Personal Comfort Variable Air Volume Diffuser

Patent №

US 11,680,720

Granted

2023-06-20

Filed 2022

Owner

TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.

Lab

AI components

1

speech

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

17652876

A method for providing personalized comfort to occupants of an environmentally conditioned space includes sensing a pre-adjustment pressure within a variable air volume diffuser, remotely adjusting a position an individually-adjustable directional outlet of the variable air volume diffuser, sensing a post-adjustment pressure within the variable air volume diffuser, and modifying the airflow through the variable air volume diffuser such that the post-adjustment pressure is equal to the pre-adjustment pressure. The variable air volume diffuser includes individually-adjustable directional outlets and a controller configured to regulate air pressure within the variable air volume diffuser when an individually adjustable directional outlet is adjusted. A user device in operative communication with the variable air volume diffuser includes a user interface to remotely adjust an adjustable directional outlet of the variable air volume diffuser to provide personalized comfort for the user. In embodiments, the variable air volume diffuser responds to spoken commands.

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AI classification

Speech1.00
Natural language0.46
Vision0.02
Planning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
AI hardware0.00
Machine learning0.00
Knowledge representation0.00

Ownership

TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.

assignment · 626250074

Assignors

SUBBAN, RAJASUDHAKAR, RAJ, RAJAT SUBHRA

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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