Patents by Inventor Robert D. Turney
Robert D. Turney has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20250047170Abstract: A power tool includes a motor, a switching module, a plurality of rotor position sensors, and a controller. The switching module includes a plurality of high-side switches and a plurality of low-side switches. The rotor position sensors are configured to output signals related to the position of the rotor. The controller is configured to drive the motor using a twelve-step commutation sequence. A first step includes one of the plurality of high-side switches and one of the plurality of low-side switches turned to an ON conduction state. The controller is configured to calculate an updated phase transition angle for the twelve-step commutation sequence, and drive the motor using the twelve-step commutation sequence based on the updated phase transition angle. A second step following a phase transition includes either two of the plurality of high-side switches or two of the plurality of low-side switches turned to the ON conduction state.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2022Publication date: February 6, 2025Inventors: Alexander T. Huber, Gerald M. Nagel, Shuvam Gupta, Robert D. Turney
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Patent number: 12216452Abstract: A controller for equipment that operate to provide heating or cooling to a building or campus includes a processing circuit configured to obtain utility rate data indicating a price of resources consumed by the equipment to serve energy loads of the building or campus, obtain an objective function that expresses a total monetary cost of operating the equipment over an optimization period as a function of the utility rate data and an amount of the resources consumed by the equipment, determine a relationship between resource consumption and load production of the equipment, optimize the objective function over the optimization subject to a constraint based on the relationship between the resource consumption and the load production of the equipment to determine a distribution of the load production across the equipment, and operate the equipment to achieve the distribution.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Michael J. Wenzel, Robert D. Turney, Kirk H. Drees, Matthew J. Asmus
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Patent number: 12196437Abstract: An energy plant includes a plurality of subplants, a high level optimizer, a low level optimizer, and a controller. The plurality of subplants include a cogeneration subplant configured to generate steam and electricity and a chiller subplant electrically coupled to the cogeneration subplant and configured to consume the electricity generated by the cogeneration subplant. The high level optimizer is configured to determine recommended subplant loads for each of the plurality of subplants. The recommended subplant loads include a rate of steam production and a rate of electricity production of the cogeneration subplant and a rate of electricity consumption of the chiller subplant. The low level optimizer is configured to determine recommended equipment setpoints for equipment of the plurality of subplants based on the recommended subplant loads. The controller is configured to operate the equipment of the plurality of subplants based on the recommended equipment setpoints.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2018Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Tyco Fire & Security GmbHInventors: Robert D. Turney, Tricia J. Valentine, Nicole A. Madison, Collin W. Eggert, Carol T. Tumey, Michael F. Jaeger, Peter A. Craig
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Publication number: 20240426501Abstract: A predictive controller for building equipment associated with a building includes one or more processing circuits configured to control electric energy used by the building equipment. The building equipment includes an electric energy using component. The one or more processing circuits are configured to utilize a predictive cost function to determine a first amount of the electric energy supplied from an energy grid source and a second amount of the electric energy supplied from a second energy source to the electric energy using component.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2024Publication date: December 26, 2024Applicant: Tyco Fire & Security GmbHInventors: Robert D. Turney, Nishith R. Patel, Mohammad N. Elbsat, Michael J. Wenzel
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Patent number: 12130598Abstract: A controller for operating building equipment of a building including processors and non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the processors, cause the processors to perform operations including obtaining a first setpoint trajectory from a cloud computation system. The first setpoint trajectory includes setpoints for the building equipment or for a space of the building. The setpoints correspond to time steps of an optimization period. The operations include determining whether a connection between the controller and the cloud computation system is active or inactive at a time step of the optimization period and determining an active setpoint for the time step of the optimization period using either the first or second setpoint trajectory based on whether the connection between the controller and the cloud computation system is active or inactive at the time step. The operations include operating the building equipment based on the active setpoint.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2022Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: Tyco Fire & Security GmbHInventors: Michael J. Wenzel, Robert D. Turney, Jiaqi Li, Matthew J. Ellis, Mohammad N. Elbsat
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Patent number: 12085296Abstract: A predictive controller for building equipment associated with a building includes one or more processing circuits configured to control electric energy used by the building equipment. The building equipment includes an electric energy using component. The one or more processing circuits are configured to utilize a predictive cost function to determine a first amount of the electric energy supplied from an energy grid source and a second amount of the electric energy supplied from a second energy source to the electric energy using component.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2022Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Tyco Fire & Security GmbHInventors: Robert D. Turney, Nishith R. Patel, Mohammad N. Elbsat, Michael J. Wenzel
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Publication number: 20240266827Abstract: A predictive controller for a building energy system obtains a function that defines an amount of energy consumed by both waterside equipment and airside equipment during a time period as a summation of multiple equipment-specific energy components including a waterside energy component indicating an amount of energy consumed by the waterside equipment during the time period and an airside energy component indicating an amount of energy consumed by the airside equipment during the time period. The predictive controller performs a predictive control process using the function to determine values of the equipment-specific energy components during the time period. The predictive control process includes predicting the amount of energy consumed by both the waterside equipment and the airside equipment during the time period based on the values of the equipment-specific energy components.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2024Publication date: August 8, 2024Applicant: Tyco Fire & Security GmbHInventors: Robert D. Turney, Nishith R. Patel
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Publication number: 20240192647Abstract: A building heating, ventilating, or air conditioning (HVAC) system includes waterside HVAC equipment configured to generate a heated or chilled fluid and airside HVAC equipment configured to use the heated or chilled fluid to heat or cool a supply airflow provided to a building. A controller for the HVAC system includes one or more processing circuits configured to perform an integrated airside/waterside control process to determine control outputs for both the waterside HVAC equipment and the airside HVAC equipment simultaneously such that the control outputs for the airside HVAC equipment are based on the control outputs for the waterside HVAC equipment and vice versa. The controller is configured to operate the waterside HVAC equipment and the airside HVAC equipment to provide heating or cooling to the building using the control outputs.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2024Publication date: June 13, 2024Applicant: Tyco Fire & Security GmbHInventors: Michael J. Risbeck, Robert D. Turney, Christos T. Maravelias
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Patent number: 11973345Abstract: A predictive controller for a building energy system includes one or more processing circuits configured to obtain a constraint that defines a total electric load to be served by the building energy system at each time step of a time period as a summation of multiple source-specific energy components. The source-specific energy components include a first energy component indicating a first amount of energy to obtain from a first energy source during the time step and a second energy component indicating a second amount of energy to obtain from a second energy source during the time step. The one or more processing circuits are configured to perform a predictive control process subject to the constraint to determine values of the source-specific energy components at each time step of the time period and operate equipment of the building energy system using the values of the source-specific energy components.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Robert D. Turney, Nishith R. Patel
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Patent number: 11953865Abstract: A controller for heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) equipment including a processing circuit configured to perform a first optimization to generate a first set of control decisions for HVAC equipment including waterside HVAC equipment that consume resources from utility providers to generate a heated or chilled fluid and airside HVAC equipment that receive and use the fluid from the waterside HVAC equipment to heat or cool a supply of airflow for a building. The processing circuit is configured to perform a second optimization subject to a constraint based on a result of the first optimization to generate a second set of control decisions for the HVAC equipment and to combine the first and second sets to generate a combined set of control decisions for the HVAC equipment. The processing circuit is configured to operate the HVAC equipment in accordance with the combined set of control decisions.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Michael J. Risbeck, Robert D. Turney, Christos T. Maravelias
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Patent number: 11927357Abstract: A system includes a plurality of thermostats corresponding to a plurality of HVAC systems that serve a plurality of spaces and a computing system communicable with the plurality of thermostats via a network. The computing system is configured to, for each space of the plurality of spaces, obtain a set of training data relating to thermal behavior of the space, identify a model of thermal behavior of the space based on the set of training data, perform a model predictive control process using the model of thermal behavior of the space to obtain a temperature setpoint for the space, and provide the temperature setpoint to the thermostat corresponding to the HVAC system serving the space. The plurality of thermostats are configured to control the plurality of HVAC systems in accordance with the temperature setpoints.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Kerry M. Bell, Bridget E. Kapler, Alan S. Schwegler, Leyla Mousavi, Kierstyn R. Robbins, Robert D. Turney, Matthew J. Ellis, Michael J. Wenzel, Mohammad N. ElBsat, Juan Esteban Tapiero Bernal, Brennan H. Fentzlaff
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Publication number: 20240061404Abstract: A controller for equipment that operate to provide heating or cooling to a building or campus includes a processing circuit configured to obtain utility rate data indicating a price of resources consumed by the equipment to serve energy loads of the building or campus, obtain an objective function that expresses a total monetary cost of operating the equipment over an optimization period as a function of the utility rate data and an amount of the resources consumed by the equipment, determine a relationship between resource consumption and load production of the equipment, optimize the objective function over the optimization subject to a constraint based on the relationship between the resource consumption and the load production of the equipment to determine a distribution of the load production across the equipment, and operate the equipment to achieve the distribution.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Michael J. Wenzel, Robert D. Turney, Kirk H. Drees, Matthew J. Asmus
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Patent number: 11900287Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Robert D. Turney, Sudhi R. Sinha, Michael J. Wenzel, Mohammad N. Elbsat
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Patent number: 11789415Abstract: A heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) system for a building includes HVAC equipment configured to provide heating or cooling to one or more building spaces and one or more controllers. The one or more controllers include one or more processing circuits configured to generate energy targets for the one or more building spaces using a thermal capacitance of the one or more building spaces to which the heating or cooling is provided by the HVAC equipment, generate setpoints for the HVAC equipment using the energy targets for the one or more building spaces to which the heating or cooling is provided by the HVAC equipment, and operate the HVAC equipment using the setpoints to provide the heating or cooling to the one or more building spaces.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Nishith R. Patel, Matthew J. Ellis, Michael J. Wenzel, Robert D. Turney, Brett M. Lenhardt
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Publication number: 20230327439Abstract: A predictive controller for a building energy system includes one or more processing circuits configured to obtain a constraint that defines a total electric load to be served by the building energy system at each time step of a time period as a summation of multiple source-specific energy components. The source-specific energy components include a first energy component indicating a first amount of energy to obtain from a first energy source during the time step and a second energy component indicating a second amount of energy to obtain from a second energy source during the time step. The one or more processing circuits are configured to perform a predictive control process subject to the constraint to determine values of the source-specific energy components at each time step of the time period and operate equipment of the building energy system using the values of the source-specific energy components.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Robert D. Turney, Nishith R. Patel
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Patent number: 11782409Abstract: An environmental control system of a building including a first building device operable to affect environmental conditions of a zone of the building by providing a first input to the zone. The system includes a second building device operable to independently affect a subset of the environmental conditions by providing a second input to the zone and further includes a controller including a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to perform an optimization to generate control decisions for the building devices. The optimization is performed subject to constraints for the environmental conditions and uses a predictive model that predicts an effect of the control decisions on the environmental conditions. The processing circuit is configured to operate the building devices in accordance with the control decisions.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Robert D. Turney, Michael J. Wenzel, Mohammad N. Elbsat, Liming Yang, Matthew J. Ellis, Masayuki Nonaka
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Patent number: 11774948Abstract: A controller for equipment that operate to provide heating or cooling to a building or campus includes a processing circuit configured to obtain utility rate data indicating a price of resources consumed by the equipment to serve energy loads of the building or campus, obtain an objective function that expresses a total monetary cost of operating the equipment over an optimization period as a function of the utility rate data and an amount of the resources consumed by the equipment, determine a relationship between resource consumption and load production of the equipment, optimize the objective function over the optimization subject to a constraint based on the relationship between the resource consumption and the load production of the equipment to determine a distribution of the load production across the equipment, and operate the equipment to achieve the distribution.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Michael J. Wenzel, Robert D. Turney, Kirk H. Drees, Matthew J. Asmus
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Patent number: 11754984Abstract: A heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) system for a building includes airside HVAC equipment configured to provide heating or cooling to one or more building spaces and one or more controllers. The one or more controllers are configured to generate airside energy targets for the one or more building spaces using a heat transfer model that defines a relationship between the airside energy targets, a temperature of the one or more building spaces, and a thermal capacitance of the one or more building spaces. The one or more controllers are configured to control the airside HVAC equipment in accordance with the airside energy targets.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Nishith R. Patel, Robert D. Turney, Matthew J. Ellis
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Patent number: 11747800Abstract: An automatic work order generation system for model predictive maintenance (MPM) of building equipment including an MPM system including an equipment controller to operate the building equipment to affect an environmental condition of a building. The MPM system can perform a predictive optimization to determine a service time at which to service the building equipment. The automatic work order generation system includes an equipment service scheduler that can determine whether any service providers are available to perform equipment service within a predetermined time range of the service time. In response to determining that service providers are available to perform the equipment service, the equipment service scheduler can select a service provider and an appointment time based on one or more service provider attributes. The equipment service scheduler can generate a service work order and transmit the service work order to the service provider to schedule a service appointment.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2019Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Mohammad N. ElBsat, Michael J. Wenzel, Zhigang Wu, Yasutaka Yoshida, Robert D. Turney, Liming Yang
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Publication number: 20230273579Abstract: A variable refrigerant flow (VRF) system for a building includes an outdoor VRF unit, a plurality of indoor VRF units, a battery, and a predictive VRF controller. The outdoor VRF unit includes powered VRF components configured to apply heating or cooling to a refrigerant. The indoor VRF units are configured to use the heated or cooled refrigerant to provide heating or cooling to a plurality of building zones. The battery is configured to store electric energy and discharge the stored electric energy for use in powering the powered VRF components. The predictive VRF controller is configured to optimize a predictive cost function to determine an optimal amount of electric energy to purchase from an energy grid and an optimal amount of electric energy to store in the battery or discharge from the battery for use in powering the powered VRF components at each time step of an optimization period.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2023Publication date: August 31, 2023Applicant: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Robert D. Turney, Nishith R. Patel