Automatic temperature and humidity regulation – Hot-air furnace – Air and fire control
Patent
1982-09-02
1983-10-18
Wayner, William E.
Automatic temperature and humidity regulation
Hot-air furnace
Air and fire control
236 46R, 364148, F24D 510, F23N 520
Patent
active
044101325
ABSTRACT:
An electric thermostat operative to be connected to a furnace or other temperature modifying apparatus to control its state of operation includes means for generating a desired temperature set-point signal and means for measuring ambient temperature at the thermostat. When the ambient temperature falls sufficiently below this set-point, the furnace is energized until the ambient temperature rises to a stored temperature level, also below the set-point. The system then monitors the peak ambient temperature reached during the following temperature overshoot resulting from the inertia of the furnace. The temperature differential between this limiting temperature obtained and the set-point is then added to the stored temperature value if the system did not obtain the set point temperature or substracted from the stored temperature value if the system exceeded the set-point value. The system also stores a second predetermined temperature value below the set point to establish a "dead zone" and similar control is exercised over the temperature at which the energizing signal for the furnace is initiated so that the system adaptively maintains a temperature range exactly limited by the dead zone independent of environmental temperature changes.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4199690 (1980-04-01), Meyer
patent: 4265298 (1981-05-01), Sumner, Jr. et al.
patent: 4344565 (1982-08-01), Kojima et al.
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