343 patents
Utility
Flame Monitoring Device for a Gas Burner Appliance and Gas Burner Appliance
23 Mar 23
Flame monitoring device (23) for a gas burner appliance (10), the gas burner appliance (10) being configured to burn a combustible gas, the combustion of the combustible gas resulting into a flame (12), comprising a flame supervision device (24) providing as measurement signal an electrical voltage signal depending on the presence of the flame (12), and an electronic circuit (25) converting the electrical voltage signal provided by the flame supervision device (24) into an electrical current signal.
Uwe Deptolla
Filed: 2 Feb 21
Utility
Metering pressure regulating valve
21 Mar 23
In some examples, a pressure reducing valve includes a valve body defining a defining a flow path and a restricting element within the flow path.
Michael Ackermann
Filed: 19 May 20
Utility
HVAC controller with a zone commissioning mode
21 Mar 23
An HVAC controller may have an operational mode in which the HVAC controller provides operational instructions, and a commissioning mode in which a plurality of wireless devices can be enrolled.
Patrick Gonia, David J. Emmons
Filed: 2 Sep 21
Utility
Security Sentinel Robot
16 Mar 23
A building monitoring system includes a first sensor configured to detect a first condition in the space, a second sensor configured to detect a second condition in the space, and a robotic sentinel.
Christopher Heintzelman, Soumitri Kolavennu, Warren Young, Joseph Bodkin, John Cronin
Filed: 22 Nov 22
Utility
System for communication, optimization and demand control for an appliance
28 Feb 23
A system and approach for developing a periodic water usage profile and demand for controlling a water heater.
Frederick Hazzard, David Heil, Ravindra Khosla
Filed: 30 Nov 17
Utility
Bluetooth Perimeter Extension
16 Feb 23
In some examples, a system for comfort or security in a building and its premises includes a plurality of “first” devices configured to wirelessly communicate with a hub device that is a master for controlling the system for comfort or security in the building and premises, wherein the plurality of first devices and the hub device are configured to wirelessly communicate using either one of an IEEE 802.15.4 standard or a Bluetooth Low Energy (BTLE) 5.0 standard; a plurality of “second” devices that are battery powered and configured to wirelessly communicate with respective ones of the plurality of first devices, wherein the plurality of second devices and respective ones of the plurality of first devices are configured to communicate using the BTLE 5.0 standard, wherein the hub device and the plurality of second devices are configured to communicate with each other via respective ones of the plurality of first devices.
Robert D. Juntunen, Steven C. Nichols
Filed: 12 Sep 22
Utility
Temperature compensation for low-voltage thermostats
14 Feb 23
A thermostat device may use one or two temperature sensors inside the housing of the thermostat device to perform temperature compensation to determine the ambient temperature outside the housing of the thermostat device.
Rafael Aguilar, Sergio Adrian Martinez, Ever Hernandez, Mohammad A. Aljabari
Filed: 21 Jul 20
Utility
System for communication with devices on a network to minimize power consumption
14 Feb 23
A system of controlling one or more building automation devices.
Santosh Mallikarjuna Mandiganal, Robert D. Juntunen, Soumitri Kolavennu, Gabriel A. Bergman
Filed: 19 Apr 21
Utility
Dynamic, multi-frequency superframe slotting
14 Feb 23
An apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to output a first superframe configured in an initial superframe mode that allocates each slot of a plurality of slots for wireless communication to a first protocol at a first frequency band, a second protocol at the first frequency band, or a third protocol at the first frequency band.
Nagaraj Lakshminarayan, Sachin Joy, Sheetal Kadam
Filed: 1 Apr 21
Utility
Systems and Methods of Monitoring Alarms from Third Party Devices
2 Feb 23
A server acts as an event analyzer for a home security or monitoring system.
Dominik Szczepanski, Jeyaprakash Raveendran
Filed: 2 Aug 21
Utility
Remote contractor system with site specific energy audit capability
31 Jan 23
A system that allows a contractor to remotely monitor and/or interact with its customers' building control systems, such as heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, and analyze information obtained from the building control systems over time.
David Quam, Amy Ragland, Steven R. Peterson, Brad Paine, Pedro Davalos, Soumitri Kolavennu, Wendy Foslien
Filed: 5 Aug 19
Design
Terminal layout
24 Jan 23
Michael Crites, Jonathan Erbacher, Travis J. Read
Filed: 31 Jan 20
Utility
Premises communication hub
24 Jan 23
A premises communication hub includes a primary communications module, a secondary communications module, a power supply, and a charging module.
Kenneth Eskildsen, Mark O'Keefe
Filed: 5 Jan 21
Utility
Water Heating System for Controlling an Ability to Set a Parameter of a Controller
19 Jan 23
This disclosure is related to devices, systems, and techniques for controlling a temperature of water contained by a water tank.
Brian Moy, Christopher R. Jones, Michael Crites, Arnold Kalla
Filed: 23 Sep 22
Utility
Keypad with Repeater Mode
19 Jan 23
A system includes a sensor device, a hub device, and a keypad device.
Nagaraj Chickmagalur Lakshminarayan, Kenneth Eskildsen, Sachin Prakash Maganti, Arun Handanakere Sheshagiri, Anand Kavatekar Narayan Rao
Filed: 13 Jul 21
Design
Terminal layout
17 Jan 23
Michael Crites, Jonathan Erbacher, Travis J. Read
Filed: 31 Jan 20
Utility
Systems and methods for encoding regions containing an element of interest in a sequence of images with a high resolution
17 Jan 23
Systems and methods for encoding regions containing an element of interest in a sequence of images with a high resolution are provided.
Ting Li, Xiaoxiang Lin, Jun Wu
Filed: 4 May 20
Utility
Universal wireless HVAC controller with an internally stored infrared (IR) database
10 Jan 23
A wireless controller (200) is configured to send commands to a mini-split HVAC unit (100) that thermostatically controls a temperature in a space (50) using the temperature sensed and a programmable set point.
Zhifei Dong, Huanmin Bao, Ling Dong, Cameron K. Vreeland, Le Zhang
Filed: 1 Feb 18
Utility
Analog Hvac Controller Including Dial for Setting Temperature Set Points
5 Jan 23
In some examples, a device controls a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system within a building.
Christopher R. Jones, Jaymeson Tucker, Michael Crites, Christopher Heintzelman
Filed: 4 Dec 20
Utility
HVAC CONTROLLER INCLUDING LEDs FOR ILLUMINATING A DISPLAY
5 Jan 23
In some examples, a device includes an analog display configured to indicate a current temperature and one or more temperature set Additionally, the device includes processing circuitry is configured to control a set of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to emit one or more optical beams to reflect off of a projection ring onto the analog display.
Ricardo Alonso Gonzalez, Karla Cristina Morales, Pablo David Del Castillo, Cesar Alejandro Arzate
Filed: 4 Dec 20