Compensational control system for indoor air conditioning apparatuses and compensational control method for the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10677490-B2
Application number	US-201815870903-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 13, 2018
Priority date	May 10, 2017
Publication date	Jun 9, 2020
Grant date	Jun 9, 2020

Abstract

A compensational control method includes the steps of: controlling a plurality of indoor air conditioning apparatuses to be in operation according to a target temperature; receiving continuously an operating parameter and an environmental datum from each of the indoor air conditioning apparatus; determining whether there is a specific indoor air conditioning apparatus that needs support; acquiring an adjacent indoor air conditioning apparatus which is influential for the specific indoor air conditioning apparatus according to an influence form which is previously built; establishing a supportive strategy according to a supportable operation capability of the adjacent indoor air conditioning apparatus; and adjusting the operating parameter of the adjacent indoor air conditioning apparatus according to the supportive strategy. Therefore, the adjacent indoor air conditioning apparatus is provided to improve an ambient temperature of an area where the specific indoor air conditioning apparatus is installed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A compensational control method applied to a compensational control system located in a space, the compensational control system comprising a control unit and a plurality of indoor air conditioning apparatuses connected to the control unit, the method comprising steps of:
(a0) building an influence form, wherein the influence form is configured to record a plurality of influence values of each of the indoor air conditioning apparatus relative to other indoor air conditioning apparatuses;
(a) controlling the indoor air conditioning apparatuses to be in operation by the control unit according to a target temperature and a comfortable temperature range;
(b) receiving continuously an operating parameter and an environmental datum provided from each of the indoor air conditioning apparatus, wherein the operating parameter includes a current wind speed of the indoor air conditioning apparatus and the comfortable temperature range, and the environmental datum includes a current temperature of an area where the indoor air conditioning apparatus is installed;
(c) determining whether there is a specific indoor air conditioning apparatus that needs support according to the operating parameters and the environmental data;
(d) acquiring an adjacent indoor air conditioning apparatus which is influential for the specific indoor air conditioning apparatus according to the influence form;
(e01) calculating a supportable operation capability of the adjacent indoor air conditioning apparatus according to the current wind speed, the comfortable temperature range of the adjacent indoor air conditioning apparatus, and the current temperature of the area where the adjacent indoor air conditioning apparatus is installed, the calculating step comprising:
(e011) acquiring the operating parameter and the environmental datum of the adjacent indoor air conditioning apparatus;
(e012) calculating an adjustable wind speed range of the adjacent indoor air conditioning apparatus according to the current wind speed and a maximum wind speed;
(e013) calculating an adjustable temperature range of the adjacent indoor air conditioning apparatus according to the current temperature and the comfortable temperature range; and
(e014) calculating the supportable operation capability of the adjacent indoor air conditioning apparatus according to the adjustable wind speed range and the adjustable temperature range;
(e) establishing a supportive strategy according to the supportable operation capability of the adjacent indoor air conditioning apparatus, wherein the supportable operation capability is proportional to the adjustable wind speed range of the adjacent indoor air conditioning apparatus, and is also proportional to the adjustable temperature range of the area where the adjacent indoor air conditioning apparatus is arranged; and
(f) adjusting the operating parameter of the adjacent indoor air conditioning apparatus according to the supportive strategy.

2. The compensational control method in claim 1 , wherein the step (a0) comprises steps of:
(a011) providing a graphic user interface by the control unit;
(a012) receiving a plurality of adjacent relationships between the indoor air conditioning apparatuses through the graphic user interface;
(a013) calculating correspondingly the influence values of the indoor air conditioning apparatuses according to the adjacent relationships, wherein the influence values are zero or one; and
(a014) building the influence form according to the influence values.

3. The compensational control method in, claim 1 , wherein the step (a0) further comprises steps of:
(a021) providing a graphic user interface by the control unit;
(a022) receiving a topology datum of the space and an apparatus parameter of each of the indoor air conditioning apparatus;
(a023) calculating correspondingly the influence values of the indoor air conditioning apparatuses according to the topology datum and the apparatus parameters, wherein the influence values are rational numbers between zero and one; and
(a024) building the influence form according to the influence values.

4. The compensational control method in claim 1 , wherein the step (a0) further comprises steps of:
(a031) collecting an operating history datum of each of the indoor air conditioning apparatus by the control unit;
(a032) calculating correspondingly the influence values of the indoor air conditioning apparatuses according to the operating history data, wherein the influence values are rational numbers between zero and one; and
(a033) building or updating the influence form according to the influence values; and
(a034) performing repeatedly the step (a031), the step (a032), and the step (a033) before the compensational control system is powered off.

5. The compensational control method in claim 4 , further comprising a step of:
(d1) performing an influence conversion procedure after the step (d), wherein the influence conversion procedure is to adjust each influence value that is greater than or equal to a specific rational number to one and adjust each influence value that is less than the specific rational number to zero.

6. The compensational control method in claim 1 , wherein when the adjacent indoor air conditioning apparatus is operated in a cooling mode, a temperature difference value between the current temperature and a lower temperature of the comfortable temperature range is calculated, and the temperature difference value is equal to the adjustable temperature range in the step (e013).

7. The compensational control method in claim 1 , wherein when the adjacent indoor air conditioning apparatus is operated in a heating mode, a temperature difference value between the current temperature and an upper temperature of the comfortable temperature range is calculated, and the temperature difference value is equal to the adjustable temperature range in the step (e013).

8. The compensational control method in claim 1 , wherein in the step (c), when any one of the indoor air conditioning apparatuses is operated at a maximum wind speed for a period of time and an ambient temperature of the area where the indoor air conditioning apparatus is installed cannot be adjusted in the comfortable temperature range, the indoor air conditioning apparatus is determined as the specific indoor air conditioning apparatus.

9. The compensational control method in claim 1 , further comprising steps of:
(g) calculating a waiting time after the step (f);
(h) determining whether the ambient temperature of the area where the specific indoor air conditioning apparatus is installed is improved within the waiting time; and
(i) sending out a warning signal when the ambient temperature of the area where the specific indoor air conditioning apparatus is installed is not improved within the waiting time.

10. The compensational control method in claim 9 , wherein in the step (d), the adjacent indoor air conditioning apparatuses which are influential for the specific indoor air conditioning apparatus are acquired according to the influence form; in the step (e), the supportive strategies are established according to the supportable operation capabilities of the adjacent indoor air conditioning apparatuses, and the step (i) further comprises steps of:
(i1) determining whether another of the supportive strategies is available when the ambient temperature of the area where the specific indoor air conditioning apparatus is installed is not improved;
(i2) performing the step (f) when another of the supportive strategies is available; and
(i3) sending out the warning signal when another of the supportive strategies is not available.

11. A

Assignees

• Delta Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Lo Tien-Szu
• Chen Meng-Seng
• Lee Hsiang-Pin
• Chen Ying-Hsiu

Classifications

• F24F11/81

  by controlling the air supply to heat-exchangers or bypass channels · CPC title

• F24F11/61

  using timers · CPC title

• F24F11/63

  Electronic processing · CPC title

• F24F11/58

  using Internet communication · CPC title

• F24F2221/54

  Heating and cooling, simultaneously or alternatively · CPC title