US 12,405,585 B2
Air conditioning system including a platform with remote access to a main body of an air conditioning apparatus and including multiple function layers
Sumie Morita, Kanagawa (JP); Takeshi Umemoto, Kanagawa (JP); Tamotsu Nakajima, Kanagawa (JP); and Masanori Tomita, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED, Kanagawa (JP)
Appl. No. 17/915,269
Filed by FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED, Kanagawa (JP)
PCT Filed Mar. 30, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/013729
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 28, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/201058, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 7, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-065234 (JP), filed on Mar. 31, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0135375 A1, May 4, 2023
Int. Cl. F24F 11/63 (2018.01); G05B 19/042 (2006.01)
CPC G05B 19/042 (2013.01) [F24F 11/63 (2018.01); G05B 2219/2614 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An air conditioning system, comprising:
a main body device including a hardware group that includes at least a compressor, a heat exchanger, and a blower fan, and first software that controls the hardware group; and
a remote device including at least an arithmetic processing unit and second software that controls the arithmetic processing unit, the remote device being connected to the main body device via a network,
wherein the first software of the main body device includes:
a hardware access layer including a driver group that drives each piece of the hardware group;
a control layer that controls the hardware group via the driver group; and
a main body device-side function layer that accepts a first order to the main body device and outputs a first instruction to the control layer,
the second software of the remote device includes:
a remote device-side function layer that accepts a second order to the main body device and outputs a second instruction to the control layer via the main body device-side function layer, and
a function execution program that executes at least one function of the main body device is in at least one of the main body device-side function layer or the remote device-side function layer.