CN115137270A

CN115137270A - Dishwasher control method and device, dishwasher and storage medium

Info

Publication number: CN115137270A
Application number: CN202210794532.1A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 王领; 何志超; 梁超萍
Original assignee: Gree Electric Appliances Inc of Zhuhai
Current assignee: Gree Electric Appliances Inc of Zhuhai
Priority date: 2022-07-05
Filing date: 2022-07-05
Publication date: 2022-10-04

Abstract

The application relates to a control method and a control device of a dish-washing machine, the dish-washing machine and a storage medium, wherein the control method of the dish-washing machine comprises the steps of detecting whether residual water exists in the dish-washing machine; if so, controlling the drainage pump to operate for a first preset time; otherwise, controlling the drainage pump to operate for a second preset time, wherein the second preset time is shorter than the first preset time. This application can realize shortening drain pump operating time when there is not surplus water in the dish washer, improves dish washer work efficiency to can reduce the empty low frequency noise who takes out and lead to of drain pump, promote user experience.

Description

Dishwasher control method and device, dishwasher and storage medium

Technical Field

The application belongs to the technical field of dish-washing machines, and particularly relates to a dish-washing machine control method and device, a dish-washing machine and a storage medium.

Background

The wide application of the dish-washing machine brings great convenience to the daily life of people. But the dishwasher can generate noise when performing drainage work, which affects the user experience. When the traditional dish washing machine is started, the drainage pump is used for firstly draining water for several seconds and then the water inlet valve is opened to work so as to ensure that no residual dirty water exists in the dish washing machine, or the drainage time is prolonged in the drainage stage so as to avoid residual water in the dish washing machine. And empty pump phenomenon can appear in drainage pump work under no residual water state, and the low frequency noise that produces this moment is more obvious, not only influences the work efficiency of dish washer because empty pump, still can bring not good use experience for the user because the noise that empty pump produced.

Disclosure of Invention

For at least overcoming the problem that the traditional dish washer influences the work efficiency of the dish washer because of the empty pump of drain pump to a certain extent to and the low frequency noise that the empty pump produced brings the user not good use experience, the application provides a dish washer control method, device, dish washer and storage medium.

In a first aspect, the present application provides a dishwasher control method comprising:

detecting whether residual water exists in the dish washer;

if so, controlling the drainage pump to operate for a first preset time;

otherwise, controlling the drainage pump to operate for a second preset time, wherein the second preset time is shorter than the first preset time.

Further, whether there is surplus water in the detection dish washer, include:

acquiring the water level of residual water in the dishwasher through a water level sensor arranged in the dishwasher;

judging whether the residual water level is higher than a preset water level line threshold value or not;

if yes, judging that the dishwasher has residual water.

Further, the water level sensor is arranged at the bottom end of the water tank in the dish washing machine.

Further, whether there is surplus water in the detection dish washer, include:

acquiring the water inlet flow and the water outlet flow of the dishwasher;

if the water outlet flow is less than the water inlet flow, the dish washer is judged to have residual water.

Further, the obtaining the dishwasher inlet water flow comprises:

and acquiring the water inflow rate corresponding to the operation program set by the user according to the corresponding relation between the preset operation program and the water inflow rate.

Further, the obtaining the dishwasher inlet water flow comprises:

detecting tableware parameters in the dishwasher, wherein the tableware parameters comprise at least one of tableware weight, pollution degree and tableware volume;

selecting a corresponding operation program according to the tableware parameters;

and acquiring the water inlet flow corresponding to the running program according to the corresponding relation between the preset running program and the water inlet flow.

Further, the obtaining the dishwasher inlet water flow comprises:

the water inlet flow of the dish washing machine is detected through a first electronic flow meter arranged at the water inlet pipe of the dish washing machine.

Further, obtaining the outlet flow of the dishwasher comprises:

and detecting the water outlet flow of the dishwasher through a second electronic flow meter arranged at the drain pipe of the dishwasher.

In a second aspect, the present application provides a dishwasher control device comprising:

the detection module is used for detecting whether residual water exists in the dish washing machine or not;

the first control module is used for controlling the draining pump to operate for a first preset time when the dishwasher has residual water;

and the second control module is used for controlling the drainage pump to operate for a second preset time when the dishwasher has no residual water, and the second preset time is less than the first preset time.

In a third aspect, the present application provides a dishwasher, comprising:

at least one processor; and

a memory communicatively coupled to the at least one processor; wherein, the first and the second end of the pipe are connected with each other,

the memory stores instructions executable by the at least one processor to enable the at least one processor to perform the dishwasher control method of the first aspect.

In a fourth aspect, the present application provides a computer readable storage medium having a computer program stored thereon, wherein the computer program, when executed by a processor, implements the dishwasher control method of the first aspect.

The technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the application can have the following beneficial effects:

the embodiment of the invention provides a dishwasher control method, a dishwasher control device, a dishwasher and a storage medium, wherein the dishwasher control method comprises the steps of detecting whether residual water exists in the dishwasher; if so, controlling the drainage pump to operate for a first preset time; otherwise, the drain pump is controlled to operate for a second preset time, wherein the second preset time is shorter than the first preset time, so that the working time of the drain pump is shortened when no residual water exists in the dish washing machine, the working efficiency of the dish washing machine is improved, low-frequency noise caused by the empty pumping of the drain pump can be reduced, and the user experience is improved.

It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory only and are not restrictive of the application.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments consistent with the application and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the application.

Fig. 1 is a flowchart illustrating a method for controlling a dishwasher according to an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 2 is a flowchart of a dishwasher control method according to another embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 3 is a flowchart of a dishwasher control method according to another embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 4 is a functional block diagram of a dishwasher control apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application.

Fig. 5 is a flow chart illustrating an operation state of a conventional dishwasher according to the present application.

Fig. 6 is a flow chart illustrating an operation state of a dishwasher according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present application more apparent, the technical solutions of the present application will be described in detail below. It is to be understood that the described embodiments are merely exemplary of the application, rather than all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the examples given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.

Fig. 1 is a flowchart of a dishwasher control method according to an embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 1, the dishwasher control method includes:

s11: detecting whether residual water exists in the dish washing machine, if so, executing S12; otherwise, executing S13;

s12: controlling the drainage pump to operate for a first preset time;

s13: and controlling the drainage pump to operate for a second preset time period, wherein the second preset time period is less than the first preset time period.

In this embodiment, the first preset time period may be a time period for controlling the operation of the drain pump in the conventional dishwasher, the second preset time period is shorter than the first preset time period, and the specific value may be set according to an actual use environment.

When the traditional dish washing machine is started, the drainage pump is used for firstly draining water for several seconds and then the water inlet valve is opened to work so as to ensure that no residual dirty water exists in the dish washing machine, or the drainage time is prolonged in the drainage stage so as to avoid residual water in the dish washing machine. And empty pump phenomenon can appear in drainage pump work under no residual water state, and the low frequency noise that produces this moment is more obvious, not only influences the work efficiency of dish washer because empty pump, still can bring not good use experience for the user because the noise that empty pump produced.

In the embodiment, the dishwasher control method comprises the steps of detecting whether residual water exists in the dishwasher; if so, controlling the drainage pump to operate for a first preset time; otherwise, the drain pump is controlled to operate for a second preset time, wherein the second preset time is shorter than the first preset time, so that the working time of the drain pump is shortened when no residual water exists in the dish washing machine, the working efficiency of the dish washing machine is improved, low-frequency noise caused by the empty pumping of the drain pump can be reduced, and the user experience is improved.

Fig. 2 is a flowchart of a dishwasher control method according to another embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 2, the dishwasher control method includes:

s21: acquiring the residual water level in the dishwasher through a water level sensor arranged in the dishwasher;

in some embodiments, the water level sensor is arranged at the bottom end of the water tank in the dishwasher, so that whether residual water exists in the water tank or not can be accurately judged, and the accuracy of a detection result is improved.

S22: judging whether the water level of the residual water is higher than a preset water level line threshold value or not, if so, executing S23; otherwise, executing S24;

s23: judging that residual water exists in the dish washing machine, and controlling the drainage pump to operate for a first preset time;

s24: and controlling the drainage pump to operate for a second preset time, wherein the second preset time is less than the first preset time.

The draining pump is arranged below the base of the dish-washing machine, if the dish-washing machine is interrupted (power is off or the machine door is opened temporarily) in the working process, the inner container can store the residual water which is not worked before, the residual water is larger than the water level line threshold value, and the water level sensor transmits a detection abnormal signal to the controller at the moment, so that the controller selects a first preset time length to control the draining pump to work. If the drainage pump operates normally, the interruption does not occur in the middle, the drainage pump finishes draining the residual water, the residual water is less than or equal to the water level line threshold value at the moment, and the water level sensor sends a detection normal signal to the controller, so that the controller selects a second preset time length to control the drainage pump to work.

The work flow of the traditional dish washing machine comprises that the drainage pump is started at each time, the drainage pump can be fixedly operated for the first preset time, the purpose is to empty the residual water in the dish washing machine, the overflow phenomenon can not occur when the washing program flows into the maximum water inflow, and after the normal operation of the dish washing machine is finished, the drainage pump can continue to operate for the first preset time.

In the embodiment, whether residual water exists in the dishwasher can be automatically detected by adding the water level sensor, when no residual water exists, the operation time of the drainage pump is controlled to be within a second preset time, the second preset time is less than the first preset time, the operation time of the water pump can be reduced, the problem of low-frequency noise generated by the emptying and pumping of the drainage pump is solved, and the integral sound quality of the dishwasher is improved.

Fig. 3 is a flowchart of a dishwasher control method according to another embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 3, the dishwasher control method includes:

s31: acquiring the water inlet flow and the water outlet flow of the dish-washing machine;

in this embodiment, the intake flow of the dishwasher may be obtained by one or more of the following methods:

mode 1: and acquiring the water inflow rate corresponding to the operation program set by the user according to the corresponding relation between the preset operation program and the water inflow rate.

Mode 2: detecting tableware parameters in the dishwasher, wherein the tableware parameters comprise at least one of tableware weight, pollution degree and tableware volume;

and acquiring the water inflow rate corresponding to the running program according to the corresponding relation between the preset running program and the water inflow rate.

Mode 3: the water inlet flow of the dish washing machine is detected through a first electronic flow meter arranged at the water inlet pipe of the dish washing machine.

In this embodiment, obtaining the outlet flow of the dishwasher includes:

S32: judging whether the water flow is smaller than the water inflow, if so, executing S33; otherwise, executing S34;

s33: judging that residual water exists in the dish washing machine, and controlling the drainage pump to operate for a first preset time;

s34: and controlling the drainage pump to operate for a second preset time, wherein the second preset time is less than the first preset time.

In the embodiment, the operation working time of the water pump is judged through the input and output water flow proportion, the low-frequency resonance noise can be optimally solved, the total value of the whole noise is reduced, and the sound quality experience of the dish washing machine is improved.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a dishwasher control apparatus, as shown in a functional structure diagram of fig. 4, the dishwasher control apparatus includes:

a detection module 41 for detecting whether there is residual water in the dishwasher;

a first control module 42 for controlling the drain pump to operate for a first preset time period when there is surplus water in the dishwasher;

and the second control module 43 is used for controlling the draining pump to operate for a second preset time when the dishwasher has no residual water, and the second preset time is less than the first preset time.

In this embodiment, whether there is surplus water in detecting the dish washer through detection module, first control module controls the drain pump when dish washer has surplus water and operates first predetermineeing long, second control module controls the drain pump when dish washer does not have surplus water and operates second predetermineeing long, second predetermineeing long being less than first predetermineeing long, thereby realize shortening drain pump operating time when dish washer does not have surplus water, improve dish washer work efficiency, and can reduce the empty low frequency noise who takes out and lead to of drain pump, promote user experience.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a dishwasher, including:

at least one processor; and

a memory communicatively coupled to the at least one processor; wherein the content of the first and second substances,

the memory stores instructions executable by the at least one processor to enable the at least one processor to perform the dishwasher control method according to the above-described embodiments.

The working state flow of the traditional dish-washing machine is shown in figure 5, after the dish-washing machine is started, the drainage pump is fixedly operated for N seconds, then the water inlet valve is opened, and after water inlet is finished, the washing pump, the heating plate, the drainage pump and the residual water pump work in sequence.

The working state flow of the dishwasher is shown in fig. 6, after the dishwasher is started, the electronic flowmeter detects whether residual water exists or not through the water level sensor, if the residual water exists, the drain pump is controlled to operate for N1 seconds, otherwise, the drain pump is controlled to operate for N2 (less than N1) seconds, and therefore the low-frequency 'humming' resonance noise caused by long-time idle pumping of the drain pump is avoided.

The present application provides a computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program which, when executed by a processor, implements the dishwasher control method described in the above embodiments.

It is understood that the same or similar parts in the above embodiments may be mutually referred to, and the same or similar parts in other embodiments may be referred to for the content which is not described in detail in some embodiments.

It should be noted that, in the description of the present application, the terms "first", "second", etc. are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance. Further, in the description of the present application, the meaning of "a plurality" means at least two unless otherwise specified.

Any process or method descriptions in flow charts or otherwise described herein may be understood as representing modules, segments, or portions of code which include one or more executable instructions for implementing specific logical functions or steps in the process, and alternate implementations are included within the scope of the preferred embodiment of the present application in which functions may be executed out of order from that shown or discussed, including substantially concurrently or in reverse order, depending on the functionality involved, as would be understood by those reasonably skilled in the art of the present application.

It should be understood that portions of the present application may be implemented in hardware, software, firmware, or a combination thereof. In the above embodiments, various steps or methods may be implemented in software or firmware stored in a memory and executed by a suitable instruction execution system. For example, if implemented in hardware, as in another embodiment, any one or combination of the following techniques, which are known in the art, may be used: a discrete logic circuit having a logic gate circuit for implementing a logic function on a data signal, an application specific integrated circuit having an appropriate combinational logic gate circuit, a Programmable Gate Array (PGA), a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), or the like.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that all or part of the steps carried by the method for implementing the above embodiments may be implemented by hardware related to instructions of a program, which may be stored in a computer readable storage medium, and when the program is executed, the program includes one or a combination of the steps of the method embodiments.

In addition, functional units in the embodiments of the present application may be integrated into one processing module, or each unit may exist alone physically, or two or more units are integrated into one module. The integrated module can be realized in a hardware mode, and can also be realized in a software functional module mode. The integrated module, if implemented in the form of a software functional module and sold or used as a separate product, may also be stored in a computer-readable storage medium.

The storage medium mentioned above may be a read-only memory, a magnetic or optical disk, etc.

In the description herein, reference to the description of the term "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "an example," "a specific example," or "some examples," 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 application. 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.

Although embodiments of the present application have been shown and described above, it is understood that the above embodiments are exemplary and should not be construed as limiting the present application, and that variations, modifications, substitutions and alterations may be made to the above embodiments by those of ordinary skill in the art within the scope of the present application.

It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned preferred embodiments, and those skilled in the art can obtain other products in various forms without departing from the spirit of the present invention, but any changes in shape or structure can be made within the scope of the present invention with the same or similar technical solutions as those of the present invention.

Claims

1. A control method of a dishwasher, comprising:

detecting whether residual water exists in the dish washer;

if so, controlling the drainage pump to operate for a first preset time;

2. The dishwasher control method of claim 1, wherein the detecting whether there is residual water in the dishwasher includes:

if yes, judging that residual water exists in the dish washer.

3. The dishwasher control method of claim 2, wherein the water level sensor is provided at a bottom end of a water tank in the dishwasher.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the detecting whether there is residual water in the dishwasher comprises:

acquiring the water inlet flow and the water outlet flow of the dish washing machine;

if the water outlet flow is less than the water inlet flow, the dish washer judges that residual water exists in the dish washer.

5. The dishwasher control method of claim 4, wherein the obtaining of the inflow rate of the dishwasher comprises:

6. The dishwasher control method of claim 4, wherein the obtaining of the inflow rate of the dishwasher comprises:

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the obtaining the inflow amount of water of the dishwasher comprises:

8. The dishwasher control method of claim 4, wherein obtaining the outlet flow rate of the dishwasher comprises:

9. A dishwasher control apparatus, comprising:

and the second control module is used for controlling the draining pump to operate for a second preset time when the dish-washing machine has no residual water, and the second preset time is less than the first preset time.

10. A dishwasher, comprising:

at least one processor; and

the memory stores instructions executable by the at least one processor to enable the at least one processor to perform the dishwasher control method of any one of claims 1-8.

11. A computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, which computer program, when being executed by a processor, is adapted to carry out the dishwasher control method of one of the claims 1 to 8.