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US 10,584,875 B2Granted
Remote flame-producing appliance control
AssigneeChannel Products, Inc.
InventorsJames S. Becker, Daniel J. Szubra, Russell K. Myers
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Abstract
One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for controlling and managing one or more flame-producing devices, such as fire features, heating devices and/or cooking devices. Control of respective devices may be provided by a first communication component and a first controller component disposed locally on respective devices, in combination with one or more wireless remote control devices. Respective flame-producing devices may be communicatively coupled with a remote control device, allowing for commands to be sent wirelessly to the flame-producing device, and status information to be sent to the remote control device.
Claims17
A system for managing one or more flame-producing
- devices, comprising:
- a first communication component engaged with a first flame-producing device to wirelessly receive data indicative of instructions for managing the first flame-producing device, and wirelessly transmit data indicative of status information for the first flame-producing device, the communication component comprising a first short-range, wireless networking component to exchange data wirelessly with a wirelessly coupled remote control device, the remote control device used to wirelessly couple with the first short-range, wireless networking component to wirelessly communicate with the first communication component to transmit the data indicative of instructions for managing the first flame-producing device;
- a first controller component operably engaged with the first flame-producing device and operably coupled with the first communication component to control one or more operations of the first flame-producing device, and provide the data indicative of status information for the first flame-producing device, the first controller component comprising one or more of:
- a first relay to control operation of one or more connected components of the flame-producing device;
- and
- a microcontroller to control operation of the first relay.
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A system for controlling one or more flame-producing devices, comprising:
- a wireless remote control device that wirelessly couples with one or more short-range, wireless networking components and transmits data indicative of instructions for managing a flame-producing device, where respective one or more short-range, wireless networking components are disposed in a communication component operatively engaged with their respective flame-producing devices;
- and
- non-transient computer readable media disposed on the wireless remote control device, which, when executed by a processor disposed on the wireless remote control device, performs one or more of the following:
- wirelessly coupling the remote control device with one of the one or more short- range, wireless networking components in a networking configuration;
- and
- transmit, to the one of the one or more short-range, wireless networking components, data indicative of instructions to activate or deactivate the flame-producing device comprising the associated communications component;
- the non-transient computer readable media disposed on the wireless remote control device, when executed resulting in the wireless remote control device performing one or more of the following:
- transmit, to the one of the one or more short-range, wireless networking components, data indicative of instructions to open and/or close a low flame valve in the flame-producing device comprising the associated communications component;
- transmit, to the one of the one or more short-range, wireless networking components, data indicative of instructions to open and/or close a high flame valve in the flame-producing device comprising the associated communications component;
- transmit, to the one of the one or more short-range, wireless networking components, data indicative of instructions to initiate an igniter disposed in the flame-producing device comprising the associated communications component;
- wirelessly decouple the wireless remote control device with the one of the one or more short-range, wireless networking components;
- and
- wirelessly couple the remote control device with another of the one or more short-range, wireless networking components in a networking configuration.
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A method for controlling one or more flame-producing devices using a wireless remote control device:
- wirelessly coupling a remote control device with a communications component operably disposed on a first flame-producing device, the communication component comprising a first short-range, wireless networking component to exchange data wirelessly with the remote control device;
- wirelessly transmitting data indicative of component control instructions from the remote control device to the communications component of the first flame-producing device, resulting in a first controller component engaged with a first flame-producing device controlling one or more operations of the first flame-producing device;
- and
- wirelessly receiving data indicative of status information for the first flame-producing device, from the first short-range, wireless networking component, resulting in an indication of the status of the first flame-producing device being provided to a user of the wireless remote control device;
- and
- comprising using a controller area network (CAN) communication bus, to operably, communicatively couple the communication component with the controller component.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.