Patents
Literature
Hiro is an intelligent assistant for R&D personnel, combined with Patent DNA, to facilitate innovative research.
Hiro

72results about How to "Reduce peak power consumption" patented technology

Solar panel configurations

The invention provides solar panel systems, which may be applied to surfaces such as residential rooftops. The invention also provides methods of installing solar panel systems. A solar panel system may comprise one or more module, which may comprise one or more solar panels and a rack. A solar panel may comprise a polymer, and may not comprise glass or a metal frame. The rack may include three footings and a plurality of adjustable fasteners that may enable the module to reside on an uneven surface. The rack may also include integrated electronic components and a microinverter. A module may yield a desired power output, and may generate performance monitoring data.
Owner:ARMAGEDDON ENERGY

Home energy management system incorporating a pool pump

An energy management system for a home network is provided. The energy management system includes one or more power consuming devices, including at least a pool pump system having a motor and a filter with a filtration cycle, a central controller operatively connected to the power consuming devices and configured to receive and process a signal indicative of the current state of an associated utility, including at least a peak demand state and an off-peak demand state, and a display. The central controller is configured to operate the pool pump system in one of a plurality of operating modes, including at least a normal operating mode and an energy savings mode, and to provide pool pump usage information to a user via a user interface on the display.
Owner:HAIER US APPLIANCE SOLUTIONS INC

System for reduced peak power consumption by a cooking appliance

According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a system for reducing peak power consumption in an electromechanically controlled cooking appliance is provided. The system comprises a surface heating unit comprising at least one duty cycle controlled surface heating element, a temperature controlled oven heating element, a controller configured to receive and process utility state signals indicative of the operating state of an associated utility, and a switch responsive to the controller, switchable between a first state and a second state for selectively coupling the oven heating element to a first relatively high voltage power supply and a second relatively low voltage power supply respectively. The controller is configured to switch the switch to the first and second states as a function of the utility state signal.
Owner:HAIER US APPLIANCE SOLUTIONS INC

Method and apparatus for diagnosing failures in an integrated circuit using design-for-debug (DFD) techniques

A method and apparatus for inserting design-for-debug (DFD) circuitries in an integrated circuit to debug or diagnose DFT modules, including scan cores, memory BIST (built-in self-test) cores, logic BIST cores, and functional cores. The invention further comprises using a DFD controller for executing a plurality of DFD commands to debug or diagnosis the DFT modules embedded with the DFD circuitries. When used alone or combined together, these DFD commands will detect or locate physical failures in the DFT modules in the integrated circuit on an evaluation board or system using a low-cost DFT debugger. A computer-aided design (CAD) method is further developed to synthesize the DFD controller and DFD circuitries according to the IEEE 1149.1 Boundary-scan Std. The DFD controller supports, but is not limited to, the following DFD commands: RUN_SCAN, RUN_MBIST, RUN_LBIST, DBG_SCAN, DBG_MBIST, DBG_LBIST, DBG_FUNCTION, SELECT, SHIFT, SHIFT_CHAIN, CAPTURE, RESET, BREAK, RUN, STEP, and STOP.
Owner:SYNTEST TECH

Energy optimizing dispatching method of home hybrid power supply system in real-time power price environment

The invention discloses an energy optimizing dispatching method of a home hybrid power supply system in a real-time power price environment. The energy optimizing dispatching method comprises the steps of establishing a flexible load working model according to a linear inequality constraint condition, obtaining electric energy matching between DG (distributed generation) and a load by use of a genetic algorithm (GA), performing automatic optimization by use of the information of the DG and the RTP (Real Time Price) and arranging the flexible load to operate at a lowest-price moment, developing a charge / discharge policy of an energy storage device to realize the energy re-planning of the DG, thereby satisfying the balance between supply and demand of the DG and the load, and finally, making up the difference between supply and demand in such a manner of supplying power to a storage battery or the load from a large power grid and reducing the power purchase cost to an utmost extent. The energy optimizing dispatching method of the home hybrid power supply system in the real-time power price environment provides detailed algorithm description for an actual smart home user as a test object; besides, the effectiveness of the developed policy in improving the utilization rate of the electric energy of the DG and the economic benefit of the user is proven through a series of experiments.
Owner:ZHEJIANG UNIV

Power consumption stabilization system & method

InactiveUS20050078016A1Reduce maximum power consumptionLimiting designReliability increasing modificationsCode conversionNumber generatorComputer science
A source signal is provided. The source signal is XORed with a scrambling random signal to generate a scrambled signal. The scrambled signal is transmitted through the digital logic circuit. The scrambled signal is XORed with the descrambling random signal logically identical to the scrambling random signal to produce a descrambled signal identical to the source signal. In one embodiment, the scrambling random signal is transmitted through the digital logic circuit and used as the descrambling random signal. In another embodiment, the scrambling random signal and descrambling random signal are generated independently using pseudo-random number generators. In yet another embodiment, the scrambling random signal is self-synchronizing and is contained within the pattern of the scrambled signal.
Owner:AGILENT TECH INC

Cutting CAM peak power by clock regioning

A CAM device architecture where CAM cells are divided into at least two arrays and each array is operated in a different clock domain so that at no time are the arrays simultaneously drawing maximum power. By dividing the CAM array into a plurality of arrays and staggering the search operation so that every array does not simultaneously draw maximum power, the peak power consumption of the CAM device is reduced.
Owner:MICRON TECH INC

Integrated microfluidic device with reduced peak power consumption

An integrated microfluidic device having a number of chambers (11-MN) for heating a fluid, a number of electrical heating elements (R) for heating different ones of the chambers, a controller for controlling the heating elements to vary a temperature of the fluid in the chambers repeatedly through a cycle of different temperatures, the controller being arranged to time the temperature cycle for a given one of the chambers to be out of phase with temperature cycles of others of the chambers. This can help reduce peak power consumption, and thus reduce unwanted voltage drops on supply lines. These can cause loss of precision in heating and sensing circuits. The device can comprise a low temperature polysilicon on a glass substrate. The controller can be coupled to the heating elements using an active matrix of control lines and switches (T2).
Owner:KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NV

Non-Volatile Memory and Method with Peak Current Control

A non-volatile memory with multiple memory dice manages simultaneous operations so as to not exceed a system power capacity. A load signal bus is pulled up with a strength proportional to the system power capacity. Each die has a driver to pull down the bus by an amount corresponding to its degree of power need as estimated by a state machine of the die. The bus therefore provides a load signal that serves as arbitration between the system power capacity and the cumulative loads of the individual dice. The load signal is therefore at a high state when the system power capacity is not exceeded; otherwise it is at a low state. When a die wishes to perform an operation and requests a certain amount of power, it drives the bus accordingly and its state machine either proceeds with the operation or not, depending on the load signal.
Owner:SANDISK TECH LLC

DSM enabling of electro mechanically controlled refrigeration systems

A system for reducing the peak power consumption in an electromechanically controlled refrigerator is provided. The system comprises a cold control device including a housing and a counter spring having at least one spring tension position corresponding to a temperature set point, a bourdon tube having a first end comprising an elastomeric diaphragm operatively associated with the counter spring, and a second end, opposite the first end, located in the compartment, wherein the counter spring is capable of providing a force against the diaphragm, and a DSM switching device operatively controlled by an associated DSM module. The DSM module is configured to receive a signal indicative of at least one of a peak or non-peak demand period of an associated utility.
Owner:HAIER US APPLIANCE SOLUTIONS INC

Dsm enabling of electro mechanically controlled refrigeration systems

An energy saving defrost control system for reducing power consumption of an electromechanically controlled refrigerator is provided. The system includes a defrost timer adapted to control a compressor according to an established run time, a defrost heater control operatively connected to the defrost timer and configured to activate a defrost heater in response to a timeout by the defrost timer, a DSM module responsive to demand state signals from an associated utility indicative of at least a peak demand and off peak demand state, and a time delay latching relay having a timer and configured to switch to one of a low position and a high position based on the demand state signal.
Owner:GENERAL ELECTRIC CO

Systems and methods for illuminating a spark gap in an electric discharge weapon

An electric discharge weapon includes a high voltage circuit, a control circuit, and a light source. The high voltage circuit includes a spark gap having a breakdown voltage affected by light. A magnitude of an electric discharge of the weapon is related to the breakdown voltage of the spark gap. Under control of the control circuit, the light source emits light to illuminate the spark gap prior to conduction so that the magnitude of the electric discharge is within a desired range.
Owner:AXON ENTERPRISE INC

Method for reducing power consumption of integrated circuit system of Ethernet passive optical network physical layer

The invention relates to a method for reducing power consumption of an integrated circuit system of an Ethernet passive optical network physical layer and designs a device for reducing power consumption of I / O (input / output) unit of an integrated circuit. The device is used as a module capable of being integrated into a physical layer integrated circuit. The method includes: encoding data before parallel binary data are transmitted to an I / O interface, computing the number of binary bits changed in two group data in adjacent clock period, turning and setting a zone bit as 1 if the number of changed bits is large; judging whether the data are turned or not according to the zone bits and turning and decoding according to the bits; dividing binary data into multiple sections for parallel I / O with wider bit width, and encoding and decoding the multiple sections; caching n data with bit width of m, grouping the n data and arranging n zone bits into data with bit width of m, and utilizing m-n binary bits without zone bits for checking, wherein the data are used a key frame.
Owner:SOUTHEAST UNIV

Charge pump circuit of EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory) used for passive UHF RFID (Ultra High Frequency Radio Frequency Identification Device) chip

The invention discloses a charge pump circuit of an EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory) used for a passive UHF RFID (Ultra High Frequency Radio Frequency Identification Device) chip, which mainly solves the problem that the power consumption is overlarge during the charging period of the charge pump circuit of a conventional EEPROM. The charge pump circuit consists of a bi-phase non-overlapping clock generating circuit (201), a digital circuit (202), a control logic circuit (203) and a main charge pump (204), wherein the bi-phase non-overlapping clock generating circuit, the digital circuit and the control logic circuit convert input signals into n+2 bit clock signals which are fed into a main charge pump, the minus end of a capacitor C of an odd level unit of the charge pump is connected with a clk_bar; the minus end of a capacitor C of an even level unit of the charge pump is connected with clock control signals clk_2, clk_4,..., and clk_2n; and the minus end of an output level capacitor CL is connected with clock signals clk-L; an ith clock signal clk_2i delays for delta t compared with an i-1 clock signal clk_2, wherein i=1, 2,..., n, and then the effective clock signals are output, so that during the charging period, all the capacitors are charged simultaneously, and the charge pump circuit has the advantages of low power consumption during the charging period.
Owner:XIDIAN UNIV

Energy management in a microwave cooking appliance

A microwave oven comprises a cooking cavity and a RF generation module configured to deliver microwave energy into the cooking cavity. A controller receives and processes a signal indicative of the current state of an associated energy supplying utility for determining whether to operate the microwave oven in one of a normal operating mode and a power saving mode in response to the received signal. A power source is operatively associated with the controller and the RF generation module, and is configured to receive a signal from the controller and cause the microwave oven to operate in normal operating mode or in power saving operating mode in accord with the signal.
Owner:HAIER US APPLIANCE SOLUTIONS INC

System for reduced peak power consumption by a cooking appliance

According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a system for reducing peak power consumption in an electromechanically controlled cooking appliance is provided. The system comprises a surface heating unit comprising at least one duty cycle controlled surface heating element, a temperature controlled oven heating element, a controller configured to receive and process utility state signals indicative of the operating state of an associated utility, and a switch responsive to the controller, switchable between a first state and a second state for selectively coupling the oven heating element to a first relatively high voltage power supply and a second relatively low voltage power supply respectively. The controller is configured to switch the switch to the first and second states as a function of the utility state signal.
Owner:HAIER US APPLIANCE SOLUTIONS INC

Device, system, and method for monitoring oil depot fuel leakage based on wireless sensing

The invention discloses a device, a system, and a method for monitoring oil depot fuel leakage based on wireless sensing. The device comprises a measurement and control and communication module, a gas collecting device, a mechanical structure, and a power module. The measurement and control and communication module which comprises an integrated photoionization sensor and temperature sensor combination for detecting fuel volatile gas controls the gas collecting device, and detects oil gas concentration around an oil tank periodically and sends monitoring information in a wireless manner. The system and the application method use a device as a node, and a plurality of nodes are arranged around an oil tank, so as to form a detection network. Two adjacent nodes of any node in the nodes can communicate directly, and a main node on a valve region is responsible for determining abnormal information reported by the nodes and reporting the abnormal information to a monitoring center. The device, the method, and the system are advantaged in that a wireless sensor network method is used to monitor oil depot fuel leakage online and give out alarm, power of the device is supplied by a cell charged by solar energy, the device is designed and managed in low power consumption and low operating voltage, and is designed to be sealed, so as to achieve operation requirement of safe, reliable, and energy-saving.
Owner:CENT SOUTH UNIV

Dsm enabling of electro mechanically controlled refrigeration systems

A system for reducing the peak power consumption in an electromechanically controlled refrigerator is provided. The system comprises a cold control device including a housing and a counter spring having at least one spring tension position corresponding to a temperature set point, a bourdon tube having a first end comprising an elastomeric diaphragm operatively associated with the counter spring, and a second end, opposite the first end, located in the compartment, wherein the counter spring is capable of providing a force against the diaphragm, and a DSM switching device operatively controlled by an associated DSM module. The DSM module is configured to receive a signal indicative of at least one of a peak or non-peak demand period of an associated utility.
Owner:HAIER US APPLIANCE SOLUTIONS INC

Cutting cam peak power by clock regioning

A CAM device architecture where CAM cells are divided into at least two arrays and each array is operated in a different clock domain so that at no time are the arrays simultaneously drawing maximum power. By dividing the CAM array into a plurality of arrays and staggering the search operation so that every array does not simultaneously draw maximum power, the peak power consumption of the CAM device is reduced.
Owner:MICRON TECH INC

Permanent-fault-tolerant routing control method facing networks on chip

The invention provides a permanent-fault-tolerant routing control method facing networks on chip (NoC). The permanent-fault-tolerant routing control method comprises the steps as follows: 1) the data sending volume of once communication is determined, and then first flood-overflowing routing selection is conducted by utilizing a neighbor substitution element priority level rule; 2) during the routing selection conducted after the first flood-overflowing routing selection, a deterministic routing is selected by utilizing a (n, k)-start graph node arrangement ring external element priority level rule. The invention provides the permanent-fault-tolerant routing control method facing the network-on-chip, which effectively reduces average transmission delay and peak power consumption and improves the NoC performance.
Owner:ZHEJIANG GONGSHANG UNIVERSITY +1

Power consumption stabilization system and method

InactiveUS6933862B2Maximum power consumption can be reducedWithout limiting design and layoutReliability increasing modificationsCode conversionNumber generatorComputer science
A source signal is provided. The source signal is XORed with a scrambling random signal to generate a scrambled signal. The scrambled signal is transmitted through the digital logic circuit. The scrambled signal is XORed with the descrambling random signal logically identical to the scrambling random signal to produce a descrambled signal identical to the source signal. In one embodiment, the scrambling random signal is transmitted through the digital logic circuit and used as the descrambling random signal. In another embodiment, the scrambling random signal and descrambling random signal are generated independently using pseudo-random number generators. In yet another embodiment, the scrambling random signal is self-synchronizing and is contained within the pattern of the scrambled signal.
Owner:AGILENT TECH INC

Low-power wireless device for asset-integrity monitoring

A sensor for ultrasonically measuring a portion of a structure, the sensor comprising: a transducer for converting an analog transmit signal to an ultrasonic transmit signal, and for converting an ultrasonic reflected signal to an analog reflected signal; a housing integrated with the transducer and containing at least: a processor; a wireless data transmitter for transmitting wirelessly a data signal from the processor; a transmit and receive circuit for transmitting an analog transmit signal to the transducer in response to a transmit trigger from the processor, and for receiving an analog reflected signal from the transducer; an A / D converter for digitizing only a portion of the analog reflected signal in response to a sample trigger from the processor; a battery to supply power to the processor, the wireless data transmitter, the transmit and receive circuit, and the A / D converter; memory operatively connected to the processor and configured to instruct the processor to execute the following steps: repeatedly triggering the transmit and receive circuit and the A / D converter to obtain a digitized composite signal through time-equivalent sampling; processing the digitized composite reflected signal to generate an A-scan signal; and wirelessly transmitting the data signal based on the A-scan signal for transmission to a discrete collection device.
Owner:SENSOR NETWORKS

Intruder deterrent system

A system and a method for operating an intruder deterrent system by which a smoke screen is generated in response to an intruder being detected, a smoke screen generator operatively linked to the intruder detecting. To achieve an intruder deterrent system that can operate for a longer period after interruption in the power supply, latent heat is stored in a heat storage, and smoke can be generated by transferring the latent heat from the heat storage to a liquid, which liquid is evaporated. The use of the heat storage has led to the unexpected result that the smoke generator can operate independently of power to the heating elements for a very long period.
Owner:MARTIN PROFESSIONAL

Home energy management system incorporating a pool pump

An energy management system for a home network is provided. The energy management system includes one or more power consuming devices, including at least a pool pump system having a motor and a filter with a filtration cycle, a central controller operatively connected to the power consuming devices and configured to receive and process a signal indicative of the current state of an associated utility, including at least a peak demand state and an off-peak demand state, and a display. The central controller is configured to operate the pool pump system in one of a plurality of operating modes, including at least a normal operating mode and an energy savings mode, and to provide pool pump usage information to a user via a user interface on the display.
Owner:HAIER US APPLIANCE SOLUTIONS INC

Non-volatile memory and method with peak current control

A non-volatile memory with multiple memory dice manages simultaneous operations so as to not exceed a system power capacity. A load signal bus is pulled up with a strength proportional to the system power capacity. Each die has a driver to pull down the bus by an amount corresponding to its degree of power need as estimated by a state machine of the die. The bus therefore provides a load signal that serves as arbitration between the system power capacity and the cumulative loads of the individual dice. The load signal is therefore at a high state when the system power capacity is not exceeded; otherwise it is at a low state. When a die wishes to perform an operation and requests a certain amount of power, it drives the bus accordingly and its state machine either proceeds with the operation or not, depending on the load signal.
Owner:SANDISK TECH LLC

Multi-bank random access memory structure with global and local signal buffering for improved performance

Disclosed are embodiments of a multi-bank random access memory (RAM) structure that provides signal buffering at both the global and local connector level for improved performance. Specifically, inverters are incorporated into the global connector(s), which traverse groups of memory banks and which transmit signals (e.g., address signals, control signals, and / or data signals) from a memory controller, and also into alternating groups of local connectors, which connect nodes on the global connector(s) to corresponding groups of memory banks, such that any of the signals that are received by the memory banks from the memory controller via the global and local connectors are buffered by an even number of inverters and are thereby true signals. Signal buffering at both the global and local connector level results in relatively fast slews, short propagation delays, and low peak power consumption with minimal, if any, increase in area consumption.
Owner:GLOBALFOUNDRIES US INC

Asynchronous wireless sensing

Low-complexity asynchronous wireless sensing and communication architecture is disclosed for low power wireless sensors. Schemes are based on asynchronous digital communications and Ultra-Wideband impulse radios. In asynchronous radio, combination of frequency-shift-keying (FSK) and on-off-keying (OOK) to remove clock synchronization is applied. Improved asynchronous non-coherent transmitters and receivers achieve both low power and low complexity while seamlessly combined with asynchronous level-crossing modulation. Both uncoded and coded asynchronous communication may be utilized. Coded asynchronous communication may use error correction. Forward error correction schemes for asynchronous sensor communication are utilized where dominant errors consist of pulse deletions and insertions, and where instantaneous encoding takes place. Forward error correction is also accomplished where a continuous-time sparse waveform signal is asynchronously sampled and communicated over a noisy channel via Q-ary frequency-shift keying. Concatenated code employs outer systematic convolutional codes and inner embedded marker codes that preserve timing information and protect against symbol insertions and deletions.
Owner:ARROWHEAD CENT NEW MEXICO STATE UNIV +1

RFID tag digital baseband system

The invention provides an RFID tag digital baseband system. The system comprises: a clock frequency division module used for carrying out clock frequency division on a clock of the system according tothe time sequence requirement of each module and carrying out seamless switching on the clock of the module needing to be seamlessly switched; a power consumption management module used for controlling the on and off of the clock of each module according to the enable signal of each module; a decoding module used for carrying out TPP decoding on the input data from an analog front end; an encoding module used for performing dual-phase empty signal encoding or delay modulation encoding on the data provided by a data sending module; a data caching module used for caching data obtained by decoding and data read by a memory; an instruction analysis module used for cooperating with the decoding module to realize instruction analysis so as to decode the instruction; and the data sending moduleused for splicing response data packets and sending the spliced response data packets to the encoding module in series. The power consumption management module is introduced to control the clock of each module, so that the peak power consumption can be greatly reduced.
Owner:HUAZHONG UNIV OF SCI & TECH +1

Image forming apparatus

Image forming apparatus communicates with a server computer and obtains information related to state of power supply from the server computer. Based on the obtained information, the image forming apparatus determines whether or not it is in a time zone of peak power consumption. If it is determined to be the time zone of peak power consumption, a method of counting the number of outputs is switched to a weighted counting method, for counting with weight added to the normal counting method.
Owner:SHARP KK
Who we serve
  • R&D Engineer
  • R&D Manager
  • IP Professional
Why Patsnap Eureka
  • Industry Leading Data Capabilities
  • Powerful AI technology
  • Patent DNA Extraction
Social media
Patsnap Eureka Blog
Learn More
PatSnap group products