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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2012
Panasonic Corporation, Kadoma-shi, Osaka, JP;
Tetsuya Kouda, Osaka, JP;
Satoshi Tsujimura, Hyogo, JP;
Naofumi Nakatani, Shiga, JP;
Toshihisa Ikeda, Kyoto, JP;
Yasuo Yoshimura, Shiga, JP;
Kazunori Kurimoto, Hyogo, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An electric device includes operation unit, working unit, and a number-of-times detecting unit that counts the number of times of instructions being against energy savings. In addition, the device includes time measuring unit that measures time from when the number-of-times detecting unit starts the counting, and a controller that generates a signal to induce a modification of a first energy-saving pattern. When the time is within a first predetermined period, the controller generates a signal that requires the modification of the first energy-saving pattern into a more lenient second energy-saving pattern, with the time being from when time measuring unit starts the measurement to when the number of the times counted by the number-of-times detecting unit reaches a predetermined value.