JPH046328A - Floor heating controller - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable a position of a present time within a timer setting time to be understood and to enable a remaining time for setting of timer to be easily understood by a method wherein a floor heating controller is provided with some displays in which operations of a main body of a floor heating device can be controlled with a timer, displays for indicating 'time' are linearly arranged, marks are lit and both time range to be set with the timer and the present time are displayed. CONSTITUTION:A display device 1 is provided with a digital time displaying part 2 for alterna tively displaying a present time and a timer set time, and with an analogue time displaying part 5 for displaying a timer setting time in an analogue manner. At the digital time displaying part 2, a time having AM to indicate morning and PM to indicate afternoon and attached at a leading end of the timer to display 12-hours. A colon 2c disposed between 'hour' display 2a and 'minute' display 2b is illuminated at a time interval of 1 second so as to count the second. Analogue time display part 5 is comprised of a display part 5a for displaying a display of 'hour' under its linear arrangement to show 24 hours of a day and marks 5b which are arranged for every display of 'hour' and disposed on the display part 5a. The display part 5a displays a numerical value for every three hours, a time interval is indicted by a mark of '.', 12 o'clock in the morning is indicated by 'AM' and 12 o'clock in the afternoon is indicated by 'PM', respectively.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Field of Application 1] The present invention relates to a floor heating controller capable of timer control of the operation of a floor heating apparatus main body.

[Prior art l] A floor heating system consists of a floor heating device that heats the floor and a floor heating controller that controls the operation of the floor heating device. There are devices that allow so-called timer reservations that are controlled by a timer.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, when making a timer reservation using a conventional floor heating controller of this kind, it is necessary to check the operation start time and stop time of the floor heating device while looking at the times digitally displayed on the display. When setting the timer and checking the status of the timer setting, I always looked at the digital display. For this reason, 1
There was a problem in that it was difficult to determine at what time of the day the timer was set. Moreover, in a device that allows multiple timer settings within one day, there is a problem that it becomes even more difficult to understand the settings. Further, in the conventional digital display for displaying the timer setting time, since the timer setting time and the current time are displayed by switching, there is a problem in that it is difficult to know the remaining time of the timer setting time.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and its purpose is to make it possible to easily grasp the timer setting status intuitively, and also to easily grasp the remaining time when the timer is set. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a floor W11 room controller that can be used.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, the present invention arranges displays indicating "time" in a linear manner to display 24 hours a day.
The mark provided for each display indicating the current time is lit to display the time period in which the floor heating system is to be operated according to the timer setting, and the mark is blinked to indicate the current time "JIi?". It is equipped with an indicator that displays ".

[Function 1] As described above, the present invention displays 24 hours a day by arranging the displays indicating "hour 1" in a linear manner, and also lights up the mark provided for each display indicating "hour" to set the timer. floor l
! By displaying the time period in which the main body of the chamber apparatus is operated, it is possible to intuitively grasp the time and time set by the timer in a day from the position and display width of the mark, and the current time is indicated by blinking of the mark. By determining which position in the display width of the mark indicating the timer setting time blinks, it is possible to grasp the position of the current time within the timer setting time, and the remaining time of the timer setting time can be easily grasped. It has been made possible to do so.

[Example] An embodiment of the present invention is shown in Figures 1 to 8.

Floor heating systems include an electric type shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 and a hot water type shown in FIG. 5. For example, the electric floor heating system shown in Fig. 3 is composed of a floor heating panel B laid on the floor and a floor heating controller A that controls the operation of the floor heating panel B. , according to the operation of the operation input section and the timer settings, the power supply to the heater embedded in the floor heating panel B is controlled, and in response to the output from the sensor S incorporated in the floor heating panel B, the floor heating panel Operation control is performed to maintain the temperature of B at the set temperature. Note that when the wattage of the floor panel B is low, the power supply to the heater is controlled via the relay box C as shown in FIG. In addition, in a hot water type floor@room system, as shown in Fig. 5, for example, hot water supplied from a heating boiler D is circulated in a pipe E buried in the floor surface to perform floor heating. The floor heating controller A controls the driving side of the heating boiler D according to the output of the sensor S installed on the floor, and the pipe by W/4Wi control of the pulp (e.g., thermal valve) F installed in the pipe E. The hot water in E is circulated IIJllll to control the floor heating temperature to the set temperature. Here, the floor heating controller A is provided with a home automation (HA) module conforming to the JEM1436 standard so that it can be incorporated into the HA system.

An external view of the floor heating controller A is shown in FIG. 2, and its circuit configuration is shown in FIG. 6. This floor heating controller A is
It is capable of continuous operation and timer operation, and includes an operation switch SW7 that switches between continuous operation and timer operation, an off switch SW2 that stops the delayed heating of the floor heating system, and a floor temperature setting switch SW that sets the floor temperature. , sw4, time setting switch SW which switches the operating mode to time setting mode when setting the time, , timer setting switch SW which switches the operating mode to timer setting mode to set the timer. ”Setting switch SW
F. "Minute" setting switch SW8 for setting "minutes"; display 1 for displaying the operating status of the floor heating system, floor temperature, current time and timer setting status; floor temperature display fi on display 1;
Temperature display changeover switch SW9 that switches 3 between the current temperature and the set temperature, and time display changeover switch SW9 that changes the digital time display section 2 of the display 1 to the current time and the timer setting time. It is provided with a continuous operation indicator light L1 that lights up when the vehicle is in operation, and a timer operation indicator light L2 that lights up when the timer operation is performed. Here, the floor temperature setting switch sw3. sw allows you to change the set temperature in 1°C increments.

In addition, each of the above-mentioned switches SW1 to SW. In response to the operation input, the control circuit engineer 0 controls the heater in the floor heating panel B, and also controls the display @1.

As the display 1, a liquid crystal display, an LED attenuator, a plasma display, etc. can be used, but in this embodiment, a case where a liquid crystal display is used will be described. As shown in FIG. 1, this display 1 includes a digital time display section 2 that selectively displays the current time and timer setting time, and a floor temperature display that selectively displays the set floor temperature and the current floor temperature. Part 3: Operation display that displays the operating status of the floor heating system! S4, and it11 for analog display of timer setting time! ! It is equipped with a display section 5.

Here, the digital time display section 2 displays the time for 12 hours with AM and PM indications indicating morning and afternoon at the beginning, and is provided between the "hour" display 2a and the "minute" display 2b. The colon 2c is lit once at 1 second intervals to count the seconds. Floor temperature display [3 is a display 3b that indicates whether the floor temperature represented by the numerical display 3a is the set temperature or the current temperature with the words "set temperature" or "current temperature", and a display 3b that indicates, for example, that the set temperature range is 20 If the current temperature is ~35℃, the current temperature is 2
A display 3c is provided to indicate the case where the temperature is 0°C or lower with the words "F or lower". The operation display section 4 includes a substantially rectangular display 4a consisting of a plurality of segments, and lights up the display 4a when the floor heating apparatus main body is in operation. In addition, this display 4a is cyclically displayed by combining segments at diagonal positions at intervals of 1 second.
It is meant to be lit. By the way, in this floor heating system, the timer settings can be set in three patterns per day, so the operation display section 4 displays a display 4b indicating which timer setting is being operated with the words "Timer 1 to 3". and a display 4c that indicates the operating state with characters "on" and "off". Furthermore, the analog time display section 5 has displays indicating "hours" arranged in a straight line, 24 times a day.
It consists of a display 5m that displays the time and a marker 75b that is provided for each display that indicates "hour" and is arranged in a row above the display 5a.The display 5a displays numerical values every 3 hours, and indicates the time in between.
・” indicates 12:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m.
Indicated by the letters J, rP MJ. In addition, mark 5b
lights up or goes out in hourly increments, and one mark 5
b indicates a range from 00:00 to 59 minutes.

Next, a method of time setting and temperature setting by timer setting will be explained. The current time is 8:00 AM,
Assume that no timer is set.

In this case, as shown in FIG. 7(,), the digital time display section 2 of the display 1 shows the current time of 8:00 AM, and the mark 5b corresponding to 8:00 AM on the analog time display section 5. is blinking. In addition, "
The value "30" is the set bed temperature. Here, the set time and bed temperature are as follows. In "Timer 1", A
M6: 00~AM9200.32℃, [Timer 2] AMII: 00~PM2: 00.35℃, "Timer 3" PM5: 30~AMI: 00.25℃
Set to .

First, when the timer setting switch SW6 is pressed once, rAM32:OOJ, which is the initial setting time for timer setting, is displayed on the digital time display section 2, as shown in FIG. 7(b). and [301] blink, and "ON" is displayed on the display 4C. In this state, press the "hour" setting switch SW six times to set the ON time of the timer 1J to 6:00 AM, as shown in FIG.

Then, press the floor temperature setting switch SW twice to set the set temperature of the timer IJ to 32°C. At this time, the mark 5b corresponding to 6 AM on the analog time display section 5 flashes. If you press the setting switch SW6 one more time, the [timer IJ turn-on time is determined and "
"Timer 1" cut-off time setting mode is entered, and "Timer 1" appears on the display 4c.
"Off" is displayed. At this time, the time displayed on the digital time display section 2 and the temperature displayed on the floor temperature display section 3 are
Until 7r:! , continues to disappear. To set the cut-off time, press the "hour 1 setting switch SW" three times to set the cut-off time of "timer 1" to 9:00 AM, as shown in FIG. At that time, from 6 AM to AM on the analog time display section 5.
The mark 5b until 9 o'clock is lit and the timer reservation is AM6.
9:00 AM to 9:00 AM.

Next, if you want to set "Timer 2", press the timer setting switch SW one more time.
” is determined, and the timer 2 enters the start time setting mode. Then, by using the "hour" setting switch SW, as shown in FIG. 7(g), the input time of "Reima 2" is set to ΔMl 1:00.

Then, the floor temperature setting switch SW sets the set temperature of 1-timer 2 to 35°C. At this time, the same figure (
As shown in IV), the mark 51) corresponding to 11:00 AM is blinking. And timer setting switch S
Press W6 an additional 1,71 times to determine the start time of [Timer 2], and set the "hour" in the same manner as described above. As shown in the same figure (i) by switch SW7, 1
Set the cut-off time of Timer 2 to PM2:00. At that time, when analog (from 11 AM to PM on i1 display section 5)
The mark 5h until 2 o'clock is lit 1-, and the timer reservation is Ah
4] It is set from 1:00 PM to 9:00 PM.The following is the same as 1. As shown in Figure 7 (1 ()), the arrival time of Thailand '23J is adjusted to 5:30 PM, and
Set the set temperature to 25℃, and set the cut-off time to AM 1:OO as shown in Figure 7 (complex). When setting the timer 31, set the timer setting switch SW to 1.
When pressed once, the cut-off time of the 1 timer 3J is determined and the timer becomes in operation mode. For example, in FIG. 7(n), [Timer 11 operating status! ! 17 -) indicates (-), the current time is displayed on the dinotal time display section 2, and the set floor temperature in [timer 1] is displayed on the floor temperature display section 3.

Ko8:? , If you want to disable the timer, set the on time and off time to be the same. The on-time periods of timers 1-3J often overlap, and the current time is
3] Izune bursts in during the on-time period,
In either case, if it is 7) in the nt+ band when off, it is turned off. Clam 8
The figure shows a case where each timer time overlaps, and when the timers of the timers overlap, the one with the lowest number is given priority, and the one with the largest number is given priority 717 at the 9th time.

In addition, if you want to slow down the continuous aperture, use the operation switch SW,
Switch to 7. Also, #g, Do you want to switch between steps? ZusW
When setting the floor temperature according to step 3, the set temperature value during continuous operation increases during soft-off and continuous operation.
If the set temperature value of the timer that is on and off goes up and the floor heating system itself is not operating while the timer is running, the set temperature value of the next timer that will turn on will increase. To lower the temperature, use #temperature setting switch SW to set the temperature in substantially the same way as in the above case (7).

By the way, the main text of this article is that every time the operation switch (SW) is pressed, there is a short circuit of the input line from the sensor S, or a short circuit of the control f line of the floor heating system itself. Checks for disconnection, etc., and sounds the built-in II alarm buzzer when an error occurs.

If a short circuit is detected in the input line from the sensor S, the display section 3 of the floor temperature display section 3 is
The letter J flashes, and the control of the floor heating system itself is **!
When 1N#l is detected, the sentence T- of (, fl, rI-5E) is blinked. In addition, this financial institution's information is cut off.
It is now possible to stop by pressing the switch.

] Effect of the invention 1 As described above, the present invention arranges the displays indicating "hour" in a linear manner to display 24 hours a day, and also displays a mark for each display indicating hour 0. - When I turn on the α light and set the timer, it shows the decay of 1 town area when I operate the Shiritoko@5S awakening body, so from the position of the mark and the display width, the time when the timer is set in a day [Be able to understand one hour intuitively,
Also, since the current time is indicated by a blinking mark, you can determine the position of the current time within the timer setting time by determining which position of the display width of the mark indicating the timer setting time is blinking. to set the remaining time of the timer setting g.
It can be easily understood.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. ls1 is a front view of a display device according to an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a front view showing the external appearance of the floor FIii chamber controller,
Figures to Figures 5 are system #I diagrams of different floor heating systems, Figure 6 shows the approximate name of the floor heating controller, Figure 7 (a) = ( 8) is an explanatory diagram of the status of the display accompanying the timer setting operation, and FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram of the operation when the timer setting times overlap. A is a floor heating controller, 1 is a display, 5 is an analog time display, 5a is a display, and 5b is a mark.

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) A floor heating controller capable of timer control of the operation of the main body of the floor heating system, in which displays indicating "hours" are arranged linearly to display 24 hours a day, and each display indicating "hours" is arranged linearly to display 24 hours a day. A floor heating controller equipped with an indicator that lights up a mark provided on the screen to indicate the time period in which the floor heating system is to be operated according to a timer setting, and displays the current "hour" by flashing the mark.