Air conditioner and a communication method for an air conditioner
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsHakrae Lee, Yugu Kim, Unsik Park, Donggi Eom, Hanbae Jeon
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Abstract
An air conditioner and a communication method for an air conditioner are provided. The air conditioner may include an outdoor unit; an indoor unit; and a central controller connected to the indoor unit through a communication line. The indoor unit may perform periodic communication for transmitting a plurality of periodic packets to at least one of the outdoor unit or the central controller at predetermined periods, and change and transmit the plurality of periodic packets so as to decrease a load on the communication line.
Claims11
An air conditioner, comprising:
- an outdoor unit;
- an indoor unit;
- and
- a central controller connected to the indoor unit through a communication line,
- wherein the indoor unit performs periodic communication for transmitting a plurality of periodic packets to at least one of the outdoor unit or the central controller at predetermined periods, and changes and transmits the plurality of periodic packets so as to decrease a load on the communication line, wherein the indoor unit rearranges data included in the plurality of periodic packets, changes the respective predetermined periods of the plurality of periodic packets, and transmits the plurality of periodic packets;
- and
- wherein the plurality of periodic packets includes a first periodic packet, a second periodic packet, and a third periodic packet, and wherein the indoor unit splits data included in the first periodic packet and includes the split data in the second periodic packet and the third periodic packet.
A communication method of an air conditioner, the communication method comprising:
- performing, by an indoor unit, periodic communication for transmitting a plurality of periodic packets to at least one of an outdoor unit or a central controller connected to the indoor unit through a communication line at predetermined periods;
- and
- changing and transmitting, by the indoor unit, the plurality of periodic packets so as to decrease a load on the communication line, wherein the changing and transmitting the plurality of periodic packets includes:
- rearranging data included in the plurality of periodic packets,
- wherein the plurality of periodic packets includes a first periodic packet, a second periodic packet, and a third periodic packet, and wherein the indoor unit splits data included in the first periodic packet and includes the split data in the second periodic packet and the third periodic packet;
- changing the respective transmission periods of the plurality of rearranged periodic packets;
- and
- transmitting the plurality of rearranged periodic packets according to the changed respective transmission periods thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.