Patent ID: 7886984

Claim:
A method of utilizing an air conditioner to control a thermal comfort level of an environment, the air conditioner including a plurality of environment factor adjusting devices, the method comprising: determining whether enter an energy saving mode; when entering the energy saving mode, performing the following step: (a) generating a target predicted mean vote (PMV) value according to an input signal; (b) detecting a plurality of environment factors of the environment at present to generate a PMV value as a current thermal comfort level detecting value; (c) obtaining a plurality of PMV-EER values respectively corresponding to the environment factor adjusting devices according to a difference value between the target PMV value and the current thermal comfort level detecting value; (d) determining which one of the environment factor adjusting devices has a greatest PMV-EER value, and choosing the environment factor adjusting device having the greatest PMV-EER value to perform an adjusting operation for the thermal comfort level of the environment; (e) calculating a PMV value of the environment after the adjusting operation is performed to update the current thermal comfort level detecting value; (f) determining whether a difference value between the current thermal comfort level detecting value and the target PMV value is smaller than a predetermined threshold value; and (g) when the difference value of the current thermal comfort level detecting value and the target PMV value is not smaller than the predetermined threshold value, repeating steps (c), (d), (e), and (f) until the difference value between the current thermal comfort level detecting value and the target PMV value becomes smaller than the predetermined threshold value.