Mechanical Control System Patents (Class 700/275)
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Patent number: 11970805Abstract: The embodiments herein discloses a system for dyeing fabrics on-demand, comprising a flatbed mechanism for loading a substrate for dyeing; an ink feeder mechanism, consisting of at least Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black (C, M, Y, K) colors and a color combiner mechanism or color mixer to combine the inks and create a composite ink; at least two nozzle heads to deposit the composite ink on both sides of a substrate; an operator console; and a reset mechanism. The nozzle is configured to move across the entire width of a substrate from one side to the other, while the substrate rolls to aid dyeing. The nozzle dyes a single color at any given time.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: v Personalize, Inc.Inventor: Balamurugan Selvarajan
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Patent number: 11960260Abstract: A method comprises measuring a light intensity at a window; determining if the light intensity exceeds a cloudy-day threshold; operating in a sunlight penetration limiting mode to control the motorized window treatment to control the sunlight penetration distance in the space; enabling the sunlight penetration limiting mode if the light intensity is greater than the cloudy-day threshold; and disabling the sunlight penetration limiting mode if the total lighting intensity is less than the cloudy-day threshold. The cloudy-day threshold is maintained at a constant threshold if a calculated solar elevation angle is greater than a predetermined solar elevation angle, and the cloudy-day threshold varies with time if the calculated solar elevation angle is less than the predetermined solar elevation angle. The cloudy-day threshold is a function of the calculated solar elevation angle if the calculated solar elevation angle is less than the predetermined solar elevation angle.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: LUTRON TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LLCInventors: Brian Michael Courtney, Timothy Gill, Shilpa Sarode
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Patent number: 11953814Abstract: A motorized bracket is intended to receive, in a support, a video projector and having a base, a first arm and a second arm. The first arm is connected to the base at a first motorized rotation axis. The second arm is connected to the first arm at a second motorized rotation axis and the second arm is connected to the support at a third motorized rotation axis. The motorized rotation axes each consist of a motor coupled to a geared motor assembly in direct engagement with the arm or the support that is to be controlled.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: XYZEDInventor: Maurice Rebiffe
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Patent number: 11949290Abstract: A motor includes a rotor and a stator provided to surround the rotor. The rotor has a rotor core having a magnet insertion hole and a permanent magnet disposed in the magnet insertion hole and is rotatable about a rotation axis. The stator has a stator core with a tooth facing the rotor, and a coil wound around the tooth. The permanent magnet has a thickness thicker than or equal to 2.1 mm in a direction in which the permanent magnet faces the stator and is magnetized in a direction of the thickness. A minimum gap AG (mm) between the rotor and the stator, a winding number Nt of the coil around the tooth, an overcurrent threshold Ip (A) for a current flowing through the coil, and a lower limit Hct (kA/m) of a coercive force of the permanent magnet satisfy Hct?0.4×(Ip×Nt/AG)+410.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2018Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takaya Shimokawa, Hiroki Aso, Ryogo Takahashi, Kazuma Nomoto
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Patent number: 11946602Abstract: In some configurations, a supply-chain characteristic-vectors merchandising system and a method for an environmental characteristic-vectors of a gas communicating from an upstream amenity to a downstream amenity in a supply-chain may be disclosed. The system may be configured to track oil and/or gas throughout the supply-chain by associating characteristic-vectors (e.g., environmental, operational, physical etc.) of the upstream amenity and the downstream amenity with the energy units of the gas transmitted through the supply-chain.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: PROJECT CANARY, PBCInventors: William J. Foiles, Ryan E. Brush, Nathan C. Eichenlaub, Kieran J. Lynn
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Patent number: 11947029Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and method for detecting occupants, and more specifically, to a system and method for accurately detecting positions of occupants in a building using beacon signals.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF ENERGY RESEARCHInventors: Yu Jin Song, Yoon Dong Sung, Kuk Yeol Bae, Gi Hwan Yoon
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Patent number: 11940589Abstract: Turning points in stratigraphy (TPS) can be determined, which then can be used to improve the representation of the borehole path in relation to layers of the subterranean formation. The TPS can be determined by analyzing each directional survey point in relation to the nearest layer of the subterranean formation. In determining which layer is the nearest layer, the process can analyze the layer type, such as conformable or unconformable, whether a fault intersects the borehole, the angle of the layer in relation to the borehole path, or whether the true stratigraphic thickness (TST) changes from one of a positive parameter or negative parameter to the other. The generated TPS can be used by a system as input or can be displayed for a user where the segmented borehole path can be aligned using the calculated TST to improve the ability of the user to analyze the representation.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Landmark Graphics Corporation, Inc.Inventors: Alice Butt, Mykhailo Ponomarev, Einar Mageroy
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Patent number: 11933506Abstract: Operating heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems using occupancy sensing are described herein. One device includes instructions which cause a processor to receive building information including information defining a plurality of spaces of a building, occupancy sensing system information describing a location of each of a plurality of occupancy sensing system fixtures with respect to a representation of the building, and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system information describing a relationship between the plurality of spaces and a plurality of HVAC devices installed in the building, create a mapping between a space of the plurality of spaces, a fixture of the plurality of fixtures, and an HVAC device of the plurality of HVAC devices based on the building information, and modify an operation of the HVAC device based on the mapping and responsive to a determination of occupancy in the space by the fixture.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2018Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Prabhat Ranjan, Jerry Marti, Jitendra Jain, Ripunjeet Dutta
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Patent number: 11936732Abstract: A clothing processing apparatus included in an Internet of Things (IoT) system is provided. The clothing processing apparatus includes a communication interface and a processor configured to perform a process including at least one clothing processing operation.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jooyoo Kim, Jeongnam Kim, Jeongchoul Park, Jongwoon Park, Heekyung Yang, Jisoo Yeh, Miyoung Yoo, Jieun Lee, Jihyeon Jo
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Patent number: 11927389Abstract: A refrigerator appliance may include a cabinet, a door, an image module, and a shelf assembly. The cabinet may define a chilled chamber. The door may be rotatably hinged to the cabinet to provide selective access to the chilled chamber. The image module may be mounted to the cabinet. The shelf assembly may be disposed below the image module within the chilled chamber. The shelf assembly may include a support panel attached to the cabinet, a first shelf attached to the support panel, a second shelf attached to the support panel and spaced apart from the first shelf, and a weight sensor mounted on the support panel to detect stored mass at the first shelf and the second shelf.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Choon Jae Ryu, Michael Goodman Schroeder
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Patent number: 11914336Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for controlling a plurality of devices and equipment installed at a building. A system or common model of the devices and equipment at the building may be accessible by a technician during setup of a BMS for a building. The system model may enforce standardized device names and standardized point names that may be hardware agnostic for the plurality of devices and equipment installed at the building. A gateway in communication with the installed devices and equipment, along with a computing device storing the system model, may receive point information from the installed devices and equipment and convert the received point information into hardware agnostic point information. The gateway may receive hardware agnostic control commands from the system model and convert the hardware agnostic control commands into hardware specific control commands.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Venugopala Kilingar Nadumane, Prabhat Ranjan, Arun Katoch, Narayanaswamy Bandi, Manish Gupta, Gutha Stalin Sanghamitra, Nithin Yadalla Ramgopal, Barnali Chetia
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Patent number: 11905894Abstract: An internal combustion engine-based system includes an internal combustion engine. The internal combustion engine-based system includes an engine interrupt connected to the engine. The engine interrupt is configured to selectively stop the operation of the engine. The internal combustion engine-based system includes a controller in communication with the engine interrupt. The internal combustion engine-based system includes a carbon monoxide detector in communication with the controller. The controller uses the engine interrupt to stop the operation of the engine when the carbon monoxide detector provides the controller with signals that are representative of a carbon monoxide level proximate the internal combustion engine that together form a trend of building carbon monoxide amounts over a set time interval.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Generac Power Systems, Inc.Inventors: Gregory A. Wischstadt, Adam M. Schroeder, Mitchell L. Horn, Brandon Schmidt, Kevin Cole, Tod R. Tesch
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Patent number: 11909345Abstract: Apparatus and method for motor braking using selectively connectable resistance. The method includes controlling, using a motor controller of the power tool, a power switching network to drive a motor of the power tool in response to actuation of a user input and determining, using the motor controller, a variable tool characteristic. The method further includes determining, using the motor controller, that the user input is de-actuated. The method also includes controlling, using the motor controller, the power switching network to brake the motor when the variable tool characteristic satisfies the tool characteristic threshold and controlling, using the motor controller, a braking circuit to brake the motor when the variable tool characteristic does not satisfy the tool characteristic threshold. The braking circuit includes one or more resistive loads and is selectively coupled to the motor terminals of the motor.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool CorporationInventors: Timothy R. Obermann, Alexander Huber
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Patent number: 11895089Abstract: Various embodiments employ technology solutions to enable isolated client device interaction with building automation and control (BAC) networks, for example including configuration of a third-party application access framework which enables access to physical devices in a built environment. For example, a data exchange gateway interfaces a system with a BAC (Building Automation and Control) network, wherein the BAC network provides via the gateway, on a periodic basis, data values presented by each of a plurality of physical devices on the BAC network. A data exchange module receives periodic data values and causes recording of those values in a BAC database isolated from the BAC network. A permissions rules module control access to data in the BAC database. An API request handling module handles requests from third-party software platforms via an API.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: WILLOW IP PTY LTDInventors: Dale Brett, Rani Adam
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Patent number: 11885211Abstract: Automated drilling may include receiving a tool-agnostic request to perform a process, determining one or more activities to complete the process, identifying a controller module associated with a first activity of the one or more activities, and triggering the controller module to initiate the first activity, wherein the controller module identifies and directs one or more drilling tools to initiate the first activity.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: National Oilwell Varco, L.P.Inventors: Edgar Grimberg, Gaute Eilertsen, Cole Wong
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Patent number: 11874664Abstract: Disclosed are a mover robot system and a controlling method for the same, in which a manipulation of a control screen where a remote control is performed is restricted if a mover robot is located in an area other than a driving area, and a locked screen requesting an input of a preset use code is displayed on a terminal, whereby a display of the locked screen is maintained or released in accordance with the input code.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2019Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Kyungman Yu, Jongjin Woo, Kyuchun Choi
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Patent number: 11859342Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of controlling a laundry dryer for generating high-temperature steam through a steam part and controlling each of rotation of a drum and rotation of a circulation fan. The method includes a steam drying procedure drying operation of increasing an internal temperature of the drum to dry an object to be dried, a steam drying procedure steam supply operation of supplying steam into the drum after the steam drying procedure drying operation, and a re-drying operation of supplying hot air into the drum after the steam drying procedure steam supply operation. When steam is sprayed from the steam part, the rotation of the drum is maintained, the rotation of the circulation fan is stopped, such that the steam is evenly supplied to the object to be dried, damage to the object is prevented, and sterilization of the object is enhanced.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Woonje Choe, Myunghun Im, Seungwoo Han, Nagyoung Lee
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Patent number: 11860617Abstract: By accurately predicting industrial aging processes (IAP), such as the slow deactivation of a catalyst in a chemical plant, it is possible to schedule maintenance events further in advance, thereby ensuring a cost-efficient and reliable operation of the plant. So far, these degradation processes were usually described by mechanistic models or simple empirical prediction models. In order to accurately predict IAP, data-driven models are proposed, comparing some traditional stateless models (linear and kernel ridge regression, as well as feed-forward neural networks) to more complex stateful recurrent neural networks (echo state networks and long short-term memory networks). Additionally, variations of the stateful models are discussed. In particular, stateful models using mechanistical pre-knowledge about the degradation dynamics (hybrid models).Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Technische Universitaet BerlinInventors: Nataliya Yakut, Simeon Sauer, Mihail Bogojeski, Franziska Horn, Klaus-Robert Mueller
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Patent number: 11863340Abstract: A method of controlling a home appliance includes receiving a distance measurement request signal from a user equipment; transmitting, based on the received distance measurement request signal, an ultra-wideband (UWB) communication module activation signal to the user equipment and a second home appliance that includes a UWB antenna; receiving, from the second home appliance, a location measurement value of the user equipment measured with respect to the second home appliance, the location measurement value being based on a UWB signal between the user equipment and the second home appliance; determining location information about the user equipment, based on the location measurement value of the user equipment; receiving, from a first home appliance that does not include a UWB antenna, information about the first home appliance; and registering the first home appliance in the server device, based on the received information about the first home appliance and the location information about the user equipment.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Joonsik Jun, Heungryong Oh
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Patent number: 11835273Abstract: A refrigerant cycle apparatus includes a main refrigerant circuit, a bypass circuit, and a controller. The main refrigerant circuit includes a compressor, a heat source-side heat exchanger, a heat source-side expansion valve, and a utilization-side heat exchanger. The controller performs a second operation of opening a hot gas bypass valve in a state in which the compressor is driven before performing a first operation in which the heat source-side heat exchanger serves as a heat absorber for the refrigerant and the utilization-side heat exchanger serves as a radiator for the refrigerant. In the first operation or the second operation, when a difference between a pressure of the refrigerant on the discharge side of the compressor and a pressure of the refrigerant on the suction side of the compressor becomes larger than a first predetermined value, the controller decreases the number of revolutions of the compressor.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yuji Yamada, Shinichi Takahashi
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Patent number: 11833685Abstract: A self-guided robot (bot) mechanism. An example bot may have a channel having an input for users, a cloud platform connected to the channel, a bot framework connected to the cloud platform, a web services module connected to the bot framework, and one or more drivers connected to the web services module. The one, the bot framework, the web services module and the drivers may be electronic hardware devices that effect their respective functions with a level of software managed and manipulated by the devices according to their respective algorithms.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Sheeladitya Karmakar, Prabhat Ranjan, Rajat Saha, Jegathesan Shennakesavan
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Patent number: 11821950Abstract: A switching assembly configured to use different sensing technologies to detect a button press and to thereby determine when the switch is malfunctioning. The switch assembly may include an actuator that is configured to selectively open or close an electric circuit, and may also include a sensor responsive to the position of the actuator. A logic circuit may be included that is configured to compare input from the sensor with input from the circuit the switch is electrically connected to so as to determine whether the switch assembly is operating properly. The logic circuit may generate a signal indicating the operational status of the switch and may optionally provide this signal to a fault detection circuit. The actuator, sensor, and logic circuit may also be mounted within a common housing thus providing a single installation package.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Allison Transmission, Inc.Inventors: James D. Shaw, Aaron Ransdell
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Patent number: 11824951Abstract: By monitoring an in-person interaction using a first Internet of Things (IoT) device, an entity relationship between parties in the in-person interaction is identified. Using data resulting from the monitoring, a habit workflow corresponding to the entity relationship is generated, wherein the habit workflow comprises a sequence of habits and a habit in the sequence of habits comprises performance of a behavior. A second IoT device able to monitor execution of the habit workflow is identified. Using the second IoT device, execution of the habit workflow is monitored. A motivational method corresponding to the execution is identified from the monitored execution.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Craig M. Trim, James E. Bostick, Martin G. Keen, John M. Ganci, Jr.
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Patent number: 11808132Abstract: An end-to-end well construction system includes an e-program for receiving a first input selected from well planning data, rig historical performance data, rig parameters, drilling engineering input, management of change, and a combination thereof, and configured to produce a first output selected from a machine and/or human readable sequence, a time depth curve, a drilling program, and a combination thereof, and a second output including analytics data. Further, the end-to-end well construction system includes a drilling control layer, configured to receive the first output from e-program, and to produce a third output including an automated sequence, and a smart well analytics system configured to receive the analytics data from the e-program and a second input selected from drilling data, downhole data, base data from the e-program, a modeling software, and a combination thereof, and to produce a fourth output to the drilling control layer for automated adjustment.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Transocean Sedco Forex Ventures LimitedInventors: Barry Braniff, Jason Baker, Michael Coady, Shane McClaugherty, Scott McKaig, Luis R. Pereira, Craig McCormick, Kenny Thomson, Darrel Pelley
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Patent number: 11805724Abstract: A planter comprises an automated planting unit for planting plots of seeds in a field. The planting unit includes a first seed storage unit configured to provide seeds to the planting unit and a second seed storage unit configured to provide seeds to the planting unit. The planting unit also includes a seed meter configured to plant seeds from the first seed storage unit and the second seed storage unit in a field, and a diverter unit coupled to the first and second seed storage units and to the seed meter. The diverter, then, is configured to selectively direct seeds from either the first seed storage unit or the second seed storage unit to the seed meter, whereby the seeds from the first and second seed storage units may be planted separately or together (e.g., for mixed planting, etc.).Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Christopher Louis Corelli, Timothy Edward Reitz, Andrew D. Thielen, Roger A. Weyhrich, Charles Wolfersberger
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Patent number: 11801599Abstract: A method for designing a customized robot to perform a specified function begins by initially creating an electronic library of data about modules and accessories for a robot assembly. The library stores, for each module and accessory, at least firmware for operation and dimensions. Per robot, the method includes receiving a set of functions and requirements of the customized robot, generating design(s) for the customized robot by finding a set of modules or accessories which match at least one of its functions and requirements, based on information in the electronic library, performing a set of validation tests of each design against criteria, identifying the design(s) which passed the set of validation tests, and generating a list of modules and accessories of a selected design and a connection map for the selected design indicating how the modules and accessories are to be connected together to form the customized robot.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2022Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: XTEND AI Inc.Inventors: Harry Fox, Sergh Sapojnikov, Andrew C. Gorelick
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Patent number: 11800068Abstract: A refrigerator appliance may include a cabinet, a door, a camera module, a user-detection assembly, and a controller. The cabinet may define a chilled chamber. The camera module may be mounted to the cabinet within the chilled chamber. The camera module may be alternately activated in a low-power sleep mode and a high-power awake mode. The user-detection assembly may be mounted to the cabinet to detect a user presence independent from rotation of the door. The controller may be operably coupled to the camera module and the user-detection assembly. The controller may be configured to initiate an operation routine that includes receiving one or more detection signals from the user-detection assembly, determining a user presence based on the received one or more detection signals, and directing the camera module to the high-power awake mode from the low-power sleep mode in response to determining the user presence.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Michael Goodman Schroeder, Leonardo Maximiliano Falcon Izzi
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Patent number: 11796974Abstract: A building system includes one or more memory devices comprising instructions thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform one or more first operations based on a digital twin of a building. The instructions cause the one or more processors to update a schema of the digital twin by adding a property or tag to an entity class of the schema, add, based on the schema, one or more data elements representing the property or tag to the digital twin, the one or more data elements related to an entity of the entity class, and perform one or more second operations based on the one or more data elements representing the property or tag.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLPInventors: Dominick James O'Dierno, Brian Scott Otto, Trent Mark Swanson
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Patent number: 11782407Abstract: A building management system includes a plurality of meters configured to provide data samples of a plurality of points relating to a building and a space hierarchy database configured to store a sibling relationship for each of the points. Each sibling relationship identifies two or more of the points as sibling points. The building management system includes a batch metrics engine configured to receive a first data sample of a first point, access the sibling relationship for the first point to identify one or more sibling points of the first point, aggregate the first data sample with data samples of the sibling points to generate a batch, and calculate an aggregate metric using the first data sample and the other data samples in the batch. The building management system also includes a controller configured to adjust an operation of building equipment based on the aggregate metric.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLPInventors: Jayesh Shirish Patil, Sujit Fulse, Rajesh C. Nayak
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Patent number: 11774929Abstract: A controller for building equipment in a building management system, the controller including a processing circuit configured to receive a field signal from the building equipment on an input port of the controller, determine a type of the field signal, and update a control logic comprising instructions for reading the field signal by tagging within the control logic the input port with the determined type of the field signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Boudhayan Bandyopadhyay, Saikat Patra, Khalil B. Mujawar, Neeraj S. Kale
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Patent number: 11777756Abstract: 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 receive a command to perform an action for an entity. The instructions cause the one or more processors to identify a service configured to perform the action based on a building graph, the building graph including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges, wherein the plurality of nodes represent entities of the building, the service, and one or more other services, wherein the plurality of edges represent relationships between the entities and communication actions of the service with the one or more other services and cause the service to perform the action by causing the service to perform one or more communication actions with the one or more other services indicated by the building graph.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLPInventors: Justin J. Ploegert, Dominick James O'Dierno, Brian Scott Otto
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Patent number: 11774931Abstract: A building management system includes building equipment operable to affect a physical state of a building. The building management system includes a system manager coupled to the building equipment via a system bus, the system manager comprising a schedule manager configured to control an operation schedule of the building equipment. A client device is configured to communicate with the schedule manager to modify operation schedules of the building equipment or add new operation schedules for the building equipment. The schedule manager comprises a list of available schedules for the building equipment and is configured to, in response to modification of the operation schedules or addition of new operation schedules, update the list of available schedules to include the modification or the new operation schedule.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Vivek V. Gupta, Yogesh Jalkote, Vikram Ashok Lunge, Mark T. Fischbach, John S. Jilek, Benjamin D. Sanfelippo
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Patent number: 11774922Abstract: A building management system with artificial intelligence based control of a building includes data collectors are configured to receive data and generate data streams for subsystems of the building. The system includes a learning engine configured to identify a building state of the building by correlating data of the data streams for the subsystems and provide the identified building state to cognitive agents. The system includes the cognitive agents, each of the cognitive agents configured to receive the identified building state from the learning engine, generate a control decision based on the received building state, and operate at least one of the plurality of subsystems of the building to control a physical condition of the building based on the control decision.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPANYInventors: Robert Locke, Sudhi R. Sinha
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Patent number: 11773571Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and system for managing public water in a smart city. The method may be performed by an urban public water management platform. The method may include: obtaining initial rainwater data in at least one area, the initial rainwater data may include rainfall data and rainwater collection data of at least one rainwater collection system, each of the at least one rainwater collection systems corresponding to at least one rainwater collection mode; determining the amount of purified rainwater during a first period corresponding to the at least one rainwater collection mode according to the initial rainwater data in the at least one area; and determining a rainwater storage plan during a second period based on the amount of purified rainwater during the first period corresponding to the at least one rainwater collection mode.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Zehua Shao, Xiaojun Wei, Zhihui Wen, Yong Li, Bin Liu
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Patent number: 11770315Abstract: A system for obtaining information about an Internet of Things (IoT) device connected to a network includes a data traffic collection point, a data processing module and an artificial intelligence module. The data traffic collection point collects data units communicated to or from a specified IoT device of a plurality of IoT devices connected to a network. The data processing module processes quantitative information pertaining to the data units communicated to or from the specified IoT device collected over a defined time interval, to create a temporal data traffic fingerprint of the specified IoT device. The artificial intelligence module utilizes a machine learning model to deduce device identifying information of the specified IoT device from the temporal data traffic fingerprint of the specified IoT device.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Siemens Canada LimitedInventors: Johannes Riedl, Mirjana Zafirovic-Vukotic, Anas Hawari, Axel Gruner
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Patent number: 11768472Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for monitoring and controlling irrigation and climate conditions in landscapes (such as, e.g., municipal parks, gardens, and sports fields) and agricultural environments (such as, e.g., open agricultural fields, greenhouses, and other sites growing crops).Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Rain Bird CorporationInventors: Pelin Ersavas, Bulut Ersavas, Semih Pekol, Thomas Devol
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Patent number: 11759391Abstract: A method, apparatus and system to facilitate maintenance of a network enabled bathing unit system. A Graphical User Interface (GUI) is presented providing a user operable control for receiving from a customer a service request requesting that a technician contact the customer. The user operable control may in some cases be enabled in response to detection of an operational error in the bathing unit system and disabled otherwise. In response to receipt of the service request through the user operable control, a notification message indicating that the customer has requested to be contacted by a technician is sent over a communication network. In some embodiments, a message responsive to the service request is received to cause the GUI to present user-selectable options to enable the customer to selectively permit the remote control and monitoring of the bathing unit system by a specific remote service technician.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: GECKO ALLIANCE GROUP INC.Inventor: Benoit Laflamme
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Patent number: 11764986Abstract: A system to facilitate automatic data center assembly is described. The system includes a first enclosure, including a first set of components, each component including a component manager to perform a component function and a first enclosure manager, communicatively coupled to each component manager, to perform a discovery of each of the first set of components and discover one or more adjacent enclosures coupled to the enclosure via link cables. The system also includes a system manager to automatically discover the first enclosure via the first enclosure manager and discover each of the first set of plurality of components via an associated component manager.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LPInventor: Montgomery Carl McGraw
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Patent number: 11753922Abstract: A system or method for drilling includes autonomously controlling a rotary or percussive drilling process as it transitions through multiple materials with very different dynamics. The method determines a drilling medium based on real-time measurements and comparison to prior drilling data, and identifies the material type, drilling region, and approximately optimal setpoint based on data from at least one operating condition. The controller uses these setpoints initially to execute an optimal search to maximize performance by minimizing mechanical specific energy. Near-bit depth-of-cut estimations are performed using a machine learning prediction deployed in an embedded processor to provide high-speed ROP estimates. The sensing capability is coupled with a near-bit clutching mechanism to support drilling dysfunction mitigation.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLCInventors: Stephen Buerger, Anirban Mazumdar, Steven James Spencer, Timothy James Blada, Jiann-Cherng Su, Elton K. Wright, Adam Foris, David W. Raymond
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Patent number: 11757277Abstract: A system including a vehicle having a motive electrical power path, and a power distribution unit having a current protection circuit disposed in the motive electrical power path. The current protection circuit includes a first leg of the current protection circuit comprising a thermal fuse, a second leg of the current protection circuit comprising a solid state switch, and wherein the first leg and the second leg are coupled in a parallel arrangement. The system further includes a controller that includes a current detection circuit structured to determine a current flow through the motive electrical power path, and a fuse management circuit structured to provide a switch activation command in response to the current flow, wherein the solid state switch is responsive to the switch activation command.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITEDInventor: Robert Stephen Douglass
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Patent number: 11738856Abstract: A control system for electronically linked pilot and co-pilot inceptors (103) permits an asymmetric roll axis feel depending on whether an inceptor is moved inboard or outboard. A circuit (401) receives a signal representative of a force applied to the pilot's inceptor resulting from a side-to-side movement and detects if the force applied is in an inward or an outward direction. A gain factor is applied to the received force signal to produce a factored force signal. The gain applied to a signal representative of force applied in an outward direction is greater than the gain factor applied to a signal representative of force applied in an inward direction. A summer (212, 213) sums the factored force signal with a corresponding factored force signal derived from force signals from the co-pilot's inceptor to produce a modified force signal for use in a force feedback control system associated with each inceptor.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2017Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS PLCInventors: Justin Mark Dee, Jason Howard Bean
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Patent number: 11741837Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes displaying a bot client application including an active channel indicator, receiving bot input, analyzing the bot input, generating an output, and displaying the output. A smart building system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to display a bot client application including an active channel indicator, receive bot input, analyze the bot input, generate an output, and display the output. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing program instructions that when executed, cause a computer to display a bot client application including an active channel indicator, receive bot input, analyze the bot input, generate an output, and display the output.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: CDW LLCInventors: Colin R. Vallance, Michael Alan Robinson, Forrest Weinberg, Sankar Nair
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Patent number: 11738664Abstract: A system including a vehicle having a motive electrical power path, a power distribution unit comprising a current protection circuit disposed in the motive electrical power path, the current protection circuit comprising a thermal fuse and a contactor in a series arrangement with the thermal fuse. The system further including a current source circuit electrically coupled to the thermal fuse and structured to inject a current across the thermal fuse, a hardware filter electrically coupled to the thermal fuse, the hardware filter comprising a cutoff frequency determined in response to an injection frequency of the current source circuit, and sa voltage determination circuit electrically coupled to the thermal fuse and structured to determine an injected voltage amount in response to the filtered injected current.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2019Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITEDInventor: Brandon William Fisher
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Patent number: 11733664Abstract: A system for building management system commissioning on an application includes one or more memory devices configured to store instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to host a building management system commissioning workflow on an application server; provide data indicating commissioning activities defined by the building management system commissioning workflow from the application server to a user device for display on a user interface; dynamically update a commissioning activity status of the commissioning activities in the building management system commissioning workflow hosted on the application server responsive to data received at the application server from at least one of the user device or a remote device at the building site communicatively connected to the application server; and initiate an automated action based on the commissioning activity status of the commissioning activities in the building management system commissioning workflow appType: GrantFiled: March 22, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Gregory T. Reichl, Bryan A. Register, Matthew P. Kaiser
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Patent number: 11724330Abstract: A welding system includes an engine configured to drive a generator to produce a first power output. The welding system also includes a battery configured to discharge energy to produce a second power output. In addition, the welding system includes an auxiliary charger coupled to the battery and the generator. The auxiliary charger is configured to maintain a float charge of the battery when the first and second power outputs are reduced from a base load.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventors: James F. Ulrich, Allen Raymond Sykes
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Patent number: 11720075Abstract: A facility employing systems, methods, and/or techniques for dynamically and adaptively configuring configurable energy consuming and producing devices (e.g., smart energy devices) based on user profiles and user presence information is disclosed. In some embodiments, the facility periodically detects the presence of users, and retrieves preference information for those users. For each of one or more configurable energy devices in the area, the facility generates a combined setting based on the preferences of each user present and adjusts the devices based on the combined settings. For example, if User A, User B, and User C are present in a room and User A's preferred temperature setting is 75° F., User B's preferred temperature setting is 68° F., and User C's preferred temperature setting is 70° F., the facility may generate a combined setting for a thermostat by taking the average value of the users in the room.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2022Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Tendril EA, LLCInventor: Ashish Agarwal
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Patent number: 11718949Abstract: A dryer according to the disclosure may detect current flowing through a motor for rotating a drum, detect humidity of a drying material accommodated in the drum, compare the detected humidity to a plurality of pieces of reference humidity and compare the detected current to a plurality of pieces of reference current to obtain a drying load, control a revolutions per minute (rpm) of the motor, a frequency of a compressor provided in a heat pump, and a degree of superheat of an evaporator provided in the heat pump based on the drying load, perform a drying process, detect humidity of the drying material while the drying process is performed, and finish the drying process in response to the detected humidity determined to be target humidity.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Dohaeng Kim, Kookjeong Seo, Dongsuk Kim, Juyoung Kim, Jewoo Bang
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Patent number: 11713631Abstract: A system for use in a mineral extraction system includes a spinner assembly having a motor configured to drive rotation of a roller shaft. The spinner assembly also includes a roller non-rotatably coupled to the roller shaft and configured to contact a first tubular structure, and rotation of the roller is configured to cause rotation of the first tubular structure until the first tubular structure is spun into a second tubular structure. The spinner assembly further includes a detection wheel coupled to the roller shaft and configured to contact the first tubular structure, and the detection wheel is configured to rotate with the first tubular structure and to rotate independently of the roller. The spinner assembly further includes a sensor configured to detect rotation of the detection wheel.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Ulf Henriksen, Anstein Jorud
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Patent number: 11709365Abstract: A head-mountable device can effectively manage heat with a motor assembly that efficiently and accurately senses a temperature of a motor. A temperature sensor can be provided on an outer surface (e.g., case) of the motor. A flex circuit can be operably connect both the motor and the temperature sensor to a controller of the head-mountable device. The flex circuit can have a first side coupled to the outer surface of the case, a second side supporting the temperature sensor, and thermally conductive vias extending from the first side to the second side to conduct heat from the case to the sensor. The flex circuit can further include a memory comprising calibration data of the temperature sensor and a connector for outputting temperature data based on the temperature sensor and the calibration data of the memory.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Muhammad F. Hossain, Jia Tao, Vijayanish Varadharajan, Alexander M. Brukwinski, Pyone P. Wynn, Hnin Ookhin, Samuel A. Resnick, Aviran Malik, Jason C. Sauers, Amarnath Vuppala
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Patent number: 11703815Abstract: Systems and methods for operating an energy plant are disclosed herein. A time series of performance variable associated with a device in the energy plant is obtained. An auto-correlation function data of the device is obtained based on the time series of the performance variable associated with the device. An electronic model of the device is generated based on the auto-correlation function data. Time, at which a future event of the device is predicted to occur, is predicted based on the electronic model. A report indicating the future event of the device and the predicted time may be generated. The device may be automatically configured, according to the future event and the predicted time.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2018Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS TYCO IP HOLDINGS LLPInventors: Ovijeet Sircar, Tushar S. Joshi, Anil Tribhuwan, Sourav Bandyopadhyay, Sikim Chakraborty