Remote control device for air conditioner

• US 8,653,936 B2
• Filed: 10/06/2010
• Issued: 02/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Matsumoto, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): BEE, ANDREW W.
• Application Number:
  US12/899,202
• Publication Number:
  US 20110084805A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,231 Days
• Field of Search: 340/3.7, 340/3.71, 340/13.25, 700/276
• US Class Current: 340/3.7
• 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 11/46 Improving electric energy efficiency or saving
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/523 for displaying temperature data
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/56 Remote control
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/61 using timers
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2110/10 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/30 User interface

Abstract

The present invention is aimed at providing a remote control device for an air conditioner which makes it possible for a user to fully use added functions of the air conditioner without being unable to make a quick decision about or giving up added value functions, and to realize energy savings in the air conditioner without difficulty, by not adopting input with buttons, but by adopting inputs describing scenes in a daily life of the user by words. The remote control device for the air conditioner according to the present invention includes a chassis; an interface display unit, which is placed in a front surface of the chassis, and is formed by a full dot liquid crystal display; and a scene button, which is placed in a front surface of the chassis, to select and decide a scene selection that is displayed on the interface display unit.

Claims

1. A remote control device for an air conditioner comprising:

a chassis;

an interface display unit placed in a front surface of the chassis, the interface display unit displaying, on a screen, a plurality of scene selections each of which describes a feeling of user in a daily life scene of the user by a word and is associated with at least one function of the air conditioner; and

a scene button placed in the front surface of the chassis to select and decide a scene selection among the plurality of scene selections displayed by the interface display unit,

wherein more than one scene selection among the plurality of scene selections displayed by the interface display unit can be selected simultaneously, and

wherein the interface display unit alters a content to be displayed on the screen, in accordance with frequency of more than one scene selection being selected simultaneously and with a combination of the selected more than one scene selections.

2. A remote control device for an air conditioner comprising:

a chassis;

an interface display unit placed in a front surface of the chassis, the interface display unit displaying, on a screen, a plurality of scene selections each of which describes a feeling of user in a daily life scene of the user by a word and is associated with at least one function of the air conditioner; and

a scene button placed in the front surface of the chassis to select and decide a scene selection among the plurality of scene selections displayed by the interface display unit,

wherein more than one scene selection among the plurality of scene selections displayed by the interface display unit can be selected simultaneously, and

wherein the interface display unit displays a combination of more than one scene selections selected simultaneously with more frequency than a certain threshold, as a new scene selection, on the screen.