Ralph C Brindle, 70Edina, MN

8135893, Mar 13, 2012

Sep 12, 2008

12/209623

Ralph C. Brindle - Edina MN, US

Honeywell International, Inc. - Morristown NJ

G06F 12/00

710117, 710200, 710240

Systems, apparatuses and methods for timing access to a shared communications bus by a plurality of devices. Each of a plurality of nodes is successively provided an opportunity to gain access to a shared bus according to a time slot allocation referenced from a time reference. The successive time slot allocation occurs until one of the nodes has a message to send via the shared bus. The node that has the message to send transmits a frame onto the bus. A new time reference is established at each of the nodes based on an indication provided by the transmitted frame, whereby each of the nodes can then be afforded a new opportunity to gain access to the shared bus according to the time slot allocation referenced from the new time reference.

8224888, Jul 17, 2012

Nov 14, 2006

11/559706

Ralph C. Brindle - Edina MN, US

Honeywell International Inc. - Morristown NJ

G06F 15/16
G01R 15/56

709203, 709201, 709219, 705412

A system for interfacing information between subsystems of an embedded software system with subsystem independence. It is a public variable system that defines a simple, extensible framework for interfacing between product subsystems such as control engines, input/output subsystems, and communications protocols. Server subsystems within the embedded software system are given the ability to make public information available for use by client subsystems within the system, with isolation between client and server subsystems.

8560095, Oct 15, 2013

Dec 30, 2009

12/650513

Ralph Collins Brindle - Edina MN, US
Dean C. Matsen - Shoreline WA, US
Michael Andrew Pouchak - Saint Anthony MN, US

Honeywell International Inc. - Morristown NJ

G05B 15/00
G06F 3/00
G06F 3/048

700 83, 715762, 715853

A changeable BACnet interface system having a workstation and a controller. The system may allow a controller object interface to be engineered and downloaded to the controller via configuration files, rather than as individual objects created at run time. A BACnet network may be connected to the workstation and controller. BACnet objects may be designed to constitute an interface to the control application, and be stored in the controller. The BACnet interface may be presented to the BACnet network.

8621377, Dec 31, 2013

Mar 24, 2011

13/071092

Aaron Francis D'Souza - Bangalore, IN
Stalin Gutha Sanghamitra - Bangalore, IN
Ralph Collins Brindle - Edina MN, US
Levi Geadelmann - Edina MN, US
Kevin Moore - Chaska MN, US

Honeywell International Inc. - Morristown NJ

G06F 3/048

715771, 715740, 715810, 37910205

A configuration tool for a programmable HVAC controller is provided. The configuration tool may accept user input, and may generate a corresponding configuration profile based on the user input. The configuration profile may be downloaded to a programmable HVAC controller, which may, among other things, reconfigure the I/O terminals of the programmable HVAC controller. The configuration tool may generate a terminal diagram that labels at least some of the I/O terminals of the programmable HVAC controller based on the particular configuration profile. In some cases, the configuration tool may output the terminal diagram in a format that can be printed on a label, with the label being suitable for adhering to the programmable HVAC controller.

2012025, Oct 4, 2012

Mar 29, 2011

13/074627

Paul Wacker - Plymouth MN, US
Ralph Collins Brindle - Edina MN, US
Shilpa Anand - Maple Grove MN, US

HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. - Morristown NJ

G05B 19/02

700 23

A system having a function block execution framework. Function blocks may be for use in a control system design. These blocks may be selected from a library of a function block engine. Selected function blocks may be executed for operational purposes. They may be continuously executed by a processor to maintain operational status. However, since a function block engine and a resulting system of function blocks may be operated with battery power, executions of function blocks may be reduced by scheduling the executions of function blocks to times only when they are needed. That means that the processor would not necessarily have to operate continuously to maintain continual execution of the function blocks and thus could significantly reduce consumption of battery power.

2013023, Sep 12, 2013

Mar 8, 2012

13/415765

Michael Andrew Pouchak - Saint Anthony MN, US
Ralph Collins Brindle - Edina MN, US

HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. - Morristown NJ

G06F 13/00

710305

A control system having a bus extension framework. The system may have a flexible and reuseable block mechanism which may integrate with block control structures, and yet provide connections over a low cost two-wire communications bus. A function block engine may extend to multiple devices such as sensors, actuators, In/output devices, wall modules, graphical displays, network storage mechanisms, and so on. The system may integrate with other graphical function block systems and extend with a simple connection to and from additional bus resources. A connection scheme may hide the complexity of the underlying communications and still permit multiple address devices to communicate to each other among function block host devices. Complexity of the underlying communications may be revealed graphically to a system operator in an under-the-hood view. A main host controller may have a proxy file that holds a data file on virtually all of the devices in the system.

4657179, Apr 14, 1987

Dec 26, 1984

6/686320

John R. Aggers - Apple Valley MN
Ralph C. Brindle - Minnetonka MN
Kenneth B. Kidder - Coon Rapids MN
David C. Ullestad - Brooklyn Park MN

Honeywell Inc. - Minneapolis MN

H02J 100

236 51

A distributed environmental/load control system comprising a thermostat operable to supply signals indicative of sensed and desired values of a parameter in an environmentally controlled space to a first controller operable to control condition changing equipment for regulating the parameter, the signals being transmitted over a communications link between the thermostat and first controller. A second controller which is operable to control a plurality of loads in accordance with predetermined criteria to limit energy consumed by the loads is connected to the communications link through an interface device operable to process the signals produced by the thermostat in response to instructions furnished by the second controller and to supply the processed signals to the first controller.

4654653, Mar 31, 1987

Sep 12, 1983

6/531990

Ralph C. Brindle - Minnetonka MN
Kenneth B. Kidder - Coon Rapids MN

Honeywell Inc. - Minneapolis MN

H04L 700

3408252

An asynchronous one way digital data communication system is disclosed in which a first microcomputer produces a series of groups of pulses at a first port representative of digits in an information packet to be transmitted, the groups being separated by strobe pulses at a second port. The pulses drive switches in two current paths to control current therethrough supplied by a receiver module including a second microcomputer having a serial input port connected to an internal counter and an interrupt port. Current detectors supply pulses corresponding to currents in the paths to the serial input and interrupt ports, from which the second microcomputer reproduces the information packet.