Patents by Inventor Zhijin Cheng

Zhijin Cheng 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).

  • Group dynamic environment control
    Patent number: 10364996
    Abstract: A method of conditioning an environment includes generating, by a group feedback analysis system, a first comfort limit based on a first plurality of data points corresponding to user feedback of a group of users in an environment conditioned by an environmental conditioning system to identify the first comfort limit at a first extreme; generating, by the group feedback analysis system, a second comfort limit based on a second plurality of data points corresponding to user feedback of the group of users in the environment conditioned by the environmental conditioning system to identify the second comfort limit at a second extreme, the second extreme being opposite the first extreme; identifying, by the group feedback analysis system, a comfort region defined by the first comfort limit and the second comfort limit; and controlling the environmental conditioning system to maintain at least one environmental criterion within the comfort region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qianchuan Zhao, Zhijin Cheng, Fulin Wang, Yi Jiang, Jinlei Ding, Hayden Reeve, Luca F. Bertuccelli
  • GROUP DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT CONTROL
    Publication number: 20160131383
    Abstract: A method of conditioning an environment includes generating, by a group feedback analysis system, a first comfort limit based on a first plurality of data points corresponding to user feedback of a group of users in an environment conditioned by an environmental conditioning system to identify the first comfort limit at a first extreme; generating, by the group feedback analysis system, a second comfort limit based on a second plurality of data points corresponding to user feedback of the group of users in the environment conditioned by the environmental conditioning system to identify the second comfort limit at a second extreme, the second extreme being opposite the first extreme; identifying, by the group feedback analysis system, a comfort region defined by the first comfort limit and the second comfort limit; and controlling the environmental conditioning system to maintain at least one environmental criterion within the comfort region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Qianchuan Zhao, Zhijin Cheng, Fulin Wang, Yi Jiang, Jinlei Ding, Hayden Reeve, Luca F. Bertuccelli