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US008918219B2 (12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: Sloo et al. (54) US 8,918,219 B2 (45) Date of Patent: USER FRIENDLY INTERFACE FOR (56) *Dec. 23, 2014 References Cited CONTROL UNIT U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS (75) Inventors: David Sloo, Menlo Park, CA (US); Anthony Michael Fadell, Portola Valley, 2,558,648 A 6/1951 Gausmann CA (US); Matthew Lee Rogers, Los 4,316,577 A 2/1982 Adams et a1. Gatos, CA (US); Michael Plitkins, Berkeley, CA (US); Michael James (Continued) Matas, San Francisco, CA (US); Fred FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS Bould, Menlo Park, CA (US) (73) Assignee: Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US) ( * ) Notice: DE EP Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this patent is extended or adjusted under 35 ROHWiIlkel, Mal 6, 2002, “System for Image RePTOductiOIl”, Claimer_ Machine Translation of EP 1184804 B1.* (Commued) 0d“ 71 2011 Primary Examiner * Charles Kasenge Prior Publication Data US 2012/0203379 A1 Agent, or Fzrm * Kllpatrlck Townsend & Aug. 9, 2012 Related US. Application Data (57) (63) cominuatiOll'in'PaI‘t Of application NO- 13/033,573, ?led on Feb- 23, 201 1- - - e ec' ’ pp ’ simple and elegant fashion. The current temperature and set ’ point are graphically displayed as prominent tick marks. Dif ' ferent colors and intensities can be displayed to indicate cur rently active HVAC functions and an amount of heating or 2006 01 ( (58) ' ' I t Cl ( ) GnogD 3/19 (52) A user-friendly programmable thermostat is described that can be rotated and pressed inwardly to provide user input in a D’ p 31 2010 on ABSTRACT includes a central electronic display surrounded by a ring that - (60) $502501?ng 23137111521012?21053222371313 {11333140215 51 1/1987 This patent is subject to a terminal dis- (65) ?l ’ d 9/1997 OTHER PUBLICATIONS (21) Appl. No.: 13/269,501 Filed: 207295 (continued) U.S.C. 154(b) by 340 days. (22) 19609390 F24F 1 1/00 U-s- Cl- ' cooling required to reach a target temperature. The setpoint ) can be altered by user rotation of the ring. The schedule can be (200601) displayed and altered by virtue of rotations and inward press ings of the ring. Initial device set up and installation, the CPC ------- -- G05D 23/19 (2013-01); F24F 2011/0091 (2013-01); G05D 23/1902 (2013-01); F24F viewing of device operation, the editing of various settings, and the viewing of historical energy usage information are 2221/32 (2013.01); F24F 11/0086 (2013.01) made simple and elegant by virtue of the described form USPC ........................ .. 700/276; 236/1 C; 236/91 D Field of Classi?cation Search factor, display modalities, and user input modalities of the deVICe USPC ................ .. 700/276; 236/1 C, 91 D, 91 R, 94 See application ?le for complete search history. 29 Claims, 45 Drawing Sheets US 8,918,219 B2 Page 2 (56) References Cited US. PATENT DOCUMENTS 4,460,125 4,613,139 4 621 336 436693654 4,741,476 4,751,961 4,768,706 A A A A A A A 7/1984 9/1986 11/1986 6/1987 5/1988 6/1988 9/1988 Barker et a1. 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International Patent Application No. PCT/US2012/030084, Interna tional Search Report & Written Opinion, issued Jul. 6, 2012, 7 pages. * Cited by examiner US. Patent Dec. 23, 2014 . .]. Sheet 1 0145 l 120 230 FIG. 2 US 8,918,219 B2 US. Patent 300w4 Dec. 23, 2014 Sheet 2 0145 309 308 PRESS IN WARD A d2 US 8,918,219 B2 US. Patent Dec. 23, 2014 Sheet 4 0145 US 8,918,219 B2 512 513 It takes a few minutes to set up Nest. 516 Press to: Setup steps: Internet connection 518 Heating and cooling Your location Your home Press to continue click Connect for remote ?. ,, COHtFOL automath 'P updates, and local weathe information. Select Press to: CONNECT Select “C ONNE C T” t (90 0 screen 520 You can connect 522 at any time from your Nest thermostat’s Setup steps: settings CliCk ,, . Your heatlng and cooling Press to: 09'? Your location CONTINUE fle Your home CONTINUE FIG. 5A US. Patent Dec. 23, 2014 Sheet 5 0145 US 8,918,219 B2 528 524 530 i'e‘NetworkZ 3 Network3 526 click \—-V TYPE NAME DO NOT CONNECT SCAN AGAIN Network, internet 534 Enter password and server Active connection successful ‘5 Network2 532 account7 GO to “1'! Connecting screen 552 Seat"er ctonneCted o nes .com to Wi-Fi network N etworkz Could not “coin 536 flip ” connect to } network \ / Network connected, 537 Setup steps: 538 0 Internet connection Heating and cooling Your |ocation Your home but no Could not connect to Network2 Do you want to run Network tests? connection to server (screen 544) Select “SKIP” goto screen 542 If update is required then goto/ screen 548 Network error: N7 Visit nest.com for details on resolving network problems CONTINUE Select\ “TES T” 540 Testing network. 522 US. Patent Dec. 23, 2014 Sheet 6 0145 US 8,918,219 B2 Select “NETWORK” - re-scan for 546 networks and 544 0 o to screen Could not reach nest.com Do you want to try C/iCk Connected locally to a different network? \V The Wi-Fi network Network2 NETWORK CONTINUE SKIP \ Select “SKIP” go to screen [update required] 522 [during reboot] 548 Updating Nest. 550 This will take up to 10 minutes. 549 Restarting Nest 6 Back in a bit 7a. 0.. 554 Adding to tomsmith3@ [only if connected and the service says there is an account here:] mailhOSt-Com More than 1 -: 552 thermostat on this account? Go to screen /Svelect 558 / Do you want to Add Nest to Added this Nest to tomsmith3@ Only 1 mailhost.com DO N’T ADD on account? Go to screen 568 CONTINUE mailhost.com? thermostat FIG. 5C tomsmith3@ US. Patent Dec. 23, 2014 Sheet 7 0f 45 US 8,918,219 B2 560 558 Living Room is Select “COPY” also connected towant nest.com Do you to copy its 561 / . settings? {1- Copying settings from your existing 562 COPY SETTINGS DO NOT COPY Nest thermostat Name this Thermostat: [business] mm 564 Hallway _ Living room Bedroom 563 Name ""8 Thermostat: Upstairs .IED Downstairs Select Of?ce “TYPE M ain NAM ” TYPE NAME [paired] 570 Choose to continue or to review: J lntemet and nest.com Heating and cooling [not paired] 568 [learning is on] Choose to continue or to review: 566 Do you want to Copy the schedule from The other thermostat? COPY SCHEDULE DO NOT COPY 4 Internet connection Heating and cooling ,_ \f‘Q as. \> [not connected] . Choose to cont'nue . or to reVIew: - Internet connection Heating and cooling US. Patent Dec. 23, 2014 Sheet 8 0145 [Good wiring] [w US 8,918,219 B2 irin Warnin 9 g] 578 ® Y1 cooling wire 579 [Wiring Error] detected No cooling system 580 Equipment present detected CONTI N UE Click 582 No power wires detected 584 An Rh or Rc wire is required. Con?rm that your heating or cooling system is connected properly. {Ii-shutting down FIG. 5E 585 US. Patent Dec. 23, 2014 Sheet 9 0145 US 8,918,219 B2 588 586 Choose to continue Select or to review: “Your \llnternet and nest.com locatlon a few simple questions 4 Heatin o andcooling \ so Nest can create a . W ,, Please answer atlon starting schedule CONTINUE Click 590 What is your location? 592 What is your ZIP code? CANADA \. e - - - - Rotate ring and click 594 What is your ZIP code? 96475 596 CONTINUE CHANGE Set the current time and date 21,2011 10:17AM Paci?c Daylight Time FIG. 5F US. Patent Dec. 23, 2014 Sheet 10 0145 600 602 Choose to continue or to review: Is this a home or a business? Select “YOUR Jlntemet and nest.com 4 Heating and cooling 4 Your location Your home US 8,918,219 B2 HOM ” \J BUSINESS Select “HOME” ls someone usuaIIy 60 4 Select “BUSINESS” / IS bUSineSS open home at noon? eveni"9$? |s eve W bod Y usua"y Is this business open in bed by 11 PM? Is there more than one Saturdays? 606 < _ _ thermostat in the Is thls buslness open home? Sundays? [Only ask this last question if didn’t discover another Nest Is there more than on thermostat previously, thermostat in this see \ 608 [Only ask this last question if didn’t N am 6 this discover another Nest _ thermostat previously, Thermostat. see FIG. 5D] “- Select Hallway “TYPE Living room Bedroom 607 business? Upstairs Downstairs TYPE NAME US. Patent Dec. 23, 2014 Sheet 11 0145 US 8,918,219 B2 [These questions appear if Wis connected] 610 Do you have electric heat? NO — GAS or OIL YES — ELECTRIC IDON’TKNOW 620 Setup steps: 4 lntemet and nest.com 612 4 Heating and cooling Do you have ~lYour location forced-air heating? JYour home FORCED AIR NOT FORCED AIR I DON’T KNOW Click L 614 Nest needs to test your heat pump. This might take 15 min. / 622 Installed: heat pump heating auxiliary heating heat pump cooling CONTINUE fan CONTINUE Testing heat pump 616 5min FIG. 65 US. Patent Dec. 23, 2014 Sheet 12 0145 US 8,918,219 B2 632 630 _ ngli'::ll:sstt?:::$ preferred temperature Click Should Nest A start lheating or coo In our hongé and schedule. CONTINUE HEATING COOLING Select “HEA TING/ What’s the 644 energy-saving low temperature Select “COOLING 646 you would like — wh|le you are away? @ N What,s the energy-saving low temperature What’s the energysaving you would llke — 9 whlle you are away . high temperature 636 63 you would like — while you are away? m CHANGE 648 What’s the \ 638 energy-saving low temperature you would like — What’s the while you are away? energy-saving you would like — gez IE1]; while you are away? CHANGE high temperature 640 What’s the energy-saving high temperature you would like — while you are away? so IE1]; 584 IEEIJI CHANGE Creating your comfort schedule US. Patent Dec. 23, 2014 Sheet 13 of 45 US 8,918,219 B2 650 Choose to continue or to review: Jlntemet and nest.com 4 Heating and cooling 4 Your location Select “TEMPERA TURE” 652 Should Nest start heating or cooling your home? Select COOLING or “HEA TING ” 654 What are the lowest and highest temperatures you’d like when you are away? HEAT TO COOL TO FIG. 6D US. Patent Dec. 23, 2014 Sheet 14 0145 US 8,918,219 B2 US. Patent Dec. 23, 2014 Sheet 15 0145 FIG. 7K 74" US 8,918,219 B2