135 results about "Environmental systems" patented technology

Construction systems for erecting building structures comprise a plurality of prefabricated interconnectable modular building units, each unit not meeting at least one of the ISO certification criteria for transport of cargo but each unit comprising a frame shaped as a rectangular parallelopiped and comprised of framing members and a plurality of nodes, each node situated at a corner of said frame for selective interconnection with other units, the nodes and the exterior dimensions of the frame conforming to ISO shipping standards such that each unit is transportable using the ISO intermodal transportation system, and such that when the units are aggregated horizontally and vertically and adjacent units are interconnected, a building structure comprising at least one habitable space is formed. The modular units are assembled in a factory remote from the job site, and are there constructed to a semi-finished state, including installation of one or more of interior fit-out systems and finishes, exterior envelope systems, plumbing systems, electrical systems, environmental systems, and fire protection systems, following which the semi-finished modular units are transported from the factory to the job site, where they are craned into place and secured to form the structure being erected, a plurality of adjacent pairs of semi-finished modular units also being “stitched” together, and the semi-finished modular units are thereafter constructed to a finished state.

Construction systems for erecting building structures comprise a plurality of prefabricated interconnectable modular building units, each unit not meeting at least one of the ISO certification criteria for transport of cargo, but each unit comprising a frame shaped as a rectangular parallelopiped and comprised of framing members and a plurality of nodes, each node situated at a corner of said frame for selective interconnection with other units, the nodes and the exterior dimensions of the frame conforming to ISO shipping standards such that each unit is transportable using the ISO intermodal transportation system, and such that when the units are aggregated horizontally and vertically and adjacent units are interconnected, a building structure comprising at least one habitable space is formed. The modular units are assembled in a factory remote from the job site, and are there constructed to a semi-finished state, including installation of one or more of interior fit-out systems and finishes, exterior envelope systems, plumbing systems, electrical systems, environmental systems, and fire protection systems, following which the semi-finished modular units are transported from the factory to the job site, where they are craned into place and secured to form the structure being erected, a plurality of adjacent pairs of semi-finished modular units also being “stitched” together, and the semi-finished modular units are thereafter constructed to a finished state.

The present invention provides an environment measurement monitoring and response system. The present invention provides a method, system and program for managing multiple environmental systems in retail store locations geographically remote from each other.

A simple yet effective and robust identification method is presented using process step responses for process identification that can provide a continuous transfer function with time-delay without iteration. A cascade relay provides accurate and reliable more points on the process frequency response. The internal model principle is employed to design single-loop controller of PID or high-order types with best achievable control performance for controller tuning, e.g. both single and multivariable cases are covered. The process identification and control design portions can be easily integrated into a control system auto-tuning package. Further, a general control scheme for disturbance rejection is given which can significantly improve disturbance rejection performance over conventional feedback systems with time delays. Practical issues such as noises, real-time implementation and tuning guidelines are also provided. The present invention provide general, systematic, effective, and applicable methods for process identification and control for a wide range of industries such as process and chemical plants, food processing, waste water treatment and environmental systems, oil refinery, servo and mechatronic systems, where a system model is needed for analysis, prediction, filtering, optimization and management, and / or where control or better control is required for their systems.

The present invention provides an environment measurement monitoring and response system. The present invention provides a method, system and program for managing multiple environmental systems in retail store locations geographically remote from each other.

A method, system, apparatus and device for the monitoring, diagnosis and evaluation of the state of a dynamic system is disclosed. This method and system provides the processing means for receiving sensed and / or simulated data, converting such data into a displayable object format and displaying such objects in a manner such that the interrelationships between the respective variables can be correlated and identified by a user. This invention provides for the rapid cognitive grasp of the overall state of a critical function with respect to a dynamic system. The system provides for displayed objects, which change in real-time to show the changes of the functions of the system. It is a highly flexible system which works with a wide variety of applications, including biological systems, environmental systems, engineering systems, economic systems, mechanical systems, chemical systems and the like. The device of this invention is adapted specifically to providing objects within a frame associated with other objects in a reference grid to provide a graphical representation of cardiovascular function.

Methods, systems, and apparatuses for environmental system controls are provided. A number of human subjects present within a space is determined, which may include counting the human subjects and / or determining a thermal mass of the human subjects. An impact upon an environmental factor by the present human subjects upon the space is determined. Environmental conditioning equipment is controlled based on the determination.

A motion simulation system for providing force feedback to a user in response to movement of the user within a virtual environment comprises a virtual environment system for producing a virtual environment to the user. Cables are connected to a user interface to support the user interface in a suspended position. Actuators are associated to each cable to adjust the length of the cables. A cable tension controller is connected to the actuators and to the virtual environment system to calculate a position and orientation of the user within the virtual environment as a function of the length of the cables, and to control the actuators so as to constrain movement of the user interface as a function of interactions between the user and the virtual environment, to provide force feedback to the user. A locomotion simulation apparatus and method are provide as well.

The invention belongs to the technical field of civil ship navigation, and discloses a three-dimensional motion scene based simulation system design method. The method comprises: firstly, establishing an MFC single document based OpenGL simulation system framework; secondly, drawing an environmental system with an OpenGL texture mapping method; thirdly, establishing a coordinate system; fourthly, loading three-dimensional models of ship and aircraft targets, generated by utilizing a computer aided design technology, into a program framework; fifthly, reading external driving data through real-time communication to realize target state updating; sixthly, establishing a perspective conversion system, and realizing different observation effects through keyboard interaction; and finally, realizing a smooth animation by utilizing an OpenGL double-buffer technology, and displaying target information through a data display system. According to the method, state images of the ship and aircraft targets in set water area and sky environment under given motion parameters can be formed, a shared audio-visual environment is created for training personnel, and a result is more realistic and more credible.

An apparatus and method maintain immersion fluid in the gap adjacent to the projection lens during the exchange of a work piece in a lithography machine. The apparatus and method include an optical assembly that projects an image onto a work piece and a stage assembly including a work piece table that supports the work piece adjacent to the optical assembly. An environmental system is provided to supply and remove an immersion fluid from the gap between the optical assembly and the work piece on the stage assembly. After exposure of the work piece is complete, an exchange system removes the work piece and replaces it with a second work piece. An immersion fluid containment system maintains the immersion liquid in the gap during removal of the first work piece and replacement with the second work piece.

An environmental system includes a micromechanical dispensing device. The environmental system comprises an environmental system controller arranged to communicate with one or more included environmental air units. The one or more environmental air units are arranged to alter or control one or more physical properties of an atmosphere. The environmental system controller is further arranged to communicate with an included micromechanical dispensing device. The micromechanical dispensing device is arranged to dispense at least one fluid into the atmosphere.

A sparse data system is provided for verifying operational compliance of a plurality of environmental systems. To reduce operational costs to a minimum, the quantity of data transmitted is minimized and the data is only transmitted at certain times. If systems are compliant, then information is preferably not sent. If systems are non-compliant, then notices are sent to parties of interest at effectively the same time as the noncompliance occurs. Subsequent alarm detection level may also be sent after detection of an operational threshold to provide notice for continued ongoing or severe noncompliance.

The invention relates to an air cooled heating pump test system. An air treatment box is arranged inside a tested unit environment chamber, and a heat balance water tank is arranged outside the tested unit environment chamber; and cold capacity and heat are distributed and balanced between a surface cooler in the air treatment box and the heat balance water tank through the tested unit and an external cold source or an external heat source, so that requirements on water supply in different temperature regions is met. In a test process, control of the temperature and the humidity of the whole environment system can be executed by adjusting the flow of coolant water entering the air treatment box in the test chamber without extra heat source input. The air inlet temperature of a condenser of a large-size air cooling and heating pump unit can be independently controlled in different regions; in a season that outdoor temperature is relatively low, a working condition required by test of the tested unit can be realized by only controlling the air inlet amount and the air exhaust amount getting into and getting out of the test chamber; and the test energy consumption of the unit can be saved by 50 percent. The system can be used for product development experiments and test of the performance of the tested unit of an air cooled heating pump production line.

A method, system and apparatus for the monitoring, diagnosis and evaluation of the state of a dynamic system is disclosed. This method and system provides the processing means for receiving sensed and / or simulated data, converting such data into a displayable object format and displaying such objects in a manner such that the interrelationships between the respective variables can be correlated and identified by a user. This invention provides for the rapid cognitive grasp of the overall state of a critical function with respect to a dynamic system. The system provides for displayed objects which change in real-time to show the changes of the functions of the system. It is a highly flexible system which works with a wide variety of applications, including biological systems, environmental systems, engineering systems, economic systems, mechanical systems, chemical systems and the like.

The invention discloses an Mqtt (message queuing telemetry transport) based protocol server implementation method. The implementation process lies in that on the basis of an open-sourcing Mosquitto server platform, Java is used as a development framework, a client and jar packets of a server side are developed, and behavioral norms in the Mosquito server are packaged once more; a user acquires the two packaged jar packets after registering the platform, command information is subscribed by the client on the Mosquitto server with a method of calling the jar packets, and the client gives corresponding responses according to corresponding commands when receiving the commands form the server side; the jar packets of the server side are used by developers, and the corresponding commands are sent to a client side to enable the client to complete corresponding work with the method of calling the jar packets. Compared with the prior art, the implementation method has the advantages that MQTT access development of the enterprise-class small and medium sized user is completed in the shortest time, time period for learning is omitted, establishment of environmental system is not needed, and rapid development can be performed by the arrangement of the jar packets.

The invention provides a bank system historical data cleaning method and device, used for cleaning historical data of a database data table. The bank system historical data cleaning method comprises the following steps: formulating a data cleaning rule according to the life cycle and association relationship of the data table of the database; screening data and key values of the data table to be cleaned according to the data cleaning rule, and determining the cleaned data index of the data table to be cleaned; cleaning the data of the data table of the database according to the data cleaning index, and writing the key values of the cleaned data into a backup index file; and generating a cleaning statistics report and recording the cleaned data in the file to save for a set time according to the backup index file, so as to support recovering the file from the file as needed. Through the bank system historical data method and device disclosed by the invention, the cleaning of the historical data can be realized, and efficient and safe operation of the production environment system can be ensured; therefore, the impact of the historical data cleaning process on normal business applications is avoided to the greatest extent, and the probability of affecting the normal applications in the normal production environment after the data cleaning is reduced.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a verification environment system and a construction method thereof. The construction method of a verification environment comprises the following steps: acquiring port information required by the construction of the verification environment and generating a layered structure of the verification environment; and constructing, layer by layer, parts required by the layered structure of the verification environment in a direction opposite to configured data stream according to port signals from a tested designed top layer. The verification environment system and the construction method thereof can realize effective reuse and fast construction of the verification environment.

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for predicting an energy savings resulting from the replacement of existing equipment with new equipment. In the example embodiments, the energy saving prediction is utilized to create a customized warranty for an individual customer of an HVAC system or subcomponent thereof. Historical energy usage, historical climate data, old and new equipment parameters, and customer use data is input to a predictive modeling algorithm, which determines an energy savings prediction. Alternative models may be employed and a weighting factor applied to each to arrive at an improved energy savings prediction. The energy savings prediction is utilized to warranty to the customer an estimated dollar savings that will result from the installation of the new equipment. The warranty provides that, in the event the predicted energy savings is not realized, the customer is entitled to receive a dollar amount representing the shortfall in warranted energy savings.

An appliance such as a refrigerator includes a housing such as a refrigerator cabinet, a compartment disposed within the refrigerator cabinet or housing, a visual display positioned at an interior of the compartment, a circuit operatively connected to the visual display and configured to operate the visual display in a manner indicative of an environmental system of the refrigerator. The visual display may be a flat panel display and may show an animation.

Methods are provided for calculating a reserve value or a risk value for various locations in an environmentally-controlled space such as a data center, and using the reserve value or risk value to allocate environmental maintenance modules and / or load. For example, an influence model can predict a change in a sensor value at a location for a corresponding change in an operation level of an actuator of one of the environmental maintenance modules. Based on the influence model and an operation level of the actuator, a reserve value can be determined for the location. A risk value for the location can be determined using a risk metric that may use the reserve value, a current sensor value at the location, and a threshold sensor value at the location.

The invention discloses a machine room power environment monitoring system based on a cloud architecture and modularization, and relates to the field of environment monitoring. According to the system, an advanced power environment centralized monitoring and management platform of the B\S architecture, and an embedded network leading end intelligent monitoring and management host are adopted, a related environment collection module is adopted in an auxiliary mode, data transmission is performed in a TCP / IP mode, and 24-h omnibearing united centralized monitoring and management are performed on all machine room power and environment systems of the project. The attractive and user-friendly monitoring picture is supplied. When an abnormity appears, an alarm window is automatically popped out in time, a multimedia voice broadcasting alarm and a local acousto-optic local alarm are given, and meanwhile, machine room maintainers are remotely informed in a mobile phone short message and E-mail mode so that the maintainers can adopt corresponding measures in time to ensure reliable operation of equipment of each machine room.

Machine learning is used to control environmental systems for a building or other man-made structure. In one approach, environmental data is collected by sensors for an environment within the man-made structure. The environmental data is used as input to a machine learning model that predicts at least one attribute affecting control of the environment within the man-made structure. For example, the machine learning model might predict load on the environmental system, resource consumption by the environmental system, or cost of operating the environmental system. The environmental system for the man-made structure is controlled based on the predicted attribute.

The present invention relates generally a method and apparatus for measuring multiple parameters in-situ in a sample collected from an environmental system via a single device. In one embodiment, the method includes collecting the sample from said environmental system via the single device, measuring a first parameter of the sample in-situ via the single device, adding a reagent tot the sample within the single device to create a reagent infused sample and measuring a second parameter of the sample in-situ via the single device using the reagent infused sample.

A control system and method for environmental devices such as heating and cooling devices provides a control system for controlling the environmental device. The control system has a first condition sensor for sensing a first condition of the environment, a memory for recording the sensed first condition at predetermined intervals, a clock associated with the controller that supplies time data, a controller for activating and / or deactivating the environmental device, a memory for storing data relating to the sensed condition, data relating to events of activating and / or deactivating the environmental device and time data, and a processor that controls the activation and deactivation events of the controller based on data including the stored time, activation event, and condition data.

A controlled environment system for use in In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF) or other biological procedures and a method for conducting such a biological procedure. The system includes a main chamber, one or more manipulator devices for manipulating items in the interior of the chamber, a microscopy viewing system enabling viewing of the manipulation procedure, means for modifying the proportions of gas in a multi gas chamber atmosphere set up in the main chamber, chamber heater means for heating the gas atmosphere in the main chamber, a recirculation gas circuit providing for recirculation of the main chamber gas atmosphere, the recirculation gas circuit including a particulate filter arrangement and a sterilization arrangement.

A microenvironment system for use with a heat transfer fluid includes a microenvironment structure and a fluid handling apparatus. The microenvironment structure defines a flow passage to receive a flow of the heat transfer fluid therethrough. The fluid handling apparatus is adapted to provide a flow of the heat transfer fluid through the flow passage. The fluid handling apparatus includes a gas driven pump and a supply of a phase change material (PCM). The gas driven pump is operable to force the flow of the heat transfer fluid through the flow passage. The supply of the PCM is convertible from a solid and / or liquid phase to a gas phase to provide a pressurized drive gas. The fluid handling apparatus is configured to drive the gas driven pump using the pressurized drive gas from the supply of the PCM.

The invention discloses a scale model test platform for large space airflow distribution. The scale model test platform comprises a large space scale model, an air processing system, a thermal environment system, an air conditioner cold source system and a data collecting and controlling system. The air conditioner cold source system is respectively connected with the air processing system and the thermal environment system to be used for providing freeze water for the air processing system and the thermal environment system. The air processing system is connected with the large space scale model to be used for providing airflow distribution inside a large space scale model. The thermal environment system is used for providing thermal environment outside the large space scale model, the data collecting and controlling system is installed on the air processing system and the thermal environment system and used for collecting air parameters inside and outside the large space scale model and for controlling the air parameters. Based on the similarity principle, the scale model test platform is established, can be used for finishing various large space building scale model tests, is wide in application range, flexible in using, visual in test process and real in test result, serves as a test and verification platform for large space building airflow distribution optimizing design and research and is a pioneer of the field.

The invention provides an energy, economy and environment coordination degree calculation method and an energy, economy and environment coordination degree calculation device based on an ellipsoidal model, which relate to the field of regional information assessment. The energy, economy and environment coordination degree calculation method comprises the steps of: establishing an ellipsoid analytical model in advance; utilizing the ellipsoid analytical model to adjust a coordination degree of environment and energy-economy when the energy and economy are coordinated, a coordination degree of economy and energy-economy when the energy and an environmental system are coordinated, and a coordination degree of energy and economy-environment when the economy and the environmental system are coordinated; and finally making the calculated coordination degrees of the energy, economy and environment more accurate.