539results about "Temperature control using digital means" patented technology

A cooperative control optimization method suitable for a near-field fan wall micromodule, comprising the following steps: step 10: obtaining IT system scheduling data and air-conditioning system data of the near-field fan wall micromodule within a preset period of time, and separately establishing a micromodule server real-time power model, an air-conditioning system power model, and a rapid server temperature prediction model; and step 20: performing cooperative control on deployment of virtual machines and an air-conditioning system by using an optimization method of combining real-time joint optimization and timed decoupling optimization based on the micromodule server real-time power model, the air-conditioning system power model, and the rapid server temperature prediction model. The present invention provides a cooperative control optimization method suitable for a near-field fan wall micromodule, to resolve the technical problem that local hot spots and overcooling are prone to occur during energy-saving scheduling of a near-field fan wall micromodule.

An appliance heating control method and apparatus for user customizable vaping. The method comprises: acquiring appliance environment information and cigarette parameter information, and selecting, from a cigarette heating temperature curve library corresponding to the cigarette parameter information, an initial heating temperature curve that matches the appliance environment information; generating parameter adjustment guidance information on the basis of the initial heating temperature curve, and displaying the initial heating temperature curve and the parameter adjustment guidance information; and receiving a parameter adjustment instruction, adjusting the initial heating temperature curve on the basis of the parameter adjustment instruction, so as to obtain an adjusted heating temperature curve, and controlling, according to the adjusted heating temperature curve, an appliance to perform heating.

Embodiments of the invention provide a system and method for housing electrical components of a high-density liquid cooling unit to liquid cool electrical components. The system includes a first electrical cabinet housing at least one electrical switch and a controller. The first electrical cabinet is swingable outward to open, and the first electrical cabinet opens while the high density liquid cooling system continues to operate to liquid cool electrical components. The system includes a second electrical cabinet housing a first motor drive and a second motor drive. The second electrical cabinet is accessible when the first electrical cabinet swings outward. One of the first motor drive and the second motor drive are replaceable while the high density liquid cooling unit continues to operate.

A liquid cooling method and system for cooling rack-mounted processing assemblies is presented that provides a dry cooling unit, a first liquid distribution circuit to convey the cooling liquid and a second liquid distribution circuit to convey the heated liquid from the rack-mounted processing assemblies, in which each of the rack-mounted data processing assemblies comprises a smart control valve designed to be pressure independent and control the flow rate of the cooling fluid based on detected temperatures and pressure flows. Each of the smart control valves operative to measure current liquid flow rates, current input cooling liquid temperatures, and current output heated liquid temperatures and calculate a current differential temperature, determine a relationship between the current differential temperature and a target temperature value, and dynamically adjust the liquid flow rate of the smart control valve based on the determined relationship and the current liquid flow rate and current input cooling liquid temperature.

A thermostat for a building zone includes at least one of a model predictive controller and an equipment controller. The model predictive controller is configured to obtain a cost function that accounts for a cost of operating HVAC equipment during each of a plurality of time steps, use a predictive model to predict a temperature of the building zone during each of the plurality of time steps, and generate temperature setpoints for the building zone for each of the plurality of time steps by optimizing the cost function subject to a constraint on the predicted temperature. The equipment controller is configured to receive the temperature setpoints generated by the model predictive controller and drive the temperature of the building zone toward the temperature setpoints during each of the plurality of time steps by operating the HVAC equipment to provide heating or cooling to the building zone.

Embodiments of the invention provide a high density liquid cooling system including a rack, primary loop piping including a primary inlet, a primary outlet, a primary loop filter, and a primary bypass valve, and secondary loop piping including a secondary inlet, a secondary outlet, a first pump, a first filter downstream of the first pump, and a secondary bypass valve. The system includes a heat exchanger having a first side and a second side. When the primary bypass valve is open, at least a portion of the fluid in the primary loop piping flows through the primary inlet and the primary outlet without traversing the heat exchanger, and when the secondary bypass valve is open, at least a portion of the fluid in the secondary loop piping flows through the secondary inlet and the secondary outlet without traversing the heat exchanger.

An electric device surface temperature control method, an electric device surface temperature control apparatus, an electric device, a computer readable storage medium, and a chip system. The method comprises: acquiring a historical temperature of at least one heating component located inside and / or outside an electric device between a first moment and a second moment (S210); taking the historical temperature as an input of a temperature prediction model, and outputting a predicted temperature of an external surface of the electric device at a third moment later than the first moment and the second moment, wherein the temperature prediction model represents the relationship between the historical temperature and the predicted temperature (S220); and adjusting the working state of the electric device on the basis of the predicted temperature so as to control the temperature of the external surface of the electric device (S230). The hysteresis between the temperature measurement and the temperature control can be overcome, and on the basis of a temperature prediction result of the prediction model, measures are taken as soon as possible for temperature control, so that the control capability of the external temperature of the electric device is improved, thereby improving the user experience.

A temperature measurement method according to the present invention comprises: a spectroscopic measurement step for measuring a spectroscopic radiation spectrum from a billet, said spectroscopic radiation spectrum including at least three or more wavelengths having different spectroscopic radiance at the same temperature; an acquisition step for acquiring a characteristic quantity of the surface of the billet at a measurement point of the spectroscopic radiation spectrum; a determination step for determining the form of the surface of the billet on the basis of the feature amount acquired in the acquisition step; and a selection step for selecting, on the basis of the determination result of the determination step, a temperature calculation method for calculating the temperature of the measurement point from the spectroscopic radiation spectrum measured in the spectroscopic measurement step.

A control device, for a water purifier, that dispenses hot water and that includes: an input unit that is configured to receive a command signal; and a controller that is configured to control the water purifier based on the command signal, wherein the controller is configured to: control power output of a heating unit that is configured to heat water stored in a hot water tank of the water purifier, and based on the power output of the heating unit, control temperature of hot water dispensed by the water purifier is disclosed.

Systems, methods, and / or mediums determine restoration times of comfort conditions. Zone temperatures for multiple zones of a facility are received. A heat transfer characteristic between a first and second zones is identified in which the second zone located adjacent to the first zone. A start time for a zone temperature action for the first zone is determined based on a first zone temperature of the first zone, a second zone temperature of the second zone, and the heat transfer characteristic. A zone command is sent to a temperature control system of the facility in which the zone command includes the start time of the zone temperature action for the first zone.

The invention provides a circulating cooling water intelligent control system and method based on the Internet of Things, and relates to the technical field of cooling water control, and the system comprises a pre-deployed sensor which monitors circulating cooling water equipment in real time, obtains circulating cooling water data, and transmits the data to an Internet of Things platform; performing data analysis, determining an operation state, dividing a circulating cooling water area, and determining current distribution data of the circulating cooling water in combination with a data analysis result; control distribution data of the circulating cooling water are obtained, an intelligent control model of the circulating cooling water is constructed, current control data of the circulating cooling water are output according to an intelligent control strategy of the circulating cooling water and the current distribution data of the circulating cooling water, and intelligent control is conducted on the circulating cooling water; establishing a circulating cooling water control feedback mechanism, and performing periodic feedback control optimization on circulating cooling water intelligent control; and intelligent control of circulating cooling water is realized.

Disclosed herein is a system for controlling a chilled water plant comprising one or more chillers, one or more water pumps, and a controller. The system comprise one or more processors configured to receive information comprising historical data for a plurality of system variables for the chilled water plant; determine historical performance information for the chilled water plant; prepare performance models comprising: at least one chiller predictive model; and at least one pump predictive model; prepare a field load predictive model for a field load demand; prepare a chilled water plant model; simulate operation of the chilled water plant and determining first optimised control parameters for the chilled water plant; determine an energy consumption of the chilled water plant; determine optimised control parameters for the chilled water plant; and output the optimised control parameters to the controller of the chilled water plant to optimise control of the chilled water plant.

An image processing apparatus that can decide whether to perform temperature control on a desired object in an image and have a degree of freedom in a control range of a presented temperature. The image processing apparatus includes an image data input unit that inputs image data of the image, an object detection unit that detects the object in the image based on the image data, a type identification unit that identifies a type of the object detected by the object detection unit, a control determination unit that determines whether to perform temperature control to an object occupied area that is occupied by the object in the image based on an identification result of the type identification unit, and a temperature decision unit that decides a temperature of the object occupied area when it is determined to perform the temperature control as a determination result of the control determination unit.

A hybrid apparatus for charging electric vehicles and mining cryptocurrency is provided. The apparatus may comprise an electric power input associated with a rated maximum power capacity, an electric vehicle charger, a cryptocurrency miner and a power coordinator. The electric vehicle charger may have at least one vehicle power outlet and a maximum charger power draw from the electric power input. The cryptocurrency miner may have multiple cryptocurrency mining computers and a maximum miner power draw from the electric power input. Each mining computer may have an adjustable intensity level. The power coordinator may be configured to determine mining power availability within the rated maximum power capacity after prioritizing power demand by the electric vehicle charger, and to direct the cryptocurrency miner to continue mining cryptocurrency by adjusting the intensity levels of the mining computers such that the cryptocurrency miner consumes not more than the mining power availability.

An e-vaping system comprising: (a) a disposable e-vaping device comprising the following non-user replaceable items: (i) a heating element; (ii) a rechargeable battery; and (iii) a liquid reservoir providing liquid to the heating element; and (b) an automatic liquid filling device comprising: (i) a first aperture or port configured to receive a liquid bottle or container containing an aerosolizable liquid; (ii) a second aperture or port configured to receive the e-vaping device; (iii) an electronic liquid level sensing subsystem; (iv) a liquid filling subsystem configured to pump liquid from the liquid bottle or container to the liquid reservoir in the e-vaping device; and (v) a battery charging subsystem. The disposable e-vaping device is configured to: (i) be sold to an end user having a pre-filled liquid reservoir and a pre-charged battery such that the device can be used immediately; (ii) automatically refilling and recharging at the liquid filling device without disassembly; (iii) during the entire normal operating life of the device, maintenance is performed as a single or integrated device without disassembly.

The present invention provides a monitoring system comprising: a sensor which is provided in a pipe for connecting a demand end and a supply end of a fluid and which collects sensing information related to the pipe; a receiving unit which is connected to the sensor and which receives sensing information from the sensor; a control unit for outputting a temperature value of the fluid by using the sensing information through calibration; a heating cable which is provided in the pipe, and which heats the pipe on the basis of the temperature value of the fluid; an HMI module, which uses a graphic model related to a pipe system including a plurality of pipes, so as to display the temperature value of the fluid and a change, due to heating, in the temperature value of the fluid; and a display for outputting the graphic model. According to the present invention, the temperature of the fluid can be controlled using the heating cable through monitoring of heat tracing based on an optical fiber sensor.

An environmental control system may receive environmental data for an interior of the livestock housing from a plurality of environmental sensors. An environmental control system may generate a Kalman environmental status for the interior of the livestock housing by applying a Kalman filter to the environmental data. An environmental control system may, based on the Kalman environmental status, adjust an environmental control to adjust an actual environmental status of the livestock housing.

The invention provides an air conditioner control method and device, an air conditioner and a storage medium. According to the method, the compensation temperature of various operation parameter combinations at the next moment is predicted according to environment characteristics at the current moment and various operation parameter combinations of the air conditioner; according to the return air temperature and the compensation temperature, the sensible temperature corresponding to the various operation parameter combinations is determined; and a target operation parameter combination is determined according to the set temperature and the sensible temperature, and the air conditioner is controlled to operate according to the target operation parameter combination. The compensation temperature of the next moment is predicted through the combination of the environment characteristics and various operation parameters of the air conditioner, the air return temperature and the sensible temperature of the compensation temperature at the next moment are utilized, then the air conditioner is controlled to operate according to the temperature set by the user and the sensible temperature at the next moment, and therefore the air conditioner is controlled through the sensible temperature, and the control accuracy is improved. And the indoor temperature can be adjusted more accurately.

A method for constructing a local flow model includes: obtaining a target physical model corresponding to a thermal management system based on acquired first flow data of the thermal management system; calculating second flow data of coolant at a target heat exchange component in the thermal management system based on the target physical model; and obtaining a local flow model for the coolant at the target heat exchange component by training a preset model according to the second flow data and a target characteristic parameter for controlling operation of the thermal management system corresponding to the second flow data.

The invention relates to the technical field of aluminum alloy production temperature control through computer aided design, in particular to an intelligent aluminum alloy production temperature control method based on the Internet of Things, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining aluminum alloy production operation data, extracting characteristic parameters of the aluminum alloy production operation data, and calculating the aluminum alloy production temperature according to the characteristic parameters; the characteristic parameters comprise the smelting furnace temperature, the energy consumption and the product quality score, and carrying out standardization processing on the aluminum alloy production operation data; an aluminum alloy production temperature control model is constructed, the aluminum alloy production temperature control model is defined by taking product quality and energy efficiency maximization as optimization targets, and meanwhile, multiple constraint conditions of the aluminum alloy production temperature control model are defined; and inputting the characteristic parameters of the aluminum alloy production operation data into the aluminum alloy production temperature control model for calculation, solving an optimal adjustment strategy of the aluminum alloy production temperature, and completing accurate control of the aluminum alloy production temperature.

Compressor device comprising an oil-injected compressor element (2) with an outlet (4) connected via an outlet line (8) to an oil separator (9) which is connected via an injection pipe (10) to the compressor element (2), wherein controllable cooling means (15) for the oil are provided, the compressor device (1) being provided with a control unit (21) and thereto connected measuring means (22a, 22b) for controlling the cooling means (15) to control a temperature (T_uit_afsch) downstream of the oil separator (9), the measuring means (22a, 22b) including means (22a) for determining a temperature (T_uit) at the outlet (4) and a temperature sensor (22b) for determining the temperature (T_uit_afsch) downstream of the oil separator (9), the control unit (21) including a controller (25) for controlling the cooling means (15) on the basis of signals from said measuring means (22a, 22b) and on the basis of a dew point.

A vaping system includes: (a) a disposable vaping device that includes the following non user-replaceable items: (i) a heating element; (ii) a rechargeable battery, and (iii) a liquid reservoir that provides liquid to the heating element; and (b) an automatic liquid filling device, including (i) a first aperture or port configured to receive a liquid bottle or container containing atomisable liquid; (ii) a second aperture or port configured to receive the vaping device; (iii) an electronic liquid level sensing sub-system; (iv) a liquid filling sub-system configured to pump liquid from the liquid bottle or container to the liquid reservoir in the vaping device and (v) a battery charging sub-system.

A controller receives from a sensor associated with a window treatment a first data obtained during a controlled closing of the window treatment. A setpoint temperature, a current temperature within a structure, and a weather data is subsequently used to determine that the window treatment needs to be closed in order to hasten a movement of the current temperature towards the setpoint temperature. After an instruction is provided to cause the window treatment to start to close, second data is obtained from the sensor while the window treatment is being closed. The first data is compared to the second data, when the comparison indicates that an obstruction exists in a path of travel of the window treatment, the closing of the window treatment is stopped.

Systems and methods for cooling a datacenter (100) are disclosed. One or more circuits of a datacenter (100) cooling system can receive a speed control signal for a pulse width modulation (PWM) fan and can modify a speed control signal to output a direction control signal to a motor driver associated with a PWM fan, so that a direction control signal can enable a forward direction or a reverse direction for a PWM fan, while a speed control signal can enable a speed of a PWM fan.

A method and system for controlling a temperature control system based on both system reliability and battery state is disclosed. Batteries may supply power to places where the power grid is unavailable. The batteries may be housed in containers, with the temperature and humidity of the containers being controlled using a temperature control system. The system and method disclosed may select the temperature setpoint and humidity setpoint in order to operate the batteries within prescribed temperature and humidity values, while considering both the state of health of the batteries (e.g., the battery state of charge) and the state of health of the temperature control system (e.g., the failure of the compressors). In this way, the batteries may be operated within prescribed limits while accounting for both the health of the batteries and the health of the temperature control system.

A kitchen device (100) including: abase (102) having a mechanism (118) that is operated using electrical power to cause processing of food; a vessel (104) removably mounted on the base (102) and including a bottom wall (108), a side wall (110) extending upwardly from the bottom wall (108) to a rim (112) so as to provide a space (114) to receive the food to be processed, with the rim (112) surrounding an opening (116) to the space (114); a lid (106) removably coupled to the rim (112) so as to at least partially close the opening (116); and an interlock system (120) operatively associated with the mechanism (118) to permit the delivery of the electric power to the mechanism (118), the system (120) including a first interlock circuit (122) and a second interlock circuit (124), wherein delivery of the electric power to the mechanism (118) is permitted by the completion of the first interlock circuit (122) and activation of the second interlock circuit (124), wherein the first interlock circuit (122) includes a first coupling (126) to complete the first circuit (122), the first coupling (126) including a first portion (128) mounted to the lid (106) and a second portion (130) mounted to the vessel (104) adjacent the rim (112) so that the first portion (128) is located adjacent the second portion (130) when the lid (106) is coupled to the rim (112) thereby completing the first circuit (122), and wherein the second interlock circuit (124) includes a second coupling (136) to activate the second interlock circuit (124), the second coupling (136) including a first portion (138) that is part of the second interlock circuit (124) and mounted to the base (102), the first portion (138) being operatively associated with a second portion (140) that is mounted to the vessel (104) and part of the first interlock circuit (122), wherein completion of the first interlock circuit (122) causes operation of the second portion (140) of the second coupling (136), thereby causing operation of the first portion (138) of the second coupling (136) to thus activate the second interlock circuit (124) and permit delivery of the electric power to the mechanism (118).

The present invention is a wafer temperature control device that includes a gas regulator that regulates a pressure or a flow rate of a gas, a temperature sensor that measures a temperature of either a measurement target area of a wafer or of an area adjacent thereto, an observer that, based on the measurement temperature from the temperature sensor and on a gas manipulated variable input into the gas regulator or the pressure or flow rate regulated by the gas regulator, estimates a temperature of a non-measurement target area that is different from the measurement target area of the wafer, and a gas control unit that, based on an estimation temperature for the non-measurement target area estimated by the observer and on a set temperature for the wafer, controls the gas manipulated variable input into the gas regulator using model predictive control.

Payload systems for processing chemical substances under various gravity levels, such as hypergravity and / or microgravity. The payload systems may include a hypergravity thermal payload system configured to enable melt or cooling of a sample under hypergravity. Alternatively, or in addition, the payload systems may include a gravity-independent thermal payload system for enabling melt or cooling of a sample under various gravity levels, such as microgravity. Alternatively, or in addition, the payload systems may include a hypergravity crystallization payload system configured to enable crystallization of a chemical substance under hypergravity. Alternatively, or in addition, the payload systems may include a gravity-independent crystallization system configured to enable crystallization of a chemical substance in various gravity levels, such as microgravity.

A system includes a plurality of thermostats corresponding to a plurality of HVAC systems that serve a plurality of spaces and a computing system communicable with the plurality of thermostats via a network. The computing system is configured to, for each space of the plurality of spaces, obtain a set of training data relating to thermal behavior of the space, identify a model of thermal behavior of the space based on the set of training data, perform a model predictive control process using the model of thermal behavior of the space to obtain a temperature setpoint for the space, and provide the temperature setpoint to the thermostat corresponding to the HVAC system serving the space. The plurality of thermostats are configured to control the plurality of HVAC systems in accordance with the temperature setpoints.