Operating terminal for air conditioner

• US 9,829,208 B2
• Filed: 01/09/2013
• Issued: 11/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Ino, Hiroyuki, Muramatsu, Hidetoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Rampuria, Satish
• Application Number:
  US14/384,742
• Publication Number:
  US 20150032268A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,784 Days
• Field of Search: 700275-306
• 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 11/523 for displaying temperature data
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/56 Remote control
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/64 using pre-stored data
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 23/1917 using digital means
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link

Abstract

An operating terminal that is capable of controlling an air conditioner including an indoor device and an outdoor device. The operating terminal includes a display unit that displays at least state information of an air conditioner, a memory that stores therein setting information recorded on an outdoor/indoor control substrate, a communication unit that performs information communication with the indoor device, and an information processing unit that reads setting information set in the outdoor/indoor control substrate through the communication unit, records this setting information 32a in the memory, and causes the display unit to display the setting information.

Claims

1. An operating terminal that is capable of controlling an air conditioner including an indoor device and an outdoor device, wherein each of the indoor device and the outdoor device is provided with a control substrate that holds therein as setting information at least settings of functions used in the indoor device and the outdoor device, the operating terminal comprising:

an operation unit that remotely controls driving of the air conditioner;

a display unit that displays at least state information of the air conditioner;

a memory that stores therein the setting information recorded on the control substrate;

a communication unit that performs information communication with the indoor device; and

an information processing unit that downloads the setting information from the control substrate through the communication unit to forcibly allow display of the setting information on the display unit without the operation unit being operated when the air conditioner is powered on for a first time after the setting information is set in the control substrate, and records the setting information in the memory wherein;

an external-memory insertion port is provided in the operating terminal, and the information processing unit records setting information read from the control substrate in an external memory inserted into the external-memory insertion port, and causes the display unit to display the setting information; and

when a predetermined operation is performed by the operation unit, the information processing unit writes setting information read from the external memory on a substrate used instead of the control substrate.

2. The operating terminal of an air conditioner according to claim 1, wherein

when the air conditioner is powered on and a predetermined operation is performed by the operation unit, the information processing unit writes setting information read from the memory on a substrate used instead of the control substrate.

3. The operating terminal of an air conditioner according to claim 2, wherein

when the air conditioner is powered on, the information processing unit causes the display unit to display setting information read from the memory.

4. The operating terminal of an air conditioner according to claim 1, wherein

the operating terminal changes setting information saved in its own memory or an external memory by performing a predetermined operation by the operation unit.