阅读说明：本技术 家电内消耗模块的安装状态指示方法、发光指示结构 (Method for indicating installation state of consumption module in household appliance and light-emitting indication structure ) 是由 陈小平 周翔 李之龙 李利伟 于 2020-05-11 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明提供一种家电内消耗模块的安装状态指示方法,包括以下步骤：获取并解析家电内消耗模块的状态信息；根据所述家电内消耗模块的状态信息以判别家电内消耗模块是否处于正确的安装状态；配置发光组件的第一发光模式或第二发光模式；根据配置结果控制发光组件执行,以指示家电内消耗模块的安装状态。本发明还提供了一种运用该方法的发光指示结构。本发明通过配置发光组件的发光模式,以判断消耗模块是否安装正确,防止消耗模块安装错误或安装不到位引起主控板无法重置消耗模块的更换信息。(The invention provides a method for indicating the installation state of a consumption module in a household appliance, which comprises the following steps: acquiring and analyzing state information of a consumption module in the household appliance; judging whether the consumption module in the household appliance is in a correct installation state or not according to the state information of the consumption module in the household appliance; configuring a first light emitting mode or a second light emitting mode of the light emitting assembly; and controlling the light-emitting assembly to execute according to the configuration result so as to indicate the installation state of the consumption module in the household appliance. The invention also provides a light-emitting indication structure applying the method. The invention judges whether the consumption module is installed correctly by configuring the light-emitting mode of the light-emitting component, and prevents the main control board from being incapable of resetting the replacement information of the consumption module due to the wrong installation or the improper installation of the consumption module.)

1. A method for indicating the installation state of a consumption module in a household appliance is characterized by comprising the following steps:

acquiring and analyzing state information of a consumption module in the household appliance;

judging whether the consumption module in the household appliance is in a correct installation state or not according to the state information of the consumption module in the household appliance;

configuring a first light emitting mode or a second light emitting mode of the light emitting assembly according to a judgment result of whether the consumption module in the household appliance is in a correct installation state;

and controlling a light emitting assembly to execute the first light emitting mode or the second light emitting mode according to the configuration result so as to indicate the installation state of the consumption module in the household appliance.

2. The method of indicating the installation status of a consumable module in an electric home appliance according to claim 1, wherein the first and second light emitting modes have at least one of different blinking frequencies, brightness, colors, aperture rotation speeds, and blinking time periods.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein if the home appliance consumption module is correctly installed, the remaining amount light emitting mode of the light emitting device is configured to indicate the remaining amount of the consumption module in the home appliance.

4. The method for indicating the installation state of a consumable module in an electric home appliance according to claim 1 or 2, wherein when the light-emitting component is a breathing lamp, if the consumable module in the electric home appliance is in a correct installation state, the breathing lamp is configured to gradually rise from an off state until the breathing lamp reaches the brightest; if the consumption module in the household appliance is installed wrongly or not in place, the breathing lamp is configured to flicker all the time.

5. The method of indicating an installation status of a consumable module in an electric home appliance according to claim 1, wherein the status information of the consumable module is acquired as location information.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the consumable module is correctly installed when the consumable module reaches the first designated location; and if the consumable module does not reach the designated position, the installation position of the consumable module is wrong.

7. The method of indicating an installation status of a consumable module in an electric home appliance according to claim 1, wherein the status information of the consumable module is acquired as pressure information.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the consumable module is correctly installed if the pressure applied to the consumable module reaches a predetermined value; and if the pressure applied to the consumption module does not reach the specified value, the consumption module is not installed in place.

9. The method of indicating an installation status of a consumable module in an electric home appliance according to claim 1, wherein the status information of the consumable module is acquired as position information and pressure information.

10. A lighting indicating structure comprising a main control board configured to execute a computer program of the installation state indicating method of a consumable module in an electric home appliance according to any one of claims 1 to 9, the main control board acquiring state information of the consumable module and configuring different lighting modes for different position information of the consumable module.

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of household appliances, in particular to an installation state indicating method and a light-emitting indicating structure of a consumption module in a household appliance.

Background

The existing deodorizing/purifying/fresh-keeping module has a certain time validity period, after the module is used for a long time, household appliances cannot remind a user of replacement in time, the module is overdue and still used easily, a pollution source is formed in the household appliances, the pollution of the household appliances is aggravated, and the health of people is further harmed. In addition, after installing or replacing the consumption modules such as the filter element, the fresh-keeping module, the deodorization module, etc., the reset device cannot be triggered to re-record the residual information of the consumption modules because the installation position is not available.

Therefore, the installation method of the existing consumption module needs to be improved, the structural design and the method thereof are optimized, and a novel indication method of the installation state of the consumption module in the household appliance is designed to solve the problems.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to overcome the disadvantages of the prior art, an object of the present invention is to provide a method for indicating an installation state of a consumable module in an electric home appliance, comprising the steps of:

acquiring and analyzing state information of a consumption module in the household appliance;

judging whether the consumption module in the household appliance is in a correct installation state or not according to the state information of the consumption module in the household appliance;

configuring a first light emitting mode or a second light emitting mode of the light emitting assembly according to a judgment result of whether the consumption module in the household appliance is in a correct installation state;

and controlling a light emitting assembly to execute the first light emitting mode or the second light emitting mode according to the configuration result so as to indicate the installation state of the consumption module in the household appliance.

Preferably, the first and second light emitting modes have at least one of different flashing frequency, brightness, color, aperture rotation speed and flashing time length.

Preferably, if the consumer module in the home appliance is in the correct installation state information, the remaining amount light emitting mode of the light emitting module is configured to indicate the remaining amount of the consumer module in the home appliance.

Preferably, when the light-emitting component is a breathing lamp, if the consumption module in the household appliance is in a correct installation state, the breathing lamp is configured to gradually rise from an off state until the maximum brightness is reached; if the consumption module in the household appliance is installed wrongly or not in place, the breathing lamp is configured to flicker all the time.

Preferably, the state information of the consuming module is acquired as position information.

Preferably, if the consumable module reaches the first designated position, the consumable module is in a correct installation state; and if the consumable module does not reach the designated position, the installation position of the consumable module is wrong.

Preferably, the state information of the consumption module is acquired as pressure information.

Preferably, if the pressure applied to the consuming module reaches a specified value, the consuming module is in a correct installation state; and if the pressure applied to the consumption module does not reach the specified value, the consumption module is not installed in place.

Preferably, the state information of the consumable module is acquired as position information and pressure information.

A second object of the present invention is to provide a lighting indicating structure, comprising a main control board configured to execute a computer program of the installation state indicating method of a consumption module in an electric home appliance as described above, the main control board acquiring state information of the consumption module and configuring different lighting modes for different position information of the consumption module.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:

(1) whether the position of the consumption module in the household appliance box is correct or not is quickly judged according to the light emitting mode of the light emitting assembly, and the main control board can timely reset the residual information of the consumption module.

(2) In a preferred embodiment, the user experience is enhanced by combining the lighting patterns of the plurality of lighting assemblies.

(3) In a preferred scheme, the position of the consumption module in the household appliance is judged by acquiring the position information of the consumption module, so that the method is simple and convenient.

(4) In a preferred scheme, the position of the consumption module in the household appliance is judged by acquiring the pressure information of the consumption module, so that the method is simple and convenient.

(5) In a preferred embodiment, when the consumable module is correctly installed, the light emitting component is directly configured to execute a margin light emitting mode to indicate the margin of the consumable module.

The foregoing description is only an overview of the technical solutions of the present invention, and some embodiments are described in detail below in order to make the technical solutions of the present invention more clearly understood and to implement the technical solutions according to the content of the description. Specific embodiments of the present invention are given in detail by the following examples.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the invention and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this application, illustrate embodiment(s) of the invention and together with the description serve to explain the invention without limiting the invention. In the drawings:

fig. 1 is a schematic flow chart illustrating a method for indicating an installation status of a consumable module in a home appliance according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a first flowchart illustrating a method for indicating an installation status of a consumable module in a home appliance according to another embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a second method for indicating an installation status of a consumable module in a home appliance according to another embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In the figure:

200. a refrigerator;

100. a light emitting indicating structure.

Detailed Description

The foregoing and other objects, features, aspects and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description of the present invention when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, which will enable those skilled in the art to practice the present invention with reference to the accompanying specification. In the drawings, the shape and size may be exaggerated for clarity, and the same reference numerals will be used throughout the drawings to designate the same or similar components. In the following description, terms such as center, thickness, height, length, front, back, rear, left, right, top, bottom, upper, lower, and the like are used based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings. In particular, "height" corresponds to the dimension from top to bottom, "width" corresponds to the dimension from left to right, and "depth" corresponds to the dimension from front to back. These relative terms are for convenience of description and are not generally intended to require a particular orientation. Terms concerning attachments, coupling and the like (e.g., "connected" and "attached") refer to a relationship wherein structures are secured or attached, either directly or indirectly, to one another through intervening structures, as well as both movable or rigid attachments or relationships, unless expressly described otherwise.

The present invention will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings and the detailed description, and it should be noted that any combination of the embodiments or technical features described below can be used to form a new embodiment without conflict.

Example one

A method for indicating the installation state of a consumption module in a household appliance is mainly applied to the following scenes. When the household appliance box body is installed or the consumption module is replaced, the consumption module needs to be installed at a specified position of the household appliance box body and can trigger the resetting device to record the residual display state information of the consumption module again when the consumption module is installed in place. The consumption module refers to a module which has the functions of deodorizing, sterilizing, purifying air, keeping fresh and the like, improving the environment and having timeliness. The consumption module is fixed in the household electrical appliance box body through a fixing structure, and the fixing structure is a clamping structure, a screw connection structure, a bonding structure and other fixing structures common to technicians in the field. As shown in fig. 1, the method specifically includes the following steps:

s101: acquiring and analyzing state information of a consumption module in the household appliance; specifically, the installation state information of the consumption module in the household appliance box body is acquired through a sensor arranged in the box body, and the installation state information at least comprises whether the consumption module is located at the correct position in the household appliance or whether the consumption module is installed in place.

Specifically, S101 can be subdivided into two specific embodiments.

As shown in S111 in fig. 2: position state information of the consumable module is acquired. Specifically, the consumable module needs to be installed at a target position in the box body, such as a photoelectric sensor is arranged at a target installation position (a position for correctly installing the consumable module), and a blocking piece is arranged at the position of the consumable module corresponding to the target installation position; when the blocking piece reaches the position of the photoelectric sensor, the main control board acquires the position information of the consumption module; when the separation blade does not reach the position of the photoelectric sensor, the main control board does not acquire the position information of the consumption module. In other embodiments, in order to ensure the accuracy of the installation position of the consumption module, a plurality of position sensors may be disposed at a target position in the box, for example, when the consumption module is a box, four position sensors are disposed at the target position, the four position sensors are uniformly or non-uniformly distributed at the target position in the box, and four blocking pieces are disposed on the consumption module and matched with the consumption module; when the separation blade on the consumption module reaches the position of the photoelectric sensor on the household appliance box body matched with the separation blade, the main control board acquires the position information of the consumption module; when the blocking sheet does not reach the position of the photoelectric sensor on the household appliance box body matched with the blocking sheet, the main control board does not acquire the position information of the consumption module.

In other embodiments, the positional status information of the consumable module may be obtained by a touch switch. The point contact switch is respectively installed on a position to be installed and a consumption module in the household appliance box body, and when the consumption module is installed to the position, the point contact switch is triggered to acquire the position state information of the consumption module.

As shown at S112 in fig. 3: pressure status information of the consumable module is obtained. Specifically, a pressure sensor is arranged in a household appliance box body provided with the consumption module, and the pressure applied to the household appliance box body at the position is obtained through the pressure sensor. In other embodiments, a pressure sensor is disposed on the consuming module, and the pressure applied to the consuming module is obtained through the pressure sensor.

In some embodiments, to ensure that the consumable module is in the correct installation state, the status information of the consumable module is obtained as position information and pressure information. Namely, the consumption module or the box body is provided with a photoelectric sensor and a pressure sensor, and the signal information of the photoelectric sensor and the pressure sensor is obtained to comprehensively judge whether the consumption module is correctly installed.

S102: judging whether the consumption module in the household appliance is in a correct installation state or not according to the state information of the consumption module in the household appliance; specifically, whether the consumable module is in a correct installation state is judged according to the state information of the consumable module acquired by the sensor.

As shown in S121 of fig. 2, the position status information of the consumable module is analyzed to determine whether the consumable module is in a correct installation state. Specifically, when the state information of the consumption module is acquired as the position information, if the consumption module reaches the first specified position, the consumption module is in a correct installation state; and if the consumable module does not reach the designated position, the consumable module is in the wrong installation position. Specifically, if the blocking piece on the consumption module reaches the position of the photoelectric sensor, the consumption module is in the correct installation position; if the blocking piece on the consumption module does not reach the position of the photoelectric sensor, the consumption module is not installed at the correct position. Or when the point contact switch senses that the consumption module is positioned at the position to be installed in the household appliance box body, the consumption module is positioned at the correct installation position; and if the point contact switch does not sense that the consumption module is positioned at the position to be installed in the household appliance box body, the consumption module is not positioned at the correct installation position.

As shown at S122 in fig. 3: and analyzing the pressure state information of the consumption module to judge whether the consumption module is in a correct installation state. Specifically, when the position state information of the consumption module is acquired as pressure information, if the pressure applied to the consumption module reaches a specified value, the consumption module is in a correct installation state; and if the pressure applied to the consumption module does not reach the specified value, the consumption module is not installed in place. The specified value is the pressure to which the consumption module is subjected when the consumption module is mounted to the correct position in the box body. Specifically, when the pressure sensor is arranged on the consumption module and the value of the pressure sensor on the consumption module is the specified value, the consumption module is correctly installed on the household appliance box body; if the value of the pressure sensor on the consumption module is not the designated value, the consumption module is not installed in place.

It is to be understood that mounting to the correct position means that the consumable module is in the correct position in the housing to mount the consumable module; the non-proper mounting means that the consumer module is not fastened to the appliance housing, although it is already in the correct mounting position.

In some embodiments, in order to ensure the correctness of the installation state of the consumable module, the state information of the consumable module is acquired as position information and pressure information. Namely, whether the consumption module is installed at the correct position in the household appliance box body is comprehensively judged through the photoelectric sensor and the pressure sensor on the consumption module or the box body and through the acquired signals of the photoelectric sensor and the pressure sensor. That is, when the blocking sheet reaches the position of the photoelectric sensor, the main control board receives the signal of the photoelectric sensor, and at this time, if the value on the pressure sensor is not the designated value, it indicates that the consumption module is not installed in place although being in the correct installation position. If the pressure sensor shows that the pressure reaches the designated value, but the main control board does not acquire the position signal sent by the photoelectric sensor, it indicates that the installation position of the consumption module needs to be adjusted. If the main control board acquires the signal of the photoelectric sensor and the pressure sensor reaches the designated value, the consumption module is correctly installed. If the main control board does not acquire the photoelectric sensor signal and the pressure sensor does not reach the designated numerical value, the consumption module is incorrectly installed.

S103: configuring a first light emitting mode or a second light emitting mode of the light emitting assembly according to a judgment result of whether the consumption module in the household appliance is in a correct installation state; specifically, the lighting pattern of the lighting assembly is configured according to whether the consumable module is correctly mounted.

In some embodiments, the light emitting assembly is configured to assume a first light emitting mode when the consumable module is in a correct installed state; configuring the light emitting assembly to exhibit a second light emitting mode when the consumable module is in a wrong installation state (incorrect installation position or not in place); the first light emitting mode and the second light emitting mode have at least one of different flicker frequency, brightness, color, aperture rotation speed and flicker time length. In some embodiments, the light emitting assembly is configured to present a first color of light, such as green, when the consumable module is in the correct mounting position; the light emitting assembly is configured to present a second color of light, such as red, when the consumable module is in the wrong mounting position. It should be understood that, since the light emitting mode of the light emitting assembly includes the flashing frequency, brightness, color, aperture rotation speed, flashing time length, etc. of the light emitting assembly, the first light emitting mode and the second light emitting mode can be distinguished by changing the flashing frequency, brightness, color, aperture rotation speed, flashing time length of the light emitting assembly or combining the flashing frequency, brightness, color, aperture rotation speed, flashing time length of the light emitting assembly.

In other embodiments, the light-emitting component is a breathing lamp, and the light-emitting mode of the breathing lamp comprises at least one of the flashing frequency, brightness, color, aperture rotation speed and flashing time length of the breathing lamp, and any one or combination of the above can be selected to distinguish the light-emitting mode of the breathing lamp. In some embodiments, if the consumable module is in the correct installed state, the breathing lamp is configured to be gradually raised from the extinguished state until the brightest is reached; if the consumption module is in a wrong installation state, the breathing lamp is configured to flicker all the time. Specifically, if the consumption module is installed incorrectly, the breathing lamp flickers all the time, and if the consumption module is installed correctly, the breathing lamp gradually rises from an off state until the breathing lamp reaches the brightest state, and the breathing lamp keeps the brightest state all the time. And the breathing lamp is turned off until the household appliance door body is closed.

And S104, controlling the light-emitting assembly to execute the first light-emitting mode or the second light-emitting mode according to the configuration result so as to indicate the installation state of the consumption module in the household appliance. And controlling the light emitting assembly to execute a corresponding light emitting mode according to the configuration result of the S103 so as to indicate the installation state of the consumption module in the household appliance.

In some embodiments, when the consumption module in the household appliance is in the correct installation state, in addition to the breathing lamp executing the preset lighting mode, for example, the breathing lamp is kept on for a long time after flashing, the remaining lighting mode of the breathing lamp can be configured to indicate the remaining amount of the consumption module in the household appliance. Namely, when the consumption module is installed correctly, the main control panel is directly triggered to acquire and analyze the residual quantity state information of the consumption module, and the light-emitting mode of the corresponding breathing lamp is configured according to the residual quantity state information so as to directly indicate the residual quantity.

Example two

A lighting indicating structure 100 includes a main control board configured to execute a computer program of an installation state indicating method of a consumption module in an electric home appliance as in the above embodiments, the main control board acquiring state information of the consumption module and configuring different lighting modes for different position information of the consumption module.

The light emitting indication structure 100 includes a breathing lamp installed inside the home appliance through a fixing structure, and the breathing lamp is electrically connected with the main control panel. The fixing structure is a buckle structure, a sticking structure, a screw connection structure and the like which are common to the technical personnel in the field. In some embodiments, the light emitting indication structure 100 is mounted in the cabinet of the refrigerator 200 by a fixing structure.

As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, embodiments of the present description may be provided as a method, system, or computer program product. Accordingly, one or more embodiments of the present description may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, one or more embodiments of the present description may take the form of a computer program product embodied on one or more computer-usable storage media (including, but not limited to, disk storage, CD-ROM, optical storage, and the like) having computer-usable program code embodied therein.

While embodiments of the invention have been disclosed above, it is not limited to the applications listed in the description and the embodiments, which are fully applicable in all kinds of fields of adaptation of the invention, and further modifications can be easily implemented by those skilled in the art, so that the invention is not limited to the specific details and the examples shown herein, without departing from the general concept defined by the claims and the scope of equivalents.