US 11,967,821 B2
Load control system having independently-controlled units responsive to a broadcast controller
Walter S. Zaharchuk, Macungie, PA (US); Timothy S. Majewski, New Tripoli, PA (US); Christopher Buck, Stow, MA (US); Daniel Vander Valk, Nazareth, PA (US); John H. Bull, Slatington, PA (US); and Joel S. Spira, Coopersburg, PA (US)
Assigned to Lutron Technology Company LLC, Coopersburg, PA (US)
Filed by Lutron Technology Company LLC, Coopersburg, PA (US)
Filed on Apr. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/232,933.
Application 17/232,933 is a continuation of application No. 16/564,093, filed on Sep. 9, 2019, granted, now 11,005,264.
Application 16/564,093 is a continuation of application No. 15/394,128, filed on Dec. 29, 2016, granted, now 10,447,036, issued on Oct. 15, 2019.
Application 15/394,128 is a continuation of application No. 13/725,105, filed on Dec. 21, 2012, granted, now 9,553,451, issued on Jan. 24, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/654,562, filed on Jun. 1, 2012.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/640,241, filed on Apr. 30, 2012.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/580,898, filed on Dec. 28, 2011.
Prior Publication US 2021/0242715 A1, Aug. 5, 2021
Int. Cl. H02J 13/00 (2006.01); H02J 3/00 (2006.01); H02J 3/14 (2006.01); H02J 4/00 (2006.01); H02J 50/80 (2016.01); H04B 7/04 (2017.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04H 20/00 (2009.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H05B 47/10 (2020.01); H05B 47/19 (2020.01); G08C 17/02 (2006.01); H05B 47/165 (2020.01); H05B 47/17 (2020.01)
CPC H02J 13/00024 (2020.01) [H02J 3/00 (2013.01); H02J 3/14 (2013.01); H02J 4/00 (2013.01); H02J 13/00004 (2020.01); H02J 13/00022 (2020.01); H02J 13/00026 (2020.01); H02J 50/80 (2016.02); H04B 7/04 (2013.01); H04B 7/0608 (2013.01); H04H 20/00 (2013.01); H04L 12/2816 (2013.01); H05B 47/10 (2020.01); H05B 47/19 (2020.01); G08C 17/02 (2013.01); H02J 2310/14 (2020.01); H05B 47/165 (2020.01); H05B 47/17 (2020.01); Y02B 70/30 (2013.01); Y02B 70/3225 (2013.01); Y02B 90/20 (2013.01); Y02D 30/70 (2020.08); Y04S 20/20 (2013.01); Y04S 20/222 (2013.01); Y04S 20/244 (2013.01); Y04S 20/246 (2013.01); Y04S 40/00 (2013.01); Y04S 40/126 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A load control system, comprising:
a broadcast controller including:
broadcast control circuitry to generate a plurality of signal types, including a first signal type and a second signal type;
broadcast transmitter circuitry to broadcast the first signal type and the second signal type;
a plurality of independent units, each of the plurality independent units communicatively couplable to the broadcast circuitry, each of the plurality of independent units including:
at least one energy controller, each of the least one energy controllers including:
receiver circuitry; and
energy controller circuitry having a unique address associated therewith, the energy controller circuitry to adjust one or more electrical parameters of a load device operably coupled to the respective energy controller circuitry;
wherein:
the energy controller circuitry to adjust at least one of the one or more electrical parameters of the operably coupled load device responsive to receipt, by the receiver circuitry, of the first signal type that includes information representative of the unique address associated with the respective energy controller;
the energy controller circuitry to maintain at least one of the one or more electrical parameters of the operably coupled load device responsive to receipt, by the receiver circuitry, of the first signal type that includes information representative of a unique address associated with a different energy controller; and
the energy controller circuitry to adjust at least one of the one or more electrical parameters of the operably coupled load device responsive to receipt, by the receiver circuitry, of the second signal type.