US 11,808,478 B2
Air conditioning control device and method for controlling an air conditioning appliance and a wind-blowing appliance
Shinichi Shikii, Nara (JP); Koichi Kusukame, Osaka (JP); Nawatt Silawan, Osaka (JP); and Tatsuo Itoh, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA, Torrance, CA (US)
Filed by Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 20, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/446,839.
Application 16/446,839 is a division of application No. 15/782,361, filed on Oct. 12, 2017, granted, now 10,371,402.
Application 15/782,361 is a division of application No. 14/414,191, granted, now 9,841,202, issued on Dec. 12, 2017, previously published as PCT/JP2014/002525, filed on May 13, 2014.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/891,473, filed on Oct. 16, 2013.
Claims priority of application No. 2013-105305 (JP), filed on May 17, 2013.
Prior Publication US 2020/0003438 A1, Jan. 2, 2020
Int. Cl. F24F 120/10 (2018.01); F24F 11/89 (2018.01); F24F 11/30 (2018.01); G01D 11/30 (2006.01); F24F 11/58 (2018.01); F24F 11/52 (2018.01); F24F 11/63 (2018.01); F24F 11/77 (2018.01); F24F 11/79 (2018.01); F24F 120/12 (2018.01); F24F 110/10 (2018.01)
CPC F24F 11/89 (2018.01) [F24F 11/30 (2018.01); F24F 11/52 (2018.01); F24F 11/58 (2018.01); F24F 11/63 (2018.01); F24F 11/77 (2018.01); F24F 11/79 (2018.01); G01D 11/30 (2013.01); F24F 2110/10 (2018.01); F24F 2120/10 (2018.01); F24F 2120/12 (2018.01); G05B 2219/2614 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An air conditioning appliance equipped with a sensor, the air conditioning appliance comprising:
the sensor configured to acquire information regarding temperature distribution of a space in which the air conditioning appliance is provided; and
a microcomputer (i) configured to detect a person in the space from the information regarding the temperature distribution, and to detect a position of a predetermined part of the person and a temperature of the predetermined part of the person, and (ii) configured to determine whether or not the temperature of the predetermined part of the person satisfies a predetermined condition, and perform control of transmitting, to a wind-blowing appliance external to the air conditioning appliance, a signal indicating that wind-blowing is to be performed toward the position of the predetermined part, based on a result of the determination of whether or not the temperature of the predetermined part of the person satisfies the predetermined condition, wherein
the sensor is further configured to detect a presence of the wind-blowing appliance in the space,
when it is detected that the wind-blowing appliance is present in the space, the microcomputer is configured to perform the control in cooperation with the air conditioning appliance and the wind-blowing appliance, based on an environment temperature of the space and the temperature of the predetermined part,
the predetermined condition is that the temperature of the predetermined part is higher than the environment temperature of the space, and
when the result of the determination is that the temperature of the predetermined part is higher than the environment temperature of the space, the microcomputer is configured to cause the air conditioning appliance to stop performing wind-blowing and transmit to the wind-blowing appliance the signal indicating that wind-blowing is to be performed toward the position of the predetermined part.