Building ventilation system connection detection

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9752792-B2
Application number	US-201414220498-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 20, 2014
Priority date	Mar 22, 2013
Publication date	Sep 5, 2017
Grant date	Sep 5, 2017

Abstract

A building ventilation system ( 1 ) comprising a central unit ( 2 ) and at least one electrical operating unit ( 3 ) for adjusting a movable member of a ventilation device, the central control unit ( 2 ) is connected to the at least one electrical operating unit ( 3 ) by two power supply wires ( 4 ) and configured to provide an operating voltage for operation of the at least one electrical operating unit ( 3 ) via the two power supply wires ( 4 ), wherein the power supply lines ( 4 ) are connected to an end module ( 5 ) and the central control unit ( 2 ) further is configured to provide a test voltage being lower than the operating voltage, wherein the end module ( 5 ) is configured to temporarily vary its load impedance with a predetermined pattern, and the central control unit ( 2 ) is configured to detect the temporarily varying load impedance of the end module.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A building ventilation system comprising a central control unit and at least one electrical operating unit for adjusting a movable member of a ventilation device, the central control unit is connected to the at least one electrical operating unit by two power supply wires and configured to provide an operating voltage for operation of the at least one electrical operating unit via the two power supply wires, wherein the two power supply wires are connected to an end module and the central control unit further is configured to provide a test voltage via the power supply wires being lower than the operating voltage, wherein the end module is configured to temporarily vary its load impedance with a predetermined pattern, and wherein the end module is configured to temporarily vary its load impedance by being switchable between a low impedance state and a high impedance state, wherein the end module provides an alternative circuit path circumventing the at least one electrical operating unit when the end module is in the low impedance state, when the test voltage is provided, the end module is in high impedance state, and the central control unit is configured to detect the temporarily varying load impedance of the end module.

2. A building ventilation system according to claim 1 , wherein the impedance of the end module is lower than the impedance of the at least one electrical operating unit, when the end module is in the low impedance state.

3. A building ventilation system according to claim 1 , wherein the impedance of the end module is higher than the impedance of the at least one electrical operating unit, when the end module is in the high impedance state.

4. A building ventilation system according to claim 1 , wherein the end module is in the low impedance state at least 20% of the time when the test voltage is provided.

5. A building ventilation system according to claim 1 , wherein the test voltage is less than 50% of the operating voltage.

6. A building ventilation system according to claim 1 , wherein the temporarily varying load impedance of the end module is detected in the central control unit by measuring a voltage variation.

7. A building ventilation system according to claim 1 , wherein the end module is connected to the central control unit by no more than the two power supply wires.

8. A building ventilation system according to claim 1 , wherein the test voltage is less than 25% of the operating voltage.

9. A building ventilation system according to claim 1 , wherein the test voltage is about 15% of the operating voltage.

10. A building ventilation system according to claim 1 , wherein the end module is in the low impedance state at least 30% of the time when the test voltage is provided.

11. A building ventilation system according to claim 1 , wherein the end module is in the low impedance state at least 50% of the time when the test voltage is provided.

12. A building ventilation system according to claim 1 , wherein the two power supply lines connect the end module to the central control unit in parallel with the at least one electrical operating unit.

Assignees

• Vkr Holding As
• Windowmaster As

Inventors

• Darum Jesper

Classifications

• F24F11/88

  Electrical aspects, e.g. circuits · CPC title

• F24F11/0001

  for ventilation (F24F11/30 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F24F2011/0046

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F24F2007/003

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F24F2011/0052

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic