Air conditioner

Abstract

An air conditioner (AC) includes an AC body and a remote controller (RC), wherein the AC body includes a body receiver that receives a control signal for controlling the operation from the RC, a body transmitter that transmits operation information for the AC body to the RC, and a maintenance-operation information generator that generates contents of the maintenance operation and its operation time as the operation information, and the RC includes a RC transmitter that transmits a control signal for controlling the operation to the AC body, a RC receiver that receives operation information for the AC body transmitted from the AC body, and a display unit that displays the contents of maintenance operation and the operation time included in the operation information received by the RC receiver.

1 . An air conditioner comprising:
 an air conditioner body that performs maintenance operation after air conditioning is operated; and   a remote controller that controls the operation of the air conditioner body, wherein   the air conditioner body includes
 a body receiver that receives a control signal for controlling the operation from the remote controller, 
 a body transmitter that transmits operation information for the air conditioner body to the remote controller, and 
 a maintenance-operation information generator that generates contents of the maintenance operation and its operation time as the operation information, and 
   the remote controller includes
 a remote-controller transmitter that transmits a control signal for controlling the operation to the air conditioner body, 
 a remote-controller receiver that receives operation information for the air conditioner body transmitted from the air conditioner body, and 
 a display unit that displays the contents of maintenance operation and the operation time included in the operation information received by the remote-controller receiver, wherein when the remote-controller transmitter transmits a control signal to stop the operation to the air conditioner body, the body receiver receives the control signal, the maintenance-operation information generator generates the contents of the maintenance operation and its operation time as the operation information, while when operation information is transmitted from the body transmitter, the remote-controller receiver receives the operation information and displays the contents of the maintenance operation and its operation time on the display unit. 
   
     
     
         2 . The air conditioner according to  claim 1 , further comprising a timer that manages time provided in at least one of the air conditioner body and the remote controller, wherein
 after the operation time of the maintenance operation is displayed on the display unit, the timer is used to display a countdown of a remaining time of the maintenance operation.   
     
     
         3 . The air conditioner according to  claim 2 , wherein when the timer is provided in the air conditioner body, countdown information is transmitted from the body transmitter to the remote-controller receiver for each fixed time after the countdown is started, and the contents of the maintenance operation and the remaining time are displayed on the display unit.