US 2004/0167691 A1 · Vehicle air conditioner having learning function and correcting function

Abstract

A vehicle air conditioner includes an operating unit operated by a passenger for setting an air conditioning state in a passenger compartment, and a control unit for automatically controlling the air conditioning state in accordance with a detection value of an environment condition. The control unit performs a learning correction of a control characteristic in accordance with manual operations of the operating unit, and a number of the manual operations is indicated by using an indicator. Further, a number of the manual operations performed in an initial period and a number of the manual operations performed in an immediately recent period are comparably indicated on the indicator. Therefore, a passenger can realize the effect of the learning correction, even when the number of the manual operation is decreased after the learning correction is performed.

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Dependent claims

A vehicle air conditioner comprising:

an environmental condition detection unit that detects a detection value relevant to an environmental condition of an air conditioning in a passenger compartment;
an operating unit that is operated by a passenger for setting an air conditioning state in the passenger compartment;
a control unit that automatically controls the air conditioning state in accordance with the detection value of the environmental condition which is detected by the environmental condition detection unit, and performs a learning correction of a control characteristic of the automatic control in accordance with specific operations of the operating unit;
and
an information unit for informing an information relevant to a frequency of the specific operations in the learning correction,
wherein the control unit controls an operation of the information unit in accordance with the frequency of the specific operations.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Vehicle air conditioner having learning function and correcting function

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Vehicle air conditioner having learning function and correcting function

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Abstract

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