Operating terminal for air conditioner

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9829208-B2
Application number	US-201314384742-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 9, 2013
Priority date	Mar 26, 2012
Publication date	Nov 28, 2017
Grant date	Nov 28, 2017

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 32 a in the memory, and causes the display unit to display the setting information.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

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.

Assignees

• Ino Hiroyuki
• Muramatsu Hidetoshi
• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Ino Hiroyuki
• Muramatsu Hidetoshi

Classifications

• F24F11/56

  Remote control · CPC title

• G08C17/02 Primary

  using a radio link · CPC title

• F24F11/30

  for purposes related to the operation of the system, e.g. for safety or monitoring · CPC title

• F24F11/64

  using pre-stored data · CPC title

• F24F11/523 Primary

  for displaying temperature data · CPC title