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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing air conditioning device setup processes are inefficient, requiring installers to transition between screens to identify and drive user-side and heat-source-side devices, leading to potential errors and increased setup time.
Innovation Solution
A program and method that display drive indicators alongside identification information and setting items on a single screen, allowing users to drive and identify air conditioning devices without screen transitions, and automatically manage fan operations and address settings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If the installer uses multiple screens to identify and drive devices, then the device control functionality is complete, but the setup time increases and efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines device identification information, drive indicators, and control functions into a single unified screen. This allows the installer to view and control multiple air conditioning devices simultaneously without navigating between separate screens, directly improving setup efficiency and reducing the time required to complete device configuration.
2Ease of operation
If the installer navigates between multiple screens to manage devices, then comprehensive device management is achieved, but the complexity of operation increases
Solution Approach 1:
By merging device identification, status indicators, and control functions into a single screen interface, the patent reduces the number of screen transitions and operations required. This simplifies the user interface while maintaining comprehensive device management capabilities, making the system easier to operate.
3Loss of information
If drive indicators are displayed separately from identification information, then the interface is organized by function, but the installer cannot quickly identify which device is being driven
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates drive indicators directly with device identification information on the same screen. This allows the installer to immediately associate which device is being driven with its identification details, preventing information loss while maintaining a manageable screen layout through strategic information arrangement.
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AI summary
To propose a technique by which an air conditioning device can be efficiently set up. An aspect of the present disclosure relates to a program for implementing, on a terminal, an application that controls a user-side device or a heat-source-side device of an air conditioning device. The program causes the terminal to execute a process including displaying, by the application, a setting screen on the terminal. The setting screen includes identification information, a setting item, and a drive indicator of the user-side device or the heat-source-side device.