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 尹俊明 黄振兴 许升 于 2019-04-17 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明公开一种衣物处理设备及控制方法,衣物处理设备包括标签激励装置,所述标签激励装置用于发射激励信号激励衣物上的电子标签,使得电子标签生成可被信号基站获取的标签信号。本发明中在衣物处理设备上增加一个标签激励装置和NB-iot模块,标签激励装置只用于发射激励信号,并不设置读取模块,电子标签生成的标签信号由附近的信号基站获取,该信号基站将获取的标签信号通过蜂窝移动通信网络转发给相应的衣物处理设备,如此则不需要在每个衣物处理设备上均设置读取模块,使得衣物识别技术应用到洗衣机、干衣机的成本大幅下降,有助于衣物识别技术在衣物处理设备上的推广。(The invention discloses a clothes treatment device and a control method. According to the invention, the label exciting device and the NB-iot module are added on the clothes treatment equipment, the label exciting device is only used for transmitting exciting signals, a reading module is not arranged, label signals generated by the electronic label are acquired by a nearby signal base station, and the signal base station forwards the acquired label signals to the corresponding clothes treatment equipment through a cellular mobile communication network, so that the reading module is not required to be arranged on each clothes treatment equipment, the cost of applying the clothes identification technology to a washing machine and a clothes dryer is greatly reduced, and the popularization of the clothes identification technology on the clothes treatment equipment is facilitated.)

1. Laundry treatment apparatus, characterized in that it comprises tag excitation means for emitting an excitation signal to excite an electronic tag on the laundry, so that the electronic tag generates a tag signal that can be acquired by a signal base station.

2. The clothes treatment device according to claim 1, wherein a communication module is provided, the clothes treatment device is connected with the signal base station through the communication module in a communication way, and the signal base station is used for transmitting the label signal;

Preferably, the communication module is an NB-iot module, and the laundry treating apparatus is automatically connected to the signal base station through the NB-iot module.

3. The clothes treating apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a plurality of clothes treating apparatuses are connected to the signal base station in communication, and each clothes treating apparatus is correspondingly provided with a label exciting device.

4. A control method of a laundry treating apparatus including an excitation device, the control method comprising: the label exciting device emits an exciting signal to excite the electronic label on the clothes, so that the electronic label generates a label signal and sends the label signal to the signal base station.

5. The control method according to claim 4, wherein the clothes treating apparatus is in communication connection with the signal base station, and the tag signal is acquired by the signal base station.

6. The control method according to claim 5, wherein the clothes treatment apparatus is provided with a cellular mobile communication module, and the clothes treatment apparatus is connected to the established cellular mobile communication network through the cellular mobile communication network and is in communication connection with the signal base station through the cellular mobile communication network.

7. The control method according to any one of claims 4 to 6, wherein the tag signal has an identification code, and the clothes treatment device is connected to the signal base station to obtain the tag signal corresponding to the corresponding identification code.

8. The control method according to claim 7, wherein the plurality of clothes treatment devices are provided with tag exciting devices, the tag exciting device of each clothes treatment device writes a corresponding identification code into an electronic tag, the electronic tag generates a tag signal with the identification code after sensing the exciting signal, and the clothes treatment devices acquire the tag signal with the corresponding identification code from the signal base station.

9. The control method according to any one of claims 4 to 8, wherein the tag signal comprises a clothing information code, and the clothing processing device analyzes the clothing information code according to a set analysis rule to obtain corresponding clothing information;

preferably, the laundry treating apparatus determines a corresponding laundry care program according to the parsed laundry information.

10. The control method according to claim 4, characterized in that the clothes treatment device is in communication connection with a cloud server, the cloud server is in communication connection with a signal base station, the cloud server obtains the tag signal from the signal base station and then performs analysis processing to obtain the clothes information, and the clothes treatment device is connected with the cloud server to obtain the clothes information;

More preferably, the cloud server determines a corresponding clothes care program according to the analyzed clothes information, and the clothes treatment device is connected with the cloud server to acquire the clothes care program.

Technical Field

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

Background

With the development and progress of new technologies, the clothes treatment equipment, such as a washing machine, a clothes dryer, a washing and drying integrated machine and the like, is configured with new technologies, so that more intelligent control is realized. The washing machine has a clothes identification function, and a clothes identification module is arranged on the washing machine: the RFID module is integrated with an antenna and a reader, so that the module cost of the washing machine is high, and the technical popularization on a common machine is difficult to realize.

The invention patent with application number 201510829777.3 discloses a control method of a washing machine and the washing machine, the control method of the washing machine comprises that when a user starts the washing machine to wash clothes, a clothes identification module scans clothes identification labels arranged on the clothes to be washed to obtain clothes identification information; the clothes identification module sends the clothes identification information to the controller, so that the controller controls the washing machine to wash the clothes according to the washing program corresponding to the clothes identification information in the washing program library. The invention can ensure that the washing machine can accurately acquire the clothes identification information in the process of washing the clothes, so as to wash the clothes according to the corresponding washing program, thereby effectively improving the washing effect of the washing machine. This washing machine is provided with RFID and reads the ware for read electronic tags's radio frequency signal, but each washing machine all need install RFID and read the ware and increase washing machine cost undoubtedly, be unfavorable for technical popularization.

In view of the above, the present invention is particularly proposed.

Disclosure of Invention

The technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to overcome the defects of the prior art, and provide a clothes treatment device, which is additionally provided with a label excitation device and an NB-iot module, wherein the label excitation device is only used for transmitting an excitation signal, and a reading module is not arranged, a label signal generated by an electronic label is acquired by a nearby signal base station, and the signal base station forwards the acquired label signal to the corresponding clothes treatment device through a cellular mobile communication network, so that the reading module is not required to be arranged on each clothes treatment device, the cost of applying the clothes identification technology to a washing machine and a clothes dryer is greatly reduced, and the popularization of the clothes identification technology on the clothes treatment device is facilitated.

In order to solve the technical problems, the invention adopts the technical scheme that:

the clothes treatment equipment comprises a label exciting device, wherein the label exciting device is used for emitting an exciting signal to excite an electronic label on clothes, so that the electronic label generates a label signal which can be acquired by a signal base station.

In the scheme, the label exciting device is additionally arranged on the clothes processing equipment, the label exciting device is only used for emitting exciting signals, a reading module is not arranged, and the label signals generated by the electronic labels are acquired by a nearby signal base station, so that the reading module is not required to be arranged on each clothes processing equipment, the cost of applying the clothes identification technology to the washing machine and the clothes dryer is greatly reduced, and the popularization of the clothes identification technology on the clothes processing equipment is facilitated.

Compared with the traditional RFID system structure, the scheme only remains the antenna part, the reader part is replaced by the base station, in order to enable the electronic tag to generate the electromagnetic signal with larger energy, the power of the excitation device is increased, the tag can obtain larger energy, the signal base station is taken as a reading device, and the reading capability of the signal base station is incomparable with that of the common reader, thereby realizing remote signal reading.

Preferably, the clothes treatment device is provided with a communication module, the clothes treatment device is in communication connection with the signal base station through the communication module, and the signal base station is used for sending the tag signal.

The clothes processing equipment is provided with a communication module, and a signal base station acquires corresponding tag signals to form a direct and complete signal loop.

Preferably, the communication module is an NB-iot module, and the laundry treating apparatus is automatically connected to the signal base station through the NB-iot module.

In the scheme, the communication module selects an NB-iot module, the NB-iot is constructed in a cellular network, only the bandwidth of about 180KHz is consumed, and the communication module can be directly deployed in a GSM network, a UMTS network or an LTE network so as to reduce the deployment cost and realize smooth upgrade. NB-IOT focuses on the Low Power Wide coverage (LPWA) Internet of things (IOT) market, an emerging technology that can be widely applied worldwide. The method has the characteristics of wide coverage, multiple connections, low speed, low cost, low power consumption, excellent architecture and the like. The NB-IOT uses a License frequency band, can adopt three deployment modes of in-band, guard band or independent carrier, and coexists with the existing network. NB-IoT is an emerging technology in the IoT domain that supports cellular data connectivity for low power devices over wide area networks, also known as Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs). NB-IoT supports efficient connectivity for devices with long standby time and high requirements for network connectivity. The NB-IoT devices have long battery life while still providing very comprehensive indoor cellular data connection coverage.

Preferably, a plurality of clothes treatment devices are in communication connection with the signal base station, and each clothes treatment device is correspondingly provided with a label exciting device.

In the scheme, the plurality of clothes treatment devices are in communication connection with the same signal base station, and all the clothes treatment devices share the same signal base station, so that the module cost is saved for all the clothes treatment devices.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a control method of a laundry treating apparatus including an excitation device, the control method including: the label exciting device emits an exciting signal to excite the electronic label on the clothes, so that the electronic label generates a label signal and sends the label signal to the signal base station.

Preferably, the clothes treatment device is in communication connection with the signal base station, and the tag signal is acquired by the signal base station.

Preferably, the clothes treatment device is provided with a cellular mobile communication module, and the clothes treatment device is connected to the established cellular mobile communication network through the cellular mobile communication network and is in communication connection with the signal base station through the cellular mobile communication network.

Preferably, the tag signal has an identification code, and the clothes treatment device is connected to the signal base station to obtain the tag signal corresponding to the corresponding identification code.

In the above scheme, the tag signal generated by the electronic tag includes an identification code, the identification code corresponds to the laundry processing device, and after the laundry processing device is connected to the signal base station, the signal base station acquires the tag signal with the corresponding identification code.

Preferably, the plurality of clothes treatment devices are provided with label exciting devices, the label exciting device of each clothes treatment device writes a corresponding identification code into the electronic label, the electronic label induces the exciting signal and then generates a label signal with the identification code, and the signal base station of the clothes treatment device acquires the label signal with the corresponding identification code.

In the above scheme, the tag exciting device of each piece of clothes processing equipment writes a corresponding tag signal into the electronic tag, so that the clothes processing equipment obtains the tag signal with a corresponding identification code from the signal base station, or stated differently, after the signal base station obtains the tag signals of the clothes electronic tags at different clothes processing equipment ends, the signal base station sends the tag signals to the corresponding clothes processing equipment according to the identification codes in the tag signals.

Preferably, the tag signal includes a clothing information code, and the clothing processing device analyzes the clothing information code according to a set analysis rule to obtain corresponding clothing information.

In the scheme, the signal is analyzed at the washing machine end, and the clothes processing equipment determines the corresponding clothes care program according to the analyzed clothes information.

In another embodiment, the clothes processing equipment is in communication connection with a cloud server, the cloud server is in communication connection with a signal base station, the cloud server obtains a tag signal through the signal base station and then performs analysis processing to obtain clothes information, and the clothes processing equipment is connected with the cloud server to obtain the clothes information;

more preferably, the cloud server determines a corresponding clothes care program according to the analyzed clothes information, and the clothes treatment device is connected with the cloud server to acquire the clothes care program.

After adopting the technical scheme, compared with the prior art, the invention has the following beneficial effects:

in the invention, the clothes treatment equipment comprises a label exciting device which is used for emitting exciting signals to excite electronic labels on clothes, so that the electronic labels generate label signals which can be acquired by a signal base station. According to the invention, the label exciting device and the NB-iot module are added on the clothes treatment equipment, the label exciting device is only used for transmitting exciting signals, a reading module is not arranged, label signals generated by the electronic label are acquired by a nearby signal base station, and the signal base station forwards the acquired label signals to the corresponding clothes treatment equipment through a cellular mobile communication network, so that the reading module is not required to be arranged on each clothes treatment equipment, the cost of applying the clothes identification technology to a washing machine and a clothes dryer is greatly reduced, and the popularization of the clothes identification technology on the clothes treatment equipment is facilitated.

The following describes embodiments of the present invention in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the invention, are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the invention and together with the description serve to explain the invention without limiting the invention to the right. It is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments, and that for a person skilled in the art, other drawings can be derived from them without inventive effort. In the drawings:

fig. 1 is a control procedure of a preferred laundry treating apparatus of the present invention.

It should be noted that the drawings and the description are not intended to limit the scope of the inventive concept in any way, but to illustrate it by a person skilled in the art with reference to specific embodiments.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and the following embodiments are used for illustrating the present invention and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that the terms "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "inner", "outer", etc., indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplicity of description, but do not indicate or imply that the device or element being referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, e.g., as meaning either a fixed connection, a removable connection, or an integral connection; can be mechanically or electrically connected; may be directly connected or indirectly connected through an intermediate. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood in specific cases to those skilled in the art.