JP2008124681A - Remote control device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the missing of a remote control device. <P>SOLUTION: A SW1 turned off when extracting the remote control device from a remote-control device holder and turned on when returning the remote control device to the remote-control device holder and a timer counting means 2 counting a time when the SW is turned off are fitted to the remote control device. An information means 3 ringing an information sound when the timer counting means passes for a fixed time is further fitted to the remote control device. When the remote control device is left as it is extracted from the remote-control device holder, the information sound is rung and a user is urged to return the remote control device to the remote-control device holder, thus preventing the missing of the remote control device. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a remote controller for a device (for example, an air conditioner) operated by a remote controller.

  In recent years, home appliances such as air conditioners are mainly operated by a remote controller. However, remote controls are easy to carry and often go missing in the house. Therefore, in order to search for the remote control that was missing, a remote control search method was devised, such as sending a search signal from the device body and receiving a signal from the remote control to make the buzzer sound to notify the location of the remote control. (For example, see Patent Document 1).

  FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a process for sounding a notification sound when the remote controller disclosed in Patent Document 1 receives a search signal from the device body.

As shown in FIG. 3, in order to search for a remote control that has been lost, if the remote control receives a search signal from the device body (S11), an alarm is sounded (S12) to notify the user of the location of the remote control. To do.
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  However, the above-described conventional technique is a means for searching when the remote controller is missing, and it may take time to find it.

  The present invention solves the above-mentioned problem. When the remote control is left removed from the remote control holder, an alarm sounds and the user is prompted to return to the remote control holder. Can be prevented.

  In order to solve the above-described conventional problems, the remote controller of the present invention includes a detection unit that detects that the remote control has been removed from the remote control holder, and a timer count unit that counts the time since the remote control has been removed from the remote control holder. In addition, there is a notification means that sounds a notification sound when the timer count means has passed a certain time, informing the user that the remote control has been removed from the remote control holder and urging it to return to the remote control holder. is there.

  According to the present invention, the user is informed that the remote control has been removed from the remote control holder and prompted to return it to the remote control holder, so that the remote control can be prevented from being lost.

The first invention is a detection means for detecting that the remote control has been taken out from the remote control holder, a timer count means for counting the time since the remote control was taken out from the remote control holder, and the timer count means has passed a predetermined time There is a notification means to sound a notification sound at the time, and when a certain time has passed since the removal, it is recognized that the remote control has been removed from the remote control holder, and a notification is made to prompt the user to return to the remote control holder. Make a sound. It is assumed that the remote control holder is attached at a fixed position.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Note that the present invention is not limited to the embodiments.

(Embodiment 1)
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a remote controller according to the first embodiment of the present invention. A switch (hereinafter referred to as SW) 1 which is a detection means which is turned off when the remote control is taken out from the remote control holder and turned on when the remote control holder is returned to the remote control holder, a timer count means 2 which counts the time when the SW is turned off, and a timer An informing means 3 is provided for sounding an informing sound when the counting means has passed a certain time.

  FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a process when the remote control is left removed from the remote control holder in the first embodiment of the present invention. It is determined whether or not the remote control is removed from the remote control holder and turned off (S1). When the switch is turned off, the SWOFF time is counted (S2), and it is determined whether or not the SWOFF time has elapsed (S3). When the SWOFF time has elapsed for a predetermined time, a notification sound is generated by the notification means (S4).

  This notifies the user that the remote control has been removed from the remote control holder and prompts the user to return it to the remote control holder, thus preventing the remote control from being lost.

  Although SW1 has been described as an operation that turns off when the remote controller is taken out, SW1 may be turned on.

  In addition, although the notification means sounds the notification sound, it may be notified by words with synthesized voice, or various light emission signals may be used in combination so that it can be easily understood in a dark place.

  The remote controller of the present invention can be applied to a remote controller for an apparatus that is used by being housed in a holder in which a normal remote controller is mounted at a fixed position, such as an air conditioner or an inverter fluorescent lamp.

Block diagram of a remote control according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention The flowchart which shows a process when the remote control in Embodiment 1 of this invention has been taken out from the remote control holder. A flowchart showing a process for sounding a notification sound when a conventional remote control receives a search signal from a device body

Explanation of symbols

1 SW (detection means)
2 Timer count means 3 Notification means

Claims (1)

Detection means for detecting that the remote control has been removed from the remote control holder, timer count means for counting the time since the remote control has been removed from the remote control holder, and an alarm sound when the timer count means has passed a certain time A remote control characterized in that a notification means is provided.

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