AIR CONDITIONER

• US 20160265803A1
• Filed: 10/08/2014
• Published: 09/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Daikin Industries Ltd
• Original Assignee: Daikin Industries Ltd
• Inventors: MORI, Takashige
• Application Number:
  US15/028,142
• Publication Number:
  US 20160265803A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/30 for purposes related to the operation of the system, e.g. for safety or monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/52 Indication arrangements, e.g. displays
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/526 giving audible indications
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/56 Remote control
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2120/10 Occupancy
• CPC Class Codes: F25B 13/00 Compression machines, plants or systems, with reversible cycle defrosting cycles F25B47/02
• CPC Class Codes: F25B 2313/02741 using one four-way valve
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/00 Arrangements for transmitting signals characterised by the use of a wireless electrical link
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/12 Power saving techniques of remote control or controlled devices
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/34 Context aware guidance
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/51 Remote controlling of devices based on replies, status thereof

Abstract

In a known air conditioner, when the operation setting of the air conditioner is changed from a visiting destination or the like by a user using a terminal, another user in an air-conditioned space in which the air conditioner is provided may misunderstand the change as a malfunction of the air conditioner. A sound notification controller (sound notification unit) of an air conditioner is arranged such that, when an operation change instruction is supplied from a terminal different from a remote controller which is an accessory of the air conditioner, the air conditioner notifies by a message that the operation change instruction is supplied from the terminal, in response to the operation change instruction supplied from the terminal.

Claims

1-6. -6. (canceled)

7. An air conditioner in which operation setting is changeable based on an operation change instruction supplied from a terminal different from a remote controller which is an accessory of the air conditioner, comprising

a sound notification unit configured to notify predetermined information by sound, the sound notification unit notifying, by a message, that the operation change instruction is supplied from the terminal, in response to the operation change instruction supplied from the terminal.

8. The air conditioner according to claim 7, wherein, the message includes a content of the operation change instruction supplied from the terminal.

9. The air conditioner according to claim 7, wherein, the sound notification unit outputs the message after outputting first receiving sound.

10. The air conditioner according to claim 8, wherein, the sound notification unit outputs the message after outputting first receiving sound.

11. The air conditioner according to claim 9, wherein, the sound notification unit is capable of outputting second receiving sound in response to the operation change instruction supplied from the remote controller, and

the second receiving sound is different from the first receiving sound.

12. The air conditioner according to claim 10, wherein, the sound notification unit is capable of outputting second receiving sound in response to the operation change instruction supplied from the remote controller, and

the second receiving sound is different from the first receiving sound.

13. The air conditioner according to claim 7, wherein, the sound notification unit outputs the message when the operation change instruction supplied from the terminal is at least one of an operation start instruction and an operation stop instruction.

14. The air conditioner according to claim 8, wherein, the sound notification unit outputs the message when the operation change instruction supplied from the terminal is at least one of an operation start instruction and an operation stop instruction.

15. The air conditioner according to claim 9, wherein, the sound notification unit outputs the message when the operation change instruction supplied from the terminal is at least one of an operation start instruction and an operation stop instruction.

16. The air conditioner according to claim 10, wherein, the sound notification unit outputs the message when the operation change instruction supplied from the terminal is at least one of an operation start instruction and an operation stop instruction.

17. The air conditioner according to claim 11, wherein, the sound notification unit outputs the message when the operation change instruction supplied from the terminal is at least one of an operation start instruction and an operation stop instruction.

18. The air conditioner according to claim 12, wherein, the sound notification unit outputs the message when the operation change instruction supplied from the terminal is at least one of an operation start instruction and an operation stop instruction.

19. The air conditioner according to claim 7, further comprising a human body detection unit configured to detect a person in an air-conditioned space,

the sound notification unit outputting the message when a person is detected by the human body detection unit.

20. The air conditioner according to claim 8, further comprising a human body detection unit configured to detect a person in an air-conditioned space,

the sound notification unit outputting the message when a person is detected by the human body detection unit.

21. The air conditioner according to claim 9, further comprising a human body detection unit configured to detect a person in an air-conditioned space,

the sound notification unit outputting the message when a person is detected by the human body detection unit.

22. The air conditioner according to claim 10, further comprising a human body detection unit configured to detect a person in an air-conditioned space,

the sound notification unit outputting the message when a person is detected by the human body detection unit.