankit Bhutani, Richard S. Camden, Jordan H. Crafts, Jeffrey S. Hayes, Jason A. King, Galen Edgar Knode, Prasad Pramod Kulkarni
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Patent number: 12261521Abstract: A load control device for controlling power delivered from an AC power source to an electrical load may have a closed-loop gate drive circuit for controlling a semiconductor switch of a controllably conductive device. The controllably conductive device may be coupled in series between the source and the load. The gate drive circuit may generate a target signal in response to a control circuit. The gate drive circuit may shape the target signal over a period of time and may increase the target signal to a predetermined level after the period of time. The gate drive circuit may receive a feedback signal that indicates a magnitude of a load current conducted through the semiconductor switch. The gate drive circuit may generate a gate control signal in response to the target signal and the feedback signal, and render the semiconductor switch conductive and non-conductive in response to the gate control signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2023Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventors: Brian J. Bollinger, Venkatesh Chitta, Firozbabu Cholashari, Jonathan Waldron
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Patent number: 12261008Abstract: Remote control devices may control electrical loads and/or load control devices of a load control system without accessing electrical wiring. The remote control device may be mounted over a mechanical switch that is installed in a multi-gang wallbox adjacent to a second electrical device, such as another mechanical switch or an electrical receptacle. The second electrical device may be recessed with respect to the remote control device and may be brought forward towards a front surface of the adapter by loosening a first set of screws that attach a yoke of the second electrical device to the multi-gang wallbox, and tightening a second set of screws that attach the adapter to the yoke of the second electrical device. The remote control device may comprise one or more configurable attachment members for attaching the adapter to the yoke of the mechanical switch and/or to the yoke of the second electrical device.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventors: Chris Dimberg, Jason C. Killo, Brad Michael Kreschollek, Matthew Philip McDonald
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Publication number: 20250093485Abstract: A control device for a ceiling fan may have a motor drive circuit configured to control a rotational speed of a motor of the ceiling fan, an occupancy sensing circuit, and a control circuit configured to adjust the rotational speed of the motor in response to a detected occupancy or vacancy condition. The control circuit may process the signals generated by the occupancy sensing circuit to eliminate the effects of vibrations and/or wobbling of the ceiling fan. The control circuit may control the motor drive circuit to adjust the rotational speed of the motor in response to an accelerometer to minimize the magnitude of the wobble of the ceiling fan. The control circuit may be configured to learn a preferred rotational speed for the motor. The control circuit may also be configured to control the rotational speed of the motor to affect a thermal comfort level of an occupant.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2024Publication date: March 20, 2025Applicant: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventor: James P. Steiner
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Publication number: 20250093205Abstract: Color temperature in a space may be adjusted by controlling one or more lighting control devices (e.g., which control one or more lighting fixtures). Light may enter the space through a window. As a result of daylight control devices associated with the window, the color temperature of light that is entering the space may not be equal to a color temperature of light from outside of the space. A desired color temperature for the space may be input. The color temperature of light emitted by one or more lighting fixtures (e.g., controlled by one or more lighting control devices) may be adjusted to attain the desired color temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2024Publication date: March 20, 2025Applicant: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventors: Rhodes B. Baker, Craig Alan Casey, Thomas M. Shearer
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Patent number: 12253661Abstract: A multi-color LED illumination device and specifically a lens comprising a cylindrical opening extending into the lens from a light entry region at which one or more LEDs are configured. A concave spherical surface extends across the entirety of the light exit region of the lens, and a TIR outer surface shaped as a CPC extends between the light entry region and the light exit region. There are various diffusion surfaces placed on the sidewall surface of the cylindrical opening, as well as its upper planar surface and the exit surface of the lens. Lunes can also be configured on the sidewall surfaces of the cylindrical opening. The combination of lunes, diffusion elements, and the overall configuration of the lens provides improved color mixing and output brightness using three interactions in a first portion of light and two interactions in a second portion of light.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventor: Fangxu Dong
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Publication number: 20250088092Abstract: A power supply may include a power converter circuit may be configured to control a magnitude of an output voltage, and generate a signal indicative of the magnitude of the output voltage. The power supply may include an over-power protection circuit that is configured to receive a feedback signal indicative of a magnitude of an input current of the power converter circuit. The power supply may include a control circuit that is configured to determine a magnitude of a requested power based on the signal indicative of the magnitude of the output voltage, and disable the power supply (e.g., control the magnitude of the output voltage to be zero volts) when the magnitude of the requested power is greater than a second threshold and the magnitude of input power indicated by the first feedback signal is less than a third threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2024Publication date: March 13, 2025Applicant: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventors: Ari L. Fox, Ananthanag Nemmani, David C. Wu
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Publication number: 20250089147Abstract: A linear lighting device may include an elongated housing that defines a cavity. The linear lighting device may include plurality of emitter printed circuit boards configured to be received within the cavity. Each of the plurality of emitter printed circuit boards may include a plurality of emitter modules mounted thereto. Each of the plurality of emitter printed circuit boards may include a control circuit configured to control the plurality of emitter modules mounted to the respective emitter printed circuit board based on receipt of one or more messages. The linear lighting device may include a total internal reflection lens for each of the plurality of emitter printed circuit boards. The total internal reflection lens may be configured to diffuse light emitted by the emitter modules of the plurality of emitter printed circuit boards.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2024Publication date: March 13, 2025Applicant: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventors: Ryan M. Bocock, Fangxu Dong, Ari L. Fox, Christopher M. Green, Peter W. Ogden, JR., Stephen Phillips, Jonathan R. Redus, Jaykrishna A. Shukla
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Patent number: 12249472Abstract: A load control device may control power delivered to an electrical load from an AC power source. The load control device may include a controllably conductive device adapted to be coupled in series electrical connection between the AC power source and the electrical load, a zero-cross detect circuit configured to generate a zero-cross signal representative of the zero-crossings of an AC voltage. The zero-cross signal may be characterized by pulses occurring in time with the zero-crossings of the AC voltage. The load control device may include a control circuit operatively coupled to the controllably conductive device and the zero cross detect circuit. The control circuit may be configured to identify a rising-edge time and a falling-edge time of one of the pulses of the zero-cross signal, and may control a conductive state of the controllably conductive device based on the rising-edge time and the falling-edge time of the pulse.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2024Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventors: Robert W. Lenig, Michael Sizemore, Joshua W. Thaler, Russell L. MacAdam
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Patent number: D1066270Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2023Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventors: Gregory Altonen, Jason C. Killo, Matthew Philip Mcdonald, Sean Tucker
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Patent number: D1069737Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2024Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventors: Gregory Altonen, Chris Dimberg, Jason C. Killo, Daniel L. Twaddell
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Patent number: D1069738Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2024Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLCInventors: Gregory Altonen, Chris Dimberg, Jason C. Killo, Daniel L. Twaddell