ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,929, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC. (Davidson, N.C.).
"Rapid restart chiller system" was invented by Raphael Gury (Thaon les Vosges, France), Lee L. Sibik (Onalaska, Wis.) and Philippe Del Marcel Tisserand (Eloyes, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Chiller systems can include a controller that is configured to determine whether to restart the chiller in a rapid restart mode or a soft loading restart mode, and methods can include determining the mode for restarting the chiller. The soft loading restart mode controls the chiller to provide a comparatively gradual loading, to avoid overshooting a target...