阅读说明：本技术 衣物处理设备及其控制方法 (Laundry treating apparatus and control method thereof ) 是由 王芳芳 高秋英 才智 于 2019-09-27 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明属于衣物处理技术领域,具体涉及一种衣物处理设备及其控制方法。本发明旨在解决现有衣物处理设备在执行抖散操作的过程中很容易让衣物产生异味的问题。为此,本发明的衣物处理设备包括转动构件和送风风机,转动构件能够拨动衣物处理设备内的衣物转动,送风风机设置成向衣物处理设备内送风,本发明的控制方法包括：在衣物处理设备执行抖散操作的过程中,获取转动构件的转动情况；根据转动构件的转动情况,选择性地使送风风机运转。本发明通过这种控制方式不仅能够在保证除皱效果的同时有效保证除味效果,而且还能够有效减小送风风机的电能消耗,以便有效保证衣物处理筒内的衣物不会在取出时存在异味,进而有效提升用户体验。(The invention belongs to the technical field of clothes treatment, and particularly relates to clothes treatment equipment and a control method thereof. The invention aims to solve the problem that the prior clothes treatment equipment is easy to generate peculiar smell in the process of executing the shaking and scattering operation. To this end, the clothes treatment device of the invention comprises a rotating component and an air supply fan, wherein the rotating component can stir clothes in the clothes treatment device to rotate, the air supply fan is arranged to supply air to the clothes treatment device, and the control method of the invention comprises the following steps: acquiring the rotation condition of the rotating member during the shaking operation of the clothes treatment equipment; the air supply fan is selectively operated according to the rotation of the rotating member. According to the invention, the control mode not only can ensure the wrinkle removing effect and effectively ensure the odor removing effect, but also can effectively reduce the power consumption of the air supply fan, so that the clothes in the clothes treatment cylinder can be effectively prevented from having peculiar smell when being taken out, and further the user experience is effectively improved.)

1. A control method for a laundry treating apparatus, the laundry treating apparatus including a rotating member that can rotate clothes in the laundry treating apparatus, and an air supply fan that is provided to supply air to the clothes in the laundry treating apparatus, the control method comprising:

acquiring a rotation condition of the rotating member during a shaking operation performed by the laundry treating apparatus;

and selectively operating the air supply fan according to the rotation condition of the rotating member.

2. The control method according to claim 1, wherein the step of selectively operating the blower fan according to the rotation of the rotary member comprises:

and operating the air supply fan if the rotating member is in a rotating state.

3. The control method according to claim 2, characterized by further comprising:

acquiring the weight of the clothes in the clothes treatment drum once every preset time in the process of executing shaking operation by the clothes treatment equipment;

determining a spin-to-stop ratio of the rotating member according to a weight of laundry in the laundry treatment drum;

causing the laundry treating apparatus to perform a shaking operation at the determined spin-stop ratio.

4. The control method according to claim 3, wherein the weight of the laundry in the laundry treating drum is positively correlated with the spin-to-stop ratio of the rotating member.

5. The control method according to claim 2, wherein the step of operating the supply fan if the rotary member is in a rotary state further comprises:

acquiring the rotating speed of the rotating member;

and controlling the rotating speed of the air supply fan according to the rotating speed of the rotating member.

6. The control method according to claim 2, wherein the step of selectively operating the blower fan according to the rotation of the rotary member further comprises:

if the rotating member is not in a rotating state, the air supply fan is not operated.

7. The control method according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the laundry treatment apparatus further includes a sterilization device provided to sterilize laundry within the laundry treatment apparatus, the control method further comprising:

the sterilizing device is always turned on during a shaking operation of the laundry treating apparatus.

8. The control method according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the laundry treatment apparatus is a drum washing machine, the rotating member is an inner tub of the drum washing machine, the drum washing machine further includes an outer tub, and the blower fan communicates with the outer tub;

or, the laundry treating apparatus is a pulsator washing machine, the rotating member is a pulsator of the pulsator washing machine, the pulsator washing machine further includes an outer tub and an inner tub rotatably disposed in the outer tub, and the air supply fan is communicated with the outer tub.

9. A laundry treating apparatus, characterized in that the laundry treating apparatus comprises a controller capable of executing the control method of any one of claims 1 to 8.

10. The laundry processing apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising an air supply duct, wherein the air supply fan is provided in the air supply duct, and wherein an aromatherapy device is further provided in the air supply duct.

Technical Field

The invention belongs to the technical field of clothes treatment, and particularly relates to clothes treatment equipment and a control method thereof.

Background

In order to facilitate the life of people and improve the life quality of people, more and more types of clothes treatment equipment are continuously emerged on the market, so that people can conveniently treat clothes. In recent years, as the number of laundry treating apparatuses increases, higher and higher demands are made on overall performance of the laundry treating apparatuses. In order to fully satisfy user's wrinkle removal demand, current a lot of clothing treatment facility all are provided with and tremble the wrinkle removal function that looses, through making clothing treatment facility stop the ratio operation with predetermineeing the commentaries on classics promptly to make clothing treatment facility can fully tremble the clothing and loose, thereby realize removing the wrinkle effect. The shaking process usually needs to last for a long time to achieve the wrinkle removing effect, the shaking process of the existing clothes treatment equipment even needs to last for more than ten hours, and the wet clothes are easily smelly and even possibly breed bacteria in the closed space for a long time, so that the user experience is seriously damaged.

Accordingly, there is a need in the art for a new laundry treating apparatus and a control method thereof to solve the above-mentioned problems.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems in the prior art, i.e. to solve the problem that the conventional clothes treatment apparatus is likely to generate odor in the clothes during the shaking operation, the present invention provides a control method for a clothes treatment apparatus, the clothes treatment apparatus comprising a rotating member and an air supply fan, the rotating member being capable of stirring the clothes in the clothes treatment apparatus to rotate, the air supply fan being configured to supply air to the clothes in the clothes treatment apparatus, the control method comprising: acquiring a rotation condition of the rotating member during a shaking operation performed by the laundry treating apparatus; and selectively operating the air supply fan according to the rotation condition of the rotating member.

In a preferable aspect of the control method for a laundry treating apparatus described above, the step of "selectively operating the air supply fan according to a rotation condition of the rotating member" includes: and operating the air supply fan if the rotating member is in a rotating state.

In a preferable aspect of the control method for a laundry treating apparatus described above, the control method further includes: acquiring the weight of the clothes in the clothes treatment drum once every preset time in the process of executing shaking operation by the clothes treatment equipment; determining a spin-to-stop ratio of the rotating member according to a weight of laundry in the laundry treatment drum; causing the laundry treating apparatus to perform a shaking operation at the determined spin-stop ratio.

In a preferred aspect of the control method for a laundry treating apparatus described above, a weight of laundry in the laundry treating drum is positively correlated with a rotation-stop ratio of the rotating member.

In a preferable aspect of the control method for a laundry treating apparatus described above, the step of "operating the air supply fan if the rotation member is in a rotation state" further includes: acquiring the rotating speed of the rotating member; and controlling the rotating speed of the air supply fan according to the rotating speed of the rotating member.

In a preferable aspect of the control method for a laundry treating apparatus described above, the step of "selectively operating the air supply fan according to a rotation condition of the rotating member" further includes: if the rotating member is not in a rotating state, the air supply fan is not operated.

In a preferable aspect of the control method for a laundry treatment apparatus described above, the laundry treatment apparatus further includes a sterilization device configured to sterilize laundry in the laundry treatment apparatus, and the control method further includes: the sterilizing device is always turned on during a shaking operation of the laundry treating apparatus.

In a preferred technical solution of the control method for a laundry treatment apparatus described above, the laundry treatment apparatus is a drum washing machine, the rotating member is an inner drum of the drum washing machine, the drum washing machine further includes an outer drum, and the air supply fan is communicated with the outer drum; or, the laundry treating apparatus is a pulsator washing machine, the rotating member is a pulsator of the pulsator washing machine, the pulsator washing machine further includes an outer tub and an inner tub rotatably disposed in the outer tub, and the air supply fan is communicated with the outer tub.

The present invention also provides a laundry treating apparatus including a controller capable of performing the control method for a laundry treating apparatus described in any one of the preferred embodiments above.

In the preferable technical scheme of the clothes treatment equipment, the clothes treatment equipment further comprises an air supply air channel, the air supply fan is arranged in the air supply air channel, and an aromatherapy device is further arranged in the air supply air channel.

As can be understood by those skilled in the art, in the technical solution of the present invention, the laundry treatment apparatus of the present invention includes a rotating member and an air supply fan, the rotating member can stir the laundry in the laundry treatment apparatus to rotate, the air supply fan is configured to supply air to the laundry in the laundry treatment apparatus, and the control method of the present invention includes: acquiring a rotation condition of the rotating member during a shaking operation performed by the laundry treating apparatus; and selectively operating the air supply fan according to the rotation condition of the rotating member. It should be noted that the clothes treating apparatus can achieve the effect of shaking and removing wrinkles only by controlling the rotating member to operate at a certain rotation-stop ratio, that is, during the shaking operation of the clothes treating apparatus, the rotating member does not rotate all the time, the clothes in the clothes treating drum can be shaken only when the rotating member is in a rotating state, and the clothes in the clothes treating drum are in a stocked state when the rotating member is not in a rotating state. In view of this, the rotation condition of the rotating member is acquired during the shaking operation of the clothes treatment device to determine whether the clothes in the clothes treatment drum are in a shaking state or a stocked state, so that the clothes treatment device can control the operation condition of the air supply fan according to the state of the clothes in the clothes treatment drum, and the ventilation effect of the air supply fan can be better exerted to effectively enhance the air circulation effect in the clothes treatment drum.

Further, in a preferred technical solution of the present invention, if the rotating member is in a rotating state, it indicates that the clothes in the clothes treatment drum are being stirred, and at this time, the gap between the clothes is large, and the clothes treatment apparatus controls the operation of the air supply fan at this time to achieve a good ventilation effect, so that all the clothes can be blown, thereby effectively ensuring the wrinkle removing effect and enabling the clothes treatment apparatus to have the odor removing effect. Meanwhile, if the rotating member is not in a rotating state, which indicates that the clothes in the clothes treatment drum are in a stocked state, the air supply cannot achieve a good odor removal effect, so that the clothes treatment device does not control the operation of the air supply fan, so that the odor removal effect of the clothes treatment device can be effectively ensured, and the power consumption of the clothes treatment device can be reduced as much as possible.

Further, in a preferred aspect of the present invention, the laundry treating apparatus is capable of determining a spin-to-stop ratio of the rotary member according to a weight of laundry in the laundry treating drum at every preset time during the laundry treating apparatus performs the shaking operation, and the weight of laundry in the laundry treating drum is positively correlated with the spin-to-stop ratio of the rotary member. It can be understood that, since the weight of the laundry is likely to be changed continuously during the process of the laundry processing apparatus performing the shaking operation, in the technical solution of the present invention, the laundry processing apparatus can re-determine the rotation-stop ratio of the rotating member once according to the weight of the laundry in the laundry processing drum every preset time, so that the rotating member can stop rotating after reaching the preset rotation speed no matter how much the weight of the laundry in the laundry processing drum is, thereby maximally ensuring the shaking and wrinkle removing effects of the laundry processing apparatus.

Further, in a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the laundry treatment apparatus is further capable of controlling a rotation speed of the air supply fan according to a rotation speed of the rotating member, and since the rotation speeds of the rotating member are different, sizes of gaps between the clothes in the laundry treatment drum are also different, and the laundry treatment apparatus is capable of controlling the rotation speed of the air supply fan accordingly, and preferably, when the rotation speed of the rotating member is smaller, a larger fan rotation speed is used, so as to effectively ensure that the laundry treatment apparatus can always have a good odor removal effect.

Further, in a preferred embodiment of the present invention, during the laundry treating apparatus performing the shaking operation, the laundry treating apparatus may further control the sterilizing device to be always turned on so as to continuously perform the sterilization treatment on the laundry in the laundry treating drum.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a flow chart of the main steps of the control method of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a flowchart showing the detailed steps of the preferred embodiment of the control method of the present invention.

Detailed Description

Preferred embodiments of the present invention are described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be understood by those skilled in the art that these embodiments are only for explaining the technical principle of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. For example, although the steps of the method of the present invention are described herein in a particular order, these orders are not limiting, and one skilled in the art may perform the steps in a different order without departing from the underlying principles of the invention.

The following description will be made by taking the clothes treatment apparatus as a drum washing machine and the rotating member as an inner drum of the drum washing machine as an example, of course, this description is only exemplary, and it is obvious to those skilled in the art that the specific type of the clothes treatment apparatus, for example, the clothes treatment apparatus may also be a clothes dryer, a pulsator washing machine, a washing and drying machine, etc., can be set by themselves according to the actual use requirement, and the specific structure of the rotating member is adjusted accordingly, and the specific application objects are not deviated from the basic principle of the present invention, and the present invention falls into the protection scope.

Specifically, the drum washing machine comprises a washing drum and an air supply duct communicated with the washing drum, the washing drum comprises an outer drum and an inner drum connected to the outer drum in a rotatable manner, the inner drum can rotate relative to the outer drum to stir clothes in the inner drum to rotate, and of course, a person skilled in the art can set the specific structures of the washing drum and the air supply duct according to actual use requirements. Preferably, the air supply duct is not only communicated with the inner cylinder, but also communicated with the outside, so as to better realize the air exchange effect. The washing machine is characterized in that an air supply fan and a plasma generator are arranged in the air supply duct, the air supply fan can supply air into the inner barrel through the air supply duct, the plasma generator can generate plasma to sterilize clothes in the inner barrel, the air supply fan can help the plasma generated by the plasma generator to diffuse into the inner barrel to sterilize the clothes in the washing barrel when rotating, an aromatherapy device is further arranged at an air outlet of the air supply duct, and the air supply fan can help aromatherapy molecules generated by the aromatherapy device to diffuse into the inner barrel to fumigate the clothes in the inner barrel when rotating, so that the drum washing machine can further perform odor management on the clothes in the inner barrel, and the clothes can keep lasting fragrance. Of course, the drum washing machine may not include an air supply duct, that is, the air supply fan, the plasma generator and the fragrance device are directly disposed in the washing drum. It should be noted that, although the sterilization device described in the preferred embodiment is a plasma generator; however, it is obvious to the skilled person that the specific type of the sterilization device, such as an ultraviolet ray lamp, can be set according to the actual use requirement. Meanwhile, the present invention does not impose any limitation on the specific type of the fragrance means as long as the fragrance means can generate fragrance molecules to perfume the laundry. In addition, it can be understood by those skilled in the art that the specific structure of the drum washing machine can be set by those skilled in the art according to the actual use requirement, as long as the drum washing machine can rotate the clothes and supply the air into the inner drum through the air supply fan, and the change of the specific structure does not depart from the basic principle of the present invention, and shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

Further, the drum washing machine of the present invention further includes a controller, the controller can control a rotation/stop ratio of the inner drum and a rotation speed of the air supply fan, and can also acquire a weight of the laundry in the inner drum and a rotation condition of the inner drum, and the controller can also control an open/close state of the sterilizing device. In addition, it can be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention does not limit the specific structure and model of the controller, and the controller may be the original controller of the drum washing machine, or may be a controller separately provided for executing the control method of the present invention, and the structure and model of the controller can be set by those skilled in the art according to the actual use requirement.

Referring first to fig. 1, a flow chart of main steps of the control method of the present invention is shown. It should be noted that, although the preferred embodiment is described with reference to the case where the laundry treatment apparatus is a drum washing machine, it is obvious for a skilled person to set the type of the laundry treatment apparatus according to actual use requirements. As shown in fig. 1, based on the drum washing machine described in the above preferred embodiment, the control method mainly includes the following steps:

s1: acquiring the rotation condition of the inner barrel in the process of executing the shaking operation of the drum washing machine;

s2: the air supply fan is selectively operated according to the rotation condition of the inner cylinder.

Further, in step S1, the controller can acquire a rotation condition of an inner drum of the drum washing machine during the shaking operation of the drum washing machine; it should be noted that the shaking operation described in the present invention may be a single program or a step attached to other programs, and the shaking operation described in the present invention is only required to be performed by the inner cylinder at a predetermined rotation/stop ratio to realize the shaking function. In addition, as can be understood by those skilled in the art, the present invention does not limit the manner in which the controller obtains the rotation condition of the inner cylinder, and the skilled person can set the measurement manner according to the actual use requirement, for example, a tachometer can be arranged to measure the rotation condition of the inner cylinder, and a camera device can be arranged to obtain the rotation condition of the inner cylinder.

Further, in step S2, the controller may selectively operate the blower fan according to a rotation condition of the inner cylinder; it should be noted that, the present invention does not limit the specific control method, and the controller may control whether the air supply fan operates or not by whether the rotation speed of the inner cylinder reaches a preset rotation speed or not, and may also control whether the air supply fan operates or not by whether the inner cylinder rotates, and it is within the protection scope of the present invention as long as the rotation condition of the inner cylinder is adopted in the control method to control the operation of the air supply fan.

Next, referring to fig. 2, a flowchart illustrating specific steps of a preferred embodiment of the control method of the present invention is shown. As shown in fig. 2, based on the drum washing machine described in the above preferred embodiment, the preferred embodiment of the control method specifically includes the following steps:

s101: acquiring the rotation condition of the inner barrel in the process of executing the shaking operation of the drum washing machine;

s102: judging whether the inner cylinder is in a rotating state or not; if not, executing step S103; if yes, executing step S104;

s103: the air supply fan is not operated;

s104: acquiring the rotating speed of the inner cylinder;

s105: determining the rotating speed of the air supply fan according to the rotating speed of the inner barrel;

s106: the air supply fan is rotated at the determined rotation speed.

Further, in step S101, during the shaking operation of the drum washing machine, the controller can acquire the rotation condition of the inner drum; of course, those skilled in the art can understand that the present invention does not limit the manner in which the controller obtains the rotation condition of the inner cylinder, and the skilled person can set the measurement manner according to the actual use requirement, for example, a tachometer can be arranged to measure the rotation condition of the inner cylinder, and a camera device can be arranged to obtain the rotation condition of the inner cylinder.

Further, after the rotation condition of the inner drum is acquired, step S102 is executed, that is, the controller can determine whether the inner drum is in a rotation state, so as to effectively determine the state of the laundry in the inner drum. If the controller judges that the inner drum is not in a rotating state, the situation that the clothes in the inner drum are in a stocked state is indicated, and at the moment, air supply cannot achieve a good odor removal effect; in this case, step S103 is performed, i.e., the controller does not operate the supply air fan, so as to effectively reduce the power consumption of the drum washing machine. If the controller judges that the inner drum is in a rotating state, the clothes in the inner drum are stirred, the gap between the clothes is larger, and the air supply can play a good ventilation and odor removal effect; in this case, the controller needs to control the operation of the supply fan, and at this time, step S104 is executed first, that is, the controller can acquire the rotation speed of the inner drum so as to effectively determine the operation speed of the supply fan. Of course, it should be noted that the controller may also determine the rotation speed of the air supply fan without the rotation speed of the inner cylinder, that is, the air supply fan is directly rotated at a preset rotation speed, and a technician may set the rotation speed of the air supply fan according to actual use requirements. In addition, the invention does not limit the specific way in which the controller obtains the rotation speed of the inner cylinder, and a technician can set the measurement way according to the actual use requirement as long as the controller can obtain the rotation speed of the inner cylinder.

Further, in step S105, the controller may determine a rotation speed of the air supply fan according to a rotation speed of the inner drum; it should be noted that, because the rotating speeds of the inner cylinders are different, the sizes of gaps between the clothes in the inner cylinders are also different, so that the controller can control the rotating speed of the air supply fan accordingly, and preferably, the smaller the rotating speed of the inner cylinder is, the greater the determined rotating speed of the fan is, so as to effectively ensure that the drum washing machine can always have a good odor removal effect. Of course, the present invention does not limit any specific correspondence relationship between the rotation speed of the inner cylinder and the rotation speed of the air supply fan, as long as the rotation speed of the inner cylinder is inversely related to the rotation speed of the air supply fan. After the rotation speed of the air supply fan is determined, step S106 is executed, i.e., the controller can control the air supply fan to rotate at the determined rotation speed. Because in the process of the drum washing machine executing the shaking operation, the controller controls the plasma generator to be always started, when the air supply fan rotates at the determined rotating speed, the plasma generated by the plasma generator and the aroma molecules generated by the aroma device can be quickly diffused into the inner barrel through the air supply duct and fully contact with the clothes in the inner barrel, so that the drum washing machine can remove wrinkles of the clothes in the inner barrel and can keep the clothes fragrant, namely, the clothes can be enabled to be full of aroma while being smooth, and the user experience is further improved to the maximum extent.

In addition, the controller can also acquire the weight of the laundry in the inner tub once every preset time during the shaking operation of the drum washing machine; it should be noted that, the technician can set the length of the preset time according to the actual use requirement, the present invention does not limit the manner of acquiring the weight of the laundry by the controller, and the technician can set the length of the preset time according to the specific structure of the drum washing machine. After acquiring the weight of the clothes, the controller can determine the rotation-stop ratio of the inner drum according to the weight of the clothes in the inner drum and enable the drum washing machine to execute shaking-up operation according to the determined rotation-stop ratio; wherein the weight of the fabric items in the drum is positively correlated to the spin-to-stop ratio of the drum. It can be understood that, since the weight of the laundry is likely to be changed continuously during the shaking operation, in the preferred embodiment, the controller can determine a rotation-stop ratio again according to the weight of the laundry in the drum at preset time intervals, so that the drum can stop rotating after reaching the preset rotation speed no matter how much the weight of the laundry in the drum is, thereby ensuring the shaking and wrinkle removing effects of the drum washing machine to the maximum extent. Of course, the technician can set the preset rotation speed according to the actual use requirement.

Finally, it should be noted that the above examples are all preferred embodiments of the present invention, and should not be construed as limiting the scope of the present invention. When the present invention is actually used, a part of the steps may be added or deleted as needed or the order between the different steps may be changed by those skilled in the art. Such variations are not to be regarded as a departure from the spirit and scope of the invention.

So far, the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, but it is apparent to those skilled in the art that the scope of the present invention is not limited to these specific embodiments. Equivalent changes or substitutions of related technical features can be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the principle of the invention, and the technical scheme after the changes or substitutions can fall into the protection scope of the invention.