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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2009
Yoshinori Tanabe, Osaka, JP;
Atsushi Ouchi, Osaka, JP;
Yoshio Ozawa, Osaka, JP;
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An object of the present invention is to provide a control system, an integrated control apparatus, and a control program that are capable of well maintaining freshness and quality of food articles, by reducing time for performing a recovery operation following a frost removing operation of cooling devices. In response to a start of the frost removing operation of a first showcase, an integrated control apparatus provides a second device controller (device control unit) with a 'lower limit cooling instruction (increase instruction)' to increase the refrigerant supplied to a second showcase to an amount larger than that before the frost removing operation starts. In response to the 'lower limit cooling instruction (increase instruction),' the second device controller (device control unit) increases the amount of the refrigerant supplied to the second showcase.