Energy conservation moderating system
US6662866B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 22, 2001 |
| Grant date | Dec 16, 2003 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 22, 2021 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
- CPC primaryF23N2223/30
- WIPO fieldThermal processes and apparatus
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
An energy conservation moderating system has a DPDT switch (16) in switching communication intermediate a micro controller (8) and a temperature-difference generator (7). The micro controller is in switching control of the temperature-difference generator programmably through the DPDT switch in option to switching control of the temperature-difference generator by a conventional thermostat (1). The micro controller is preferably a Z 8 micro controller having a memory into which an application-specific program in the microcontroller is loaded for programmably plural-cycle short-time on-and-off switching for savings run times intermediate temperature-band on-call extremes and temperature-band mediums of a temperature-band fluctuation selectively. A timing controller (60) of on-and-off switching by the micro controller overrides switching control by the conventional thermostat with short-time cycling of on-and-off switching and returns switching control to the conventional thermostat automatically by delay of timing of on-switching to proximate on-switching timing by the conventional thermostat. This is a failsafe control circuitry (12) in event of failure of or intentional overriding…
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