Gaylon M Decious, 64208 Greenfield St NE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52402

6408228, Jun 18, 2002

Aug 13, 1999

09/374569

John E. Seem - Shorewood WI
Gaylon M. Decious - Shorewood WI
Carol Lomonaco - Wauwatosa WI
Alex Bernaden - Greenfield WI

Johnson Controls Technology Company - Plymouth MI

G05B 1300

700276, 700 41, 700 42, 700 83

The present invention provides a sequencing control strategy for environmental system controllers that takes better advantage of the capabilities of the system elements to enhance performance and reduce operating costs. Digital controller technology is included and operates in accordance with a state transition diagram clarifying conditions that must exist for the environmental controller to switch from one mode of operation to another (e. g. , from a cooling mode with dampers set at the minimum position to a cooling mode with the dampers modulating to reduce the energy used for mechanical cooling). Several a controllers, or a single controller operating on several sets of control parameters, sequentially operate in accordance with transition data and system performance characteristics for controlling system operation.

6477439, Nov 5, 2002

Jul 9, 1998

09/112620

Alex Bernaden, III - Greenfield WI
Gaylon M. Decious - Shorewood WI
John E. Seem - Shorewood WI
Kirk H. Drees - Cedarburg WI
Jonathan D. West - Shorewood WI
William R. Kuckuk - Hubertus WI

Johnson Controls Technology Corporation - Plymouth MI

G06F 1900

700103, 707103 R, 7071041

A method is disclosed for programming and executing a state machine control program represented as a diagram in an HVAC controller. The diagram is converted to tabular data which is entered into one or more spreadsheet pages. The tabular data includes the defined output states, the defined input states and defined transition states, whereby a given output state and a given set of inputs will cause transition to a next output state. The tabular data is translated, through execution of a routine in a macro-instruction language, into a plurality of data structures for downloading into a finite state machine object data structure in the controller, where it will be acted upon by an object-oriented execution module, referred to as a class execute method, which is also present in the controller.

5598566, Jan 28, 1997

Jan 7, 1994

8/179494

Gregory A. Pascucci - Waukesha WI
David E. Rasmussen - Wales WI
Gaylon M. Decious - Milwaukee WI
James R. Garbe - Greenfield WI
Susan M. Hyzer - Brown Deer WI
Karen L. Woest - Wauwatosa WI
Vairavan Vairavan - Milwaukee WI
David L. Koch - Fox Point WI
Donald A. Gottschalk - Milwaukee WI
Dennis E. Burkhardt - Franklin WI
Darrell E. Standish - New Berlin WI
Paul W. Madaus - Oak Creek WI
Dan J. Spacek - Cudahy WI
Clay G. Nesler - New Berlin WI
James K. Stark - Wauwatosa WI
Otto M. Mageland - Greenfield WI
Robert R. Singers - Brown Deer WI
Michael E. Wagner - Delafield WI

Johnson Service Company - Milwaukee WI

G06F 15177

395750

A networked system having a wide variety of applications and particularly applicable to facilities management systems has multiple levels of software in processing nodes. The levels include a "features" processing level which communicates requests for data to a software object level containing databases of processes and attributes and database managers. The database managers in the software object level operate to provide data to the high level features in the same format. The software object level communicates with a hardware object level which also contains databases and database managers to mask differences between operational hardware units. By categorizing operational units by type, additional units of a known type can be added with only low level hardware object database changes. Adding units of a new type is facilitated by software changes confined to the lower level hardware and software objects, avoiding software changes at high level features. Individual software objects are tailored for typical types of inputs and output devices encountered by facilities management systems.

5522044, May 28, 1996

Jan 21, 1994

8/185181

Gregory A. Pascucci - Waukesha WI
David E. Rasmussen - Wales WI
Gaylon M. Decious - Milwaukee WI
James R. Garbe - Greenfield WI
Susan M. Hyzer - Brown Deer WI
Karen L. Woest - Wauwatosa WI
Vairavan Vairavan - Milwaukee WI
David L. Koch - Fox Point WI
Donald A. Gottschalk - Milwaukee WI
Dennis E. Burkhardt - Franklin WI
Darrell E. Standish - New Berlin WI
Paul W. Madaus - Oak Creek WI
Dan J. Spacek - Cudahy WI
Clay G. Nesler - New Berlin WI
James K. Stark - Wauwatosa WI
Otto M. Mageland - Greenfield WI
Robert R. Singers - Brown Deer WI
Michael E. Wagner - Delafield WI

Johnson Service Company

G06F 1300

39520006

A networked system having a wide variety of applications and particularly applicable to facilities management systems has multiple levels of software in processing nodes. The levels include a "features" processing level which communicates requests for data to a software object level containing databases of processes and attributes and database managers. The database managers in the software object level operate to provide data to the high level features in the same format. The software object level communicates with a hardware object level which also contains databases and database managers to mask differences between operational hardware units. By categorizing operational units by type, additional units of a known type can be added with only low level hardware object database changes. Adding units of a new type is facilitated by software changes confined to the lower level hardware and software objects, avoiding software changes at high level features. Individual software objects are tailored for typical types of inputs and output devices encountered by facilities management systems.

5463735, Oct 31, 1995

Feb 3, 1994

8/191284

Gregory A. Pascucci - Waukesha WI
David E. Rasmussen - Wales WI
Gaylon M. Decious - Milwaukee WI
James R. Garbe - Greenfield WI
Susan M. Hyzer - Brown Deer WI
Karen L. Woest - Wauwatosa WI
Vairavan Vairavan - Milwaukee WI
David L. Koch - Fox Point WI
Donald A. Gottschalk - Milwaukee WI
Dennis E. Burkhardt - Franklin WI
Darrell E. Standish - New Berlin WI
Paul W. Madaus - Oak Creek WI
Dan J. Spacek - Cudahy WI
Clay G. Nesler - New Berlin WI
James K. Stark - Wauwatosa WI
Otto M. Mageland - Greenfield WI
Robert R. Singers - Brown Deer WI
Michael E. Wagner - Delafield WI

Johnson Service Company

G06F 1312
G06F 1314

3952001

A network system having a wide variety of applications and particularly applicable to facilities management systems includes network controllers which continuously process data related to building and industrial, environmental, security and other automated system controls. Each network controller has a network address indicative of a communication link to which the network controller is connected, a local address and a node drop ID to determine whether the network controller is a configured or non-configured device. Data stored in an archive device is downloaded to a destination network controller in the absence of a routing table in the destination network controller by transmitting a download request message from the archive device to an intermediate network controller with a routing table. The intermediate network controller assumes control of the download request by transmitting the message to the destination controller. The destination controller acknowledges receipt of the message by transmitting an acknowledge message back to the intermediate network controller, which passes the acknowledge message to the archive device in accordance with the routing information stored in the intermediate network controller.

6006142, Dec 21, 1999

Jul 14, 1997

8/892177

John E. Seem - Shorewood WI
Gaylon M. Decious - Shorewood WI
Carol Lomonaco - Wauwatosa WI
Alex Bernaden - Greenfield WI

G05B 1300

700276

The present invention provides a sequencing control strategy for environmental system controllers that takes better advantage of the capabilities of the system elements to enhance performance and reduce operating costs. Digital controller technology is included and operates in accordance with a state transition diagram clarifying conditions that must exist for the environmental controller to switch from one mode of operation to another (e. g. , from a cooling mode with dampers set at the minimum position to a cooling mode with the dampers modulating to reduce the energy used for mechanical cooling). Several controllers, or a single controller operating on several sets of control parameters, sequentially operate in accordance with transition data and system performance characteristics for controlling system operation.

5568377, Oct 22, 1996

Nov 29, 1994

8/346570

John E. Seem - Shorewood WI
Gaylon M. Decious - Milwaukee WI

Johnson Service Company - Milwaukee WI

G05B 1302

364157

A feedback controller configured to automatically tune a control system by determining proportional gain, integral time and/or derivative time control parameters based on estimates of process time delay, process time constant and process gain values which are monitored by the feedback controller. The feedback controller further determines control limits for estimating the process time delay based on the resolution of the sampled values of the process output and the standard deviation of the process output during the initial steady-state condition. The feedback controller also estimates characteristic areas for a first-order response based on a first-order plus time-delay model to determine process time constant and process gain values. These process time constant, process gain and process delay estimates are translated into proportional gain, integral time and/or derivative time control parameters based on design relations of the particular feedback controller.

6219590, Apr 17, 2001

Apr 3, 1998

9/054429

Alex Bernaden - Greenfield WI
Gaylon M. Decious - Shorewood WI
John E. Seem - Shorewood WI
Kirk H. Drees - Cedarburg WI
Jonathan D. West - Shorewood WI
William R. Kuckuk - Hubertus WI

Johnson Controls Technology Co. - Plymouth MI

G05B 1300

700277

The present invention provides a sequencing control strategy for environmental system controllers that takes better advantage of the capabilities of the system elements to enhance performance and reduce operating costs. A state machine controller is implemented by employing digital technology which enables greater accuracy in monitoring system performance and performing diagnostics. This control modality also provides greater tolerance of faults by permitting automatic reconfiguration of the control strategy so as to be independent of malfunctioning components.