JPH0632636Y2 - Time setter - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Industrial Application Field) The present invention relates to a time setting device suitable for an air conditioner, a warm air fan, a stove, and the like.

(Prior Art) One example of a conventional time setting device is shown in FIG. 5, and this time setting device 01 is a push button switch 02 for setting “hour” and “minute”.
It has a push button switch 03 for setting and an indicator 04 for displaying the set time. These push button switches
When 02 or 03 is pressed and released for a short time as shown in Fig. 6 (a), the displayed value "hour" 05 or "minute" on the display 04 is displayed each time.
The display value 06 of increases by one. Further, if these push button switches 02 or 03 are continuously pressed as shown in FIG. 6 (b), the display value of "hour" 05 or the display value of "minute" of the display 04 is displayed.
06 is continuously and sequentially increased at predetermined time intervals.

(Prior Art) In the above-mentioned conventional time setting device 01, a push button switch 02 for setting "hour" and a push button switch for setting "minute"
Not only it is necessary to operate both 03, but even if these push button switches 02 and 03 are held down, the displayed values 05 and 06 increase at fixed time intervals, so it takes a long time to set the time. There was a problem.

(Means for Solving the Problems) The present invention has been proposed to solve the above problems, and its gist is to display an indicator every time the push button switch for setting the time is pressed within a predetermined time. A time setter in which the displayed time set value is increased by one and the time set value is cyclically and sequentially increased when the switch is continuously pressed for the predetermined time or more; The time setting device is provided with means for changing the increasing cycle of the time setting value according to the operation interval.

(Operation) Since the present invention has the above-mentioned configuration, when the time setting push button switch is pressed and released and then pressed again at a time interval to continue this pressing state, the operation interval of the switch is changed. The increment cycle of the time set value changes.

(Embodiment) One embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIGS.

As shown in FIG. 1, the time setting device 1 has one time setting push button switch 5 for setting the display value 3 of "minute" and the display value 4 of "hour" displayed on the display device 2. Only equipped.

Then, as shown in FIG. 2 (a), the switch 5 is
When the switch 5 is pressed and released within a predetermined time, the display value 3 of "minute" on the display 2 is incremented by 1 every time the switch 5 is pressed and released, like the conventional one. However, when the display value 3 of "minute" is 59, the display value 4 of "hour" is increased by 1 and the display value 3 of "minute" is
It becomes 00. If the displayed value of "hour" is AM11, PM12
When it is PM12, it becomes PM1, when it is PM11, it becomes AM12, and when it is AM12, it becomes AM1.

Further, as shown in FIG. 2 (b), when the switch 5 is pressed and released, and then pressed again with an operation interval T, the pressed state is continued. Increase. The increasing cycle of the display value 3 changes according to the operation interval T.

A functional block diagram of the time setting device 1 is shown in FIG. 3, and a flowchart thereof is shown in FIG.

In FIG. 4, it is confirmed in step whether the switch 5 is ON (pushed), and if so, the ON time is integrated by the ON time integrating means 6 in step. The integrated value of the ON time is input to the comparison means 7 and is compared with a preset time set in the setting means 8 here. (Step) Then, if the integrated value of the ON time is smaller than the set time, the process proceeds to Step, and the comparison unit 7 outputs an output to the effect that the display value 3 of "minute" is increased by 1 via the drive unit 9. 2 and the display value 3 of "minute" on the display 2 is increased by 1 in the step.

When it is determined that the switch 5 is OFF in the step, the process proceeds to the step, and the OFF time integrating means 10 turns the OFF
Time is added up.

In addition, when it is determined that the integrated value of the ON time is greater than the set time in step, the process proceeds to step,
The outputs of the ON time integrating means 6 and the OFF time integrating means 10 and the output from the comparing means 7 are input to the operation interval determining means 11, where the operation interval T is determined. The determination result is input to the display increase cycle determination means 12, where the operation interval T is T ₁
If it is larger, the display increase period is T _{C1 in} steps, and if the operation interval T is smaller than T _{1 and} larger than T ₂ , the display increase period is T _{C2 in} steps and the operation interval T is T.
If it is smaller than ₂ , the display increase cycle is set to T _{C3 in} steps. The output from the display increase cycle determining means 12 is the driving means 9
Is output to the display device 2 via the display unit 3 and the display value 3 of "minute" is cyclically and sequentially increased at any one of the cycles T _C1 , T _C2 and T _C3 .

Then, when the push button switch 5 is pressed within the predetermined time set by the setting means 8, the display value 3 of "minute" is increased by 1, and the push button switch 5 is again separated by the operation interval T.
When is pressed and this pressed state is continued, the increase cycle of the display value 3 of "minute" changes according to this operation interval T. Therefore, by shortening the operation interval T, the increment cycle of the display value 3 of "minutes" can be shortened, so that the time set value can be easily and quickly changed with only one push button switch 5.

(Effect of the Invention) In the present invention, the means for determining the operation interval of the switch and the means for changing the increasing cycle of the time setting value according to the operation interval are provided, so that the time setting value increases according to the operation interval. You can change the cycle. Therefore, by shortening the operation interval, the cycle of increasing the time setting value can be shortened.
It is possible to quickly change the time setting value only with the push button switch, and therefore, the number of operating points is reduced, so that not only the operability is improved but also the time required for the time setting is shortened.

[Brief description of drawings]

1 to 4 show one embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 1 is a front view of a time setting device, and FIGS. 2 (a) and 2 (b) are operation procedures of a time setting push button switch. Explanatory drawing, third
FIG. 4 is a control block diagram and FIG. 4 is a flowchart.
FIGS. 5 and 6 show an example of a conventional time setting device, FIG. 5 is a front view of the time setting device, and FIGS. 6 (a) and 6 (b) are operation procedures of a push button switch for time setting. FIG. Time setter …… 1, push button switch for time setting ……
5, display device ... 2, time set value ... 3,4, operation interval determination means ... 11, increase cycle determination means ... 12

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. The time set value displayed on the display increases by one each time the time setting push button switch is pressed within a predetermined time, and the time set value is cyclical when the switch is kept pressed for the predetermined time or more. In the time setter that sequentially increases, the time setter is provided with a means for determining an operation interval of the switch and a means for changing an increase cycle of the time set value according to the operation interval.