TWI592617B - One to many air-conditioned room where each room air-conditioning power consumption meter Calculation method and one to many air conditioning system - Google Patents

Description

The power consumption of each room in the room where each indoor unit of one-to-many air conditioner is located Calculation method and one-to-many air conditioning system

The invention relates to a method for calculating the power consumption of an air conditioning system, in particular to a method for calculating the power consumption of an air conditioner in each room where each indoor unit of a one-to-many air conditioner is located, and a one-to-many air conditioning system for performing the calculation method.

The existing one-to-many air conditioning system includes an outdoor unit and a plurality of indoor units. However, the current one-to-many air conditioning system can only detect the total power consumption, and cannot distinguish and calculate the power consumption of the air conditioners in each room where the indoor unit is located.

Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a method for calculating the power consumption of an air conditioner in each room in which each indoor unit of a one-to-many air conditioner can improve the disadvantages of the prior art.

Therefore, in some implementations, the method for calculating the power consumption of the air conditioners of each of the indoor units of the one-to-many air conditioner of the present invention is performed by a one-to-many air conditioning system including an outdoor unit and a plurality of The indoor unit includes a plurality of expansion valves respectively corresponding to the indoor unit, and the calculation method comprises the following steps: (A) Detecting a total power consumption of the outdoor unit and a sum of air-conditioning capacity; and (B) calculating, by the outdoor unit, the ratio of the opening amount of the expansion valve, the total power consumption, and the sum of the air-conditioning capacity, to calculate The pens respectively correspond to the power consumption of the air conditioners in the rooms where the indoor unit is located.

In some implementations, the calculation method further includes the step (C) performed after the step (B): the outdoor unit transmits the power consumption to the corresponding indoor units separately.

In some implementations, the one-to-many air conditioning system further includes a plurality of external devices respectively disposed on the indoor devices, the external devices are also electrically connected to a controller, and the calculating method is further included in the step (C) After the step (D) is performed, the controller reads the power consumption of the air conditioners of the respective rooms in which the indoor unit is located and the accumulated time of each of the indoor units by the external device.

In some embodiments, the controller can be converted into a power consumption according to the power consumption of each room air conditioner and the accumulated time of each indoor unit operation.

In some implementations, the external devices communicate with a mobile device through a wireless transmission module, the mobile device has a mobile application, and the mobile application can read each indoor device by each external device The power consumption of each room air conditioner and the accumulated time of each indoor unit operation are converted into a power consumption amount.

Accordingly, it is another object of the present invention to provide a one-to-many air conditioning system that can improve the disadvantages of the prior art.

Thus, in some embodiments, the one-to-many air conditioning system of the present invention includes a plurality of indoor units and an outdoor unit. The outdoor unit is connected to the indoor unit, and includes a plurality of expansion valves respectively corresponding to the indoor unit and a processing module, and the processing module can detect a total power consumption of the outdoor unit and a sum of a cooling capacity; And the processing module can calculate according to the ratio of the opening amount of each expansion valve, the total power consumption and the sum of the air-conditioning capacity, so as to calculate the power consumption of the air conditioners of the respective rooms corresponding to the indoor units.

In some implementations, each of the indoor units includes a processor, and the processing module of the outdoor unit transmits the power consumption to the corresponding processors of the indoor units.

In some implementations, the one-to-many air conditioning system further includes a plurality of external devices respectively disposed on the indoor devices, and the external devices are also electrically connected to a controller, and the controller reads by the external device. The power consumption of each room stored in the processor of each indoor unit and the accumulated time of each indoor unit operation.

In some embodiments, the controller can be converted into a power consumption according to the power consumption of each room air conditioner and the accumulated time of each indoor unit operation.

In some embodiments, the external devices communicate with a mobile device via a wireless transmission module, the mobile device has a mobile application, and the mobile application reads each room of each indoor unit by the external device The power consumption of the air conditioner and the accumulated time of each indoor unit operation are converted into a power consumption.

The invention has at least the following effects: the calculation method performed by the one-to-many air-conditioning system can calculate according to the opening amount of each expansion valve, the total power consumption, and the sum of the air-conditioning capacity, so as to calculate a plurality of corresponding correspondences, etc. The power consumption of the air conditioner in each room where the indoor unit is located is converted into power consumption.

10‧‧‧One-to-many air conditioning system

1‧‧‧Outdoor machine

11‧‧‧Expansion valve

12‧‧‧Processing module

2‧‧‧ indoor unit

21‧‧‧ Processor

3‧‧‧External devices

4‧‧‧ Controller

5‧‧‧Mobile devices

51‧‧‧Mobile App

S101~S104‧‧‧Steps

Other features and advantages of the present invention will be apparent from the embodiments of the present invention, wherein: Figure 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of a one-to-many air conditioning system of the present invention; and Figure 2 is an embodiment of the present invention A flow chart of a method for calculating the power consumption of the air conditioner in each room where each indoor unit of the one-to-many air conditioner is executed.

Before the present invention is described in detail, it should be noted that in the following description, similar elements are denoted by the same reference numerals.

Referring to FIG. 1, an embodiment of a one-to-many air conditioning system 10 of the present invention comprises: an outdoor unit 1, three indoor units 2, and three external devices 3.

The outdoor unit 1 is connected to the indoor units 2 and includes three expansion valves 11 and a processing module 12. The expansion valves 11 respectively correspond to the indoor unit 2, and the processing module 12 can detect the total power consumption of the outdoor unit 1 and the sum of a cooling capacity, and the same The control module 12 can calculate according to the ratio of the opening amount of each of the expansion valves 11, the total power consumption, and the sum of the air-conditioning capacities, so as to calculate the power consumption of the air conditioners of the respective rooms in which the indoor unit 2 is located.

Each of the indoor units 2 includes a processor 21 electrically connected to the processing module 12, and the processing module 12 of the outdoor unit 1 can transmit the power consumption to the processor 21 of the corresponding indoor unit 2, respectively. In this way, the one-to-many air conditioning system 10 can calculate the power consumption of the air conditioners of the respective rooms in which the indoor unit 2 is located.

The external devices 3 are respectively disposed in the indoor units 2, and are electrically connected to the processors 21, respectively.

Furthermore, each of the external devices 3 can be electrically connected to a controller 4 by an RS485 transmission line, and the controller 4 reads the power consumption of each room air conditioner by each of the external devices 3, of course, in other implementations. In the example, the external devices 3 can also be electrically connected to the three controllers 4, and the power consumption of the air conditioners of the respective rooms can be read through a one-to-one connection method. Furthermore, the controller 4 can read the power consumption stored by the processor 21 of each indoor unit 2 and the accumulated time of the operation of each indoor unit 2 by the external device 3, and convert the power consumption into a power consumption. .

In addition, the external device 3 can also communicate with a mobile device 5 via a wireless transmission module. The mobile device 5 has a mobile application 51 (ie, an APP), so that the user can also control the mobile application. 51. The power consumption stored in the processor 21 of each indoor unit 2 is read by each of the external devices 3, and each indoor unit 2 is transported. The accumulated time of the transfer is converted to a power consumption.

In particular, the one-to-multiple air conditioning system 10 of the present embodiment is a one-to-three air conditioning system including three indoor units 2, but in other embodiments, the one-to-many air conditioning system 10 may also include two Or four or more indoor units are not limited to the aspects disclosed in the embodiment.

Referring to FIG. 2, a method for calculating the power consumption of the air conditioners of each room in which the one-to-many air conditioners of the one-to-multiple air conditioners are executed in the present embodiment will be described below. The calculation method includes the following main steps: Step S101, detecting the outdoor unit a total power consumption and a sum of air-conditioning capacity; in step S102, the outdoor unit calculates the ratio of the opening amount of the expansion valve, the total power consumption, and the sum of the air-conditioning capacity, to calculate three corresponding indoors Power consumption of the machine; in step S103, the outdoor unit transmits the power consumption to the corresponding indoor units respectively; and in step S104, the controller or the mobile device reads each of the indoor units through each of the external devices The power consumption of the room air conditioner and an accumulated time of each indoor unit operation are converted into a power consumption amount.

Referring to FIG. 1 , in step S101 , the processing module 12 of the outdoor unit 1 can detect the total power consumption and the total air-conditioning capacity of the outdoor unit 1 . Next, in step S102, the processing module 12 of the outdoor unit 1 is based on the ratio of the opening amount of each of the expansion valves 11. For example, the total power consumption and the sum of the air-conditioning capacity are calculated to calculate the power consumption of the indoor unit 2 corresponding to the three strokes respectively; wherein the opening amount of each of the expansion valves 11 is based on the corresponding setting of the indoor unit 2 The parameters are adjusted, in other words, the user can set the parameters of the indoor unit 2 to control the opening amount of the expansion valve 11, thereby adjusting the temperature of the room and the amount of cold air.

Then, in step S103, the processing module 12 of the outdoor unit 1 transmits the power consumption to the processor 21 of the corresponding indoor unit 2, respectively. Finally, in step S104, the controller 4 or the mobile device 5 reads, by each of the external devices 3, the power consumption of each air conditioner in each room of the indoor unit 2 and the accumulated time of the air conditioning operation of each room in which the indoor unit 2 is located. And converted into a power consumption according to the power consumption and the accumulated time. Through the execution steps of the above calculation method, the one-to-many air conditioning system 10 can calculate the power consumption of each room air conditioner in each room of the indoor unit 2 to provide a basis for the distribution of the electricity rate.

In summary, the one-to-many air conditioning system 10 of the present invention can calculate the opening amount, the total power consumption, and the sum of the air-conditioning capacity of the expansion valve 11 of the outdoor unit 1 according to the calculation method performed by the calculation method. A plurality of power consumptions of the air conditioners of the indoor units in which the indoor unit 2 is located are respectively corresponding to each other; and the power consumption stored by the processor 21 of each indoor unit 2 is read by the controller 4 or the mobile device 5 through the external devices 3 Since the accumulated time of the operation is converted into the power consumption amount, and the power consumption of the air conditioners of the respective rooms of the indoor unit 2 is obtained, the object of the present invention can be achieved.

However, the above is only an embodiment of the present invention, when The scope of the present invention is defined by the scope of the invention, and the equivalent equivalents and modifications of the scope of the invention are still within the scope of the invention.

10‧‧‧One-to-many air conditioning system

1‧‧‧Outdoor machine

11‧‧‧Expansion valve

12‧‧‧Processing module

2‧‧‧ indoor unit

21‧‧‧ Processor

3‧‧‧External devices

4‧‧‧ Controller

5‧‧‧Mobile devices

51‧‧‧Mobile App

Claims (10)

A method for calculating the power consumption of each indoor unit of a one-to-many air conditioner is performed by a one-to-many air conditioning system including an outdoor unit and a plurality of indoor units, the outdoor unit including a plurality of corresponding ones, etc. The expansion valve of the indoor unit and a processing module, the calculation method comprises the following steps: (A) the processing module detects a total power consumption of the outdoor unit and a sum of a cooling capacity; and (B) the processing module Calculating according to the ratio of the opening amount of each expansion valve, the total power consumption, and the sum of the air-conditioning capacity, to calculate the power consumption of the air conditioners of the respective rooms corresponding to the indoor units. The method for calculating the power consumption of each indoor unit of the one-to-many air conditioner according to claim 1, further comprising the step (C) performed after the step (B): the processing module of the outdoor unit transmits the power consumption to the Corresponding to these indoor units. The method for calculating the power consumption of each indoor unit of the one-to-many air conditioner according to claim 2, wherein the one-to-many air conditioning system further includes a plurality of external devices respectively disposed in the indoor units, and the external devices are also electrically connected In a controller, the calculation method further includes the step (D) performed after the step (C): the controller reads the power consumption of each air conditioner in each room of the indoor unit by each external device and each of the A cumulative time for the indoor unit to operate. The method for calculating power consumption of each indoor unit of a one-to-many air conditioner according to claim 3, wherein the controller converts the power consumption according to the power consumption of each room air conditioner and the accumulated time of each indoor unit operation into a power consumption amount. The method for calculating power consumption of each indoor unit of a one-to-many air conditioner according to claim 3, wherein the external device is configured by a wireless transmission module and a mobile device Communication, the mobile device has a mobile application, and the mobile application reads the power consumption of each air conditioner in each room of the indoor unit and an accumulated time of each indoor unit operation by each external device, and converts into a consumption Electricity. A one-to-many air conditioning system comprising: a plurality of indoor units; and an outdoor unit electrically connected to the indoors, and comprising a plurality of expansion valves corresponding to the indoor units and a processing module, the processing module capable of Detecting a total power consumption of the outdoor unit and a sum of air-conditioning capacity; and the processing module can calculate according to the ratio of the opening amount of the expansion valve, the total power consumption, and the sum of the air-conditioning capacity, to calculate multiple The power consumption of the air conditioner in each room where the indoor unit is located should be equal. The one-to-many air conditioning system of claim 6, wherein each of the indoor units includes a processor, and the processing module of the outdoor unit transmits the power consumption to the processor of the corresponding indoor unit. The one-to-many air conditioning system according to claim 7, further comprising a plurality of external devices respectively disposed in the indoor devices, the external devices are also electrically connected to a controller, and the controller is read by each of the external devices The power consumption stored by the processor of each indoor unit and an accumulated time of each indoor unit operation. The one-to-many air conditioning system according to claim 8, wherein the controller converts the power consumption according to the power consumption of each room air conditioner and the accumulated time of each indoor unit operation into a power consumption amount. The one-to-many air conditioning system according to claim 8, wherein the external devices communicate with a mobile device by using a wireless transmission module, the mobile device having one line The mobile application program reads, by each of the external devices, the power consumption of each air conditioner in each room of the indoor unit and an accumulated time of each indoor unit operation, and converts the power consumption into a power consumption.