Wireless programming or programmable thermostat mobile unit for multiple separate controller or programmable fixed units and programming transmission method

US6196467A · kind A · utility

Inventors

• Steve Dushane · San Fernando, US
• Terry L. Zimmerman · Lawrenceville, US
• Grant Bohm · Calabasas, US
• John Staples · Calabasas, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 14, 1998
• Grant date: Mar 6, 2001
• Expiry date: May 14, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F24D19/10
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The present invention allows the user to quickly and repeatedly program one receiver controller device at least controlling one or more heating or cooling devices for one desirably separate zone of occupation to another such receiver controller device set at least controlling another separate set of heating or cooling devices for another desirably separate zone of occupation. The realities of present day industrial and commercial buildings is that they comprise many such separate zones of occupation with separate heating or cooling devices controlled with separate controllers due to the diverse nature of the desired temperatures, dead bands for controlling such temperatures, temperature and device operation ramping, times of occupation, economization measures imposed for each zone, and the many similar aspects of thermostatic control described herein and in the prior art.