JP2012041777A - Control device for electric blind - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for an electric blind for which users or administrators can set or easily grasp its operation schedule.SOLUTION: The control device for an electric blind includes an operation mode registration table where operation mode numbers for operation mode identification, operation mode names and operation details are associated and registered, and an operation schedule registration table where time and operation modes corresponding to the operation of an electric blind scheduled for that time are associated. Registering an operation schedule and selecting an image button for the operation schedule displays the operation modes corresponding to time, in arrangement in time series.

Description

  The present invention relates to an electric blind control device that automatically controls an electric blind based on a preset operation schedule.

  Conventionally, as a control device for this type of electric blind, one disclosed in Patent Document 1 is known. According to this, the control device includes a calendar table storage unit that stores a perpetual calendar as a calendar table, an operation content storage unit for each day of the week that allows operation content for each day of the week to be set as a day of week mode, and the calendar table storage. And a control unit that automatically controls the operation of the electric blind in the day mode corresponding to the current date on the calendar table based on the stored contents of the operation content storage unit for each part and day mode.

  As a result, the day mode is set for each day of the week, such as weekdays, Sundays, and Saturdays, and the blind control is arbitrarily changed for each day of the week. Running.

JP 2000-136682 A

  However, in the control device described in Patent Document 1, the operation content for each day of the week, which is the operation content for each day of the week, is set from the input unit of the personal computer. So that there is no need to do. That is, it is considered that the operation content is set in advance by the manufacturer, and thereafter, the user or administrator of the electric blind cannot arbitrarily determine it. Therefore, there is a problem that it is difficult for a user or an administrator to understand what kind of operation the electric blind is controlled.

  The present invention is for solving such problems, and the operation schedule can be arbitrarily and easily set on the user or administrator side, or the operation schedule can be easily set on the user or administrator side. It is an object of the present invention to provide an electric blind control device that is easy to grasp.

In order to achieve the above-described object, the invention according to claim 1 is an electric blind control device for controlling an electric blind based on a preset operation schedule.
An operation mode storage means in which an operation mode identifier for identifying the operation mode, the name of the operation mode, and the operation content are associated and registered;
An operation schedule storage means in which an operation schedule in which a time and an operation mode corresponding to an operation to be performed by the electric blind at that time is associated is registered;
An operation mode registration means for accepting an input of an open / closed state of the electric blind corresponding to an arbitrary name and operation content of the operation mode, and registering the name and operation content of the accepted operation mode in the operation mode storage means;
An operation schedule registration means for accepting an input of an operation mode corresponding to a time and registering the accepted operation mode in the operation schedule storage means;
It is characterized by comprising.

The invention according to claim 2 is the control device for the electric blind according to claim 1,
Furthermore, an operation schedule display means for displaying operation modes corresponding to the time in time series is provided.

The invention according to claim 3 is the control device for the electric blind according to claim 2,
The operation schedule display means can display the name of the operation mode when one of the displayed operation modes is designated.

The invention according to claim 4 is the control device for the electric blind according to claim 2 or 3,
In the operation mode storage means, color information of the operation mode is registered in association with the operation mode identifier, and the operation schedule display means color-codes the operation mode in time series according to the color information of the operation mode. It is characterized by being displayed.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the control device for the electric blind according to the fourth aspect,
The operation mode registration unit receives input of arbitrary color information of the operation mode, and registers the received color information in the operation mode storage unit.

The invention according to claim 6 is the control device for an electric blind according to any one of claims 1 to 5,
The system further comprises automatic control means for controlling the open / close state of the electric blind based on the operation mode corresponding to the time registered in the operation schedule storage means.

The invention according to claim 7 is the control device for the electric blind according to any one of claims 1 to 6,
Corresponding storage means for storing correspondence between each electric blind and an operation schedule is provided for a plurality of electric blinds.

The invention according to claim 8 is the control device for the electric blind according to claim 7,
Monitoring display means for displaying a plurality of electric blinds schematically or in a list;
When any one of the displayed electric blinds is selected, the operation storage corresponding to the electric blind is extracted with reference to the association storage means, and the operation schedule storage means is referred to. Second operation schedule display means for displaying the operation modes corresponding to the time in a time-series manner;
It is characterized by providing.

  According to the present invention, since an operation schedule can be determined in units of operation modes, it is easy to understand, and it is possible to perform an operation schedule setting operation efficiently and easily without the need for input.

  In addition, since the name of the operation mode can be arbitrarily input, the operation content can be easily understood by the user or administrator, and the operation schedule can be easily set.

  By displaying the operation modes arranged in time series, the operation schedule can be visually grasped, and whether or not the operation schedule is correctly set can be determined instantaneously or easily. It becomes like this. By allowing the names of the operation modes to be displayed together, the operation content can be more easily understood by the user or the administrator. By displaying the operation modes in different colors, the operation modes can be made easier to understand.

  Even during automatic control processing, an arbitrary electric blind is selected from the electric blinds displayed by the monitoring display means, and the operation modes are arranged and displayed in time series. It is possible to easily grasp visually what kind of operation the blind is performing.

It is a block diagram showing the example of whole structure of the control system which can apply the control apparatus of the electric blind concerning this invention. It is a block diagram of the control apparatus 1 of FIG. It is a functional block diagram of the control apparatus 1 of FIG. It is an example of a structure of a blind structure table. It is a structural example of a calendar table. It is an example of a structure of an operation mode registration table. It is a structural example of an operation schedule registration table. It is a display example showing an example of registration of the operation mode by the operation mode registration means. It is an example of a display showing an example of the procedure for registering an operation schedule. It is an example of a display of an operation schedule. It is another example of a display of an operation schedule. It is a flowchart showing the process by an automatic control means. It is a display example by the monitoring display means.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is an overall configuration example of a control system to which an electric blind control device 1 according to the present invention can be applied.

  The control device 1 is connected to a plurality of floor control devices 2 via a main bus 5, and the floor control device 2 is further connected to a plurality of blind control devices 3 via a floor bus 6.

  Basically, one floor control device 2 is installed on each floor of the building.

  The blind control device 3 corresponds to each electric blind 4, sends a drive signal of a driving device such as a motor for operating each electric blind 4, and controls the electric blind from an encoder provided in the electric blind 4. An open / close command signal indicating an open / close state (for example, elevation height, rotation angle) is received.

  The electric blind 4 can be any electric opening / closing device such as a horizontal blind, a roll screen, a curtain, and a shutter. Each electric blind 4 can also be controlled individually by the hand controller 7, and in that case, an open / close command signal is transmitted and received between the hand controller 7 and the blind control device 3 through a wireless or wired communication line. It is possible.

  FIG. 2A is a block diagram of the control device 1 of FIG. The control device 1 can be configured by a personal computer, and performs various displays, such as a CPU 101, a storage unit 102, an I / O 103 that inputs and outputs signals to and from the floor control device 2 via the main bus 5. A display device 104 and an input device 105 such as a mouse and a keyboard are provided.

  As shown in FIG. 2B, the storage unit 102 of the control device 1 stores a blind configuration table 200, a calendar table 204, an operation mode registration table 208, an operation schedule registration table 210, and a calendar-schedule correspondence table 212.

  The blind configuration table 200 is for registering the configuration of each electric blind. Specifically, as shown in FIG. , Unit No. , Group No. , Model, dimension (width dimension, height dimension), group name, direction, etc. are stored. Here, floor No. Indicates the floor where the electric blinds are installed. Is an identifier for identifying the electric blind on the floor. Group No. Is an identifier representing a unit operating with the same command signal. The model represents the type of electric blind. Floor No. And unit no. Or floor no. And Group No. The combination of these functions as an identifier for identifying the electric blind. Note that the identifier for identifying the electric blind is not limited to this and may be assigned according to an arbitrary rule.

  As shown in FIG. 3B, the calendar table 204 is for registering operation classification modes in association with calendar data consisting of dates and days of the week for several years. As the operation classification mode, types such as holiday mode, weekday mode, singular day mode 1, singular day mode 2,... Can be prepared. The holiday mode represents the operation of the electric blind suitable for holidays. The weekday mode represents the operation of the electric blind suitable for weekdays. In addition, the peculiar day mode represents, for example, that an electric blind such as Saturday is operated appropriately on days other than holidays and weekdays.

  Since this calendar table 204 may follow a different calendar depending on the group to which the electric blind belongs, the calendar No. corresponding to each group. Provided for each.

  The operation mode registration table 208 registers an operation mode representing each operation of the electric blind. Here, the operation mode can be broadly divided into a system default operation mode prepared in the initial stage of the apparatus and a user registration operation mode newly created later or at the request of the user or administrator. .

  The system default operation mode is a predetermined operation mode No. In principle, new registration and deletion are impossible, and the content of the operation cannot be changed in principle. For example, a solar radiation shielding control mode can be given as an example of the system default operation mode. The operation of the solar shading control mode is to operate the electric blind so as to maximize the opening degree while shielding the direct solar radiation, and by the program separately stored in the storage unit 2, The optimum degree of opening and closing at the present time is calculated according to a predetermined algorithm from the altitude and direction of the sun, the weather, the direction in which the electric blind is arranged, and the like.

  On the other hand, the user registration operation mode is an operation mode No. to which no system default operation mode is assigned. On the other hand, a new registration, change, or deletion can be performed later or by a user or an administrator.

  In the operation mode registration table 208, as shown in FIG. The mode name and mode color are registered using (operation mode identifier) as a key. The contents of the operation can be registered for the user registration operation mode. As the content of the operation, data such as an angle and a height representing the open / close state of the electric blind, or a hand flag indicating whether to accept or ignore an open / close command signal from the hand controller 7 (for example, “1” when accepted) The remote flag indicating whether to accept or ignore the remote opening / closing command from the control device 1 (for example, “1” if accepted, “0” if ignored). And the like are stored.

  The operation schedule registration table 210 registers the daily operation schedule to be performed by the electric blind using the registered operation mode. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 3D, the time and the operation mode to be executed correspond to each cycle (for example, every 5 minutes, every 10 minutes, every 30 minutes, etc.) which is the minimum unit for changing the open / close state. It is attached. It is also possible to set different operation modes depending on the condition and when the condition is satisfied and when the condition is not satisfied.

  When no condition is added, “unconditional” is set. When a condition is set, the condition may be, for example, sunrise, sunset, or illuminance. For example, when “illuminance” is a condition, a threshold value of illuminance can be set as the condition value, and a sensor number representing a sensor that detects the illuminance can be designated.

  The operation schedule registration table 210 includes an operation classification mode (weekday, holiday mode, etc.) and a schedule number. Provided for each. However, schedule No. It is also possible to identify the entire operation schedule only by this.

  The calendar-schedule correspondence table 212 is a table that associates each electric blind or each group according to which calendar (that is, which calendar table) and the operation schedule (that is, which operation schedule registration table).

  In the control device 1, as functions executed by the CPU 101, a registration unit 110 for registering data in the various tables described above, an automatic control unit 130 for controlling the electric blind, and a monitoring unit 150 for monitoring the electric blind are provided. I have.

  The registration unit 110 further includes a blind configuration registration unit 112, a calendar for performing registration in the blind configuration table 200, the calendar table 204, the operation mode registration table 208, the operation schedule registration table 210, and the calendar-schedule correspondence table 212, respectively. A registration unit 114, an operation mode registration unit 116, an operation schedule registration unit 118, and a calendar-schedule correspondence registration unit 120 are provided, respectively, and an operation schedule display unit 122 for displaying the registered operation schedule is provided.

  FIG. 4 shows an example of operation mode registration by the operation mode registration means 116. The operation mode registration unit 116 displays the screen shown in FIG. 4 and accepts an input from the input device 105. In the figure, (1) mode name, (2) opening / closing degree (angle, height), (3) hand flag, remote flag, and (4) mode color can be input. After the input, when the “Register” button on the screen is selected by the input device 105, the operation mode registration means 116 displays a new operation mode No. corresponding to the user registration operation mode. And the input item is added to the operation mode registration table 208 as a new record.

  When registering the operation mode, the user or administrator can arbitrarily register the mode name, and when registering the operation schedule later, a name that makes it easy to understand the registered operation can be given. .

  The operation mode can be changed and deleted in the same manner, and the operation mode registration unit 116 changes the changed item in the operation mode registration table 208 or deletes the record of the specified operation mode. Can do.

  Next, FIG. 5 shows an example of a procedure for registering an operation schedule. First, the operation schedule registration means 118, as shown in FIG. Prompts for input. In the case of new registration, the operation schedule registration means 118 has a new schedule number. Set. The operation category is a category such as weekdays or holidays. Note that the operation classification is omitted and the schedule No. In the case where the operation schedule is identified only by the above, the operation classification is omitted.

  In the case of new registration, as shown in FIG. 5B, a table containing only the time is displayed, so that the corresponding field is entered via the input device 105 among the blank fields of the table. Here, in the condition establishment mode and the condition non-establishment mode, the mode names of the operation modes registered in the operation mode registration table 208 are called as input candidates.

  Since the mode name of the operation mode is named by the user or the administrator as described above at least for the user registration operation mode, the operation content is easy to understand and the registration work can be performed efficiently. it can.

  In addition, since the operation schedule is determined in units of operation modes, the input schedule can be saved and the operation schedule registration work can be performed efficiently. If necessary, the operation schedule table can be completed using the copy and paste functions.

  Next, as shown in FIG. 5C, when the “operation schedule image” button is selected by the input device 105, the operation schedule display means 122 is activated, and from the input data, as shown in FIG. 6A. The time is plotted on the horizontal axis, and the corresponding operation modes are color-coded by the color of the mode and arranged in time series.

  As a result, the user or administrator can visually grasp the operation schedule, and can instantly or easily determine whether or not the operation schedule has been correctly registered.

  Here, in FIG. 6A, the mode name of the operation mode is displayed in a predetermined column by overlaying an instruction mark with the input device 105 on the region of the desired operation mode, but the present invention is not limited to this. As shown in FIG. 6B, in order to facilitate understanding, the mode No. is displayed in the corresponding operation mode area. May be displayed in an overlapping manner.

  After completion, when the “register” button on the screen is selected by the user or the administrator, the operation schedule registration unit 118 creates a new operation schedule registration table 210 and registers the input data. The operation schedule can be changed and deleted in the same manner, and the operation schedule registration unit 118 changes the item of the corresponding operation schedule registration table 210 or deletes the corresponding operation schedule registration table 210.

  The automatic control means 130 controls each electric blind according to a designated cycle or a designated time according to a registered operation schedule. That is, when attention is paid to an electric blind belonging to a certain group and control of the electric blind is considered, processing is performed according to the flowchart shown in FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 7, first, the current date and time are acquired from the system calendar built in the control device 1 (step S10), and it is determined whether the time has passed for a predetermined period (step S12). . When the time elapses for a predetermined period, the calendar No. corresponding to the group of interest with reference to the calendar-schedule correspondence table 212 is referred to. And schedule No. Is extracted (step S14). Next, Calendar No. Referring to the calendar table 204 corresponding to, it is extracted to which action category the current date falls (step S16). The operation schedule registration table 210 corresponding to is extracted (step S18).

  Then, a record corresponding to the current time is extracted from the operation schedule registration table 210, and it is determined whether or not a condition is attached (step S20). If the condition is met, it is determined whether or not the condition is met (step S22). If the condition is not met and met, the mode when the condition is met is read (step S24). If not satisfied, the condition non-satisfied mode is read (step S26).

  Then, the operation mode registration table 208 is extracted to determine whether or not the read operation mode is the system default operation mode (step S28). If it is the system default operation mode, the corresponding program is executed. (Step S30) If it is not the system default operation mode, since it is the user registration operation mode, the content of the corresponding operation in the operation mode registration table 208 is read (Step S32).

  Then, a command signal for designating the electric blind of interest and instructing the content of the operation is created and transmitted via the I / O 103 (step S34).

  Although the above processing has been described for one electric blind or one group, this processing can be expanded to all electric blinds or all groups, and automatic control can be performed by repeating the processing.

  Further, after transmitting the command signal, the automatic control unit 130 acquires the current open / closed state data from each electric blind 4 and stores it in the storage unit 102.

  Next, the monitoring unit 150 displays the open / closed state of the electric blind under control for monitoring by the user or the administrator. The monitoring unit 152 displays the electric blind and the current operation schedule. And an operation schedule display means 154 for displaying.

  FIG. 8 shows an example in which a plurality of electric blinds are displayed schematically or in a list by the monitoring display means 152.

  When an arbitrary electric blind or group is selected from these buttons and the “operation schedule image” button is selected, the operation schedule display means 154 is activated, and the blind configuration table 200 and / or the calendar-schedule correspondence table 212 is displayed. Reference is made to the current schedule number corresponding to the designated electric blind or group. Are extracted, the corresponding operation schedule registration table 210 is referred to, and the operation modes are color-coded and displayed in time series as in FIGS. 6A and 6B.

  As a result, the user or administrator can easily visually grasp what kind of operation schedule is currently being followed for the desired electric blind.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Control apparatus 116 Operation mode registration means 118 Operation schedule registration means 122 Operation schedule display means 130 Automatic control means 152 Monitoring display means 154 Operation schedule display means 208 Operation mode registration table (operation mode storage means)
210 Operation schedule registration table (operation schedule storage means)
212 Calendar-schedule correspondence table (association storage means)

Claims (8)

In the control device for the electric blind that controls the electric blind based on a preset operation schedule,
An operation mode storage means in which an operation mode identifier for identifying the operation mode, the name of the operation mode, and the operation content are associated and registered;
An operation schedule storage means in which an operation schedule in which a time and an operation mode corresponding to an operation to be performed by the electric blind at that time is associated is registered;
An operation mode registration means for accepting an input of an open / closed state of the electric blind corresponding to an arbitrary name and operation content of the operation mode, and registering the name and operation content of the accepted operation mode in the operation mode storage means;
An operation schedule registration means for accepting an input of an operation mode corresponding to a time and registering the accepted operation mode in the operation schedule storage means;
It is characterized by comprising.   2. The control device for an electric blind according to claim 1, further comprising an operation schedule display means for displaying the operation modes corresponding to the times in time series.   3. The control device for an electric blind according to claim 2, wherein the operation schedule display means can display the name of the operation mode when one of the displayed operation modes is designated. .   In the operation mode storage means, color information of the operation mode is registered in association with the operation mode identifier, and the operation schedule display means color-codes the operation mode in time series according to the color information of the operation mode. 4. The control device for an electric blind according to claim 2, wherein the control device is displayed.   5. The control device for an electric blind according to claim 4, wherein the operation mode registration unit receives an input of arbitrary color information of the operation mode, and registers the received color information in the operation mode storage unit.   The automatic control means for controlling the open / close state of the electric blind based on the operation mode corresponding to the time registered in the operation schedule storage means is further provided. The control apparatus of the electric blind of description.   The electric blind control device according to any one of claims 1 to 6, further comprising association storage means for storing an association between each electric blind and an operation schedule for a plurality of electric blinds. Monitoring display means for displaying a plurality of electric blinds schematically or in a list;
When any one of the displayed electric blinds is selected, the operation storage corresponding to the electric blind is extracted with reference to the association storage means, and the operation schedule storage means is referred to. Second operation schedule display means for displaying the operation modes corresponding to the time in a time-series manner;
The control device for an electric blind according to claim 7, comprising:

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