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Method for configuring a refrigeration system

AssigneeDanfoss A/S

InventorsKenneth Bank Madsen, Leif Skovvang Nielsen, Flemming Morten Schmidt, Frede Schmidt

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Abstract

The invention relates to a method for configuring, on a control unit, operating parameters of a plurality of devices of a refrigeration system. A user selects on the control unit, among the plurality of devices of the refrigeration system, a first device to configure. Information of valid configurable operating parameters of the first device is provided on the control unit. The user selects at least one of the valid configurable operating parameters of the first device, thereby configuring the first device. Information stored about operating parameters of other devices of the refrigeration system, based on the configuration of the first device, is then provided on the control unit. Finally, the user confirms, on the control unit, one or more operating parameters of one or more of the other devices, thereby configuring the one or more other devices. The invention also relates to a control unit and a refrigeration system.

Claims20

Dependent claims

An information exchange interface on a control unit of at least part of a refrigeration system the configuring operating parameters of a plurality of devices of the refrigeration system, the information exchange interface, when executed on the control unit, configured to perform steps comprising:

selecting among the plurality of devices of the refrigeration system, on the control unit of the at least part of the refrigeration system, a first device to configure, wherein the selecting include operator input;
providing, on the control unit of the at least part of the refrigeration system, information of valid configurable operating parameters of the first device;
selecting at least one of the valid configurable operating parameters of the first device, thereby configuring the first device;
providing, on the control unit of the at least part of the refrigeration system, information of operating parameters of other devices of the refrigeration system, based on the configuration of the first device, wherein providing information of the parameters of the other devices is provided dynamically;
the information of the set of operating parameters of the other devices being based on stored data of the plurality of devices of the refrigeration system;
confirming, on the control unit of the at least part of the refrigeration system, one or more operating parameters of one or more of the other devices, thereby configuring the one or more other devices;
and
designating a condenser as the first device controlled by the control unit of the at least part of the refrigeration system.

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An information exchange interface on a control unit of at least part of a refrigeration system for configuring operating parameters of a plurality of devices of the refrigeration system, the information exchange interface, when executed on the control unit, configured to perform steps comprising:

selecting among the plurality of devices of the refrigeration system, on the control unit of the at least part of the refrigeration system, a first device to configure, wherein the selecting include operator input;
providing, on the control unit of the at least part of the refrigeration system, information of valid configurable operating parameters of the first device;
selecting at least one of the valid configurable operating parameters of the first device, thereby configuring the first device;
providing, on the control unit of the at least part of the refrigeration system, information of operating parameters of other devices of the refrigeration system, based on the configuration of the first device, wherein the information of the set of operating parameters of the other devices being based on stored data of the plurality of devices of the refrigeration system and wherein providing information of the parameters of the other devices is provided dynamically;
confirming, on the control unit of the at least part of the refrigeration system, one or more operating parameters of one or more of the other devices, thereby configuring the one or more other devices;
and
designating a receiver as the first device controlled by the control unit of the at least part of the refrigeration system.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/840,573Filed 13 Dec 2017 · continuation
Priority: DK 20120013321 Feb 2012
Published: US 2018/0100679 A112 Apr 2018
Granted: 19 Feb 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

F25B 49/02
Arrangement or mounting of control or safety devices: for compression type machines, plants or systems
G05B 19/0426
Using digital processors: programming the control sequence
G05B 15/02
Systems controlled by a computer: electric
G05B 19/056
Programmable logic controllers, e.g. simulating logic interconnections of signals according to ladder diagrams or function charts: programming the PLC

Family

PCT/DK2013/000016Parent of this continuation · filed 16 Feb 2013
US 2018/0100679 A1Pre-grant publication · published 12 Apr 2018
Application14/379,966Parent of this continuation
US 9,879,892 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2015/0300712 A1Published application
US 10,208,994 B2This patent

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