Air-Conditioning Device Imaging Control for Power Supply Reliability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Air-conditioning devices face power insufficiency issues when components like fans and heat exchangers are operational, affecting the reliability of imaging devices used for monitoring internal conditions.
Innovation Solution
Capturing images when predetermined components such as fans, heat exchangers, and drain pumps are at rest, reducing power consumption and stabilizing the environment for clearer image data acquisition.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Use of energy by moving object
If components such as fans and heat exchangers are operated to perform cooling functions, then the air-conditioning device achieves its primary function, but the power consumption increases and insufficient power is supplied to the imaging device
Solution Approach 1:
The imaging device captures images during periods when the air-conditioning device is not operating, i.e., before the fan and heat exchanger are activated. This preliminary imaging action ensures that power supply requirements are met during imaging while the main cooling components remain dormant, resolving the power consumption contradiction
2Productivity
If the fan is operated to transfer air, then the cooling function is achieved, but the condensed water surface becomes unstable and image data becomes blurred
Solution Approach 1:
The imaging device captures images of the drain pan and condensed water surface before the fan is activated. By performing the imaging action preliminarily, the system ensures that the water surface remains stable during capture, avoiding blurriness caused by fan-induced air flow, while still enabling monitoring of the cooling system's state
3Temperature
If the heat exchanger performs cooling action, then the air is cooled, but condensed water accumulates and rises causing image blurriness
Solution Approach 1:
The imaging device captures images during the period before the heat exchanger begins its cooling action. This timing ensures that condensed water has not yet accumulated or risen to levels that would obscure the view, maintaining image clarity while still allowing monitoring of the system's operational state
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AI summary
[Object] To provide an air-conditioning device that allows sufficient power to be reliably supplied to an imaging device. [Solution] An air-conditioning device includes a control unit (19) that makes an imaging device (70) capture an image while at least one predetermined component (40, 40a, 40b, 43, 45) of the air-conditioning device (10) is at rest.