DISPLAY DEVICE AND APPLICATION PROGRAM

• US 20170010016A1
• Filed: 01/27/2014
• Published: 01/12/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi-Johnson Controls Air Conditioning Incorporated (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Original Assignee: Johnson Controls International plc
• Inventors: SAITO, Emi, SUGIYAMA, Naoya, SUENAGA, Shinya, MIYATA, Katsuya, ITOH, Makoto, SUGIYAMA, Tatsuya
• Granted Patent: US 10,240,810 B2
• 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 11/49 ensuring correct operation, e.g. by trial operation or configuration checks
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/52 Indication arrangements, e.g. displays
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning

Abstract

The present invention is intended to provide a general-purpose display device that is able to display on a display unit easily operating information required for assessing a test operation state, and an application program to be executed by the display device. Accordingly, in this display device which displays on the display unit the operating information of an air conditioner in which an outdoor unit provided with an outdoor heat exchanger and an indoor unit provided with an indoor heat exchanger are connected by a refrigerant pipe and a refrigerant is circulated by a compressor, a control unit of the display device controls the display unit so that time information is displayed horizontally and a first operating information display area and a second operating information display area for displaying first operating information and second operating information, respectively, corresponding to the time information are displayed vertically side by side.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a display unit for displaying operating information of an air conditioner having an indoor unit including an indoor heat exchanger and an outdoor unit including an outdoor heat exchanger and a compressor, the indoor unit being connected with the outdoor unit through refrigerant pipes, and the compressor circulating a refrigerant; and

a control unit for controlling the display device so that time information is displayed horizontally, and that a first operating information display area for displaying a first operating information for the time information and a second operating information display area for displaying a second operating information for the time information are displayed vertically or horizontally side by side.

3. The display device according to claim 1, wherein

when the selecting operation of selecting the predetermined position in the first operating information display area is performed on the operating unit of the display device, the control unit of the display device controls the display unit so that the first index information indicating the time information on the predetermined selected position or the position of the first operating information are displayed in the first operating information display area, and so that a second index information indicating the time information on a predetermined selected position or a position of the second operating information are displayed in the second operating information display area.

5. The display device according to claim 1, wherein

when the selecting operation of selecting the predetermined position in the first operating information display area is performed on the operating unit of the display device, the control unit of the display device controls the display unit so that the time information on the predetermined selected position or the index information indicating the position of the first operating information are displayed in the first operating information display area, and

when the time altering operation of altering the selected position in the first operating information display area in the time axis direction is performed on the operating unit of the display device,

the control unit of the display device controls the display unit so that the first index information indicating the time information on the predetermined selected position after alteration or the position of the first operating information are displayed in the first operating information display area, and controls the display unit so that the time information on the selected position after alteration or the second index information indicating the position of the second operating information are displayed in the second operating information display area.

6. The display device according to claim 1, wherein

the first operating information or the second operating information is in case of the outdoor unit at least either of operating frequency, pressure on a high pressure side, pressure on a low pressure side, inverter primary current, inverter secondary current, and outside air temperature of the compressor, a total operational frequency of a plurality of compressors, while in case of the indoor unit it is at least either of sucked air temperature, discharged air temperature, temperature difference between the sucked air temperature the discharged air temperature, set temperature, operation mode, and set wind volume.

7. The display device according to claim 1, wherein

the operating information of the outdoor unit is displayed above the operating information of the indoor unit among the operating information displayed on the display unit.

8. The display device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a scroll means of performing a scroll operation on the display unit vertically or horizontally, wherein

when the scroll operation is performed on the scroll means, the control unit of the display device has the display unit display operating information other than the first operating information and the second operating information.

9. The display device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an operating status display selection means of selecting which operating status among the operating statuses is to be displayed in the first operating information display area or the second operating information display area.

10. The display device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an operating information hiding means of hiding operating information having been displayed on the display unit, wherein

when a hiding operation for the predetermined operating information is performed on the operating information hiding means, the control unit of the display device controls the display unit so that the operating information other than the operating information which the hiding operation deals with is displayed in the first operating information display area or the second operating information display area.

11. The display device according to claim 1, wherein

when the first operating information is the operating information on the predetermined outdoor unit or indoor unit, the control unit of the display device controls the display unit so that other operating information on the outdoor unit or the indoor unit is displayed together with the first operating information in the first operating information display area.

12. The display device according to claim 11, wherein

when the first operating information and the other operating information have different units from each other, the control unit of the display device controls the display unit so that the size information corresponding to each operating information unit is displayed vertically in the first operating information display area.

13. The display device according to claim 11, wherein

when the selection operation of selecting either the first operating information or the other operating information is performed on the operating unit of the display device, the control unit of the display device controls the display unit so that the size information on the selected operating information is displayed by contrast in the first operating information display area.

2. A display device comprising:

a display unit for displaying operating information of an air conditioner having an indoor unit including an indoor heat exchanger and an outdoor unit including an outdoor heat exchanger and a compressor and, the indoor unit being connected with the outdoor unit through refrigerant pipes, and the compressor circulating a refrigerant; and

a control unit for controlling the display device so that time information is displayed horizontally, and that a first operating information display area for displaying a first operating information for the time information are displayed wherein,

when a selecting operation of selecting a predetermined position in the first operating information display area is performed on an operating unit of the display device, the control unit of the display device controls the display unit so that the a first index information indicating time information on a predetermined selected position or a position of the first operating information are displayed in the first operating information display area.

4. The display device according to claim 2, wherein

when a time alteration operation of altering a selected position in the first operating information display area in a time direction is performed on the operating unit of the display device,

the control unit of the display device controls the display unit so that the index information indicating the time information on the selected position after alteration or the position of the first operating information are displayed in the first operating information display area.

14. An application program executed by a display device comprising the display unit for displaying operating information of an air conditioner having an indoor unit including an indoor heat exchanger and an outdoor unit including an outdoor heat exchanger and a compressor and, the indoor unit being connected with the outdoor unit through refrigerant pipes, the compressor circulating a refrigerant, the application program comprising a step of:

having the control unit of the display device control the display unit, when the predetermined operation is performed on the operating unit of the display device, so that time information is displayed horizontally and that a first operating information display area for displaying first operating information for the time information and a second operating information display area for displaying second operating information for the time information are displayed vertically or horizontally side by side.