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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2016
Daikin Industries, Ltd., Osaka-shi, Osaka, JP;
Ryousuke Yamamoto, Osaka, JP;
Asuka Yagi, Osaka, JP;
Yukio Inoue, Osaka, JP;
Ryouji Inoue, Osaka, JP;
Youta Katou, Osaka, JP;
Tatsuya Higuchi, Osaka, JP;
Takeshi Yoshimura, Osaka, JP;
Yasuaki Kobayashi, Osaka, JP;
Daikin Industries, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A remote control for an air conditioner facilitates setting of various kinds of data without operation of a button. A remote control () includes an external communication unit () having an NFC circuit () and an NFC antenna (). The external communication unit () is capable of wirelessly communicating with an external apparatus even when a microcomputer () in the remote control () is not supplied with power (i.e., in a non-operating state). Hence, through the wireless communication between the external communication unit () of the remote control () and the external apparatus, the various kinds of data is forwarded from the external device to the remote control (), and stored in the remote control ().