Control apparatus of air conditioning system

• US 20040112071A1
• Filed: 12/10/2003
• Published: 06/17/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Calsonic Kansei Corporation
• Original Assignee: Calsonic Kansei Corporation
• Inventors: Takahashi, Eiji, Sunaga, Hideki, Tanaka, Kaoru, Araki, Futoshi
• Granted Patent: US 6,877,669 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 62/132
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 1/00857 characterised by the means connecting the initiating means, e.g. control lever, to the damper door

Abstract

Electrical circuits (35a)-(37a) and exclusive ICs (35b)-(37b) which are for data communication are respectively included inside of a housing of actuator side connectors (22′)-(24′) of a harness assembly (30) which connects an A/C amplifier unit (16) and actuators (40), (50) and (60), and the actuator side connectors (22′)-(24′) are formed in a configuration possible to be connected to connectors (41)-(61) of the actuators (40)-(60) which are used in a door control apparatus which is designed not to carry out the data communication.

Claims

1. A control apparatus for an air conditioning system comprising:

an actuator which corresponds to data communication or does not correspond to the data communication for driving a connected device connected thereto;

a driving control device for controlling said actuator; and

an interface having at one end thereof a connector which is connected to said actuator and a connector which is connected to said driving control device at the other end;

wherein a circuit for data communication to carry out data communication carried out between said driving control device and said actuator via said interface is provided in said interface, and said connector connected to said actuator is connectable to both said actuator which corresponds to said data communication and said actuator which does not correspond to said data communication in order to provide the interface to be used for both said actuator corresponds to data communication and said actuator which does not correspond to said data communication.

2. The control apparatus for the air conditioning system according to claim 1, wherein said circuit for data communication is included in said connector connected to said actuator.

3. The control apparatus for the air conditioning system according to claim 2, wherein said driving control device outputs a driving control signal for controlling a plurality of actuators and an identification signal for specifying one or more of the actuators of said plurality of actuators to which the driving control signal is to be received, and said interface selectively outputs said driving control signal from said driving control device to said one or more of the actuators specified by said identification signal.

4. The control apparatus for the air conditioning system according to claim 3, wherein each of the actuators of said plurality of actuators actuates said connected device which corresponds to the actuator received the driving control signal when receiving said driving control signal, without having circuits for judging said identification signal.

5. The control apparatus for the air conditioning system according to claim 4, wherein said circuit for data communication judges said identification signal which specifies said actuator of said plurality of actuators, and selectively outputs said driving control signal to the actuator when judging that the identification signal is an identification signal specifying that actuator.

6. The control apparatus for the air conditioning system according to claim 5, wherein said actuator is selectively corresponded to whether or not carrying out the data communication by said interface being connected to said driving control device and said actuator when carrying out said data communication, and said actuator being connected to an interface which does not have the circuit for carrying out data communication and a driving control device which is not corresponded to said data communication when said data communication is not carried out.

7. The control apparatus for the air conditioning system according to claim 6, wherein said driving control device which corresponds to the data communication and said plurality of actuators are networked by Local Area Network, and said data communication is a data communication in said Local Area Network.