AIR CONDITIONING APPARATUS WITH DISPLAY DEVICE

RELATED APPLICATIONS

[0001] This application claims priority to US Provisional Application Serial Number 63/703,185 filed October 3, 2024, Taiwan Application Serial Number 114109727, filed March 17, 2025 and Taiwan Application Serial Number 114202610, filed March 17, 2025, which are herein incorporated by references.

BACKGROUND

Technical Field

[0002] The present disclosure relates to an air conditioning apparatus. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to an air conditioning apparatus with a display device.

Description of Related Art

[0003] The improvement of the air quality of the long-term care facilities such as the hospitals or the nursing homes is extremely important to the recent control of the environmental hygiene, and is even more important to the health and the safety protection of the patients or the medical personnel. However, most of the air conditioning apparatuses such as the current air purifiers, the air conditioners, the heaters and the dehumidifiers are exposedly disposed, so that the aforementioned air conditioning apparatuses occupy too much indoor space, and the indoor circulation and the aesthetic are affected.

[0004] Therefore, the recent market is short of the air conditioning apparatus, which can both achieve the effects of the aesthetic and the air conditioning, and hence the aforementioned air conditioning apparatus needs to be developed.

SUMMARY

[0005] The present disclosure provides an air conditioning apparatus with a display device which includes an air conditioning apparatus body, the display device and a controller. The display device is disposed on a side of the air conditioning apparatus body, and includes at least one display module and a light absorbing module. The display module includes a pixel matrix layer. The light absorbing module is disposed on a side of the display module. The controller is signally connected to the air conditioning apparatus body and the display device, the controller is configured to control the display device to display an image data, and the controller is configured to control the air conditioning apparatus body to turn on and off.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0006]FIG. 1 is a three-dimensional schematic view of an air conditioning apparatus with a display device according to the 1st example of the present disclosure.

[0007]FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional schematic view of the air conditioning apparatus with the display device according to the 1st example in FIG. 1.

[0008]FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the air conditioning apparatus with the display device according to the 1st example of the present disclosure.

[0009]FIG. 4A is a schematic view of a display device according to the 2nd example of the present disclosure.

[0010]FIG. 4B is a schematic view of a display device according to the 3rd example of the present disclosure.

[0011]FIG. 5A is a schematic view of a light absorbing module according to the 4th example of the present disclosure.

[0012]FIG. 5B is a schematic view of a light absorbing module according to the 5th example of the present disclosure.

[0013]FIG. 5C is a schematic view of a light absorbing module according to the 6th example of the present disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0014] The embodiment will be described with the drawings. For clarity, some practical details will be described below. However, it should be noted that the present disclosure should not be limited by the practical details, that is, in some embodiment, the practical details is unnecessary. In addition, for simplifying the drawings, some conventional structures and elements will be simply illustrated, and repeated elements may be represented by the same labels.

[0015] It will be understood that when an element (or device) is referred to as be “connected to” another element, it can be directly connected to other element, or it can be indirectly connected to the other element, that is, intervening elements may be present. In contrast, when an element is referred to as be “directly connected to” another element, there are no intervening elements present. In addition, the terms first, second, third, etc. are used herein to describe various elements or components, these elements or components should not be limited by these terms. Consequently, a first element or component discussed below could be termed a second element or component.

[0016]Please refer to FIGS. 1, 2 and 3, wherein FIG. 1 is a three-dimensional schematic view of an air conditioning apparatus with a display device according to the 1st example of the present disclosure; FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional schematic view of the air conditioning apparatus with the display device according to the 1st example in FIG. 1; and FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the air conditioning apparatus with the display device according to the 1st example of the present disclosure. The air conditioning apparatus 100 with the display device 120 is simultaneously configured to condition an air in an indoor space and monitor a subject in the indoor space so as to avoid the accident.

[0017]The air conditioning apparatus 100 with the display device 120 includes an air conditioning apparatus body 110, the display device 120, a camera device 130 and a controller 140. According to the 1st example, the air conditioning apparatus 100 with the display device 120 can be used in the long-term care facilities such as the hospitals or the nursing homes, but the present disclosure is not limited thereto.

[0018] In FIG. 2, the display device 120 is disposed on a side of the air conditioning apparatus body 110, the camera device 130 is disposed on an end of the air conditioning apparatus body 110, and the camera device 130 is adhered to the display device 120. In FIG. 3, the controller 140 is signally connected to the air conditioning apparatus body 110, the display device 120 and the camera device 130. The air conditioning apparatus body 110 is configured to condition the air in the indoor space. The display device 120 is configured to display an image data. The camera device 130 is configured to capture an image of the subject of the inner space. The controller 140 is configured to control the display device 120 to display the image data, and the controller 140 is configured to monitor the subject according to the image obtained via the camera device 130. Furthermore, the air conditioning apparatus 100 with the display device 120 can further include a frame 150 disposed on a periphery of the display device 120.

[0019]According to the 1st example, the air conditioning apparatus body 110 can be an air purifier; the display device 120 can be a cholesterol liquid crystal display; the camera device 130 can be a camera with the infrared band disposed on a top of the air conditioning apparatus body 110, and the camera device 130 can preferably be a 3D time of flight (ToF) camera; the controller 140 can be a microprocessor, a central processing unit (CPU), a mobile device processor, a cloud processor or other electronic computing processors, but the present disclosure is not limited thereto. Moreover, the air conditioning apparatus body can be an air conditioner, a heater or a dehumidifier in other possible examples.

[0020] The air conditioning apparatus body 110 includes at least one filter, a motor fan, at least one air inlet and at least one air outlet (not shown). The motor fan is configured to introduce the air of the indoor space from the air inlet, the air is filtered via the filter, and then the air is exhausted from the air outlet, so that the effect of the indoor air purification can be achieved.

[0021]Please refer to FIGS. 2 and 4A, wherein FIG. 4A is a schematic view of a display device according to the 2nd example of the present disclosure. The display device 120 includes at least one display module 121 and a light absorbing module 122, and the light absorbing module 122 is disposed on a side of the display module 121. Further, the display module 121 can be plurality, and the display device 120 can further include at least one optical adhesive layer 123 disposed between the display modules 121 so as to adhere the display modules 121.

[0022] The display modules 121 are stackedly disposed, the visible light L can sequently penetrate the display modules 121 and the light absorbing module 122 which are stackedly disposed to reach the camera device 130.

[0023]In FIG. 4A, a number of the display modules 121 is three, the three display modules 121 include a pixel matrix layer (as the pixel matrix layers 1211b, 1211g, 1211r which can reflect the blue light, the green light and the red light, respectively, in FIG. 4A), two transparent conductive layers 1212 and two protective layers 1213. The two transparent conductive layers 1212 of each of the display modules 121 are disposed on two surfaces of the pixel matrix layers 1211b, 1211g, 1211r, respectively. The two protective layers 1213 of each of the display modules 121 are disposed on two surfaces of the two transparent conductive layers 1212 away from the pixel matrix layers 1211b, 1211g, 1211r, respectively. According to the 2nd example, the transparent conductive layers 1212 can be made of the transparent conductive material such as Indium-Tin-Oxide (ITO) or Indium-Zinc-Oxide (IZO); the protective layers 1213 can be made of the flexible transparent organic material such as glass or polyethylene terephthalate (PET), but the present disclosure is not limited thereto.

[0024]Please refer to FIG. 4B, wherein FIG. 4B is a schematic view of a display device according to the 3rd example of the present disclosure. According to the 3rd example, the display modules 121 are also plurality, and the difference between the display device 120a and the display device 120 according to the 2nd example is the disposition and the number of the display modules 121. In detail, the display modules 121 of the display device 120a according to the 3rd example are parallel disposed, and the display modules 121 are the horizontal structure with the single-layer display. It should be mentioned that the number of the display modules 121 can be adjusted according to the requirements, and the present disclosure is not limited thereto.

[0025] The light absorbing module 122 includes a light absorbing layer 1221. The light absorbing layer 1221 is configured to absorb a visible light L penetrating the display modules 121, and the light absorbing layer 1221 can be penetrated via the infrared light. The light absorbing layer 1221 can be made of the infrared penetrable material such as dye or coating, so that a lens 131 of the camera device 130 is directly disposed on the rear of the light absorbing module 122 for capturing the image. Further, the infrared penetrable material can be the organic dye material such as bromine-substituted dye and nitro-substituted dye, the black organic dye such as based on aniline or phenothiazine or the polymer dye such as polyvinyl chloride dye.

[0026]To further illustrate, FIG. 5A is a schematic view of a light absorbing module according to the 4th example of the present disclosure. In FIG. 5A, the light absorbing layer 1221 of the light absorbing module 122a is made of the coating-type infrared penetrable material. In detail, the light absorbing layer 1221 is formed by the physical vapor deposition (PVD) or the chemical vapor deposition (CVD), and the coating-type infrared penetrable material is deposited on a surface of the protective layer 1213 of the display module 121 away from the transparent conductive layer 1212.

[0027] Furthermore, in FIG. 5A, the light absorbing layer 1221 of the light absorbing module 122a can be also formed by applying the black matrix (BM) photoresist in the manufacturing process of the general color filter (CF). In detail, the BM photoresist can be mixed with the dye-type infrared penetrable material, and then coated on the surface of the protective layer 1213 of the display module 121 away from the transparent conductive layer 1212 to form the light absorbing layer 1221.

[0028]Please refer to FIG. 5B, wherein FIG. 5B is a schematic view of a light absorbing module according to the 5th example of the present disclosure. In FIG. 5B, the light absorbing module 122b can further include a substrate 1222 disposed on a side of the light absorbing layer 1221, and the substrate 1222 is adhered to a lens 131 of the camera device 130. The light absorbing layer 1221 of the light absorbing module 122b is made of the dye-type infrared penetrable material. The light absorbing layer 1221 is formed by mixing the dye-type infrared penetrable material and the optical adhesive and then coating on the substrate 1222. According to the 5th example, the substrate 1222 can be made of PET, polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA), polycarbonate (PC) or polyvinyl chloride (PVC), but the present disclosure is not limited thereto.

[0029]Please refer to FIG. 5C, wherein FIG. 5C is a schematic view of a light absorbing module according to the 6th example of the present disclosure. In FIG. 5C, the light absorbing module 122b can further include an adhesive layer 1223 disposed on a side of the light absorbing layer 1221, and the adhesive layer 1223 is adhered to the protective layer 1213 of the display module 121. The light absorbing layer 1221 of the light absorbing module 122b is also made of the dye-type infrared penetrable material. The light absorbing layer 1221 is formed by mixing the dye-type infrared penetrable material and the plastic material. Further, the light absorbing layer 1221 and the display module 121 can be combined via the adhesive layer 1223. It should be mentioned that the infrared penetration efficiency of the light absorbing layer 1221 can be enhanced while maintaining the inherent properties of the plastic material by adjusting the ratio of the different materials during the process.

[0030] In FIG. 3, the controller 140 includes a display controlling unit 141, a monitoring unit 142 and an alert unit 143, which are signally connected. The display controlling unit 141 is configured to control the display device 120 to display the image data. The monitoring unit 142 is configured to control the camera device 130 to obtain the image of the subject, the image is analyzed via an edge computing technique, and a monitored behavior corresponding to a subject is generated. Further, the subject is a patient in the long-term care facilities such as the hospitals or the nursing homes, and the monitored behavior includes behaviors of the patient of confined to bed, getting out of bed, falling down and slipping. The alert unit 143 is configured to generate an alert notification according to the monitored behavior. In detail, when the monitored behavior generated via the monitoring unit 142 is corresponding to the falling of the subject, the alert notification is generated via the alert unit 143, and the alert notification is sent to the caregivers of the management stations in the long-term care facilities such as the hospitals or the nursing homes so as to avoid the accident.

[0031] Furthermore, the air conditioning apparatus 100 with the display device 120 can be used as the digital picture frame or the digital photo frame of the indoor decoration by displaying the image data via the display controlling unit 141 to control the display device 120. Therefore, in addition to avoid exposing the air conditioning apparatus body 110 so as to keep the indoor aesthetic and condition the air in the indoor space, the subject can upload or change the picture to be displayed by connecting the electronic device such as the mobile phone to the display controlling unit 141 at any time.

[0032] Further, the display device 120 is a cholesterol liquid crystal display so as to maintain the display of the image data for a long time without consuming power. Moreover, the cholesterol liquid crystal display can provide the infrared light to penetrate, so that the camera device 130 disposed on the rear of the display device 120 can be configured to capture the image of the subject. The camera device 130 can also be the auxiliary monitor of the long-term care system under the condition that the camera device 130 is not exposed (that is, the subject would not feel uncomfortable being monitored and lacking of the privacy) by displaying the image data on the display device 120 via the display controlling unit 141.

[0033]The controller 140 can further include an air conditioning controller 144. The air conditioning controller 144 is configured to control the air conditioning apparatus body 110 to turn on and off, and PM2.5 and the odor concentration can be automatically sensed so as to control the air conditioning apparatus body 110 to automatically change the wind velocity. In other possible example, the air conditioning controller is configured to automatically sense the indoor temperature or humidity so as to control the air conditioning apparatus body to change the temperature.

[0034] According to the aforementioned examples, the air conditioning apparatus with the display device of the present disclosure has at least the following advantages. First, the air conditioning apparatus with the display device can be used as the digital picture frame or the digital photo frame of the indoor decoration by displaying the image data via the display controlling unit to control the display device, and the indoor space can be conditioned the air under the condition that the air conditioning apparatus body is not exposed to avoid influencing the indoor aesthetic. Second, the display device is a cholesterol liquid crystal display so as to provide the infrared light to penetrate, so that the camera device disposed on the rear thereof can be configured to capture the image of the subject, and the camera device can also be the auxiliary monitor of the long-term care system under the condition that the subject would not feel uncomfortable being monitored and lacking of the privacy. Third, the monitored behavior of the subject is analyzed via the monitoring unit so as to generate the alert notification during the accident, and the alert notification is sent to the caregivers of the management stations in the long-term care facilities such as the hospitals or the nursing homes so as to avoid the accident.

[0035] Although the present disclosure has been described in considerable detail with reference to certain embodiments thereof, other embodiments are possible. Therefore, the spirit and scope of the appended claims should not be limited to the description of the embodiments contained herein.

[0036] It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made to the structure of the present disclosure without departing from the scope or spirit of the disclosure. In view of the foregoing, it is intended that the present disclosure cover modifications and variations of this disclosure provided they fall within the scope of the following claims.