CN114183814A

CN114183814A - Indoor unit, related equipment of indoor unit and control method of indoor unit

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Publication number: CN114183814A
Application number: CN202111470672.5A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 龚立选; 李紫曦
Original assignee: GD Midea Air Conditioning Equipment Co Ltd; Midea Group Wuhan HVAC Equipment Co Ltd
Current assignee: GD Midea Air Conditioning Equipment Co Ltd; Midea Group Wuhan HVAC Equipment Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-12-03
Filing date: 2021-12-03
Publication date: 2022-03-15

Abstract

The embodiment of the application discloses an indoor unit, related equipment of the indoor unit and a control method of the indoor unit, wherein the indoor unit comprises: a panel; the lifting assembly is arranged on the panel; the grating assembly is connected to the panel through the lifting assembly, and the lifting assembly is used for drawing the grating assembly to be close to or far away from the panel. The position that the indoor set provided by the embodiment of this application can adjust the grid subassembly through lifting unit for the grid subassembly can rise or descend, makes the washing of grid subassembly need not to go on by other equipment of ascending a height, makes the washing of grid subassembly can go on subaerially, makes the maintenance of indoor set more convenient.

Description

Indoor unit, related equipment of indoor unit and control method of indoor unit

Technical Field

The embodiment of the application relates to the technical field of air conditioners, in particular to an indoor unit, a control method of the indoor unit, a computer readable storage medium, a control device and an air conditioner.

Background

Most indoor units of air conditioners in the prior art all have grilles, and the grilles generally have filtering performance and are used for filtering dust in air during return air to keep the air conditioners in a better working state, but along with the increase of service time, the grilles need to be cleaned.

Disclosure of Invention

The present invention is directed to solving at least one of the problems of the prior art or the related art.

To this end, a first aspect of the invention provides an indoor unit.

A second aspect of the invention provides a control method of an indoor unit.

A third aspect of the invention provides a computer-readable storage medium.

A fourth aspect of the invention provides a control apparatus.

A fifth aspect of the present invention provides an air conditioner.

In view of this, according to a first aspect of embodiments of the present application, there is provided an indoor unit including:

a panel;

the lifting assembly is arranged on the panel;

the grating assembly is connected to the panel through the lifting assembly, and the lifting assembly is used for drawing the grating assembly to be close to or far away from the panel.

In one possible embodiment, the lifting assembly comprises:

a pulley;

the driving piece is connected to the pulley and arranged on the panel;

and one end of the cable is connected to the pulley, the other end of the cable is connected to the grating component, and part of the cable is wound on the pulley.

In one possible embodiment, the lifting assembly further comprises: the first control switch is arranged on the panel and is connected to the driving piece;

the grid assembly is provided with an abutting piece, and the abutting piece abuts against the first control switch to stop the lifting assembly under the condition that the grid assembly abuts against the panel through the lifting assembly.

In a possible embodiment, the indoor unit further includes: the lifting assembly further comprises:

and the second control switch is arranged on the panel, is connected to the driving piece and is used for controlling the starting, stopping and driving directions of the driving piece.

In one possible embodiment, the lifting assembly further comprises:

the elastic piece is arranged on the panel and is positioned on one side of the second control switch;

the cable penetrates through the space between the second control switch and the elastic piece, the cable compresses the elastic piece under the condition that the cable is subjected to the gravity exerted by the grid assembly, so that the elastic piece is far away from the second control switch, and under the condition that the cable loses the gravity exerted by the grid assembly, the elastic piece is reset to abut against the second control switch, so that the driving piece stops or changes the driving direction of the driving piece.

In one possible embodiment, the lifting assembly further comprises:

the first fixing piece is connected to the panel or the shell of the lifting assembly, and the elastic piece is sleeved on the first fixing piece;

the elastic sheet is arranged at one end, far away from the fixing piece, of the elastic piece, and the cable penetrates out of the elastic sheet through the second control switch.

In a possible embodiment, the number of the lifting assemblies is at least two, and each lifting assembly is connected to the panel through a second fixing piece.

In one possible embodiment, the grid assembly comprises:

a grid plate;

the filter screen sets up on the grid board, wherein, be formed with the wind gap on the panel the grid subassembly butt is in under the condition on the panel, the filter screen covers the wind gap.

In one possible embodiment, the grid plate comprises:

a plate body;

the positioning groove is formed in the plate body, and the filter screen is clamped in the grating plate through the positioning groove;

the hangers are arranged on the plate body, and the lifting assembly is connected to the hangers.

According to a second aspect of the embodiments of the present application, a control method of an indoor unit is provided, configured to control the indoor unit according to any one of the above technical solutions, where the control method includes:

and controlling the lifting assembly to be opened in response to a grille assembly descending instruction so as to enable the grille assembly to descend away from the panel.

In one possible embodiment, the step of controlling the lifting assembly to open to lower the grille assembly away from the panel in response to a grille assembly lowering command includes:

acquiring the contact condition of the barrier through the tension of a cable of the lifting assembly;

controlling the lifting assembly to drive the grating assembly to descend under the condition that the grating assembly is not in contact with an obstacle;

controlling a driving member of the lifting assembly to stop in case the grid assembly is in contact with an obstacle; or

And under the condition that the grid assembly is in contact with the obstacle, the driving direction of the lifting assembly is changed, and the grid assembly is controlled to ascend so as to cover the air opening of the panel.

In a possible embodiment, the step of controlling the grill member to ascend so that the grill member covers the tuyere includes:

drawing the grating component to ascend through a lifting component;

acquiring state information of a first control switch of each lifting assembly;

when all the first control switches are abutted with the abutting pieces;

and controlling the lifting assembly to stop in a delayed mode.

In one possible embodiment, the control method further includes:

controlling the lifting assembly to stop in response to a pause driving command; and/or

Determining a maximum drive distance based on a length of a cable of the lift assembly;

and controlling the lifting assembly to stop when the driving distance of the lifting assembly reaches the maximum driving distance.

In one possible embodiment, the control method further includes:

and controlling the lifting assembly to be opened in response to a grille assembly lifting command so that the grille assembly is close to the panel.

According to a third aspect of the embodiments of the present application, a computer-readable storage medium is provided, where a computer program is stored, and the computer program implements the control method according to any one of the above technical solutions.

According to a fourth aspect of an embodiment of the present application, there is provided a control apparatus including:

a memory storing a computer program;

a processor executing the computer program;

wherein the processor implements the control method according to any one of the above technical aspects when executing the computer program.

According to a fourth aspect of an embodiment of the present application, there is provided an air conditioner including:

the indoor unit of any one of the above technical solutions.

In one possible embodiment, the air conditioner further includes:

according to the control device of the technical scheme, the control device is used for controlling the indoor unit.

Compared with the prior art, the invention at least comprises the following beneficial effects: the indoor set that this application embodiment provided has included panel, lifting unit and grid assembly, and the grid assembly is used for covering the panel, and in the return air of indoor set passed the panel through the grid assembly and enters into the indoor set in indoor set working process, the grid assembly played filtered air's effect, prevented that too much dust from entering into in the indoor set to play improvement indoor set life, guarantee air conditioner operating stability's effect. When the dust that piles up on the grid subassembly is more, can pull the grid subassembly through the lifting unit and keep away from in the panel, even make the grid subassembly descend, the user can wash the grid subassembly, after the completion is to the washing of grid subassembly, can open the lifting unit again to drive the grid subassembly and rise, until the grid subassembly again the butt continue to play filtered air's effect in the panel. The position that the indoor set provided by the embodiment of this application can adjust the grid subassembly through lifting unit for the grid subassembly can rise or descend, makes the washing of grid subassembly need not to go on by other equipment of ascending a height, makes the washing of grid subassembly can go on subaerially, makes the maintenance of indoor set more convenient.

Drawings

Various other advantages and benefits will become apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art upon reading the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments. The drawings are only for purposes of illustrating the preferred embodiments and are not to be construed as limiting the application. Also, like reference numerals are used to refer to like parts throughout the drawings. In the drawings:

fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an indoor unit according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram of a grill assembly according to one embodiment provided herein;

fig. 3 is a schematic structure diagram of an angle in a disassembled state of a lifting assembly of an indoor unit according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 4 is a schematic structural view of an indoor unit according to an embodiment of the present disclosure at another angle in a disassembled state of a lifting assembly;

fig. 5 is a schematic structural view of a lifting assembly of an indoor unit in a disassembled state at a further angle according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 6 is a schematic structure diagram of an angle of a lifting assembly of an indoor unit according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 7 is a schematic structure diagram of another angle of a lifting assembly of an indoor unit according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 8 is a flowchart illustrating exemplary steps of a control method of an indoor unit according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 9 is a flowchart illustrating exemplary steps of a control method of an indoor unit according to another embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 10 is a block diagram of a computer-readable storage medium of an embodiment provided herein;

fig. 11 is a block diagram illustrating a control apparatus of an air conditioner according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Wherein, the correspondence between the reference numbers and the part names in fig. 1 to 7 is:

100 panels, 200 lifting assemblies, 300 grid assemblies;

201 a pulley, 202 a driving piece, 203 a cable, 204 a first control switch, 205 a second control switch, 206 an elastic piece, 207 a first fixing piece, 208 a wire passing groove, 301 an abutting piece, 302 a grating plate, 303 a filter screen, 3021 a plate body, 3022 a positioning groove and 3023 a hanging lug.

Detailed Description

In order to better understand the technical solutions described above, the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application are described in detail below with reference to the drawings and the specific embodiments, and it should be understood that the specific features of the embodiments and the embodiments of the present application are detailed descriptions of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application, and are not limitations of the technical solutions of the present application, and the technical features of the embodiments and the embodiments of the present application may be combined with each other without conflict.

As shown in fig. 1 to 7, according to a first aspect of an embodiment of the present application, there is provided an indoor unit including: a panel 100, a lifting assembly 200, and a grill assembly 300;

wherein, the lifting assembly 200 is arranged on the panel 100; the grill assembly 300 is attached to the panel 100 by a lifting assembly 200, and the lifting assembly 200 is used to pull the grill assembly 300 closer to or away from the panel 100.

The indoor set that this application embodiment provided has included panel 100, lifting unit 200 and grid assembly 300, and grid assembly 300 is used for covering panel 100, and the return air of indoor set passes panel 100 through grid assembly 300 and enters into indoor set in the indoor set course of operation, and grid assembly 300 plays filtered air's effect, prevents that too much dust from entering into indoor set in to play improvement indoor set life, guarantee air conditioner operating stability's effect. When the grid assembly 300 has a lot of dust, the lifting assembly 200 can pull the grid assembly 300 away from the panel 100 to lower the grid assembly 300, so that the user can clean the grid assembly 300, and after the cleaning of the grid assembly 300 is completed, the lifting assembly 200 can be opened again to drive the grid assembly 300 to ascend until the grid assembly 300 abuts against the panel 100 again to continue to filter air. The position of the grille component 300 can be adjusted through the lifting component 200 in the indoor unit provided by the embodiment of the application, so that the grille component 300 can ascend or descend, the grille component 300 is cleaned without other ascending equipment, the grille component 300 can be cleaned on the ground, and the indoor unit is more convenient to maintain.

It can be understood that the grill assembly 300 may be detachably connected to the lifting assembly 200, so that when the grill assembly 300 is lowered to a desired position, the user may remove the grill assembly 300 to wash the grill assembly 300, such that the grill assembly 300 is more conveniently washed and the cleaning effect is more effective.

It is understood that the driving stroke of the lifting assembly 200 can be related to the installation height of the indoor unit, and the driving stroke of the lifting assembly 200 is larger when the installation height of the indoor unit is higher, whereas the driving stroke of the lifting assembly 200 is larger when the installation height of the indoor unit is lower. The driving stroke of the lifting assembly 200 should be greater than 1.5 m.

It can be understood that the indoor unit provided by the embodiment of the present application is particularly suitable for being used as a ceiling unit, i.e. when the indoor unit provided by the embodiment of the present application is installed on a ceiling, the distance between the indoor unit and the ground is the largest, and in this case, the grill assembly 300 can be more conveniently cleaned by lowering the grill assembly 300.

As shown in fig. 6 and 7, in some examples, the lift assembly 200 includes: a pulley 201; a driving member 202 connected to the pulley 201 and disposed on the panel 100; a cable 203 having one end connected to the pulley 201 and the other end connected to the grill assembly 300, and a portion of the cable 203 for being wound around the pulley 201.

As shown in fig. 3-5, the lift assembly 200 includes a pulley 201, a drive 202, and a cable 203, the drive 202 driving the pulley 201 to rotate in a first direction during lowering of the grate assembly 300 away from the panel 100, the pulley 201 lowering the grate assembly 300 via the cable 203; when the grill assembly 300 needs to be raised to approach the panel 100, the driving member 202 drives the pulley 201 to rotate in the second direction, and the pulley 201 allows more of the cable 203 to be wound around the pulley 201, so that the grill assembly 300 can be raised.

The grating component 300 is driven to ascend and descend by the way that the pulley 201 is matched with the cable 203, the pulley 201 can comprise an axle and two blades connected to the axle, a gap is formed between the two blades, and the cable 203 can be wound on the axle and positioned in the gap, so that the ascending and descending of the grating component 300 are more stable. In addition, the driving stroke of the lifting assembly 200 can be adjusted by adjusting the length of the cable 203, so that the driving stroke of the lifting assembly 200 has higher adjustment freedom, and the user experience can be improved.

It is understood that the drive 202 may be a motor.

In some examples, the lift assembly 200 may further include a wire guide channel 208 disposed above the housing of the lift assembly 200, the cable 203 passing through the wire guide channel 208, and the wire guide channel 208 may function to guide the cable 203.

As shown in fig. 6 and 7, in some examples, the cables 203 may be made of steel, which can ensure the mechanical strength of the cables 203, reduce the probability of breakage of the cables 203, and prevent the outside of the grill assembly 300 from falling.

As shown in fig. 6 and 7, in some examples, the lift assembly 200 further comprises: a first control switch 204 disposed on the panel 100 and connected to the driving member 202; the grill member 300 is provided with an abutting member 301, and when the grill member 300 abuts against the panel 100 via the lifting member 200, the abutting member 301 abuts against the first control switch 204 to stop the lifting member 200.

The lifting assembly 200 includes a first control switch 204, the grille assembly 300 is provided with an abutting member 301, when the grille assembly 300 is required to abut against the panel 100 to cover the air opening of the panel 100, if the grille assembly 300 is lifted to a proper position, the abutting member 301 should abut against the first control switch 204, the state of the first control switch 204 is changed accordingly, and the first control switch 204 can control the driving member 202 to stop. If the first control switch 204 is not in contact with the abutment 301, it indicates that the assembly between the grille assembly 300 and the panel 100 is not in place, in which case the drive member 202 should continue to drive the grille assembly 300 in the second direction. Through the setting of butt piece 301 and first control switch 204, can supervise the assembled state of grid assembly 300, can ensure to control driving piece 202 to stop again under the condition that grid assembly 300 butt is put on the body at panel 100, can ensure that the grid assembly 300 after the washing can the wind gap on the closing panel 100, has guaranteed the filter effect to the air.

As shown in fig. 3 to 5, in some examples, the indoor unit further includes: the lift assembly 200 further comprises: and a second control switch 205 disposed on the panel 100 and connected to the driving member 202 for controlling the start/stop and driving direction of the driving member 202.

The indoor unit further comprises a second control switch 205, and the start/stop and driving direction of the driving member 202 can be controlled by setting the second control switch 205, so as to control the ascending or descending of the grille assembly 300 and control the suspension of the ascending or descending.

When the user needs to clean the grill assembly 300, the user may issue a lowering control command to control the second control switch 205 to turn on the driving member 202, and control the driving member 202 to drive in the first direction, so that the lifting assembly 200 pulls the grill assembly 300 away from the panel 100.

When the grill assembly 300 is lowered to a desired height, the user may issue a pause command and the second control switch 205 may control the actuator 202 to stop, causing the grill assembly 300 to hover.

In some examples, the lift assembly 200 further comprises: an elastic member 206 provided on the panel 100 at one side of the second control switch 205; the cable 203 passes between the second control switch 205 and the resilient member 206, and in the event that the cable 203 is subjected to the weight force exerted by the grill assembly 300, the cable 203 compresses the resilient member 206 to move the resilient member 206 away from the second control switch 205, and in the event that the cable 203 loses the weight force exerted by the grill assembly 300, the resilient member 206 returns to abutment against the second control switch 205 to stop or change the drive direction of the drive member 202.

The lift assembly 200 further includes a spring 206, the grille assembly 300 is connected to the panel 100 by the cable 203 when the grille assembly 300 is away from the panel 100, the weight of the grille assembly 300 is entirely applied to the cable 203 in the case where the grille assembly 300 is lowered without being blocked by an obstacle, the cable 203 is tensioned, the cable 203 compresses the spring 206, the spring 206 is away from the second control switch 205, and when the grille assembly 300 is blocked by an obstacle, a part of the weight of the grille assembly 300 is distributed over the obstacle, the tension applied to the cable 203 is reduced, the pressure applied to the spring 206 by the cable 203 is reduced, the spring 206 is reset to abut against the second control switch 205 in the case where the state of the second control switch 205 is changed, and the driving direction of the driving member 202 is changed or the driving member 202 is stopped, the indoor unit can identify whether the grille assembly 300 touches an obstacle, if the grille assembly 300 touches the obstacle, the grille assembly 300 stops descending or ascends, the grille assembly 300 can be prevented from touching a user or the obstacle, and the grille assembly 300 can be more stably and reliably placed.

In some examples, the elastic member 206 may be a spring, a rubber member capable of being compressed and deformed, or an elastic sheet, and the specific pattern of the elastic member 206 is not limited in this application.

As shown in fig. 3-5, in some examples, the lift assembly 200 further comprises: a first fixing member 207 connected to the housing or the panel 100 of the lifting assembly 200, wherein the elastic member 206 is sleeved on the first fixing member 207; the elastic sheet is arranged at one end of the elastic element 206 far away from the fixed element, and the cable 203 passes through the space between the second control switch 205 and the elastic sheet.

The lifting assembly 200 further comprises a first fixing piece 207 and an elastic sheet, the elastic piece 206 can be sleeved on the first fixing piece 207 through the arrangement of the first fixing piece 207, the first fixing piece 207 can play a limiting role on the elastic piece 206, so that the elastic piece 206 can only deform along the length direction of the first fixing piece 207, the elastic piece 206 is prevented from being separated from or falling off, and the deformation and the fixation of the elastic piece 206 are more stable.

Considering that the wire diameter of cable 203 is limited, cable 203 can better be laminated to the shell fragment through the setting of shell fragment, especially under the condition that cable 203 receives tension to be taut, cable 203 better laminates with the shell fragment, can compress elastic component 206 through the shell fragment, has avoided cable 203 to break away from and lead to elastic component 206 unusual the resetting in elastic component 206 for grid assembly 300 descends more stably.

As shown in fig. 1 and 2, in some examples, there are at least two lifting assemblies 200, and each lifting assembly 200 is connected to the panel 100 by a second fastener.

Two or more lifting assemblies 200 are provided, and the two or more lifting assemblies 200 are commonly connected to the grating assembly 300, so that the lifting and lowering of the grating assembly 300 are more reliable. Each lifting assembly 200 is fixed on the panel 100 by a second fixing piece, so that the fixing of the lifting assembly 200 is reliable, and the lifting assembly 200 is prevented from loosening or falling off.

As shown in fig. 1 and 2, in some examples, in the process that two or more lifting assemblies 200 are provided and the grid assembly 300 is in a descending trend, the state of the second control switch 205 of each lifting assembly 200 may be identified, the number of the second control switches 205 abutted by the elastic member 206 is a first number, and when the ratio of the first number to the lifting assemblies 200 exceeds a first threshold, it is determined that an obstacle is placed under the grid assembly 300, for example, four lifting assemblies 200 may be provided, and when the second control switches 205 of two lifting assemblies 200 of the four lifting assemblies 200 are abutted by the elastic member 206, all lifting assemblies 200 are controlled to stop or reversely drive, so that the false rate can be reduced.

It will be appreciated that the second fixing member may be a screw.

As shown in fig. 1 and 2, in some examples, the grate assembly 300 includes: a grid plate 302; and a filter 303 disposed on the grill plate 302, wherein the panel 100 has an air opening formed therein, and the filter 303 covers the air opening when the grill member 300 abuts on the panel 100.

As shown in fig. 1 and 2, the grill assembly 300 includes a grill plate 302 and a filter screen 303, an air opening is provided on the panel 100, the indoor unit can intake air through the air opening, and then the air is discharged out of the indoor unit after exchanging heat with a heat exchanger of the indoor unit, so that the air conditioner can be cooled or heated, the grill assembly 300 includes the grill plate 302 and the filter screen 303, the grill plate 302 provides a support position for the filter screen 303 on the one hand, and on the other hand, the mechanical strength of the grill assembly 300 can be improved through the arrangement of the grill plate 302, the probability of deformation of the filter screen 303 is reduced, the filter screen 303 can be better attached to the panel 100, so that the filter screen 303 can better cover the air opening, the air passing through the panel 100 can be filtered, the probability of dust entering the indoor unit is reduced, and the service life of the indoor unit is prolonged.

As shown in fig. 1 and 2, in some examples, the grid plate 302 includes: a plate body 3021; a positioning groove 3022 provided on the plate body 3021, and the filter screen 303 is fastened to the grating plate 302 through the positioning groove 3022; a hanging lug 3023 provided on the plate body 3021, and the lifting assembly 200 is connected to the hanging lug 3023.

Grid plate 302 has included constant head tank 3022 and hangers 3023, can play the effect of location for the installation of filter screen 303 through setting up of constant head tank 3022, filter screen 303 can connect in grid plate 302 through the mode of joint simultaneously, can make filter screen 303 fixed more reliable, simultaneously can make filter screen 303 detachably connect in grid plate 302, when needs clean grid assembly 300, only need to transfer grid assembly 300 through lifting unit 200, after grid assembly 300 transfers to target in place, can take off filter screen 303, treat to accomplish filter screen 303 after clean, again with filter screen 303 joint on grid plate 302, can accomplish grid assembly 300's cleanness.

A hanger 3023 is formed on body 3021 and cable 203 of lift assembly 200 may be attached to hanger 3023 of lift assembly 200 to facilitate attachment of grill plate 302 to lift assembly 200.

As shown in fig. 8, according to a second aspect of the embodiment of the present application, a control method for an indoor unit is provided, where the control method is used to control the indoor unit according to any one of the above technical solutions, and includes:

step 601: and controlling the lifting assembly to be opened in response to the grid assembly descending command so as to enable the grid assembly to descend away from the panel. It will be understood that the grill assembly lowering command may be issued by the user or may be a set time threshold, and that the grill assembly of the indoor unit is deemed to be cleaned after the time threshold is reached, in which case the controller of the indoor unit may also automatically generate the grill assembly lowering command. In response to a grid assembly lowering command, the lifting assembly is opened, and the grid assembly can be lowered so as to facilitate cleaning of the grid assembly.

The indoor set that this application embodiment provided has included panel, lifting unit and grid assembly, and the grid assembly is used for covering the panel, and in the return air of indoor set passed the panel through the grid assembly and enters into the indoor set in indoor set working process, the grid assembly played filtered air's effect, prevented that too much dust from entering into in the indoor set to play improvement indoor set life, guarantee air conditioner operating stability's effect. Through the control method provided by the embodiment of the application, when more dust is accumulated on the grating assembly, the descending instruction of the grating assembly can be responded, the grating assembly is dragged to be away from the panel through the lifting assembly, and even if the grating assembly descends, a user can clean the grating assembly, so that the cleaning of the grating assembly can be carried out on the ground, and the maintenance of the indoor unit is more convenient.

It can be understood that the grid assembly can be connected to the lifting assembly in a detachable mode, so that when the grid assembly is placed in place, a user can take down the grid assembly to clean the grid assembly, the cleaning of the grid assembly is more convenient, and the cleaning effect is better.

In some examples, controlling the lifting assembly to open to lower the grille assembly away from the panel in response to a grille assembly lowering command includes: acquiring the contact condition of the barrier by the tension of a cable of the lifting assembly; under the condition that the grating component is not in contact with the obstacle, controlling the lifting component to drive the grating component to descend; controlling a driving member of the lifting assembly to stop under the condition that the grating assembly is in contact with the obstacle; or under the condition that the grille component is contacted with the barrier, the driving direction of the lifting component is changed, and the grille component is controlled to ascend so as to enable the grille component to cover the air opening of the panel.

Whether the grill assembly is in contact with the obstacle during the lowering process is determined by the tension of the cable, i.e., whether there is an obstacle below the grill assembly, it is understood that the tension of the cable is lowered when the grill assembly is in contact with the obstacle due to the gravity of the grill assembly, and thus whether the grill assembly is in contact with the obstacle is determined by the tension state of the cable. Should control lifting unit and shut down or control lifting unit and change the drive direction so that the grid subassembly rises when grid subassembly and barrier contact, so set up and to avoid grid subassembly and barrier to produce the collision of continuation, can reduce the probability that the grid subassembly pounded the barrier, can avoid the grid subassembly to injure the user or pound the damage article. When the grating component is not contacted with the obstacle, the obstacle can be controlled to descend so as to facilitate the cleaning of the grating component.

It can be understood that, in the case that the indoor unit includes the second control switch and the elastic member, whether the grill assembly contacts the obstacle or not can be determined by the states of the second control switch and the elastic member, in the case that the grill assembly is lowered without being blocked by the obstacle, the weight of the grill assembly is completely applied to the cable, the cable is tensioned, and the cable compresses the elastic member, so that the elastic member is far away from the second control switch, and when the grill assembly is blocked by the obstacle, part of the weight of the grill assembly is distributed onto the obstacle, the tension applied to the cable is reduced, the pressure of the cable on the elastic member is reduced, in this case, the elastic member is reset to abut against the second control switch, the state of the second control switch is changed, so that the driving direction of the driving member can be changed or the driving member can be controlled to stop, so that whether the grill assembly touches the obstacle or not can be identified, if the grid assembly touches the barrier, then the grid assembly will stop descending or rise, can avoid the grid assembly to touch the user for the transfer of grid assembly is more stable, reliable.

In some examples, the step of controlling the grill member to ascend so that the grill member covers the tuyere includes: the grid assembly is pulled to ascend through the lifting assembly; acquiring state information of a first control switch of each lifting assembly; when all the first control switches are abutted against the abutting piece; and controlling the lifting assembly to stop in a delayed manner.

The grid assembly is in contact with an obstacle, or the grid assembly is cleaned and needs to be reset, the lifting assembly can be opened to drive the grid assembly to ascend, under the condition that the grid assembly ascends in place, the abutting part on the grid assembly can be in contact with the first control switch, the state of the first control switch can be obtained to determine the return state of the grid assembly, under the condition that all the first control switches are abutted by the abutting part, the grid assembly can be returned to the position, the lifting assembly can be controlled to stop in a time delay mode under the condition, the grid assembly can further execute ascending action, abutting of the grid assembly and the panel is more reliable, and the grid assembly can be enabled to play a role in filtering air.

In some examples, the lift assembly is controlled to delay the shutdown for a delay time period greater than or equal to 1 s.

In some examples, the control method further comprises: controlling the lifting assembly to stop in response to the pause driving instruction; and/or determining a maximum drive distance based on a length of a cable of the lift assembly; and controlling the lifting assembly to stop when the driving distance of the lifting assembly reaches the maximum driving distance.

In the process of cleaning the grid assembly, when a user determines that the grid assembly is already lowered in place, the lowering height of the grid assembly is enough to clean the grid assembly, a pause driving instruction can be sent, and an indoor unit of the air conditioner can respond to the pause driving instruction so as to control the lifting assembly to stop.

The length of the cable can be acquired, the maximum driving distance of the lifting assembly is determined based on the length of the cable, and under the condition that the driving distance of the lifting assembly reaches the maximum distance, if the driving assembly continues to work, the cable is wound on the pulley in the opposite direction, so that the lifting assembly is controlled to stop in the condition, and the lifting of the grating assembly is controlled accurately.

In some examples, the control method further comprises: and controlling the lifting assembly to be opened in response to the grid assembly lifting command so as to enable the grid assembly to be close to the panel.

After the user finishes cleaning the grating assembly, the user can also send out a grating assembly ascending command, in this case, the ascending and descending assembly can be controlled to be opened to drive the grating assembly to ascend and move towards the direction close to the panel so as to cover the grating assembly on the panel.

As shown in fig. 9, in some examples, a control method of an indoor unit includes:

step 701: controlling a driving member to drive the traction grating assembly to descend in a first direction in response to a grating assembly descending command;

step 702: judging whether the grid assembly is in contact with the obstacle, if not, executing step 703, and if so, executing step 710;

step 703: sending a pulse signal to control the driving piece to drive the traction grating component to descend in a first direction;

step 704: judging whether a pause driving instruction is received or not; if yes, go to step 705, otherwise go to step 708;

step 705: controlling the lifting assembly to stop driving;

step 706: judging whether a continuous descending instruction is received, if so, executing a step 707, otherwise, executing a step 708;

step 707: determining a maximum drive distance based on the length of the cable, controlling a drive member to drive the traction grid assembly down in a first direction based on the maximum drive distance;

step 708: judging whether a grid component ascending instruction is received, if so, executing a step 709, and if not, ending;

step 709: if so, controlling the driving piece to drive the traction grating component to ascend in a second direction based on the maximum driving distance;

step 710: judging whether the compressed quantity of the second control switches exceeds a preset value, if so, executing a step 711, otherwise, executing a step 701;

step 711, controlling the driving member to drive the traction grid assembly to ascend in a second direction;

step 712, determining whether all the first control switches are abutted by the abutting member, if so, executing step 713, otherwise, executing step 711;

and 713, controlling the lifting assembly to stop in a delayed mode.

As shown in fig. 10, according to a third aspect of the embodiments of the present application, a computer-readable storage medium 801 is provided, where a computer program 802 is stored in the computer-readable storage medium, and the control method according to any one of the above-mentioned technical solutions is implemented.

The indoor set that this application embodiment provided has included panel, lifting unit and grid assembly, and the grid assembly is used for covering the panel, and in the return air of indoor set passed the panel through the grid assembly and enters into the indoor set in indoor set working process, the grid assembly played filtered air's effect, prevented that too much dust from entering into in the indoor set to play improvement indoor set life, guarantee air conditioner operating stability's effect. Through the computer-readable storage medium 501 provided by the embodiment of the application, when more dust is accumulated on the grille assembly, the lowering instruction of the grille assembly can be responded, the grille assembly is pulled by the lifting assembly to be away from the panel, even if the grille assembly is lowered, a user can clean the grille assembly, the cleaning of the grille assembly can be carried out on the ground, and the maintenance of the indoor unit is more convenient.

It will be understood that the grill assembly lowering command may be issued by the user or may be a set time threshold, and that the grill assembly of the indoor unit is deemed to be cleaned after the time threshold is reached, in which case the controller of the indoor unit may also automatically generate the grill assembly lowering command. In response to a grid assembly lowering command, the lifting assembly is opened, and the grid assembly can be lowered so as to facilitate cleaning of the grid assembly.

Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present application may be embodied in the form of a software product, which may be stored in a non-volatile storage medium (which may be a CD-ROM, a usb disk, a removable hard disk, etc.), and includes several instructions for enabling a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device, etc.) to execute the method of the embodiments of the present application.

As shown in fig. 11, according to a fourth aspect of the embodiment of the present application, there is provided a control apparatus including: a memory 901 in which a computer program is stored; a processor 902 executing a computer program; the processor 902 implements the control method according to any one of the above technical solutions when executing the computer program.

The indoor set that this application embodiment provided has included panel, lifting unit and grid assembly, and the grid assembly is used for covering the panel, and in the return air of indoor set passed the panel through the grid assembly and enters into the indoor set in indoor set working process, the grid assembly played filtered air's effect, prevented that too much dust from entering into in the indoor set to play improvement indoor set life, guarantee air conditioner operating stability's effect. Through the computer-readable storage medium provided by the embodiment of the application, when more dust is accumulated on the grating assembly, the falling instruction of the grating assembly can be responded, the grating assembly is pulled by the lifting assembly to be away from the panel, even if the grating assembly descends, a user can clean the grating assembly, the cleaning of the grating assembly can be carried out on the ground, and the maintenance of the indoor unit is more convenient.

In some examples, the control device may also include a user interface, a network interface, a camera, Radio Frequency (RF) circuitry, sensors, audio circuitry, a WI-FI module, and so forth. The user interface may include a Display screen (Display), an input unit such as a keypad (Keyboard), etc., and the optional user interface may also include a USB interface, a card reader interface, etc. The network interface may optionally include a standard wired interface, a wireless interface (e.g., WI-FI interface), etc.

In an exemplary embodiment, the control apparatus may further include an input/output interface and a display device, wherein the respective functional units may communicate with each other through a bus. The memory stores computer programs, and the processor is used for executing the programs stored in the memory and executing the method in the embodiment.

The storage medium may further include an operating system and a network communication module. The operating system is a program that manages the physical device hardware and software resources of the above-described method, supporting the execution of information processing programs and other software and/or programs. The network communication module is used for realizing communication among components in the storage medium and communication with other hardware and software in the information processing entity device.

Through the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art will clearly understand that the present application can be implemented by software plus a necessary general hardware platform, and can also be implemented by hardware.

According to a fourth aspect of an embodiment of the present application, there is provided an air conditioner including: indoor unit of any above-mentioned technical scheme.

The indoor set of air conditioner that this application embodiment provided has included panel 100, lifting unit 200 and grid assembly 300, grid assembly 300 is used for covering panel 100, and the return air of indoor set passes panel 100 through grid assembly 300 and enters into indoor set in the indoor set course of operation, and grid assembly 300 plays filtered air's effect, prevents that too much dust from entering into in the indoor set, in order to play improvement indoor set life, guarantee air conditioner operating stability's effect. When the grid assembly 300 has a lot of dust, the lifting assembly 200 can pull the grid assembly 300 away from the panel 100 to lower the grid assembly 300, so that the user can clean the grid assembly 300, and after the cleaning of the grid assembly 300 is completed, the lifting assembly 200 can be opened again to drive the grid assembly 300 to ascend until the grid assembly 300 abuts against the panel 100 again to continue to filter air. The position of the grille component 300 can be adjusted through the lifting component 200 in the indoor unit provided by the embodiment of the application, so that the grille component 300 can ascend or descend, the grille component 300 is cleaned without other ascending equipment, the grille component 300 can be cleaned on the ground, and the indoor unit is more convenient to maintain.

It can be understood that the indoor unit provided by the embodiment of the present application is particularly suitable for being used as a ceiling fan, i.e. when the indoor unit provided by the embodiment of the present application is installed on a ceiling, the distance between the floors of the indoor units is the largest, and in this case, the grille assembly 300 can be more conveniently cleaned by lowering the grille assembly 300.

In some examples, the air conditioner may further include an outdoor unit connected to the indoor unit, the outdoor unit may have a compressor and an outdoor heat exchanger disposed therein, the indoor unit may have an indoor heat exchanger disposed therein, and the compressor is connected to the indoor heat exchanger and the outdoor heat exchanger.

In some examples, the air conditioner further includes: in the control device according to the above-described aspect, the control device is configured to control the indoor unit.

The air conditioner provided in the embodiment of the present application further includes the control device in the above technical scheme, and therefore, the air conditioner has all the beneficial effects of the control device in the above technical scheme, which are not described herein again.

The present application is described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of the application. It will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and/or blocks in the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded computer, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

In the present invention, the terms "first", "second", and "third" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance; the term "plurality" means two or more unless expressly limited otherwise. The terms "mounted," "connected," "fixed," and the like are to be construed broadly, and for example, "connected" may be a fixed connection, a removable connection, or an integral connection; "coupled" may be direct or indirect through an intermediary. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "front", "rear", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on those shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplification of description, but do not indicate or imply that the referred device or unit must have a specific direction, be constructed in a specific orientation, and be operated, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the description herein, the description of the terms "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "specific embodiments," etc., means that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the invention. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above do not necessarily refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples.

The above is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present invention, and various modifications and changes will occur to those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. An indoor unit, comprising:

a panel;

the lifting assembly is arranged on the panel;

2. The indoor unit of claim 1, wherein the lifting assembly comprises:

a pulley;

the driving piece is connected to the pulley and arranged on the panel;

3. The indoor unit according to claim 2,

the lifting assembly further comprises: the first control switch is arranged on the panel and is connected to the driving piece;

4. The indoor unit according to claim 2, further comprising: the lifting assembly further comprises:

5. The indoor unit of claim 4, wherein the lifting assembly further comprises:

6. The indoor unit of claim 5, wherein the lifting assembly further comprises:

7. The indoor unit according to any one of claims 1 to 6,

the lifting assembly is at least two, and each lifting assembly is connected to the panel through a second fixing piece.

8. The indoor unit according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the grill assembly comprises:

a grid plate;

9. The indoor unit of claim 8, wherein the grill plate comprises:

a plate body;

10. A control method of an indoor unit, for controlling the indoor unit according to any one of claims 1 to 9, the control method comprising:

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the step of controlling the lift assembly to open to lower the grill assembly away from the panel in response to a grill assembly lowering command comprises:

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the step of controlling the grill member to ascend so that the grill member covers the tuyere includes:

drawing the grating component to ascend through a lifting component;

acquiring state information of a first control switch of each lifting assembly;

when all the first control switches are abutted with the abutting pieces;

and controlling the lifting assembly to stop in a delayed mode.

13. The control method according to any one of claims 10 to 12, characterized by further comprising:

14. The control method according to any one of claims 10 to 12, characterized by further comprising:

15. A computer-readable storage medium, characterized in that,

the computer-readable storage medium stores a computer program implementing the control method according to any one of claims 10 to 14.

16. A control device, comprising:

a memory storing a computer program;

a processor executing the computer program;

wherein the processor, when executing the computer program, implements the control method of any one of claims 10 to 14.

17. An air conditioner, comprising:

the indoor unit according to any one of claims 1 to 9.

18. The air conditioner according to claim 17, further comprising:

the control device of claim 16, wherein the control device is configured to control the indoor unit.