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US 12,504,192 B2Granted
Predictive building air flow management for indoor comfort thermal energy storage with grid enabled buildings
OwnerJack Lakunishokinventor
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Abstract
A thermal energy exchange and ventilated hollow core slab system and method within a building where the slab has an air passage with an inlet and outlet, an air handler unit having adjustable heating/cooling structure and, and ventilation structure connected to the hollow core concrete slab, and a building control connected to the hollow core concrete slab and air handler system for relative thermal exchange between the air and hollow core concrete slab to control user comfort; where the building is grid enabled.
Claims18
A thermal energy exchange and ventilated hollow core medium system comprising:
- (a) said hollow core medium having an air passage therethrough with an inlet and outlet communicating with said air passage;
- (b) an air handler unit comprising:
- (i) adjustable heating/cooling means;
- and
- (ii) ventilation means;
- connected to said hollow core medium to deliver air from said outlet of said hollow core medium to a space exterior to said hollow core medium;
- and
- (c) an air duct having a T junction disposed between said inlet and said air handling unit, and said T junction having a clean out port;
- (d) sensors for measuring sources of thermal energy from overhead lighting, movement of people in a space, humidity, and thermal energy exchange between airflow and said hollow core medium;
- (e) a control for setting comfort settings and for receiving signals from said sensors to control said air handler unit to activate said thermal energy exchange between said airflow and said hollow core medium and achieve said comfort settings.
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A grid enabled building comprising:
- (a) hollow core concrete slab disposed in a ceiling and floor of the building to define a space therebetween;
- said hollow core concrete slab extending longitudinally from one end of said hollow core concrete slab to another end and presenting a plurality of substantially parallel hollow cores extending inside said hollow core concrete section from said one end to said other end;
- wherein some of the said substantially hollow cores are plugged at said ends and bridged to present a labyrinth passage having an inlet and outlet;
- (b) an air handler unit comprising:
- (i) adjustable heating/cooling means;
- and
- (ii) ventilation means;
- connected to said hollow core concrete slab to deliver air from said outlet to said space;
- (c) indoor sensors for measuring sources of thermal energy available from overhead lighting, movement of people in the space, indoor humidity, and said thermal energy exchange between said air flow and said hollow core concrete slab;
- (d) outdoor sensors for measuring sources of thermal energy available outdoors during unoccupied and occupied periods;
- (e) a building control for comfort setting for receiving signals from said indoor and outdoor sensors to control said air handler unit to activate said thermal energy exchange between said airflow and said hollow core medium and achieve said comfort setting;
- and active said air handler unit to meet set comfort setting.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.