Intelligent air conditioner socket with abnormality alarm
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Solution Overview
Problem
Air conditioners lack effective monitoring and feedback mechanisms for users to assess their operational state and environment, leading to unknown performance degradation over time.
Innovation Solution
An intelligent air conditioner socket with integrated modules for current, voltage, and temperature detection, utilizing a single-chip processor to provide real-time monitoring and abnormality alarms, without modifying the air conditioner's hardware or software.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If air conditioner operates without monitoring system, then device complexity is reduced, but loss of information about operational state occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a socket as an intermediary device that monitors the air conditioner without requiring modifications to the air conditioner itself. The socket contains detection modules that measure current, voltage, and temperature parameters, and a communication module that transmits this data to a mobile terminal, thereby providing feedback information while keeping the air conditioner system unchanged.
Solution Approach 2:
The monitoring system enables users to self-monitor their air conditioner's operational status through a mobile terminal application. The system automatically collects data from the socket's detection modules and presents it to users in an accessible format, allowing them to track power consumption, operational hours, and potential abnormalities without requiring technical expertise or additional hardware on the air conditioner.
2Reliability
If air conditioner lacks abnormality detection, then device complexity is reduced, but reliability of operation decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the socket continuously monitors current, voltage, and temperature parameters and compares them against predetermined thresholds. When abnormalities are detected (such as overcurrent, overvoltage, or excessive temperature), the system sends alarm notifications to the user's mobile terminal, enabling timely intervention to prevent damage and ensure reliable operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary detection of potential abnormalities before they cause serious damage. By continuously monitoring parameters and comparing them against safe operating thresholds, the system can alert users to developing issues (such as gradual current increases or temperature trends) before they result in compressor failure or other serious problems, allowing preventive maintenance.
3Measurement precision
If comprehensive monitoring is implemented, then measurement precision of performance parameters is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces complex mechanical or electronic monitoring systems that would need to be integrated into the air conditioner with a simpler electrical measurement approach using the socket. The socket uses standard electrical measurement techniques to detect current through the live wire, voltage across the circuit, and temperature via a temperature sensor, providing comprehensive monitoring through electrical and thermal fields rather than mechanical sensors on the air conditioner itself.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables comprehensive monitoring of air conditioner performance, detecting voltage, current, and temperature anomalies, ensuring normal operation and extending the air conditioner's lifespan with minimal cost and without altering existing hardware or software.
Implementation Method 1
The current detection module and the voltage detection module may be used for detecting a sampled current and a sampled voltage output to the air conditioner after the power network may be connected to the socket respectively, wherein the sampled current and the sampled voltage may be fed back to the single-chip processor respectively through an operational amplifier circuit.
Implementation Method 2
The current detection module and the voltage detection module may be used for detecting a sampled current and a sampled voltage output to the air conditioner after the power network may be connected to the socket respectively
Implementation Method 3
The outdoor temperature detection module and the indoor temperature detection module may be used for detecting outdoor and indoor temperature signals and feeding the signals back to the single-chip processor.
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AI summary
An intelligent with abnormality alarm which may comprise a housing, jacks in the surface of the housing and a conductive component arranged within the housing, wherein the housing is internally provided with a single chip processor as well as a current detection module, a voltage detection module, an outdoor temperature detection module, an indoor temperature detection module, a display module and a power supply module which are electrically connected with the single chip processor respectively. The power supply module is connected with the display module to power it. The socket may be used to carry out a real-time monitoring without making modification to the software and hardware. After applying the air conditioner socket of the present invention, the user may replace the socket of the air conditioner of a corresponding model him or her, i.e., the monitoring of an installed air conditioner may be accomplished with a minimum cost.