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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2013
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Souichirou Matsuno, Tokyo, JP;
Yuuichi Nishi, Tokyo, JP;
Tomoaki Kobata, Tokyo, JP;
Akihisa Maekita, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A remote controller power supply method for an air-conditioning apparatus, configured to control a plurality of indoor units divided into groups with different remote controllers, is provided that allows exclusion of a supply current monitoring circuit from a circuit board of the indoor units. In the air-conditioning apparatus including an outdoor unit and the plurality of indoor units, the plurality of indoor units are divided into two or more groups, and the indoor units in each of the groups are connected to a different remote controller. The indoor units are each allocated with an address having a ranking given according to a predetermined rule, and the outdoor unit instructs the indoor unit having the address of a first rank, out of the plurality of indoor units in each of the groups, to supply power to the remote controller.