Patent ID: 9733652
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: F24F,G05D

Claim:
1. An apparatus control device comprising a processor and memory for controlling a heating-cooling combination apparatus and that is used together with a metabolic amount measurement device configured to measure a metabolic amount of a user of the heating-cooling combination apparatus, the apparatus control device comprising: a control content storage unit configured to store and associate thermal sensations of the user with control contents of the heating-cooling combination apparatus; an input unit configured to receive input of the metabolic amount measured by the metabolic amount measurement device; an operation unit configured to calculate a thermal sensation using the metabolic amount that is inputted to the input unit; an apparatus control unit configured to control the heating-cooling combination apparatus according to a control content stored in the control content storage unit in association with the thermal sensation that is calculated by the operation unit; and a metabolic amount storage unit configured to store a history of the metabolic amount inputted to the input unit, wherein the operation unit comprises: a calculation unit configured to calculate the thermal sensation using the metabolic amount inputted to the input unit; a correction unit configured to correct the thermal sensation calculated by the calculation unit using the history of the metabolic amount before change stored in the metabolic amount storage unit when the metabolic amount inputted to the input unit is changed.