View, Inc.

View Operating Corporation

Soladigm, Inc.

Novellus Systems Incorporated

Dhairya Shrivastava

Stephen Clark Brown

Robert T Rozbicki

Anshu A Pradhan

Rao P Mulpuri

Robin Friedman

Erich R Klawuhn

Sridhar Karthik Kailasam

David Walter Groechel

Trevor Frank

Kevin Kazuo Kaneshiro

Ronald F Cadet

Nitesh Trikha

Jose Vigano

Ronald M Parker

Douglas S Silkwood

Jason David Zedlitz

Vinod Khosla

Alexander Rumer

Gordon E Jack

Brandon Dillan Tinianov

Vijay Mani

Todd William Martin

Mark A Collins

Jue Wang

Dane Thomas Gillaspie

Disha Mehtani

Ronald Allan Powell

Dennis Mullins

Harold Hughes

Zhiwei Cai

Deepika Khowal

Namrata Vora

Ron Powell

Yuyang Ying

Bo Garrett Neilan

Michael A Potter

Todd Marques

Fabian Wilbur Strong

Nitin Khanna

Robert Martinson

Mark D Mendenhall

Martin John Neumann

Oner Bicakci

Scott Michael Schmidt

Illayathambi Kunadian

Joseph Lunardi

Sonny Jurgen Ducote

Que Anh Song Nguyen

Thomas Lee Harrell

Jacob Voth

Thomas Alan Patterson

John R Sanford

Karl B Levy

Todd Daniel Antes

Mukul Khosla

Jack Kendrick Rasmus-Vorrath

Jason Satern

Erich Robert Klawuhn

Daniel Loy Purdy

Ranojoy Dutta

Thomas Anthony Gubiotti

Charudatta Joshi

Michael Meyers

Todd Gray

Edward Joseph Parvizian

Mark David Mendenhall

David Ammerlaan

Rob Puth

Horop Puth

Matthew Weis

Kenneth K Barber

Mark Fissel

Soo Yun Joh

Douglas Silkwood

This disclosure relates generally to optically-switchable devices, and more particularly, to systems, apparatus, and methods for controlling optically-switchable devices. In some implementations, an apparatus for controlling one or more optically-switchable devices includes a processing unit, a voltage regulator and a polarity switch. The processing unit can generate: a command voltage signal based on a target optical state of an optically-switchable device, and a polarity control signal. The voltage regulator can receive power at a first voltage and increase or decrease a magnitude of the first voltage based on the command voltage signal to provide a DC voltage signal at a regulated voltage. A polarity switch can receive the DC voltage signal at the regulated voltage to maintain or reverse a polarity of the DC voltage signal based on the polarity control signal. The polarity switch can output the DC voltage signal at the regulated voltage and at the polarity based on the polarity control signal to power the optically-switchable device. In some other implementations, the apparatus includes a processing unit, an energy storage device, and first and second voltage regulators.

Controllers for optically-switchable devices

Window controllers and methods for controlling tinting and other functions of tinting zones of multi-zone tintable windows and multiple tinting zones of a group of tintable windows.

Methods of controlling multi-zone tintable windows

An apparatus for transmitting power and data in a building, the apparatus including at least one controller configured to operatively couple to a building network, and use, or direct usage of, the building network, and at least one display communicatively coupled to the building network and disposed on and/or registered with an insulated glass unit (IGU). The building network includes (i) a communication network comprising a cable, and (ii) a power distribution system comprising a plurality of power transmission paths connecting one or more power sources, the cable configured to transmit electrical power and communication. The communication network includes one or more communications interfaces to one or more processors and/or one or more other communications network.

Building network

This disclosure relates generally to optically switchable devices, and more particularly, to methods for controlling optically switchable devices. In various embodiments, one or more optically switchable devices may be controlled via voice control and/or gesture control.

Controlling optically-switchable devices

Thin-film devices, for example, multi-zone electrochromic windows, and methods of manufacturing are described. In certain cases, a multi-zone electrochromic window comprises a monolithic EC device on a transparent substrate and two or more tinting zones, wherein the tinting zones are configured for independent operation.

Multi-zone EC windows

A tintable window is described having a tintable coating, e.g., an electrochromic device coating, for regulating light transmitted through the window. In some embodiments, the window has a transparent display in the window's viewable region. Transparent displays may be substantially transparent when not in use, or when the window is viewed in a direction facing away from the transparent display. Windows may have sensors for receiving user commands and/or for monitoring environmental conditions. Transparent displays can display graphical user interfaces to, e.g., control window functions. Windows, as described herein, offer an alternative display to conventional projectors, TVs, and monitors. Windows may also be configured to receive, transmit, or block wireless communications from passing through the window. A window control system may share computational resources between controllers (e.g., at different windows). In some cases, the computational resources of the window control system are utilized by other building systems and devices.

Displays for tintable windows

A trunk line for providing a communication path to a network of optically switchable windows is described.

Trunk line window controllers

A method, system, and/or computer program product are described for generating a graphical user interface for providing information and controlling optically switchable windows connected by a network. Windows are graphically represented using interactive smart objects placed within views of the graphical user interface in a manner corresponding to their physical location. A method, system, and/or computer program product are described for associating network IDs of optically switchable windows with the locations at which the windows are installed. Window locations are determined by analyzing received wireless transmissions that are sent from transmitters associated with each of the optically switchable windows. The determined locations are then compared with a representation of the building that provides the window locations. Upon comparison, the network ID of each window, which is communicated through the window transmissions, is associated with the appropriate window location on the representation of the building.

Automated commissioning of controllers in a window network

In one aspect, an apparatus is described that includes a transparent pane having a first surface and a second surface. An electrochromic device (ECD) is arranged over the second surface that includes a first conductive layer adjacent the second surface, a second conductive layer, and an electrochromic layer between the first and the second conductive layers. The apparatus further includes at least one conductive antenna structure arranged over the second surface.

Window antennas

Disclosed are platforms for communicating among one or more otherwise independent systems involved in controlling functions of buildings or other sites having switchable optical devices deployed therein. Such independent systems include a window control system and one or more other independent systems such as systems that control residential home products (e.g., thermostats, smoke alarms, etc.), HVAC systems, security systems, lighting control systems, and the like. Together the systems control and/or monitor multiple features and/or products, including switchable windows and other infrastructure of a site, which may be a commercial, residential, or public site.

Multiple interacting systems at a site

Various embodiments herein relate to systems for powering electrochromic windows in a building. Systems may include photovoltaic panels configured to generate electrical power, energy storage device(s) configured for storing generated power, and one or more controllers on a network of electrochromic windows that are configured to receive power from the energy storage device(s) and power tint transitions in one or more electrochromic windows. Systems may include various additional circuit components described herein for regulating and/or controlling the generation, storage, and application of electric power. The systems and techniques described herein can be used to design networks of electrochromic windows that are hybrid-solar or off-the-grid ('OTG').

Solar power dynamic glass for heating and cooling buildings

Networks of electrochromic windows and methods of commissioning the windows on such networks are described. The commissioning may involve determining where each electrochromic window is installed and/or which controller is associated with which electrochromic window. In various cases, a number of windows may be simultaneously commissioned.

Method of commissioning electrochromic windows

Methods of manufacturing electrochromic windows are described. An electrochromic device is fabricated to substantially cover a glass sheet, for example float glass, and a cutting pattern is defined based on one or more low-defectivity areas in the device from which one or more electrochromic panes are cut. Laser scribes and/or bus bars may be added prior to cutting the panes or after. Edge deletion can also be performed prior to or after cutting the electrochromic panes from the glass sheet. Insulated glass units (IGUs) are fabricated from the electrochromic panes and optionally one or more of the panes of the IGU are strengthened.

Electrochromic window fabrication methods

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Los Altos, CA, United States of America

Dhairya Shrivastava