Control Device and Method for Controlling a Device Connected to an Energy Supply

• US 20110160874A1
• Filed: 05/26/2009
• Published: 06/30/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/09/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Schulze, Christian, Herzog, Martin
• Application Number:
  US12/737,385
• Publication Number:
  US 20110160874A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/12
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00004 characterised by the power network being locally controlled
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00006 characterised by information or instructions transport means between the monitoring, controlling or managing units and monitored, controlled or operated power network element or electrical equipment
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00007 using the power network as support for the transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00034 the elements or equipment being or involving an electric power substation
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/14 The load or loads being home appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/64 The condition being economic, e.g. tariff based load management
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/14 by switching loads on to, or off from, network, e.g. progressively balanced loading
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 70/30 Systems integrating technologies related to power network operation and communication or information technologies for improving the carbon footprint of the management of residential or tertiary loads, i.e. smart grids as climate change mitigation technology in the buildings sector, including also the last stages of power distribution and the control, monitoring or operating management systems at local level
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 70/3225 Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 90/20 Smart grids as enabling technology in buildings sector smart grids supporting the management or operation of end-user stationary applications in general, or like technologies with no associated climate change mitigation effect Y04S20/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/222 Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/242 Home appliances
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 40/12 characterised by data transport means between the monitoring, controlling or managing units and monitored, controlled or operated electrical equipment
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 40/121 using the power network as support for the transmission
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 50/10 Energy trading, including energy flowing from end-user application to grid

Abstract

A control device for an electric device has an interface to an administrative unit and an interface to a switch for the activation and deactivation of the electric device, the control device activating or deactivating the electric device via the switch as a function of information about an energy supply transmitted by the administrative unit.

Claims

1-10. -10. (canceled)

11. A control device for an electric device, comprising:

an interface to an administrative unit; and

an interface to a switch for activating and deactivating the electric device, the control device activating or deactivating the electric device via the switch as a function of information about an energy supply transmitted by the administrative unit.

12. The control device as recited in claim 11, wherein the control device is connected to the administrative unit for the transmission of information regarding an instantaneous energy requirement of the electric device to the administrative unit.

13. The control device as recited in claim 12, wherein a data protocol for the transmission of information regarding at least one of (i) a temporal start, (ii) a duration of an energy supply, and (iii) an energy requirement is provided between the control device and the administrative unit.

14. The control device as recited in claim 13, wherein the control device has a connection to an energy supply system, and wherein a transmission of information regarding one of an energy supply or an energy requirement takes place via the connection to the energy supply system.

15. The control device as recited in claim 14, further comprising:

an interface to an operating unit for one of (i) selecting a provided energy or (ii) notifying the administrative unit of an energy requirement.

16. The control device as recited in claim 14, further comprising:

a memory for storing an identification code of the electric device, wherein the identification code is transmitted to the administrative unit.

17. A method for controlling an electric device connected to an energy supply system, comprising:

transmitting information regarding at least one of an energy requirement and an energy supply between an administrative unit of the energy supply system and the electric device connected to the energy supply system; and

one of activating or deactivating the electric device by the administrative unit as a function of at least one of the energy available via the energy supply system and the energy requirement of the electric device.

18. The method as recited in claim 17, wherein at least one of a start and a duration of at least one of an energy supply and an energy requirement is transmitted between the administrative unit and the electric device.

19. The method as recited in claim 18, wherein information about at least one of a desired type of energy and a supplied type of energy is transmitted between the administrative unit and the electric device.

20. The method as recited in claim 18, wherein a data transmission takes place between the administrative unit and the electric device via the energy supply system.