JPH0960940A - Bath room air conditioner - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a bath room air conditioner in which a signal line from a remote controller can be eliminated and its installing work can be easily carried out. SOLUTION: Air conditioning devices such as a ventilation fan, a circulating fan and a heater or the like are operated by various kinds of switches arranged in a remote controller 10 so as to perform ventilation and drying or the like in a bath room. The remote controller 10 is constituted of a radio remote controller. The remote controller 10 is mounted on either a wall A2 of a bath room A or a wall B1 of a dressing room B adjacent to the bath room A, so that it is not necessary to arrange a signal line between the remote controller and a main body 1 of the air conditioner as found in the prior art wired remote controller.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a bathroom air conditioner capable of using a bathroom as a laundry drying space.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a bathroom air conditioner of this type is known as shown in FIG.

In this bathroom air conditioner, the apparatus main body 1 is installed on the ceiling A1 of the bathroom A, and the ventilation fan incorporated therein discharges the air in the bathroom to the outside to ventilate the bathroom, and also incorporates it. The circulating fan and heater heat and circulate the air in the bathroom to heat the bathroom, and the fans and heaters dry the bathroom.

Such various operations are performed by a wired remote controller 2
The remote controller 2 is installed on the wall B1 of the changing room B adjacent to the bathroom A, and operated by various switches such as the operation switch and the operation changeover switch arranged on the remote controller 2 to operate the air conditioner. The operation is controlled.

[0005]

However, in the conventional bathroom air conditioner, since the air conditioner is controlled by the wired remote controller 2 as described above, the remote controller 2 and the apparatus body 1 are controlled.
Signal line 3 must be wired between
Since the device body 1 is arranged on the ceiling A1 of the bathroom A, the signal line 3 has to be wired over the ceiling of the bathroom A, and the wiring work is very troublesome. Further, when connecting the signal line 3, there is a risk of erroneous wiring connection.

In view of the above-mentioned conventional problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a bathroom air conditioner which does not require a signal line from a remote controller and is easy to install.

[0007]

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention operates air conditioners such as a ventilation fan, a circulation fan, and a heater by various switches arranged on a remote controller to control ventilation and drying in a bathroom. In the bathroom air conditioner to be performed, the remote controller is constituted by a wireless remote controller, and the remote controller is fixed to the wall of the bathroom or the wall of the room adjacent to the bathroom.

As a result, it is not necessary to wire a signal line between the remote controller and the main body of the apparatus, unlike the conventional wired remote controller.

[0009]

1 to 5 show an embodiment of a bathroom air conditioner according to the present invention. FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view showing an installed state of the bathroom air conditioner, and FIG. 2 is a bathroom air conditioner. FIG. 3 is a side sectional view, FIG. 3 is a bottom view showing a bathroom air conditioner with a front panel removed, FIG. 4 is a front view showing a wireless remote controller of the bathroom air conditioner, and FIG. 5 is a configuration diagram of a driving circuit of the bathroom air conditioner. is there. The same components as those of the conventional example are denoted by the same reference numerals.

In this bathroom air conditioner, the device body 1 is installed on the ceiling 1 of the bathroom A. Further, the device body 1 has a body casing 5 whose lower surface is covered with a front panel 4,
A circulation fan 6, a ventilation fan 7, and three heaters 8a, 8b, 8c are arranged in the main body casing 5.
When the circulation fan 6 is driven, 2 of FIG. 2 and FIG.
As shown by the dotted line arrow, bathroom air flows into the main body casing 5 from between the louvers 4a of the front panel 4, and when the heaters 8a, 8b, 8c are energized, the inflow air is heated. In this state, the air is circulated into the bathroom from between the louvers 4a, and the bathroom is heated. Further, when the ventilation fan 5 is driven, the air in the bathroom flows into the main body casing 3 and is discharged to the outside through the duct 9 as shown by the dashed arrow in FIG.

In this way, each device 6, 7, 8a, 8b, 8
By selectively driving c, not only the bathroom heating operation and the bathroom ventilation operation but also the bathroom cool air operation, the bathroom drying operation, and the mold prevention drying operation are performed.

The above-mentioned structure is the same as in the conventional bathroom air conditioner, and the present invention is characterized by the structure of the remote controller 10 for operating these various operations. That is, the remote controller 10 is composed of a wireless remote controller,
It is installed on the wall B1 of the changing room B adjacent to the bathroom A.
Further, as shown in FIG. 4, the switches 10a, 10b,
Various operations are selected by 10c and 10d.
Energization / non-energization of the power source is selected by the operation switch 10a, the various operation modes are selected by the operation changeover switch 10b, and the driving time is reduced by the timer switch 10c.
It is selected from 5 hours to 9 hours, and the strength of the air volume is selected by the air volume switch 10d.

The switch signals selected by the switches 10a to 10c are supplied to the signal generator 11 as shown in FIG.
Is input to the light emitting unit 12 and a signal of a different frequency is input from the signal generating unit 11 to each of the switches 10a to 10d.
Sent to Here, the light emitting portion 12 is composed of, for example, a light emitting diode, and is attached to the tip end that penetrates the wall B1 of the changing room B and the wall A2 of the bathroom A. Further, a sealing structure is provided so that water or moisture in the bathroom A does not enter the light emitting section 12.

Infrared rays corresponding to the respective frequencies are emitted from the light emitting section 12, and the infrared rays are received by the light receiving section 13. Here, the light receiving portion 13 is composed of, for example, a photodiode, and is installed on the lower surface side of the main body casing 5 as shown in FIGS.
A light-receiving hole 4b is formed in a part of the front panel 4 to receive the infrared rays from 2.

The infrared light received by the light receiving unit 13 is amplified and detected and input to the remote control signal discriminating unit 14 having a microcomputer configuration. The remote control signal discrimination unit 14 discriminates which of the switches 10a to 10c is operated from the frequency, and the power supply control unit 15, the operation switching control unit 16, the timer control unit 1 corresponding to the remote control signal.
7 or the air volume control unit 18 is operated to control the air conditioner 19 such as the circulation fan 6, the ventilation fan 7, and the three heaters 8a, 8b, 8c.

As described above, in the bathroom air conditioner according to the present embodiment, since the air conditioner 19 is controlled by the wireless remote controller 10 installed on the wall B1 of the changing room B, the remote controller and the apparatus main body 1 as in the conventional case. There is no need to wire a signal line between and, which simplifies the installation work of the bathroom air conditioner.
There are no signal line connection mistakes.

In the above-described embodiment, infrared rays that are strong against interference and transmission distortion are used as the transmission means, but ultrasonic waves having similar characteristics may be used as the transmission means.

[0018]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Unlike the conventional wired remote controller, there is no need to wire a signal line between the remote controller and the main body of the apparatus, which simplifies the installation work and eliminates the risk of erroneous wiring connection of this signal wire.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a sectional view showing an installed state of a bathroom air conditioner according to the present invention.

[Fig. 2] Side sectional view of a bathroom air conditioner

FIG. 3 is a bottom view of the bathroom air conditioner with the front panel removed.

FIG. 4 is a front view showing a wireless remote controller of a bathroom air conditioner.

[Fig. 5] Configuration diagram of the drive circuit of the bathroom air conditioner

FIG. 6 is a sectional view showing an installation state of a conventional bathroom air conditioner.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Device body, 6 ... Circulation fan, 7 ... Ventilation fan, 8
a, 8b, 8c ... heater, 10 ... wireless remote controller, 1
9 ... Air-conditioning equipment, A ... Bathroom, B ... Changing room, A1 ... Bathroom ceiling, A2 ... Bathroom wall, B1 ... Changing room wall.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An air conditioner such as a ventilation fan, a circulation fan, and a heater is operated by various switches arranged on a remote controller,
A bathroom air conditioner for ventilating, drying, etc. in a bathroom, wherein the remote controller is a wireless remote controller and the remote controller is installed on a wall of a bathroom or a wall of a room adjacent to the bathroom. .