Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Air conditioner
- Patent Title (中): 冷气机
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Application No.: US13328232Application Date: 2011-12-16
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Publication No.: US09435558B2Publication Date: 2016-09-06
- Inventor: Takashi Matsumoto , Shintaro Watanabe , Hiroshi Kage , Yoshikuni Kataoka , Hiroshi Hirosaki
- Applicant: Takashi Matsumoto , Shintaro Watanabe , Hiroshi Kage , Yoshikuni Kataoka , Hiroshi Hirosaki
- Applicant Address: JP Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo
- Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo
- Agency: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
- Priority: JP2008-231799 20080910; JP2009-135186 20090604
- Main IPC: G01K11/30
- IPC: G01K11/30 ; G05D23/00 ; F24F11/00

Abstract:
Disclosed is an air conditioner with spatial recognition and detection functions for deciding room shape by determining, based on temperature difference information between the floor and walls occurring during air conditioning operation, a human body detection position log, and a capacity zone of the air conditioner. In an embodiment, an infrared sensor detects a temperature of an area of the room by scanning the area and a control unit acquires thermal image data of the area scanned by the infrared sensor and then calculates a temperature of a wall of the room from the acquired thermal image data. The control unit detects a human body in the room from the thermal image data, calculates a distance between the body and the wall, and calculates a radiation temperature from the wall for the body based on the calculated temperature of the wall and the distance between the body and the wall.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120123732A1 AN AIR CONDITIONER Public/Granted day:2012-05-17
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