JPH0612101A - Control device of equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce the power consumption for a preparation operation by performing the preparation operation according to the using state of a user and further to prevent the handleability of the user from being impaired by enabling the coping with a sudden use, in an equipment performing the preparation operation for an ON mode when an on and off switch is turned on during an OFF mode when the on and off switch such as an operation switch, etc., is turned off. CONSTITUTION:In a microcomputer 15, a data preservation means 23 preserving the operation time data of plural days and a control means 24 controlling the preparation operation in the OFF mode of required time by defining these time data as a reference are incorporated. The control means 24 is constituted to process the time data of new days by regarding it as more important than the time data of old days, of the time data of plural days in the data preservation means.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a device for performing a preparatory operation for an on mode when an on / off switch is "on" during an off mode when the on / off switch is "off". Has a vaporizer for vaporizing with an electric heater, a hot air heater that preheats the vaporizer during the off mode, a combustion device such as a water heater, or operating the compressor at a low rotation speed during an operation stop, An air conditioner that can generate cold air or warm air at the same time as starting operation by preheating the refrigerant with an electric heater, or preheat the cathode ray tube during the off mode so that the image can be viewed at the same time as the switch is turned on. The present invention relates to a control device for equipment used in television equipment and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Sho 62-62
As described in JP-A-46124, the electric heater is energized and controlled so that the temperature of the vaporizer becomes equal to or higher than the vaporization temperature of the liquid fuel during the combustion, so that the gasification combustion can be performed. Also, even when combustion is stopped, if the preheat switch is turned on, the temperature of the carburetor will be maintained at a temperature lower than the temperature at the time of combustion, and after the operation switch is turned on, a control device that can quickly perform gasification combustion can be installed. I have it.

[0003]

However, in the above-described control device for the combustion equipment, when the preheat switch is turned on while the operation switch is off (in the off mode), the carburetor always keeps a predetermined temperature. Since it is heated, if there is a time until the start of the next combustion, electric power is wasted, which is very uneconomical.

Therefore, if the operating time data of a plurality of days of the equipment is stored and the preparatory operation in the required time off mode is controlled on the basis of these time data, the equipment can be used in a time zone in which it is often used. A preparatory operation can be performed. However, in this case, even if you try to use the device suddenly on a certain time zone on one day and try to use the device on the same day on the next day, the time data of the previous day is not so important, so that time The preparatory action on the belt could not be performed. That is, there is a drawback that the preparatory operation is not performed unless the data for that time period is accumulated for several days.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned fact, and is for the on mode when the on / off switch is "on" during the off mode when the on / off switch such as the operation switch is "off". In the equipment that performs the preparatory action, the preparatory action is performed according to the user's usage situation so that the power consumption for the preparatory action is reduced, and further, it is possible to cope with sudden use. It is intended to prevent the user's usability from being deteriorated.

[0006]

According to the present invention, there is provided a device for performing a preparatory operation for an on mode when an on / off switch is "on" during an off mode when the on / off switch is "off". Data storage means for storing the operating time data of a plurality of days, and control means for controlling the preparatory operation in the required time off mode on the basis of these time data. Of the time data, the time data of the new day is configured to be processed with a higher priority than the time data of the old day.

Further, according to the present invention, in a device that performs a preparatory operation for an on mode when the on / off switch is "on" during an off mode when the on / off switch is "off", The data storage means for storing the operating time data and the control means for controlling the preparation operation in the required time off mode on the basis of these time data are provided. The time data is given a greater weight than the time data of the old days.

[0008]

With this configuration, the preparatory operation in the required time off mode is performed on the basis of the time data of a plurality of days stored in the data storage means, so that the preparatory operation according to the usage status of the user is performed. It is possible to reduce the power consumption for the preparatory operation as much as possible.
Moreover, in the control means, the time data of the new day among the time data of the plurality of days of the data storage means is processed more importantly than the time data of the old day, so that the usage status suddenly changes one day. Even so, the next day, it is possible to perform a preparatory operation suitable for the usage situation, which is excellent in usability.
The same applies to the second aspect.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments of the present invention applied to a petroleum fan heater having a burner for vaporizing and burning liquid fuel with an electric heater and preheating the vaporizing portion of the burner during the off mode are described with reference to the drawings. It will be described with reference to FIG.

2 and 3 show an oil fan heater. 2 and 3, reference numeral 1 denotes an exterior case of an oil fan heater. The exterior case 1 is provided with an air suction port 3 having an air filter 2 on its rear surface and a warm air outlet 4 on its front surface. A warm air blower 5 facing the air suction port 3 is provided inside the outer case 1, and a cartridge tank 6, an oil receiving tank 7, a fuel pump 8, a combustion blower 9, a burner 10, a combustion cylinder 11,
A blower guide case 12, a control device 13 and the like are provided. Further, 14 is an operation panel provided on the upper surface of the outer case 1.

FIG. 1 shows the basic configuration of the control device 13 described above. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 15 is a microcomputer (hereinafter, referred to as a microcomputer) having an A / D converter and a timepiece device built therein. Burner temperature sensor 19 for detecting the temperature of the vaporization part of
And a flame detector FL are connected.

A burner 1 is provided on the output side of the microcomputer 15.
An electric heater 20 for heating the vaporization part of 0, an igniter 21, a burner motor 9M for driving the blower 9 for combustion, a fuel pump 8, a fan motor 5M for driving the blower 5 for warm air, and a digital display for displaying the room temperature and the set temperature. The display 22 is connected. R is a rotation speed detector that detects the rotation speed of the burner motor 9M, and the rotation speed signal of the rotation speed detector R is input to the microcomputer 15. The operation switch 16, the temperature setter 17, and the digital display 22 are the operation panel 1
4 is provided. Further, AC motors such as a shading motor are used for the fan motor 5M and the burner motor 9M.

When the operation switch 16 is turned on, the microcomputer 15 first energizes the electric heater 20 to heat the vaporizing portion of the burner 10, as shown in FIG. Then, when the temperature detected by the burner temperature sensor 19 reaches a temperature suitable for vaporizing kerosene and the preheating is completed, the microcomputer 15 causes the burner motor 9
The burner 10 is pre-purged by operating M. When the prepurge is completed, the microcomputer 15 causes the igniter 21 to perform a predetermined time.
And the fan motor 5M for driving the warm air blower 5 and the fuel pump 8 are started.

In this way, when the combustion air and the fuel (kerosene) are supplied to the burner 10, the fuel is vaporized, mixed with the combustion air, and then ignited by the igniter 21.
When the microcomputer 15 determines that ignition has occurred with the signal from the flame detector FL, the temperature set by the temperature setter 17 and the room temperature sensor 18
The combustion amount in the burner 10 is set in accordance with the temperature difference from the room temperature detected by, and the rotation speed of the burner motor 9M is controlled so as to obtain this combustion amount, and the frequency of the fuel pump 8 is controlled. In addition, the rotation speed of the blower 5 (fan motor 5M) is controlled so that the amount of warm air corresponding to the amount of combustion is obtained (see FIGS. 5 and 6).

The microcomputer 15 performs the following preparatory operation (burner 1) during the heating operation stoppage in which the operation switch 16 is turned off.
0 vaporization part preheating control) is performed. That is, the microcomputer 1
Reference numeral 5 denotes a data storage means 23 for storing, for example, operation time data such as operation start time and operation stop time for several days (for example, four days), and a required time off mode based on the storage time data. There is provided a preparatory movement control means 24 for controlling the preparatory movement.

The preparatory movement control means 24 is shown in FIGS.
As shown in 0, the time data for four days stored in the data storage means 23 is compared with the current time as follows,
When the current time is in the preheating control time zone determined by these time data, the electric heater 20 is energized,
The vaporizing part of the burner 10 is preheated to a predetermined temperature. That is, in the example of FIG. 8, the time data for four days is stored in the data storage means 23, and the preparation operation control means 24 is
As shown in FIGS. 9 and 10, the driving time of the day is predicted by processing the time data of the previous four days while giving the most importance to the time data of the previous day.

For example, (N-3) of the data storage means 23
When the time data from the day to the Nth day is as shown by the solid line in FIG. 11, the preparatory movement control means 24 is (N-1).
The operation start time of 7:10 on the day is changed to 7:00 because the operation start time of the next day is 7:00 (see arrow B). Similarly, the operation stop time 9:30 on the (N-1) th day is 10:00 because it is 10:00 on the Nth day.
It is changed to 0:00 (see arrow B). The operation stop time 9:00 on (N-2) days is 10: 0 on the (N-1) days.
Since it was changed to 0, it will be 10:00. (See arrow c). The same applies to the (N-3) day.

[0018] In the (N-3) th day to the (N-1) th day, there is no time data for the time zone of 12:00 to 12:30, but the time of 12:00 to 12:30 on the Nth day. Since there is data, it is considered that there is time data of 12:00 to 12:30 (see arrow D). further,
Time data for 18:30 on (N-1) day is 19:
Since it is smaller than the time data of 00, it remains as it is,
Since the time data of 18:00 on the (N-2) day is also smaller than 18:30 on the (N-1) day, it remains unchanged and becomes (N-
3) The same applies to the day. If this is done, FIG.
And the expected operating time of the day as shown in FIG. 10 is determined.

To concretely perform such processing, FIG.
As shown in 2, the deviation between the current time, for example, the current time on the (N + 1) th day and each time data on the Nth day to the (N-3) th day is used. First, at time A (5 o'clock), the deviation ΔT from the time data of N days (operation start time and operation stop time) is obtained, and further, the minimum deviation MINΔT thereof is obtained.
It will be 2 hours like the number 1.

[0020]

[Equation 1]

Next, the minimum deviation M for (N-1) days
When INΔT is calculated, it becomes 2.1 hours as shown in Equation 2.
However, since the minimum deviation of 2.1 hours on (N-1) days is larger than 2 hours on N days, the minimum deviation on both N days and (N-1) days remains 2 hours.

[0022]

[Equation 2]

Next, on the (N-2) th day and the (N-3) th day, the minimum deviation MINΔT is similarly obtained, and compared with the minimum deviation MINΔT of the next day, and the smaller minimum deviation MINΔT is adopted. The minimum deviation MINΔT from the time data of N days to (N−3) days at time A is 2 hours because the data of N days is considered important.

Further, at time B (11:00), the minimum deviation MINΔT on the Nth day and the (N-1) th day is obtained by the equations 3 and 4, and the minimum deviation MINΔT on both days is 1 hour.

[0025]

[Equation 3]

[0026]

[Equation 4]

Next, on the (N-2) th day and the (N-3) th day, the minimum deviation MINΔT is similarly obtained, compared with the minimum deviation MINΔT on the next day, and the smaller minimum deviation MINΔT is adopted. The minimum deviation MINΔT from the time data of N days to (N−3) days at time A is one hour because the data of N days is considered important.

In this way, the time data shown by the solid line in FIG. 11 is rewritten to the time data shown by the broken line, and the time data of the new day is regarded as more important than the time data of the old day, The expected operating time of is determined and the preheating control time zone is set.

The preparatory operation control means 24 determines whether the present time is within the expected operation time, or as shown in FIG. The preparatory operation of the equipment (preheating control of the vaporization section of the burner 10) is performed during the preheating control time period up to a predetermined time β (for example, 1 hour) after the stop time. For example, at the above-mentioned time A, since it is two hours before the expected operation start time, the preheating operation is not performed, and the time A is one hour later.
The preheating operation starts in ´. Further, at time B, since it is one hour before the next predicted operation start time, the preheating operation is performed. Predetermined time α, β is 0.5 hours, 1 hour,
Alternatively, it may be appropriately selectable such as 1.5 hours, and the value may be automatically changed according to room temperature, outside air temperature, time zone, season and the like.

In determining the expected operating time, the minimum deviation MINΔT of each day is weighted, and the weighted average value thereof is taken to calculate N days at a certain time.
The deviation time for (N-3) days may be obtained, the expected operating time may be determined according to the deviation time, and the preheating control time zone may be set. For example, in the case of the above-mentioned time B, if the weight of each day is set as shown in Table 1, the weighted average value becomes 1.5 hours as shown in Formula 5, and the weighted average value is 1.625 hours of the simple average value. It gets smaller. This means that the time data of the new day is more important than the time data of the old day to determine the expected operation time, and the preheat control time zone is set.

[0031]

[Table 1]

[0032]

[Equation 5]

[0033]

[Equation 6]

An instruction switch (not shown) is provided on the input side of the microcomputer 15, and when this instruction switch is not turned on, the preparatory operation control means 24 causes the data storage means 2 to operate.
The preheating control time zone is set by treating the time data of plural days 3 with equal weights, and when the instruction switch is turned on, the preheating control time zone is set by weighting as described above, or Alternatively, the preheat control time zone may be set based only on the time data of the latest date.

Furthermore, the preparatory movement control means 24 is shown in FIG.
With the neural network configuration shown in Fig. 4, the minimum deviation time data obtained by giving more importance to the time data of the new day than the time data of the old day is input to the neural network together with the data such as the current time and room temperature, and preheated. The necessity of control may be predicted and the preheat control time zone may be set, or the preheat control time zone may be set by fuzzy inference of the above data.

[0036]

As described above, according to the present invention, in an apparatus that performs a preparatory operation for an on mode when the on / off switch is "on" during an off mode when the on / off switch is "off", Since the preparatory operation in the required time off mode is performed based on the time data of multiple days stored in the data storage means, the preparatory operation according to the usage status of the user is performed while the preparation operation is performed. It is possible to reduce the power consumption for operation as much as possible, and moreover, among the time data of a plurality of days of the data storage means, the time data of the new day is processed with a higher priority than the time data of the old day. Even if the usage situation suddenly changes one day, the preparation operation suitable for the usage situation can be performed the next day, which is excellent in usability. The same applies to the second aspect.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a control device for an oil fan heater (apparatus) showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the oil fan heater.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of the internal structure of the oil fan heater.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining an operation during operation of the microcomputer of the control device.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a combustion amount control characteristic of a microcomputer.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing blower control characteristics of the microcomputer.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart for explaining an operation when the microcomputer is out of operation.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of time data in a data storage unit 23.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of expected operating time obtained from time data.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram showing another example of the expected operation time obtained from time data.

FIG. 11 is an explanatory diagram showing a processing example of time data by the preparation operation control means 24.

FIG. 12 is an explanatory diagram showing a specific processing example of time data by the preparation operation control means 24.

FIG. 13 is an explanatory diagram showing a relationship between an expected operation time and a preheating control time zone.

FIG. 14 is a block diagram showing an internal configuration example of a preparation operation control means 24.

[Explanation of symbols]

 15 Microcomputer 16 Operation Switch (On / Off Switch) 23 Data Storage Means 24 Preparatory Operation Control Means (Control Means)

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Hiroshi Ito 2-18 Keihan Hondori, Moriguchi City, Osaka Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A device that performs a preparatory operation for an on-mode when the on / off switch is "on" during an off mode when the on / off switch is "off" The data storage means for storing and the control means for controlling the preparation operation in the required time off mode on the basis of these time data are provided. A device control device configured to process time data with a higher priority than time data of an old day. 2. A device that performs a preparatory operation for an on mode when the on / off switch is "on" during an off mode when the on / off switch is "off" The data storage means for storing and the control means for controlling the preparation operation in the required time off mode on the basis of these time data are provided. A device control device characterized by being given a greater weight than the time data of the old days.