HVAC ACTUATOR
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1. A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system comprising:
- an actuator including a stator magnet and a rotor magnet that turns an axle connected to an airflow door by way of a gear train such that rotation of the axle moves the door and generates current pulse waveforms, the number of current pulse waveforms generated corresponds to how much the axle rotates, the stator magnet is magnetized to a saturated state thereby providing the current pulse waveforms with a consistent shape that is consistently detectable by a climate control pulse count module.
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Abstract
A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system actuator including a stator magnet and a rotor magnet. The rotor magnet turns an axle connected to an airflow door such that rotation of the axle moves the door and generates waveforms. The number of waveforms generated corresponds to how much the axle has rotated. The stator magnet is magnetized to a saturated state, thereby providing the waveforms with a consistent shape that is consistently detectable by a climate control pulse count module.
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1. A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system comprising:
an actuator including a stator magnet and a rotor magnet that turns an axle connected to an airflow door by way of a gear train such that rotation of the axle moves the door and generates current pulse waveforms, the number of current pulse waveforms generated corresponds to how much the axle rotates, the stator magnet is magnetized to a saturated state thereby providing the current pulse waveforms with a consistent shape that is consistently detectable by a climate control pulse count module. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system comprising:
an actuator including a magnet magnetized to saturation, an axle of the actuator is connected to an airflow door such that rotation of the axle moves the airflow door and generates current pulse waveforms with a consistent shape that is consistently detectable by a climate control pulse count module, the number of current pulse waveforms generated corresponds to how much the axle rotates. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12)
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13. An actuator for a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system, the actuator comprising:
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a magnet magnetized to saturation; and an axle, rotation of the axle moves airflow control doors connected to the axle; wherein in response to rotation of the axle the actuator generates current pulse waveforms, the number of current pulse waveforms generated corresponds to how much the axle has rotated, the current pulse waveforms have a consistent shape that is regularly detectable by a climate control pulse count module. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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