Patents by Inventor Zhizhong PANG

Zhizhong PANG 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).

  • Patent number: 11120411
    Abstract: A model predictive maintenance system for building equipment including an equipment controller to operate the building equipment to affect a variable state or condition in a building. The system includes an operational cost predictor to predict a cost of operating the building equipment over a duration of an optimization period, a maintenance cost predictor to predict a cost of performing maintenance on the building equipment, and a cost incentive manager to determine whether any cost incentives are available and, in response to a determination that cost incentives are available, identify the cost incentives. The system includes an objective function optimizer to optimize an objective function to predict a total cost associated with the building equipment over the duration of the optimization period. The objective function includes the predicted cost of operating the building equipment, the predicted cost of performing maintenance on the building equipment, and, if available, the cost incentives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
    Inventors: Robert D. Turney, Sudhi R. Sinha, Masayuki Nonaka, Zhizhong Pang, Yoshiko Watanabe, Mohammad N. Elbsat, Michael J. Wenzel
  • Patent number: 11002457
    Abstract: A building cooling system includes a controller and a cooling device operable to affect indoor air temperature of a building. The controller is configured to obtain a cost function that characterizes a cost of operating the cooling device over a future time period, obtain a dataset relating to the building, determine a current state of the building by applying the dataset to a neural network, select a temperature bound associated with the current state, augment the cost function to include a penalty term that increases the cost when the indoor air temperature violates the temperature bound, and determine a temperature setpoint for each of a plurality of time steps in the future time period. The temperature setpoints achieve a target value of the cost function over the future time period. The controller is configured to control the cooling device to drive the indoor air temperature towards the temperature setpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Robert D. Turney, Henry O. Marcy, V, Zhizhong Pang
  • Publication number: 20190338973
    Abstract: A building cooling system includes a controller and a cooling device operable to affect indoor air temperature of a building. The controller is configured to obtain a cost function that characterizes a cost of operating the cooling device over a future time period, obtain a dataset relating to the building, determine a current state of the building by applying the dataset to a neural network, select a temperature bound associated with the current state, augment the cost function to include a penalty term that increases the cost when the indoor air temperature violates the temperature bound, and determine a temperature setpoint for each of a plurality of time steps in the future time period. The temperature setpoints achieve a target value of the cost function over the future time period. The controller is configured to control the cooling device to drive the indoor air temperature towards the temperature setpoint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Robert D. Turney, Henry O. Marcy, V, Zhizhong Pang
  • Publication number: 20190311332
    Abstract: A model predictive maintenance system for building equipment including an equipment controller to operate the building equipment to affect a variable state or condition in a building. The system includes an operational cost predictor to predict a cost of operating the building equipment over a duration of an optimization period, a maintenance cost predictor to predict a cost of performing maintenance on the building equipment, and a cost incentive manager to determine whether any cost incentives are available and, in response to a determination that cost incentives are available, identify the cost incentives. The system includes an objective function optimizer to optimize an objective function to predict a total cost associated with the building equipment over the duration of the optimization period. The objective function includes the predicted cost of operating the building equipment, the predicted cost of performing maintenance on the building equipment, and, if available, the cost incentives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Robert D. TURNEY, Sudhi R. SINHA, Masayuki NONAKA, Zhizhong PANG, Yoshiko WATANABE, Mohammad N. ELBSAT, Michael J. WENZEL