JP2017213064A - Electric dryer - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve such a problem that introducing of a home energy management system for centralized control of an operation of a dryer requires a considerable expense and is difficult to introduce to each household as a price plan that is more minute than a conventional price plan is expected to change in a relatively short period because of the deregulation of a power rate, and the dryer which can only correspond to a conventional late-night charge cannot correspond to a newest price plan.SOLUTION: A dryer includes receiving means which receives an operation plan from a communication device by communicating with the communication device while the communication device for receiving power rate data from an electric power company creates the operation plan from the received power rate data and time data input in the communication device and dries an article to be dried by power from the electric power company in accordance with the received operation plan.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

Description

  The present invention relates to an electric drying apparatus for drying an object to be dried using electric power supplied from an electric power company.

  Such an electric drying device may be one that only performs drying, but may be one that incorporates other functions in addition to the drying function, such as a dish washing device and a clothes drying device with a washing function. Good.

  In such an apparatus intended for drying, an object to be dried such as tableware and clothes is dried by exposing it to a high-temperature atmosphere. Therefore, a heat source that generates a high temperature and an energy source that operates the heat source are necessary. As such energy sources, there are those using fossil fuels such as gas and oil and those using electric power provided by an electric power company.

  Since it is difficult to store this electric power, a daytime power charge with a high power demand is set high, and conversely, a nighttime power charge with a low power demand is set low.

  Therefore, an electric drying device that consumes a relatively large amount of power is known, for example, as a dishwashing and drying device that operates to actively use nighttime power (for example, patents). Reference 1).

JP 2006-130057 (paragraph [0007])

  Conventionally, power supply has been done mainly by 10 electric power companies from Hokkaido Electric Power to Okinawa Electric Power, and in the area where each electric power company supplies electric power, only the electric power company can make a contract for electric power supply. It was. For this reason, the power plan such as the above-mentioned midnight charge is set by the electric power company, and the set charge plan is rarely changed.

  On the other hand, since April 2016, the liberalization of retailing of electric power has been approved, and it has become possible to make a contract for electric power supply with electric power companies other than the above ten electric power companies. Such newly-entered electric power companies will present more detailed price plans than those provided by conventional electric power companies, and each electric power company will provide its own price plan. In addition, since it is necessary to compete with other electric power companies, it is necessary to flexibly change their own price plans against the price plans provided by other electric power companies.

  As described above, when the rate plan is changed in a relatively short period of time, which is finer than the rate plan provided by the conventional electric power company, in the conventional drying apparatus as described in Patent Document 1, It becomes impossible to correspond to the latest price plan.

  In this case, it may be possible to introduce a home energy management system to centrally control the operation of the drying device. However, introducing such a system requires a large amount of money, There are high hurdles to introduce.

  Therefore, in view of the above-described problems, an object of the present invention is to provide an electric drying apparatus capable of performing an optimum operation even in a new power supply situation with relatively low introduction cost.

  In order to solve the above problems, an electric drying apparatus according to the present invention includes receiving means for performing communication with a communication apparatus that receives electric power charge data from an electric power company, the electric charge data received by the communication apparatus, and communication. In a state where the operation plan is created on the communication device side from the time data input to the device, the receiving means receives the operation plan from the communication device, and according to the received operation plan, is dried by the power from the power company. It has the control part which dries a thing, It is characterized by the above-mentioned.

  Without introducing a home energy management system, obtain the latest power rate data with a communication device such as a mobile phone, smartphone, or tablet PC, and input time data such as the end time of drying into the communication device. By doing so, the mobile terminal side creates an operation plan for when to start and when to end. The drying apparatus receives the created operation plan, and the control unit performs a drying operation according to the operation plan.

  In order to solve the above problems, another electric drying apparatus according to the present invention communicates with a communication apparatus in a state where time data is input to a communication apparatus that receives power charge data from an electric power company. Receiving means for receiving power rate data and time data, and having plan creation means for creating an operation plan from the received power rate data and time data, according to the created operation plan, from the power company It has a control part which dries a thing to be dried with electric power.

  In the present invention, the drying device receives the power rate plan and the time data, and a specific operation plan is created not on the communication device but on the drying device side.

  As is clear from the above description, the present invention can operate the electric drying apparatus with an operation plan in accordance with the latest power rate plan without introducing an expensive home energy management system.

The figure which shows the structure of one embodiment of this invention Flow chart for creating an operation plan on the communication device side Flow diagram when creating an operation plan on the electric dryer side

  Referring to FIG. 1, reference numeral 3 denotes a cloud that can be connected via an Internet line, and is announced in a state where each power supply company can access a price plan of power provided by the company. A smartphone 2 is a communication device capable of communicating with the cloud 3. The smartphone 2 can communicate with the cloud 3, but can further communicate with the dishwasher 1 which is a drying apparatus described later. In addition to these communication functions, the smartphone 2 also has a function of creating an operation plan to be described later by installing a predetermined application. Note that individual data such as the model is initialized when this application is installed.

  Reference numeral 1 denotes a dishwasher as described above, which functions as a drying device that cleans the dishes stored therein and further dries the dishes cleaned using warm air. A control unit (not shown) is built in the dishwasher 1, and the operation of the dishwasher 1 is controlled by the control unit. The warm air for drying is configured to be generated by heating air with a heater based on external power. In order to consume a large amount of power to generate hot air during the drying, an operation plan of the dishwasher 1 is created as follows, and the control unit operates the dishwasher 1 according to the operation plan. Electricity charges were made cheaper by controlling.

  With reference to FIG. 2, when operating the dishwasher 1, the smart phone 2 is operated first and a rate plan is acquired from the cloud 3 (S11). Subsequently, time data is input to the smartphone 2 (S2). This time data is at least the drying end time. When this time data is input, the smartphone 2 creates and displays an operation plan of the dishwasher 1. To do.

  This operation plan is an operation plan for ending the drying operation by the end time that is the input time data, but the operation plan is created based on the charge data so that the electricity charge is minimized. . Note that the operation plan that minimizes the charge is not necessarily one, and when a plurality of operation plans are created, the plurality of operation plans are displayed on the smartphone 2 (S13).

  Next, one desired operation plan is selected from the created operation plans (S14), and the selected operation plan is transmitted to the dishwasher 1 (S15).

  When the operation plan from the smartphone 2 is received by the receiving unit on the dishwasher 1 side, the operation is performed according to the operation plan (S16). In S12, the end time is input, but data such as the start time and the drying amount may be input together to create an operation plan in consideration of the start time.

  Incidentally, in the flow shown in FIG. 2, the operation plan is created on the smartphone 2 side. However, as shown in FIG. 3, the operation plan may be created on the dishwasher 1 side.

  This flow is the same as the flow shown in FIG. 2 until fee data acquisition (S21) and time data input (S22). However, in this flow, an operation plan is not created on the smartphone 2, and fee data is created. And the time data are transmitted to the dishwasher 1 (S23).

  On the dishwasher 1 side, an operation plan is created based on the fee data and time data received by the receiving means (S24), and the dishwasher 1 operates with the created operation plan (S25). In this case, the dishwasher 1 sets an optimal operation plan according to a preset standard without the operator selecting a desired operation plan from a plurality of operation plans. A desired operation plan may be selected from the operation plan.

  In addition, this invention is not limited to an above-described form, You may add a various change in the range which does not deviate from the summary of this invention.

1 Dishwasher (drying equipment)
2 Smartphone 3 Cloud

Claims (2)

  An operation plan is provided on the communication device side from the power fee data received by the communication device and the time data input to the communication device. In the state of creating the electric drying, the receiving means receives an operation plan from the communication device, and according to the received operation plan, there is a control unit for drying an object to be dried with electric power from the electric power company. apparatus.   In a state where time data is input to a communication device that receives power rate data from an electric power company, the communication device includes a receiving unit that communicates with the communication device and receives power rate data and time data from the communication device. Electric drying characterized by having plan creation means for creating an operation plan from fee data and time data, and having a control unit for drying an object to be dried by electric power from the power company in accordance with the created operation plan apparatus.

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