Patent ID: 9395709
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: G05B

Claim Text:
1. A utilization-time changing support device comprising: a processor; and a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored thereon executable instructions, which when executed by said processor, cause said utilization-time changing support device to function as: a household-electrical-appliance power record storage unit configured to store records of power consumption for a plurality of household electrical appliances used in a household; a power record writing unit configured to receive information indicating the power consumption of each household electrical appliance of the plurality of household electrical appliances from a measuring device that measures the power consumption, and write, into said household-electrical-appliance power record storage unit, a record of the information as one of the records of the power consumption; a regular use determining unit configured to determine whether or not a household electrical appliance of the plurality of household appliances used during a predetermined time range in a first day is used during the predetermined time range in a second day different from the first day to determine whether or not the household electrical appliance is regularly used during the predetermined time range, based on the records of the power consumption stored in said household-electrical-appliance power record storage unit, the predetermined time range being shorter than one day; a period change possibility determining unit configured to determine a degree of variation between a utilization period of the household electrical appliance on the first day and a utilization period of the household electrical appliance on the second day, and output (i) whether or not a utilization period of the household electrical appliance determined by said regular use determining unit as being regularly used can be changed, based on the determined degree of variation and (ii) an other utilization period as a result of the determination, based on the records of the power consumption of the household electrical appliance; and an operation control unit configured to change the utilization period of the household electrical appliance based on a result of the determination of said regular use determining unit and a result of the determination of said period change possibility determining unit, and control an operation of the household electrical appliance according to the change of the utilization period of the household electrical appliance.