Fuzzy logic liquid level control
CA 2251052 C · Owner: Shores, Craig N. · Inventors: Wueschinski, Russel P.; Shores, Craig N.; Beaverson, Gregory K.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
Chiller operating efficiency is optimized by controlling the system to maintain the condenser liquid refrigerant level at a value which will minimize or prevent gas bypass to the evaporator (110). This is accomplished by sensing the level of liquid refrigerant (170) in the condenser (100) and incorporating fuzzy logic to properly position a multi-position valve (140) which can variably restrict the flow of this liquid into the evaporator (110) according , to this sensed parameter (170). The fuzzy logic utilizes as inputs both the level error from a set point level (501) and the rate of change of the sensed level (504). Each of these inputs is combined by fuzzy logic techniques to …
Read the whole patent
Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed April 11, 1997 and granted June 17, 2003. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 11, 2017.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by April 11, 2019.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
Timeline
Timeline From CIPO dates
Sources & verification
Official CIPO records
Everything on this page comes from the CIPO record linked above. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.