JP2002081724A - Remote control device of air conditioner - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform operation according to a setting by retransmitting setting data when an air conditioner cannot be operated according to data that are set by a remote control device. SOLUTION: The operation details of the air conditioner are set by a setting section 1 of the remote control device, the setting data are stored at a memory section 2, and an infrared signal is transmitted from a transmission section 3 to the air conditioner. The air conditioner receives the signal for operation, and at the same time transmits the received data toward the remote control device by the infrared signal. A reception section 4 receives the signal, and inputs it to a discrimination section 7 for comparing with operation data that are read from the memory section. When the signal differs from the operation data, the operation data are read from the memory section and is retransmitted from the transmission section 3. The operation data set by the setting section are displayed at a display section 6 (first display section) via a display control section 5, and data received by the reception section are displayed at a display section (second display section) via the display control section.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a remote controller for a two-way communication type air conditioner, which retransmits the settings when the content set by the remote controller is not correctly transmitted to the air conditioner. About.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a remote controller of a two-way communication type air conditioner, for example, buttons 31 to 31 of the remote controller shown in FIG.
Set the operation mode such as cooling / heating, temperature and air volume while watching the display on the display unit 34 by operating 33, and operate the run / stop button 35. The code of the set operation content is transmitted by infrared. This is received by the air conditioner, and the air conditioner operates with the set contents. By the way, in the remote control device, if the temperature is reset during operation, etc., it will be transmitted according to the setting, so it may be unclear what setting the operation is being performed. The code is transmitted after a predetermined time (for example, 1 second) has passed since the button was pressed, so that if the button is pressed again immediately when the button is pressed again, the code is transmitted. is there. For this reason, for example, although the setting is performed using the button, the direction of the remote control device changes for some reason before the code is transmitted, so that the code may not be accurately received by the air conditioner, that is, a so-called “idling” may occur. . From the air conditioner, a code of operation information such as operation mode, room temperature and air volume is transmitted as an infrared signal,
Since this is received by the remote control device, it can be displayed on the display unit 35 by performing a predetermined operation. However, it is not used because it is troublesome, and there is a case where the operation is performed under the condition different from the condition desired by the user.

[0003]

As described above, the transmission is performed during the setting operation, or the code of the operation content which should have been set depending on the timing of pressing the operation button is not transmitted, and the air conditioning is not performed. Even if the air conditioner is operating in a different way than desired, if you check the operation information from the air conditioner on the display of the remote control device, you will notice the necessity of re-operation, but you did not check the display In this case, the operation will be continued in a different manner than desired. The present invention automatically retransmits the settings to the air conditioner when the settings of the user on the remote control device and the received information of the operation information from the air conditioner are different, and the air conditioner sets the user settings. It is intended that the vehicle be operated with the specified contents.

[0004]

In order to achieve the above object, a remote controller for an air conditioner according to the present invention sets the operation contents of the air conditioner for each item and transmits the set operation contents by an infrared signal. A remote control device for remotely controlling the air conditioner and operating based on a signal received from the remote control device, and an air conditioner for transmitting the received content to the remote control device as an infrared signal. In the remote control device, a memory unit for storing the operation content of each item of the set air conditioner, a receiving unit for receiving an infrared signal from the air conditioner, and a memory for storing the content received by the receiving unit. A determination unit for comparing the operation content of each item read from the unit with each other to determine whether there is a difference, and when the determination unit determines that there is a difference, the operation content of the determined item is stored in the memory unit. Reading, composing the infrared signal operation content that is the read to retransmit toward the air conditioner.

[0005] The remote controller is provided with a first display unit for displaying the operation contents set by the remote controller for each item, and the display of the first display unit in which the discrimination is discriminated by the discrimination unit blinks. To

[0006] The remote controller is provided with a first display for displaying the set operation content and a second display for displaying the content received from the air conditioner, wherein the content of the reception from the air conditioner is provided. May be easily compared with the operation content set by the remote control device. In this case, the operation content is displayed on the first display unit by item, the reception content is displayed on the second display unit by item, and the same items on both display units are arranged, and the reception content is set by the setting. You may make it easy to compare with the performed driving | operation content.

Further, the second display section is formed of a dot matrix liquid crystal, so that a plurality of types of reception contents from the air conditioner can be displayed on one screen, and the remote control device is formed by downsizing the second display section. The size may be reduced. In this case, among the item names displayed on the first display unit, the item names corresponding to the contents displayed on the second display unit are blinked, and the display on the second display unit is any item. So that you can understand.

[0008]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments of the present invention will be described based on embodiments with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a main part block diagram of one embodiment of a remote controller of an air conditioner according to the present invention. The remote control device performs two-way communication with the air conditioner. FIG. 1 shows a setting unit for setting the operation mode of the air conditioner such as cooling / heating and the like, temperature, air volume, etc. for each item. A memory unit for storing each operation content set by the setting unit 1, a transmitting unit 3 for transmitting a code of the operation content of the air conditioner set by the setting unit 1 as an infrared signal, and a transmission unit 4 from the transmission unit 3. A receiving unit for receiving a signal (code) transmitted as an infrared signal from the air conditioner in response to receiving the signal;
Displays the operation contents set by the setting unit 1 and the contents received from the air conditioner received by the receiving unit 4 from the display unit 6 (first and second units).
A display control unit 7 for displaying on the display unit), a determination unit 8 for comparing the content received from the air conditioner received by the reception unit 4 with the operation content set by the setting unit 1 to determine whether there is a difference, 8 Is a clock unit for counting time, and 9 is a control unit for controlling each of the above units.

Next, the operation of the remote controller of the air conditioner according to the present invention will be described. By operating a button on the setting unit 1 of the remote controller, for example, the operation mode is set to cooling, the temperature is set to 28 degrees, and the air volume is set to strong wind. The set operation contents are input to the display unit 6 (first display unit) via the display control unit 5, and the operation mode column is "cooling", the temperature display column is "28 ° C", and the air volume display column is "strong wind". Is displayed and stored in the memory unit 2 via the control unit 9 at the same time. Then, when the run / stop button is operated, the “driving” and the code of the set operation content are transmitted by the infrared signal from the transmitting unit 3 via the control unit 9. These signals are received by the air conditioner and the operation is started, and at the same time, the contents received from the remote control device are transmitted to the remote control device as infrared signals. When the temperature is corrected during the operation, the correction data is stored in the memory unit 2, and the code of the correction data is transmitted from the transmission unit 3 by an infrared signal, whereby the operation content of the air conditioner is corrected. Then, the received content is transmitted to the remote control device as an infrared signal. These infrared signals from the air conditioner are received by the receiving unit 4 and input to the discriminating unit 7 via the control unit 9,
The operation contents read from the memory unit 2 via the control unit 9 are compared with each other, and if the received contents are different from the operation contents, the display field of the display unit 6 is displayed via the display control unit 5 based on the signal from the determination unit 7. It blinks, and at the same time, reads out the data of the operation content from the memory unit 2 and retransmits it by the infrared signal from the transmitting unit 3 via the control unit 9. Thereby, the air conditioner operates with the set contents.

FIG. 2 shows an example of the display unit 6 (first display unit) of the remote controller. In the "clock" column, the current time is displayed based on the data read from the clock unit 8. In this example, the operation mode (cooling) and air volume (strong wind) of the reception signal from the air conditioner are as set by the setting unit 1, but the set temperature is
Although the received signal from the air conditioner is 28 ° C., the determining unit 7 determines that the temperature is not 28 ° C. Based on this determination, the display control unit 5 causes the item name and temperature display in the temperature display column of the display unit 6 to be displayed. Flashes. Then, based on the signal from the discriminating unit 7, the data of the set temperature of 28 ° C. is read from the memory unit 2 via the control unit 9, and the code of the set temperature of 28 ° C. is retransmitted by the transmitting unit 3. Received, room temperature 28
The operation is performed so that the temperature becomes 0 ° C., and at the same time, the code of the set temperature of 28 ° C. is transmitted. This is received by the receiving unit 4 and the blinking of the item name and the temperature display in the temperature display column of the display unit 6 is released.

FIG. 3 shows another example of the display unit 6 of the remote control device, which is a first example for displaying the operation contents set by the setting unit 1.
A display unit 11 and a second display unit 12 for displaying the content received from the air conditioner are arranged side by side for each item such as operation mode, temperature, air volume, etc., and the content received from the air conditioner is set as the operation content. It is easy to check in comparison. In the example of the figure, while the set temperature in the setting unit 1 is 28 ° C., the reception signal from the air conditioner is 25 ° C., and therefore, the transmission unit 3 Preset temperature
Since the 28 ° C code is retransmitted, the air conditioner receives this signal and operates so that the room temperature becomes 28 ° C, and at the same time, the code with the set temperature of 28 ° C is transmitted to the remote control device, As a result, the temperature display on the second display unit 12 is corrected to 28 ° C.

FIG. 4 shows another example of the display unit 6 of the remote control device, which is a first example for displaying the operation contents set by the setting unit 1.
The display unit 21 is composed of a pattern liquid crystal. For example, numerals such as temperature are 7 segments, characters other than numerals, such as operation and cooling, are displayed as printed characters, and contents received from the air conditioner are displayed. The second display unit 22 is composed of a dot matrix liquid crystal so that characters such as an operation mode, temperature, and air volume can be displayed on one screen, and the second display unit 22 is downsized.
The size of the remote control device can be reduced. And the second
The item name of the first display unit 21 corresponding to the content displayed on the display unit 22 flashes so that the user can know what is displayed on the second display unit 22. In the example of the figure, the first display unit 22 indicates that “28 ° C.” displayed on the second display unit 22 is a temperature.
21 item name “Temperature” is flashing.

[0013]

As described above, according to the remote controller for an air conditioner according to the present invention, the code of the operation content which should have been set depending on the timing of pressing the operation button of the remote controller is not transmitted, There are cases where the air conditioner is operated with different contents than desired, but which of the operation contents is different is displayed on the remote control device,
At the same time, the operation content stored in the memory of the remote control device is read out and automatically retransmitted, so that the air conditioner always operates with the content set by the user.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a main part block diagram of one embodiment of a remote controller of an air conditioner according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a main part of an example of a display unit of the remote controller of the air conditioner according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a main part of another example of the display unit of the remote controller of the air conditioner according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a main part of another example of the display unit of the remote controller of the air conditioner according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a main part of an example of a remote controller of a conventional air conditioner.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 setting section 2 memory section 3 transmitting section 4 receiving section 5 display control section 6, 34 display section 7 discriminating section 8 clock section 9 control section 11, 21 first display section 12, 22 second display section 31-33 button 35 operation / Stop button

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A remote control device for remotely controlling an air conditioner by setting the operation content of an air conditioner for each item, transmitting the set operation content by an infrared signal, and receiving a signal from the remote control device. And an air conditioner that transmits the received content to the remote control device as an infrared signal, wherein the remote control device stores in the remote control device the operation content of each item of the set air conditioner. A receiving unit that receives an infrared signal from the air conditioner, and a determining unit that determines whether there is a difference by comparing the content received by the receiving unit with the operation content of each item read from the memory unit. Is provided, and when the determination unit determines that there is a difference,
The remote control device for an air conditioner, wherein the operation content of the determined item is read from the memory unit, and the infrared signal of the read operation content is retransmitted to the air conditioner. 2. The remote control device according to claim 1, further comprising: a first display unit for displaying an operation content set by the remote control device for each item, wherein the display of the first display unit for which the difference is determined by the determination unit blinks. The remote controller for an air conditioner according to claim 1, wherein 3. The remote control device according to claim 1, further comprising: a first display unit for displaying the set operation content; and a second display unit for displaying content received from the air conditioner. 2. The remote control device for an air conditioner according to claim 1, wherein the received content is easily compared with the operation content set by the remote control device. 4. The operation content is displayed on the first display unit by item, the reception content is displayed on the second display unit by item, and the same items on both display units are arranged. The remote control device for an air conditioner according to claim 3, wherein the operation content is easily compared with the set operation content. 5. The remote controller according to claim 5, wherein the second display section is formed of a dot matrix liquid crystal so that a plurality of types of reception contents from the air conditioner can be displayed on one screen. The remote control device for an air conditioner according to claim 3, wherein the remote control device can be miniaturized. 6. An item name corresponding to the content displayed on the second display portion, among the item names displayed on the first display portion, is blinked, and the display on the second display portion is any item. 6. The remote control device for an air conditioner according to claim 5, wherein the remote controller is configured to determine whether or not the remote controller is a remote controller.