CN100516683C - Central control system of air conditioner and its renewing method - Google Patents

Central control system of air conditioner and its renewing method Download PDF

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CN100516683C
CN100516683C CNB2004100199168A CN200410019916A CN100516683C CN 100516683 C CN100516683 C CN 100516683C CN B2004100199168 A CNB2004100199168 A CN B2004100199168A CN 200410019916 A CN200410019916 A CN 200410019916A CN 100516683 C CN100516683 C CN 100516683C
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尹相哲
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The present invention relates to a central control system of air conditioners and its refreshing method. Said system includes several air conditioners for regulating indoor air and central controller which is connected with several air conditioners by means of local area network, is used for controlling several air conditioners by using application program stored in its interior and is equipped with slot into which the external memory card can be inserted for easily refreshing application program. Besides, said invention also provides the concrete steps of its program-refreshing method.

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The central control system of air-conditioner and update method thereof
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of air-conditioner.The central control system and the update method thereof that particularly relate to a kind of air-conditioner.
Background technology
Fig. 1 is the formation block diagram of the central control system of general air-conditioner.Below, in conjunction with Fig. 1, the central control system of air-conditioner in the past is described in detail.
At first indoor set 10 is installed at institute's allocation of each interior space.Be connected with the indoor set 10 of each interior space in outdoor configuration then, and control the circulation of refrigerant, thereby make the adjusted off-premises station 20 of air of each interior space according to control command.The above-mentioned system that constitutes is called multi-split air conditioner.Therefore, multi-split air conditioner is the system that is connected with a minority off-premises station 20 by most indoor sets 10.Multi-split air conditioner has many advantages compared with the single formula air-conditioner that in the past indoor set is connected with 1 pair 1 of off-premises station.In the device that can in several interior spaces, install an air-conditioner simultaneously, can save mounting cost.Moreover, can the amount of saving energy in when operation, thus energy-conservation effect is also arranged.
Therefore, possess the building of several interior spaces, mostly be tending towards installing multi-split air conditioner at present.As off-premises station of installation on each layer, and be arranged on, realize the air conditioning operation of each layer by the circulation refrigerant with the shared off-premises station that is installed on this one deck of each indoor set in several interior spaces of one deck.And, configuration [off-premises station---several indoor sets] structure on each layer, thus constitute integrally cooling/heating.
In general, by the user of each interior space the indoor set in this space 10 is sent control command, its control command is sent to off-premises station 20.But when if off-premises station breaks down, the user of each interior space can't grasp the state of the off-premises station that is connected with indoor set, therefore brings out even more serious fault easily.And when breaking down, need the manager near off-premises station corresponding with it, and remove fault by manual working then, make the off-premises station that breaks down recover normal operation again.Generally speaking, when multi-split air conditioner is held many advantages, the loaded down with trivial details complexity of management is also arranged accordingly, shortcomings such as non-economy.
For this reason, developed with the off-premises station of each layer and be connected by LAN, and central controller (not shown) that can several off-premises stations of centralized Control.Therefore, the manager needn't approaching one by one off-premises station, also several off-premises stations of management that can be calm separately by central controller.And the manager utilizes the central controller can the outdoor machine of centralized Control and several coupled indoor sets.
The control program is installed in the central controller.For the performance that makes air-conditioner improves, variation, and the error correction of program, and need upgrade with program control accordingly.This relies on the operating personnel of producer with regard to the manager who needs each family, perhaps passes through manual operation, upgrades the control program.
But for the primary management person who does not have knowledge of computer hardware or computer software knowledge, it is complicated upgrading operation.And operating efficiency also is quite low.Therefore, because complexity and limitation, the control of installing in the central controller can't be updated to the application program of current highest version effectively and timely with program, thus the multiple function that also can't effectively use central controller to possess.
Summary of the invention
Technical problem to be solved by this invention is, manual operation step when providing the application program of using in a kind of central controller that can farthest omit several air-conditioners of centralized Control to upgrade operation needs any installation process just can allow the user carry out the program updates operation easily hardly.And in central controller, be provided with and connect the slot of storage update, and then can farthest reduce the central control system and the update method thereof of the ruined air-conditioner of more new data that the fault owing to system produces with the external memory card of data.
The technical solution adopted in the present invention is: a kind of central control system of air-conditioner, include: several air-conditioners that room air is regulated, be connected by LAN with several air-conditioners, by being stored in several air-conditioners of the whole control of its inner application program, and the central controller that is provided with the slot that can insert external memory card in order to be easy to realize the renewal of application program, also be provided with in the central controller make storage in the external memory card that is inserted in the slot more new data by disposable easy operation, be copied to as the renewing button among the RAM of internal storage.
A kind of update method of central control system of air-conditioner includes: for the application program to the central controller of several air-conditioners of centralized Control is upgraded, and the 1st stage of storage update data in the storage card externally; After external memory card being inserted in the slot of central controller, select the 2nd stage of the button that request upgrades; Along with the affirmation of renewing button, the more new data that is stored in the external memory card is copied among the internal storage RAM, thereby carry out the 3rd stage of upgrading operation automatically.
The central control system of air-conditioner of the present invention and update method thereof have following effect.
Be provided with can several indoor sets of centralized Control and the air handling system of the central controller of the action of off-premises station in, storing the more slot of the external memory card of new data because of possessing in the central controller to have to insert, so can prevent the more damage of new data to greatest extent, and because of being provided with the renewal executive button that can upgrade operation automatically in addition, and then make system's renewal of executive utility automatically, thereby brought very big convenience in software administration, for central management person, moreover also improved the flexible and changeable property of central controller function.
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Fig. 1 is the formation block diagram of the central control system of general air-conditioner;
Fig. 2 is the formation block diagram of the central control system of air-conditioner of the present invention;
Fig. 3 is the flow chart of update method of the central control system of air-conditioner of the present invention.
Wherein:
100: multi-split air conditioner 110: indoor set
120:: off-premises station 200: central controller
210: slot 220: renewing button
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Below, in conjunction with the accompanying drawings to embodiments of the invention, be described in detail.
Fig. 2 is the formation block diagram of the central control system of air-conditioner of the present invention.
At first, in building, install: the indoor set 110 that is provided with by institute allocation in each interior space with is connected with each several indoor indoor sets 110, and control distribute that the mobile off-premises station 120 of refrigerant that flows to several indoor sets that linked to each other constituted one drag many air-conditionings.One drag many air-conditioning quilts be arranged at each layer or the monolithic architecture thing is carried out air conditioning in the fixed space.The whole system that will have above-mentioned formation is called multi-split air conditioner 100.
Multi-split air conditioner 100 is to disperse to be arranged in the building, so several off-premises stations 120 are to be interconnected by LAN.Be provided with in the system: not only can monitor the state of off-premises station constantly, but also can send the central controller 200 of control command toward off-premises station 120.Therefore, can realize the centralized Control of system.
In addition, the user can be by being arranged at the indoor set 110 in each interior space, to the off-premises station 120 transmission control commands of correspondence.Moreover, the control command of the central management person by central controller 200 input can be sent to corresponding off-premises station, thereby can carry out the air conditioning operation.And central management person can confirm the status information of the status information of each off-premises station 120 and several indoor sets 110 that are connected with off-premises station 120 by central controller 200.
Central controller 200 is by comprising: input part (not shown) that can input of control commands; Can confirm the watch-dog of the status information of off-premises station or indoor set; Processing sends the data of each off-premises station 120 to and output state information by LAN, and according to the control command by central controller 200 inputs, the control part (not shown) that sends the control signal that makes corresponding off-premises station operation constitutes.
The startup of central controller 200 can be carried out mutual application program (control program) with central management person, thereby the input step of control command and the affirmation step of status information are carried out smoothly.
In order to be easy to realize the renewal of application program, central controller 200 also possesses the slot 210 that can insert external memory card is arranged.And central controller 200 externally also is provided with by disposable easy operation, and the more new data of storing in the external memory card that is inserted in slot 210 is copied to as the renewing button among the RAM of internal storage 220.
Its storage card (not shown) is the mobile memory that can all can use in possessing a cutting apparatus of storage card connecting interface.And storage card uses non-volatile storage media.And the kind of storage card has: flash card and intelligent multimedia card etc.The unit of the memory capacity of storage card is generally Mbytes.Therefore, storage card is as floppy disk or CD, can store the medium of software kits such as big capacity applications program.
Central management person will press renewing button 220, thereby just the more new data that is stored in the storage card is copied among the internal storage RAM of central controller 200 automatically after will being inserted into slot 210 to the renewal that producer provides with storage card.
Below, in conjunction with Fig. 3, the update method to the central control system that possesses aforesaid air-conditioner of the present invention is described in detail.
Fig. 3 is the flow chart of update method of the central control system of air-conditioner of the present invention.In order to upgrade to the application program of the central controller 200 of several air-conditioners of centralized Control, storage update data (S1) in the storage card at first externally.External memory card is the independent storage media separate with the system of central controller 200.Therefore, when the system of central controller 200 breaks down, externally in the storage card the more new data of storage lose or ruined probability very little.
External memory card is inserted in the slot 210 of central controller 200 renewing button 220 (S2, S3) of selecting requestor to upgrade then.
Along with the selection of renewing button 220, system will confirm the update request instruction (S4) of application program.In a single day the update request instruction is identified reception, system will begin to detect the outside and whether connect new hardware, thus search external memory card (S5).
Behind the system validation external memory card, be stored in more new data in the storage card and will copy to automatically among the RAM as internal storage, thereby upgrade operation (S6) automatically.In this process, the refresh routine bag that was stored in originally in the external memory card will continue intact being kept in the external memory card.Therefore, when owing to the fault of system internal storage being gone wrong afterwards, also can duplicate again and be stored in the more new data in the external memory card and cover original data, thereby make system recover normal.
Automatically after upgrading operation, the system of central controller will auto-initiation, and will automatically perform the application program (S7) after the renewal.
In sum, accompanying drawing provided herein, central control system and update method thereof to air-conditioner of the present invention have been described in detail.But, in the category of basic fundamental thought of the present invention, possess the intellectual of relevant knowledge of the present invention, can carry out various changes to the present invention.The present invention is to serve as according to making an explanation with the patent claim that provides.

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1. the central control system of an air-conditioner, include: several air-conditioners that room air is regulated, also be provided with several air-conditioners and be connected by LAN, and by being stored in several air-conditioners of the whole control of its inner application program, and the renewal of realization application program for convenience and be provided with the central controller (200) of the slot (210) that can insert external memory card, it is characterized in that, also be provided with in the described central controller (200) make storage in the external memory card that is inserted in the slot (210) more new data by disposable easy operation, be copied to as the renewing button among the RAM of internal storage (220).
2. the update method of the central control system of an air-conditioner is characterized in that, includes: for the application program to the central controller (200) of several air-conditioners of centralized Control is upgraded, and the 1st stage of storage update data in the storage card externally; After being inserted into external memory card in the slot (210) of central controller (200), select the 2nd stage of the renewing button (220) that request upgrades; Along with the affirmation of renewing button, copy among the RAM as internal storage being stored in more new data in the external memory card, thereby carry out the 3rd stage of upgrading operation automatically.
3. the update method of the central control system of air-conditioner according to claim 2 is characterized in that, described the 2nd stage includes: along with the selection of renewing button (220), confirm the 1st process of the update request of application program; Along with the affirmation of update request, search external memory card and the 2nd cognitive process.
4. the update method of the central control system of air-conditioner according to claim 2, the 3rd stage included: after upgrading operation automatically and carrying out, carry out the initialization of system, and the process that the application program that obtains upgrading is carried out again.
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