CN114877445A

CN114877445A - Evaporative humidifier and control method

Info

Publication number: CN114877445A
Application number: CN202210446047.5A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 莫家侠; 张剑锋
Original assignee: Foshan Heruitai Intelligent Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Foshan Heruitai Intelligent Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2022-04-26
Filing date: 2022-04-26
Publication date: 2022-08-09
Anticipated expiration: 2042-04-26
Also published as: CN114877445B

Abstract

The invention provides an evaporative humidifier and a control method, and relates to the technical field of humidifiers. The humidifier body has an upper chamber and a lower chamber defined by an outer housing. The auxiliary heating component is arranged in the upper cavity body. The water storage tank is arranged in the lower cavity. The filter element assembly comprises a filter element body and an air bag ring, the filter element body is made of deformable materials, the filter element body and the air bag ring are mutually connected, and the filter element body and the water storage tank are selectively communicated with the water storage tank through fluid or are mutually independent. This evaporative humidifier can realize that the filter core body can expand deformation to a certain extent through set up the gasbag ring in the filter core body, and then can regulate and control the surface area of filter core body, further increases the evaporation efficiency of liquid water, improves this evaporative humidifier's work efficiency.

Description

Evaporative humidifier and control method

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of humidifiers, in particular to an evaporative humidifier and a control method.

Background

A humidifier is a household appliance that increases the humidity of a room. The humidifier can humidify a designated room, and can also be connected with a boiler or a central air-conditioning system to humidify the whole building.

Existing humidifiers can be classified into ultrasonic humidifiers, pure humidifiers, and evaporative heaters. The ultrasonic humidifier adopts ultrasonic high-frequency oscillation of 200 ten thousand times per second, and atomizes water into 1-5 micron ultramicron and negative oxygen ions, thereby realizing uniform humidification and air freshening. The pure humidification technology removes calcium and magnesium ions in water by a molecular sieve evaporation technology, and thoroughly solves the problem of white powder. Through water curtain washing air, can also carry out filtration purification to germ, dust, particulate matter in the air when the humidification, send moist clean air to indoorly through pneumatics device again to improve environment humidity and cleanliness factor. Evaporative humidifiers are also known as electrically heated humidifiers. The working principle is that water is heated to 100 ℃ in a heating body to generate steam, and the steam is sent out by a motor. Therefore, the electric heating type humidifier is the simplest technical humidification mode, and has the defects of high energy consumption, no dry burning, low safety factor and easy scaling on the heater.

The existing evaporative humidifier also has the problem of low working efficiency.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide an evaporative humidifier, which is characterized in that an air bag ring is arranged in a filter element body, so that the filter element body can expand and deform to a certain degree, the surface area of the filter element body can be regulated and controlled, the evaporation efficiency of liquid water is further increased, and the working efficiency of the evaporative humidifier is improved.

Another objective of the present invention is to provide a method for controlling an evaporative humidifier, which determines a working state by determining a real-time environment humidity, so as to ensure that the real-time environment humidity can be controlled in a preset interval, thereby improving a humidification effect of the evaporative humidifier while ensuring a humidification efficiency of the evaporative humidifier.

The embodiment of the invention is realized by the following steps:

in a first aspect, an evaporative humidifier provided by embodiments of the present application includes:

a humidifier body having an upper chamber and a lower chamber defined by an outer shell;

the auxiliary heating assembly is arranged in the upper cavity;

the water storage tank is arranged in the lower cavity;

the filter element assembly comprises a filter element body and an air bag ring, the filter element body is made of deformable materials, the filter element body and the air bag ring are connected with each other, and the filter element body and the water storage tank are selectively communicated with the water storage tank through fluid or are mutually independent;

a sensing assembly for detecting ambient environmental information;

a controller, the controller respectively with assist the thermal module with the gasbag ring communication connection, just the controller is set up and is used for controlling the inflation degree of gasbag ring with assist the operating power of thermal module.

According to the evaporative humidifier, the air bag ring is arranged in the filter element body, so that the filter element body can expand and deform to a certain degree, the surface area of the filter element body can be regulated, the evaporation efficiency of liquid water is further increased, and the working efficiency of the evaporative humidifier is improved.

In some embodiments of the present invention, a plurality of water level sensors are disposed in the water storage tank, and the plurality of water level sensors are spaced at different heights in the water storage tank.

The water level sensor can comprise a high level water level sensor, a middle level water level sensor and a low level water level sensor, wherein the high level water level sensor is arranged at the top position and can be used for detecting whether water is filled, and if the water is filled, an alarm unit is sent out through the controller; the middle water level sensor is arranged at the middle position and used for detecting the water level height; the bottom sensor is arranged at the bottom of the water storage tank and used for preventing the evaporative humidifier from being burnt.

In some embodiments of the invention, the humidifier body further comprises a display, the display is in communication with the water level sensor, and the display is used for displaying the water level.

The display can be used for showing water level height to remind the user to add water, guarantee out the fog volume.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the filter element body is a multi-layer mesh structure, and the air bag ring is embedded in the filter element body along the circumferential direction of the filter element body.

In some embodiments of the invention, the secondary thermal assembly comprises a secondary heat blower.

In some embodiments of the invention, the air flow of the auxiliary blower is directed towards the filter cartridge body.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a control method of an evaporative humidifier, including:

acquiring surrounding environment information, wherein the environment information comprises real-time environment humidity;

judging whether the real-time environment humidity is smaller than a first preset humidity value or a second preset humidity value, wherein the second preset humidity value is smaller than the first preset humidity value;

if the real-time environment humidity information is smaller than the first preset humidity value, the controller controls the auxiliary heating assembly to work;

if the real-time environment humidity information is smaller than the second preset humidity value, the controller controls the air bag ring to inflate and expand so as to open the filter element body.

In some embodiments of the invention, the controlling the operation of the secondary thermal assembly by the controller comprises:

determining a preset interval where the real-time environment humidity is located;

determining a power interval of an auxiliary heating assembly corresponding to a preset interval where the real-time environment humidity is located;

a power adjustment action of the secondary thermal assembly is performed.

In some embodiments of the invention, the controlling the inflation of the balloon ring by the controller to expand the filter element body comprises:

the auxiliary thermal assembly power and the degree of balloon ring expansion are normalized,

and determining a preset interval where the real-time environment humidity is located corresponding to the normalized auxiliary heating assembly power and the airbag ring expansion degree.

In some embodiments of the invention, the secondary thermal assembly is turned off when the real-time ambient humidity is greater than or equal to a first preset humidity value.

Compared with the prior art, the embodiment of the invention has at least the following advantages or beneficial effects:

the application provides an evaporative humidifier, it includes humidifier body, assists hot subassembly, storage water tank, filter element group spare, sensing component and controller. The humidifier body has an upper chamber and a lower chamber defined by an outer housing. The auxiliary heating assembly is arranged in the upper cavity body. The water storage tank is arranged in the lower cavity. The filter element assembly comprises a filter element body and an air bag ring, wherein the filter element body is made of deformable materials, the filter element body is connected with the air bag ring in an interconnecting mode, and the filter element body and the water storage tank are selectively communicated with the water storage tank in a fluid mode or are mutually independent. The sensing assembly is used for detecting surrounding environment information. The controller respectively with assist the thermal module with gasbag ring communication connection, just the controller is set up and is used for controlling the inflation degree of gasbag ring and assist the operating power of thermal module. This evaporative humidifier can realize that the filter core body can expand deformation to a certain extent through set up the gasbag ring in the filter core body, and then can regulate and control the surface area of filter core body, further increases the evaporation efficiency of liquid water, improves this evaporative humidifier's work efficiency.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings needed to be used in the embodiments will be briefly described below, it should be understood that the following drawings only illustrate some embodiments of the present invention and therefore should not be considered as limiting the scope, and for those skilled in the art, other related drawings can be obtained according to the drawings without inventive efforts.

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an evaporative humidifier according to an exemplary embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a schematic structural view of a filter element assembly provided in another exemplary embodiment of the present application;

fig. 3 is a block diagram of an evaporative humidifier according to another exemplary embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4 is a schematic flowchart of a control method of an evaporative humidifier according to another exemplary embodiment of the present application.

Description of the drawings: 100-an evaporative humidifier; 10-a humidifier body; 11-a secondary thermal component; 12-a water storage tank; 13-a filter element assembly; 131-a cartridge body; 132-a balloon ring; 14-a sensing component; 15-a controller.

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 of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but not all, embodiments of the present invention. The components of embodiments of the present invention generally described and illustrated in the figures herein may be arranged and designed in a wide variety of different configurations.

Thus, the following detailed description of the embodiments of the present invention, presented in the figures, is not intended to limit the scope of the invention, as claimed, but is merely representative of selected embodiments of the invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

It should be noted that: like reference numbers and letters refer to like items in the following figures, and thus, once an item is defined in one figure, it need not be further defined and explained in subsequent figures.

In the description of the embodiments of the present invention, it should be noted that, if the terms "center", "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "inner", "outer", etc. indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings or the orientations or positional relationships that the products of the present invention are usually placed in when used, the orientations or positional relationships are only used for convenience of describing the present invention and simplifying the description, but the terms do not indicate or imply that the devices or elements indicated must have specific orientations, be constructed in specific orientations, and operate, and therefore, should not be construed as limiting the present invention. Furthermore, the terms "first," "second," "third," and the like are used solely to distinguish one from another and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance.

Furthermore, the terms "horizontal", "vertical", "overhang" and the like do not require that the components be absolutely horizontal or overhang, but may be slightly inclined. For example, "horizontal" merely means that the direction is more horizontal than "vertical" and does not mean that the structure must be perfectly horizontal, but may be slightly inclined.

In the description of the embodiments of the present invention, "a plurality" represents at least 2.

In the description of the embodiments of the present invention, it should be further noted that unless otherwise explicitly stated or limited, the terms "disposed," "mounted," "connected," and "connected" should be interpreted broadly, and may be, for example, fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.

Examples

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of an evaporative humidifier 100 provided in an exemplary embodiment of the present application; FIG. 2 is a schematic structural view of a filter element assembly 13 provided in another exemplary embodiment of the present application; fig. 3 is a block diagram of an evaporative humidifier 100 according to another exemplary embodiment of the present application; fig. 4 is a schematic flowchart of a control method of the evaporative humidifier 100 according to another exemplary embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 1-3, the evaporative humidifier 100 provided herein may include a humidifier body 10, the humidifier body 10 having an upper chamber and a lower chamber defined by an outer shell; the auxiliary heating assembly 11 is arranged in the upper cavity; a water storage tank 12, wherein the water storage tank 12 is arranged in the lower cavity; a filter element assembly 13, the filter element assembly 13 comprising a filter element body 131 and a bladder ring 132, the filter element body 131 being made of a deformable material, and the filter element body 131 and the bladder ring 132 being connected to each other, the filter element body 131 and the tank 12 being selectively in fluid communication with the tank 12 or independent of each other; the sensing assembly 14, the sensing assembly 14 is used for detecting the ambient environmental information; a controller 15, the controller 15 being in communication with the auxiliary heating unit 11 and the airbag ring 132, respectively, and the controller 15 being configured to control the degree of expansion of the airbag ring 132 and the operating power of the auxiliary heating unit 11.

In an embodiment, the auxiliary heating element 11 may be disposed in the lower cavity, and the water storage tank 12 may be disposed in the upper cavity.

As shown in fig. 2, the filter element body 131 is a multi-layer net structure, and the air bag ring 132 is embedded in the filter element body 131 along the circumferential direction of the filter element body 131.

It is worth to say that the filter element body 131 has the function of increasing the surface area of water, has strong water absorption, is not easy to corrode, is not easy for microorganisms to breed, is nontoxic for colonies, and can ensure the humidifying effect.

Optionally, assist hot subassembly 11 and can include assisting the air heater, assist the air heater can accelerate the air flow rate on the interior moisture surface of filter core body 131, the electricity is assisted hot function and can be raised the temperature simultaneously, and then improves evaporation efficiency.

In the present embodiment, the air flow of the auxiliary blower is directed toward the filter element body 131.

The embodiment of the present application provides a control method of an evaporative humidifier 100, including:

s1, acquiring surrounding environment information, wherein the environment information comprises real-time environment humidity;

s2, judging whether the real-time environment humidity is smaller than a first preset humidity value or a second preset humidity value, wherein the second preset humidity value is smaller than the first preset humidity value;

s3, if the real-time environment humidity information is smaller than the first preset humidity value, the controller 15 controls the auxiliary heating assembly 11 to operate;

s4, if the real-time environmental humidity information is smaller than the second predetermined humidity value, the controller 15 controls the air bag ring 132 to inflate and expand to open the filter element body 131.

The control method determines the working state through the judgment of the real-time environment humidity so as to ensure that the real-time environment humidity can be controlled in a preset interval, and the humidifying effect of the evaporative humidifier 100 is improved while the humidifying efficiency is ensured.

The method may be based on the above described device and evaporative humidifier 100 control system.

Specifically, the evaporative humidifier 100 control system may include a processing device (evaporative humidifier 100), a network, sensors, a storage device, and a terminal device.

The evaporative humidifier 100 control system may provide assistance in the operation of the humidifier. For example, the operation state of the evaporative humidifier 100 can be controlled according to the ambient humidity, thereby improving the humidification efficiency. It should be noted that, a control system of the evaporative humidifier 100 may also be applied to other devices, scenarios and applications that require humidifier use, and is not limited herein, and any device, scenario and/or application that may use a control method of the evaporative humidifier 100 included in the present application is within the scope of the present application.

The processing device may be regional or remote. For example, the processing device may access information and/or material stored in the terminal device and the storage device via a network. The processing device may be directly connected to the terminal device and the storage device to access information and/or material stored therein. The processing device may execute on a cloud platform. For example, the cloud platform may include one or any combination of a private cloud, a public cloud, a hybrid cloud, a community cloud, a decentralized cloud, an internal cloud, and the like.

The processing device (controller) may comprise a processor. The processor may process data and/or information related to the evaporative humidifier to perform one or more of the functions described herein. For example, the processor may control the operation of the secondary thermal assembly. For another example, the processor may control the controller to control inflation of the bladder ring to expand the cartridge body. A processor may include one or more sub-processors (e.g., a single core processing device or a multi-core processing device). Merely by way of example, a processor may include a Central Processing Unit (CPU), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), an Application Specific Instruction Processor (ASIP), a Graphics Processor (GPU), a Physical Processor (PPU), a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), a programmable logic circuit (PLD), a controller, a micro-controller unit, a Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC), a microprocessor, or the like, or any combination thereof.

The network may facilitate the exchange of data and/or information in an evaporative humidifier system. One or more components (e.g., processing devices, sensors, storage devices, and terminal devices) in an evaporative humidifier system may send data and/or information to other components in an evaporative humidifier system over a network. For example, the processing device may receive takeoff movement data of the user from the sensor over the network. The network may be any type of wired or wireless network. For example, network 120 may include a cable network, a wired network, a fiber optic network, a telecommunications network, an intranet, the internet, a Local Area Network (LAN), a Wide Area Network (WAN), a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), a Metropolitan Area Network (MAN), a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), a bluetooth network, a ZigBee network, a Near Field Communication (NFC) network, the like, or any combination thereof. The network may include one or more network entry and exit points. For example, the network may include wired or wireless network access points, such as base stations and/or internet switching points, through which one or more components of an evaporative humidifier system may be connected to the network to exchange data and/or information.

It should be noted that the foregoing description is provided for illustrative purposes only, and is not intended to limit the scope of the present application. Many variations and modifications will occur to those skilled in the art in light of the teachings herein. The features, structures, methods, and other features of the exemplary embodiments described herein may be combined in various ways to obtain additional and/or alternative exemplary embodiments. For example, the storage device may be a data storage device comprising a cloud computing platform, such as a public cloud, a private cloud, a community and hybrid cloud, and the like. However, such changes and modifications do not depart from the scope of the present application.

In this embodiment, the operation of the auxiliary heating assembly is controlled by the controller, which comprises:

determining a power interval of the auxiliary heating assembly corresponding to a preset interval where the real-time environment humidity is located;

and executing the power adjustment action of the auxiliary heating assembly.

In this embodiment, control gasbag ring inflation by the controller to strut the filter core body, include:

and determining a preset interval where the real-time environment humidity corresponding to the normalized auxiliary heating assembly power and the airbag ring expansion degree is located.

Specifically, the preset interval of the real-time humidity after normalization may be calculated based on the following formula:

V=P*A+S*B

wherein, P is the value of the normalized auxiliary heating assembly power, A is the weight of the auxiliary heating assembly power, S is the value of the normalized airbag ring expansion degree, and B is the weight of the airbag ring expansion degree.

In this embodiment, when the real-time ambient humidity is greater than or equal to the first preset humidity value, the auxiliary heating assembly is turned off.

In conclusion, the evaporative humidifier comprises a humidifier body, an auxiliary heating assembly, a water storage tank, a filter element assembly, a sensing assembly and a controller. The humidifier body has an upper chamber and a lower chamber defined by an outer housing. The auxiliary heating component is arranged in the upper cavity body. The water storage tank is arranged in the lower cavity. The filter element assembly comprises a filter element body and an air bag ring, the filter element body is made of deformable materials, the filter element body and the air bag ring are mutually connected, and the filter element body and the water storage tank are selectively communicated with the water storage tank through fluid or are mutually independent. The sensing assembly is used for detecting surrounding environment information. The controller is respectively connected with the auxiliary heating assembly and the air bag ring in a communication mode, and the controller is used for controlling the expansion degree of the air bag ring and the working power of the auxiliary heating assembly. This evaporative humidifier can realize that the filter core body can expand deformation to a certain extent through set up the gasbag ring in the filter core body, and then can regulate and control the surface area of filter core body, further increases the evaporation efficiency of liquid water, improves this evaporative humidifier's work efficiency.

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 evaporative humidifier, comprising:

the auxiliary heating assembly is arranged in the upper cavity;

the water storage tank is arranged in the lower cavity;

a sensing assembly for detecting ambient environmental information;

2. The evaporative humidifier according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of water level sensors are disposed in the water storage tank, and the plurality of water level sensors are spaced at different heights in the water storage tank.

3. The evaporative humidifier according to claim 2, further comprising a display, wherein the display is connected to the water level sensor in communication, and the display is used for displaying the water level height.

4. The evaporative humidifier according to claim 1, wherein the filter body is a multi-layer mesh structure, and the air bag ring is embedded in the filter body along a circumferential direction of the filter body.

5. The evaporative humidifier according to claim 1, wherein the auxiliary heating unit includes an auxiliary heat blower.

6. The evaporative humidifier according to claim 5, wherein the air flow of the auxiliary blower is directed toward the filter cartridge body.

7. A method of controlling an evaporative humidifier, comprising:

8. The control method of claim 7, wherein controlling the operation of the secondary thermal assembly by the controller comprises:

a power adjustment action of the secondary thermal assembly is performed.

9. The control method of claim 8, wherein the controller controls the inflation of the balloon ring to expand the filter element body, comprising:

10. The control method according to claim 7, characterized by further comprising:

and when the real-time environment humidity is greater than or equal to a first preset humidity value, closing the auxiliary heating assembly.