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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2015

Filed:

Jan. 27, 2010
Applicants:

John P. Stachler, Plano, TX (US);

Stephen A. Walter, Flower Mound, TX (US);

Alan E. Bennett, Denton, TX (US);

Richard A. Mauk, Lewisville, TX (US);

Inventors:

John P. Stachler, Plano, TX (US);

Stephen A. Walter, Flower Mound, TX (US);

Alan E. Bennett, Denton, TX (US);

Richard A. Mauk, Lewisville, TX (US);

Assignee:

Lennox Industries Inc., Richardson, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 19/00 (2011.01); G01M 1/38 (2006.01); G05B 13/00 (2006.01); G05B 15/00 (2006.01); G05D 23/00 (2006.01); F28F 27/00 (2006.01); F24F 11/04 (2006.01); F24F 11/06 (2006.01); F24F 11/00 (2006.01); H01R 13/645 (2006.01); H01R 12/50 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R 13/6456 (2013.01); H01R 23/7073 (2013.01);
Abstract

An HVAC controller, a method of starting a HVAC unit and a HVAC system are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the HVAC controller includes: (1) an interface configured to receive a delay originating signal and (2) a processor configured to automatically generate an offset delay value for the HVAC unit upon receipt of the delay originating signal and delay starting identified components of the HVAC unit based on the offset delay value.


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