226 patents
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Utility
Assembly for measuring a leakage in a drinking water supply system, and pressure reducer
3 Jan 23
Assembly (10) for measuring a leakage in a drinking water supply system, with a backflow preventer (12), wherein the backflow preventer (12) is opened if there is a pressure drop caused by drinking water consumption downstream of the backflow preventer (12) as viewed in a flow direction of the drinking water, and wherein the backflow preventer (12) is closed if there is no pressure drop caused by drinking water consumption downstream of the backflow preventer (12), as viewed in the flow direction of the drinking water, with a volume flow meter (13) connected in parallel to the backflow preventer (12) and via which, if the backflow preventer (12) is closed, a leakage flow of drinking water caused by a leakage in the drinking water supply system downstream of the backflow preventer (12) can be routed, wherein the volume flow meter (13) is integrated into a bypass (14) to the backflow preventer (12).
Peter Tasser
Filed: 2 Apr 20
Utility
Devices and methods for interacting with an HVAC controller
3 Jan 23
An HVAC controller controlled in response to a natural language audio message that is not recognizable by the HVAC controller as a command, where the natural language audio message is translated into a command recognizable by the HVAC controller.
Jay Nelson, Hari Thiruvengada, Preston Gilmer, Thomas Gessner, Martin Adamek, Martin Skala, Juraj Buno, Soumitri Kolavennu, Max Peterschmidt, Libor Horky, Cary Leen, Heidi Finch
Filed: 28 Apr 20
Utility
Dynamic temperature compensation of a thermostat for an evaporative cooler system
3 Jan 23
The disclosure is directed to techniques for a thermostat to determine the air temperature of a room based on measurements of temperatures sensors located inside a housing of the thermostat.
Rafael Aguilar, Ricardo Cano, Ever Hernandez, Ricardo Gonzalez
Filed: 30 Oct 19
Utility
Security sentinel robot
27 Dec 22
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: 6 Mar 19
Utility
Method of associating an HVAC controller with an external web service
8 Nov 22
A wireless thermostat may be associated with a user account of an external web service that may facilitate remote access and/or control of the wireless thermostat.
Gabriel A. Bergman, Adam Nemcek
Filed: 1 Feb 21
Utility
Refilling device for a hydronic heating system and method of operating
18 Oct 22
Refilling device for a hydronic heating system, having a monolithic housing providing an inlet port, an outlet port, a middle section providing a flow channel for water extending between the inlet port and the outlet port and a connection socket for a softening and/or demineralization cartridge, having an inlet shut-off-valve accommodated within said monolithic housing downstream of said inlet port, having an automatically actuated outlet shut-off-valve accommodated within said monolithic housing upstream of said outlet port, having a system separator with backflow preventers, a conductivity or TDS sensor and a flow meter accommodated within said monolithic housing, and having a controller mounted to said monolithic housing, wherein the controller receives signals from the conductivity or TDS sensor and from the flow meter, wherein the controller processes said signals received from said sensors to automatically control the operation of the refilling device.
Ivo Chromy, Jasa Zdenek, Pascal Joos, Steffen Raule, Josef Hladky, Ondrej Pavelka, Patrick Neureither
Filed: 5 Sep 19
Utility
Self-contained security system including voice and video calls via the internet
18 Oct 22
A security system is provided.
Kenneth G. Eskildsen, Robert E. Lee
Filed: 19 Jan 16
Utility
Systems and methods for displaying and associating context images with zones of a security system
11 Oct 22
Systems and methods for displaying and associating context images with zones or devices of a security system or a home automation system are provided.
Xinyu Ma, Qingqing Zhang, Lu Yuan
Filed: 21 Dec 17
Utility
Backplane adjustable humidifier
4 Oct 22
A humidifier including a humidifier housing with an adjustable backplane configured to fit to a variety of humidifier pad sizes.
Jan Brabec, Charles N. Hoff
Filed: 18 Dec 19
Utility
Water heating system for controlling an ability to set a parameter of a controller
27 Sep 22
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: 27 Mar 20
Utility
Access door detection using a humidity sensor
13 Sep 22
A humidifier device includes an output device, an atomizer enclosure having a first opening that is operable to be open and closed and a second opening, an atomizer within the atomizer enclosure configured to produce moisture and to output the moisture through the second opening of the atomizer enclosure, a humidity sensor configured to sense humidity levels, and control circuitry configured to control the atomizer and to determine whether the humidity levels sensed by the humidity sensor are indicative of the first opening of the atomizer enclosure being open.
Tarik Khoury, Michal Sicner, Pavel Marak
Filed: 7 Apr 20
Utility
Thermostat wire detection
13 Sep 22
A device for detecting a wire configuration connecting a thermostat and HVAC equipment includes fan controller circuitry, AC controller circuitry, switching circuitry, and processing circuitry.
Hyunki Kim, Robert D. Juntunen, Jesus Omar Ponce, Liliana Reategui, Anuj Kohli, David Mulhouse
Filed: 18 Dec 19
Utility
Bluetooth perimeter extension
13 Sep 22
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: 23 Jan 20
Utility
Pressure reducer
6 Sep 22
Pressure reducer (10) having a housing (11) with a valve (12) positioned in said housing (11), wherein in closed position the valve (12) separates an inlet pressure chamber (13) of the housing (11) from an outlet pressure chamber (14) of the housing (11), and in open position connects the inlet pressure chamber (13) and the outlet pressure chamber (14), wherein the valve (12) has a diaphragm (16) acting on a valve tappet (15), on which diaphragm, by providing a pressure reducing function, a spring force of a spring element (17) acting in the opening direction of the valve (12) acts on the one hand and a force that is a function of the pressure prevailing in the outlet pressure chamber (14) acting in the closing direction of the valve (12) acts on the other hand, wherein the valve (12) has, attached to the valve tappet (15), a valve body (21) which, in closed position, bears against a valve seat (22) in a sealing manner and which in open position is raised off the valve seat (22), and wherein the spring element (17) is arranged between spring plates (18, 19), namely between a spring plate (18) facing the diaphragm (16) and a spring plate (19) facing away from the diaphragm (16).
Kurt Weidner
Filed: 7 May 20
Utility
Home network using multiple wireless networking protocols
23 Aug 22
A sensor device includes processing circuitry configured to output, at a first bandwidth, first bandwidth data to a hub device using a first wireless connection configured for a first wireless protocol.
Kenneth Eskildsen, Robert D. Juntunen, William R. Blum
Filed: 26 Mar 20
Utility
Circuit for detecting a leak in a water heater device and activating an alarm device
9 Aug 22
This disclosure is related to devices, systems, and techniques for outputting an alarm signal in response to detecting a leak in a water heater device.
Frederick Hazzard, Adam Myre, Gregory Young
Filed: 6 Aug 20
Utility
Systems and methods for converting low resolution images into high resolution images
2 Aug 22
Systems and methods for converting low resolution images into high resolution images are provided and can include (1) processing a compressed version of images with a first set of heuristics and rules of an artificial intelligence model to produce an intermediate version of the images with an intermediate resolution that is greater than the compressed resolution by first enhancing the images and subsequently upscaling the images as enhanced from the compressed resolution to the intermediate resolution and (2) processing the intermediate version of the images with a second set of heuristics and rules of the artificial intelligence model to produce a final version of the images with a final resolution that is greater than the initial resolution and the intermediate resolution by first upscaling the images from the intermediate resolution to the final resolution and subsequently enhancing the images as upscaled to produce the final version of the images.
Soumitri Kolavennu, Nathaniel Kraft
Filed: 16 Apr 20
Utility
Selectively enabled tamper detection
2 Aug 22
A device includes a housing, a tamper switch supported at the housing, and a tamper actuator receivable at the housing.
Wen Hua Hsu, Mark Schmidt
Filed: 9 Dec 20
Utility
Systems and methods for broadcasting an audio or visual alert that includes a description of features of an ambient object extracted from an image captured by a camera of a doorbell device
2 Aug 22
Systems and methods for broadcasting an audio or visual alert that includes a description of features of an ambient object extracted from an image captured by a camera of a doorbell device are provided.
Nathaniel Kraft, Piotr Romanczyk, William R. Blum
Filed: 28 Apr 20
Utility
Systems and methods for verifying credentials to perform a secured operation in a connected system
19 Jul 22
Systems and methods for verifying credentials to perform a secured operation in a connected system are provided.
Liu Nie, Kent Hu, Guopeng Ren
Filed: 10 Jul 18