Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Control method for air conditioner, air conditioning control system, navigation device, and control device
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Application No.: US14654958Application Date: 2014-05-02
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Publication No.: US09797616B2Publication Date: 2017-10-24
- Inventor: Kazutaka Furuta , Toshihisa Nakano , Tsutomu Muraji , Yasunori Ishii
- Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
- Applicant Address: US CA Torrance
- Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
- Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Torrance
- Agency: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
- International Application: PCT/JP2014/002415 WO 20140502
- International Announcement: WO2014/188670 WO 20141127
- Main IPC: F24F11/00
- IPC: F24F11/00 ; H04L12/28

Abstract:
A navigation device (100) estimates a time when a user utilizing the navigation device (100) comes home, and transmits the estimated expected arrival time to a control device (203) in association with the user identifier of the user. In response to receiving the expected arrival times from a plurality of the navigation devices (100), the control device (203) transmits, to an air conditioner (201), a reservation instruction for setting the room temperature at the home to a predetermined target temperature by the estimated arrival time of the earliest user who is supposed to come home earliest. The air conditioner (201) is turned on in accordance with the transmitted reservation instruction among the users.
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