US 12,117,187 B2
Outdoor unit, air-conditioning system, and recording medium
Hiroaki Kotake, Tokyo (JP); and Hiroaki Endo, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/639,212
Filed by Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Nov. 12, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/044381
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 28, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/095125, PCT Pub. Date May 20, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0333793 A1, Oct. 20, 2022
Int. Cl. F24F 1/20 (2011.01); H04L 61/50 (2022.01)
CPC F24F 1/20 (2013.01) [H04L 61/50 (2022.05)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An outdoor unit, comprising:
a first communicator to communicate with a management device and one or more other outdoor units in a first communication method;
a second communicator to communicate with one or more indoor units and a remote controller in a second communication method different from the first communication method, the one or more indoor units and the remote controller being connected to the outdoor unit;
a first storage to store group information set by a user and uniquely assigned for each of one or more groups into which the one or more indoor units are grouped;
a group information notifier to notify the management device of the set group information;
a second storage to store address information relating to an address of another outdoor unit among the one or more other outdoor units to which the same group information as the outdoor unit is set, the address information being received from the management device; and
a transferer to transfer
a first operation command received from the remote controller to the another outdoor unit when an indoor unit addressed in the first operation command is not included in the one or more indoor units, and
a second operation command received from the another outdoor unit and addressed to an indoor unit of the one or more indoor units to the indoor unit.