Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Predictive valve control system
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Application No.: US15659558Application Date: 2017-07-25
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Publication No.: US10852754B2Publication Date: 2020-12-01
- Inventor: Alexander Piraner , Son T. Vo , Wayne Pauley
- Applicant: The Boeing Company
- Applicant Address: US IL Chicago
- Assignee: The Boeing Company
- Current Assignee: The Boeing Company
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Chicago
- Agency: Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.
- Main IPC: G05D16/20
- IPC: G05D16/20 ; H03K19/177 ; F16K37/00 ; F16K31/06 ; B64G1/62

Abstract:
A pressure control system may include a plurality of inflatable objects, each of the inflatable objects having a respective pressure sensor and a respective inflation valve, wherein each of the inflation valves has a behavior profile predictive of an amount of current used by the valve when operated. A valve controller of the system may have a pressure management circuit that receives information from the pressure sensors and is configured to automatically maintain a respective selected pressure in each of the inflatable objects by issuing commands to operate the inflation valves. An electrical current management circuit of the valve controller may be configured to predict, based on the valve behavior profiles, what effect the command would have on a total current usage, when executed, and automatically prevent any command that would cause the total current usage to exceed a maximum allowable current.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190033900A1 PREDICTIVE VALVE CONTROL SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2019-01-31
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