CN116202259A - Ice making apparatus and control method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention belongs to the technical field of ice making equipment, and particularly provides ice making equipment and a control method thereof. The ice making device comprises a water tank, an ice making tray, a driving device and an ice storage box, wherein the water tank is used for providing water for the ice making tray, the ice making tray is used for freezing water on the ice making tray into ice, and the driving device is used for driving the ice making tray to turn over so that the ice on the ice making tray falls into the ice storage box. The control method of the invention comprises the following steps: acquiring the last ice making times of the ice making tray in the last ice making period; acquiring the residual ice quantity in the ice storage box; comparing the remaining ice amount with a single ice making amount of the ice making tray; and determining the next ice making times of the ice making tray in the next ice making period according to the comparison result and the last ice making times. The ice making device can accurately confirm the ice using habit of a user, and further, the ice with corresponding quantity can be made, so that the ice making device is prevented from excessively making ice while the ice quantity required by the user is made, and further, the waste of electric energy is avoided.

Description

Ice making apparatus and control method thereof

Technical Field

The invention belongs to the technical field of ice making equipment, and particularly provides ice making equipment and a control method thereof.

Background

With the development of technology and increasing demands of users, some refrigerators now have an ice making function. Specifically, some refrigerators having an ice making function include a water tank, a water pump, a water pipe, an ice making tray, a driving device, and an ice bank. Wherein the water tank is used for storing water. One end of the water pipe is communicated with the water tank, and the other end of the water pipe is positioned above the ice making tray. The water pump is used for pumping the water in the water tank into the water pipe so that the water pipe can convey the water into the ice making tray. The ice-making tray is used for cooling water therein into ice. The ice bank is located below the ice making tray and is used for storing ice cubes. The driving device is used for driving the ice making tray to turn over so as to pour ice cubes in the ice making tray into the ice storage box.

At present, a refrigerator with an ice making function generally makes ice when ice cubes in an ice storage box are not full, so that the ice storage box always keeps a state of full ice storage. However, for most users, the ice cubes in the ice bank are hardly consumed in a short time, which results in the ice bank having ice cubes present therein all the time. In other words, the existing refrigerator often excessively makes ice, resulting in waste of electric power. Moreover, when a user takes ice, only the ice cubes on the upper part of the ice storage box are generally taken away, so that the ice cubes on the bottom of the ice storage box can be retained for a long time, and the ice cubes on the bottom of the ice storage box are not fresh enough.

Disclosure of Invention

An object of the present invention is to provide an ice making apparatus and a control method thereof, so that the ice making apparatus can avoid waste of electric energy caused by excessive ice making while satisfying a user's ice demand.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides in a first aspect a control method of an ice making apparatus including a water tank for supplying water to an ice making tray for freezing water thereon into ice, an ice making tray for driving the ice making tray to be turned over so that ice on the ice making tray falls into the ice storage box, a driving device, and an ice storage box; the control method comprises the following steps:

acquiring the last ice making times of the ice making tray in the last ice making period;

acquiring the residual ice amount in the ice bank;

comparing the remaining ice amount with a single ice making amount of the ice making tray;

and determining the next ice making times of the ice making tray in the next ice making period according to the comparison result and the last ice making times.

Optionally, the determining the next number of ice making times of the ice making tray in the next ice making cycle according to the comparison result and the last number of ice making times includes:

if the remaining ice amount is smaller than the single ice making amount and larger than 0, making the next ice making number equal to the last ice making number; and/or the number of the groups of groups,

if the remaining ice amount is equal to 0, making the next ice making number equal to the last ice making number plus 1; and/or the number of the groups of groups,

and if the remaining ice amount is greater than the single ice making amount, making the next ice making number equal to the last ice making number minus M, wherein M is a natural number not less than 1.

Alternatively, M is 1; alternatively, M is an integer part of the division result of the remaining ice amount and the single ice making amount.

Optionally, the control method further includes: and in the first ice making period, making ice by the ice making tray for preset times, wherein the preset times are natural numbers not smaller than 1.

Optionally, the preset number of times is the number of times of ice making when the ice making tray makes the ice bank full of ice.

Optionally, the ice making cycle is 24 hours.

Optionally, the ice making device further comprises an instruction receiving module; the control method further includes: and in response to the instruction receiving module receiving the ice making frequency adjustment information, the ice making tray increases or decreases the ice making frequency according to the ice making frequency adjustment information in the current ice making period.

Alternatively, the number of ice making times of the ice making tray increased or decreased due to the ice making times adjustment information is not a determining factor of the next number of ice making times.

Alternatively, the ice making apparatus is a refrigerator.

The present invention also provides in a second aspect an ice making apparatus comprising a processor, a memory and execution instructions stored on the memory, the execution instructions being arranged, when executed by the processor, to enable the ice making apparatus to perform the control method of any one of the first aspects.

Based on the foregoing description, it can be understood by those skilled in the art that in the foregoing technical solution of the present invention, by obtaining the last ice making number of times of the ice making tray in the last ice making cycle, obtaining the remaining ice amount in the ice storage box, further comparing the remaining ice amount with the single ice making amount of the ice making tray, and then determining the next ice making number of times of the ice making tray in the next ice making cycle according to the comparison result and the last ice making number of times, the ice making device of the present invention can autonomously learn the ice using habit of the user, especially, the ice making device can accurately confirm the ice using habit of the user after repeating a plurality of ice making cycles, and further make a corresponding amount of ice, thereby avoiding excessive ice making by the ice making device and further avoiding wasting electric energy while making the required ice amount of the user.

Further, by making the ice making tray of the ice making apparatus in the current ice making cycle, the number of ice making times can be increased or decreased according to the ice making times adjustment information, thereby satisfying the ice use demand of the user suddenly increased or decreased. By making the number of ice making times of the ice making tray increased or decreased due to the ice making times adjustment information not to be a determining factor of the next number of ice making times, it is avoided that the ice making amount of the ice making device in the next ice making cycle is affected by the ice demand of the user suddenly increased or decreased.

The above, as well as additional objectives, advantages, and features of the present invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art from the following detailed description of a specific embodiment of the present invention when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solution of the present invention, some embodiments of the present invention will be described hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that components or portions thereof identified in different drawings by the same reference numerals are identical or similar; the drawings of the invention are not necessarily to scale relative to each other.

In the accompanying drawings:

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the effect of an ice-making apparatus in some embodiments of the invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the construction of an ice making module in some embodiments of the invention;

FIG. 3 is a flow chart of the main steps of a control method of an ice making apparatus according to some embodiments of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic view showing the effect of the ice making apparatus in other embodiments of the present invention.

Detailed Description

It should be understood by those skilled in the art that the embodiments described below are only some embodiments of the present invention, but not all embodiments of the present invention, and the some embodiments are intended to explain the technical principles of the present invention and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. All other embodiments, which can be obtained by a person skilled in the art without any inventive effort, based on the embodiments provided by the present invention, shall still fall within the scope of protection of the present invention.

It should be noted that, in the description of the present invention, terms such as "center", "upper", "lower", "top", "bottom", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "inner", "outer", and the like indicate directions or positional relationships, which are based on the directions or positional relationships shown in the drawings, are merely for convenience of description, and do not indicate or imply that the apparatus or elements must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and thus should not be construed as limiting the present invention. Furthermore, the terms "first," "second," and "third" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance.

Further, it should be noted that, in the description of the present invention, unless explicitly specified and limited otherwise, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, and may be, for example, fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; can be mechanically or electrically connected; can be directly connected, can be indirectly connected through an intermediate medium, and can also be communicated with the inside of two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood by those skilled in the art according to the specific circumstances.

In addition, in the description of the present invention, each functional module may be a physical module formed by a plurality of structures, members, or electronic components, or may be a virtual module formed by a plurality of programs; the functional modules may be independent modules or may be functionally divided by a single integral module. It should be understood by those skilled in the art that, on the premise of being able to implement the technical solution described in the present invention, the structural manner, implementation manner and positional relationship of each functional module do not deviate from the technical principle of the present invention anyway, and therefore all functional modules fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

The ice making apparatus of the present invention is an ice maker or a refrigerator. When the ice making apparatus is a refrigerator, the refrigerator has an ice making function.

The main structure of the ice making apparatus of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to fig. 1 and 2 by taking a refrigerator as an example. For convenience of description, and for enabling those skilled in the art to quickly understand the technical solution of the present invention, only technical features that are related to the technical problem and/or the technical concept to be solved by the present invention to a relatively strong degree (directly related or indirectly related) will be described hereinafter, and technical features that are related to the technical problem and/or the technical concept to be solved by the present invention to a relatively weak degree will not be described again. Since the technical features with a weak degree of association belong to common general knowledge in the art, the disclosure of the present invention will not be insufficient even if the features with a weak degree of association are not described.

As shown in fig. 1, in some embodiments of the present invention, when the ice making apparatus is a refrigerator, the ice making apparatus includes an apparatus body 1 and an ice making module 2, and the ice making apparatus makes ice through the ice making module 2.

As shown in fig. 2, in some embodiments of the present invention, the ice-making module 2 includes a water tank 21, a water pipe 22, a water pump 23, an ice-making tray 24, a driving device 25, and an ice bank 26. Wherein the water tank 21 is detachably mounted to the apparatus body 1 and is used for storing water. A water pipe 22 is fixedly installed to the apparatus body 1, one end of the water pipe 22 communicates with the water tank 21, and the other end of the water pipe 22 is located above the ice-making tray 24. A water pump 23 is fixedly installed to the apparatus body 1, and the water pump 23 serves to pump water in the water tank 21 into the water pipe 22 so that the water pipe 22 delivers the water into the ice-making tray 24. An ice-making tray 24 is rotatably mounted to the apparatus body 1, the ice-making tray 24 being for cooling water therein into ice. The driving device 25 is fixedly installed to the apparatus body 1, and serves to drive the ice-making tray 24 to be turned upside down. An ice bank 26 is mounted to the apparatus body 1 and located below the ice-making tray 24, the ice bank 26 for storing ice cubes.

In one example of the present invention, the driving means 25 includes a motor whose case is fixedly coupled to the apparatus body 1, and whose rotation shaft is drivingly coupled to the ice-making tray 24. Optionally, a gear set is further disposed between the rotating shaft of the motor and the ice making tray 24, so as to achieve a speed reduction function through the gear shaft, and further, the motor drives the ice making tray 24 to rotate slowly.

In some embodiments of the present invention, when the ice making apparatus makes ice, the water pump 23 is controlled to pump water in the water tank 21 into the ice making tray 24, and then the ice making tray 24 cools the water therein into ice. After the ice making tray 24 cools the water therein into ice, the driving device 25 drives the ice making tray 24 to turn upside down so that the ice cubes in the ice making tray 24 fall into the ice bank 26.

Alternatively, in other embodiments of the present invention, the person skilled in the art may replace the water pump 23 with an electrically controlled valve and dispose the water tank 21 above the ice making tray 24 as needed. The solenoid valve is used to control whether water in the water tank 21 flows to the ice-making tray 24. Specifically, when the solenoid valve is opened, water in the water tank 21 flows toward the ice making tray 24 by its own gravity.

A control method of the ice making apparatus in some embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to fig. 3.

As shown in fig. 3, in some embodiments of the present invention, a control method of an ice making apparatus includes:

in an optional step S110, the ice-making tray 24 is made to make ice a preset number of times during the first ice-making cycle of the ice-making apparatus.

Wherein the preset times are natural numbers not less than 1. Preferably, the preset number of times is the number of times ice is made when the ice tray 24 fills the ice bank 26 with ice, and a specific value thereof may be obtained through experiments. The ice-making tray 24 makes ice once and the ice bank 26 can obtain a tray of ice cubes.

Alternatively, the skilled person may set the preset number of times to any other feasible value, such as 5 times, 7 times, 8 times, etc., as desired.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the ice tray 24 is made a preset number of times during the first ice making cycle of the ice making apparatus in order to enable the ice making apparatus to quickly determine the actual amount of ice used by the user. And the closer the ice made by the ice making tray 24 a preset number of times is to the actual amount of ice used by the user, the faster the ice making apparatus determines the actual amount of ice used by the user. This will be described in detail later.

In step S120, the number of times of last ice making in the last ice making cycle of the ice making tray 24 is obtained.

In some embodiments of the invention, the previous ice making cycle and the next ice making cycle are adjacent to each other in time. In other words, the previous ice making cycle and the next ice making cycle are consecutive and adjacent two ice making cycles.

Preferably, each ice making cycle of the ice making apparatus is 24 hours, i.e., the ice making cycle of the ice making apparatus is one day, so that the ice making apparatus can manufacture a product satisfying the daily ice amount of a user in each ice making cycle.

Further, the start-stop time of the ice making cycle may be any feasible time, e.g., 22:00, 23:00, 24:00, 1:00, etc.

Optionally, the ice making device is provided with a processor and a memory for storing the number of last ice making times of the ice making tray 24 in the last ice making cycle. The ice making device reads the data on the memory through the processor to acquire the last number of ice making times of the ice making tray 24 in the last ice making cycle.

Step S130, the remaining amount of ice in the ice bank 26 is acquired.

As an example one, the ice making apparatus further includes a load cell for weighing the weight of the ice bank 26. The ice making apparatus weighs the ice bank 26 by the load cell, and then subtracts the weight of the ice bank 26 itself from the weighed weight to obtain the remaining amount of ice in the ice bank 26.

As an example two, the ice making apparatus further includes a lifting lever and a detection sensor that is triggered when the lifting lever touches an obstacle during the descent thereof. The detection sensor may be any sensor that performs this function, such as a micro switch or a pressure sensor. The lifting rod can extend into the ice bank 26. Further, when the lifting rod touches the bottom wall of the ice bank 26 or ice cubes in the ice bank 26 during the downward movement, the detection sensor is triggered, and then the lifting rod is lifted to the original position. In this example, the speed at which the lifting lever is lowered may be made constant, and then the amount of remaining ice in the ice bank 26 is determined by taking the time at which the lifting lever is lowered. As will be appreciated by those skilled in the art, the longer the lift rod is lowered, the closer the lift rod is to the bottom wall of the ice bank 26, and the less ice remains in the ice bank 26; the shorter the lifting rod is lowered, the farther the lifting rod is from the bottom wall of the ice bank 26, and the greater the amount of remaining ice in the ice bank 26.

Preferably, step S130 is performed near the end of the last ice making cycle or just at the beginning of the next ice making cycle to ensure that all ice making times of the ice making tray 24 during the last ice making cycle are counted.

Step S140 compares the remaining amount of ice in the ice bank 26 with the single-time ice making amount of the ice making tray 24.

Wherein a single ice making amount of the ice making tray 24 is stored to the ice making apparatus by a manufacturer during the process of generating or assembling the ice making apparatus. The single ice making amount of the ice making tray 24 may be obtained in any feasible manner, such as by first making the ice making tray 24 make a tray of ice and then weighing or volumetric calculating the tray of ice.

Step S150, determining the next ice making times of the ice making tray 24 in the next ice making period according to the comparison result and the last ice making times.

In some embodiments of the present invention, step S150 includes a parallel step S151, a parallel step S152, and a parallel step S153, which are specifically as follows:

in step S151, if the remaining amount of ice in the ice bank 26 is less than the single-time ice making amount of the ice making tray 24 and greater than 0, the next ice making number is made equal to the previous ice making number. As will be appreciated by those skilled in the art, when the amount of ice remaining in the ice bank 26 is less than the single-time ice making amount of the ice making tray 24 and greater than 0, it means that the ice cubes in the ice bank 26 have not been used up in the last ice making cycle and the remaining ice cubes are less than the single-time ice making amount of the ice making tray 24. In this case, the ice amount produced by the ice-making device not only satisfies the use requirement of the user, but also has little surplus, and the waste of ice cubes is almost negligible.

It will also be appreciated by those skilled in the art that in step S151, since the ice bank 26 may add new ice cubes every ice making cycle, the amount of remaining ice in the ice bank 26 may be greater than the single ice making amount of the ice making tray 24 as the ice making cycle increases. If this occurs, the ice-making device performs step S153.

In step S152, if the remaining amount of ice in the ice bank 26 is equal to 0, the next number of times of ice making is equal to the last number of times of ice making plus 1. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that when the amount of ice remaining in the ice bank 26 is equal to 0, it means that the ice cubes in the ice bank 26 are fully used, and there may be a case where the ice cubes are not sufficiently used by the user. Therefore, in order to meet the user's ice demand, it is necessary to make the ice-making tray 24 make at least more ice than one tray in the next ice-making cycle. However, in order to avoid excessive ice making by the ice making tray 24 in the next ice making cycle, it is only necessary to make the number of times of ice making by the ice making tray 24 in the next ice making cycle 1 more than the number of times of ice making by the previous ice making cycle. If the amount of remaining ice in the ice bank 26 at the end of the ice making cycle is still equal to 0, the number of times of making ice of the ice making tray 24 is increased by 1 more until the amount of remaining ice in the ice bank 26 is smaller than the single-time ice making amount of the ice making tray 24 and is greater than 0.

It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that since the ice cubes in the ice bank 26 are difficult to be completely removed by the user, in order to avoid the residual ice cubes in the ice bank 26 from affecting the number of times the ice making tray 24 makes ice in the next ice making cycle, those skilled in the art can determine that the remaining ice amount in the ice bank 26 is equal to 0 when the remaining ice amount in the ice bank 26 is less than the set value, as required, so as to improve the intelligence and accuracy of the ice making apparatus. The predetermined value may be any feasible value, for example, the predetermined value may be less than 1 ice (ice cubes made by the ice making tray 24), may be equal to 1 ice, or may be equal to 2 or 3 ice.

In step S153, if the remaining amount of ice in the ice bank 26 is greater than the single-time ice making amount of the ice making tray 24, the next ice making number is made equal to the last ice making number minus M, where M is a natural number not less than 1. It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that when the amount of ice remaining in the ice bank 26 is greater than the single-pass ice making amount of the ice making tray 24, it means that the ice cubes in the ice bank 26 have not been used up in the last ice making cycle and that the amount of ice remaining is greater than the single-pass ice making amount of the ice making tray 24, the ice making tray 24 may be made to make less M-tray ice in the next ice making cycle in order to avoid the waste of ice cubes and electric power.

As example one, m=1. That is, when the remaining amount of ice in the ice bank 26 is greater than one tray (single-time ice making amount of the ice making tray 24), the ice making tray 24 is made to make 1 tray of ice less in the next ice making cycle.

Considering that the remaining ice amount of the ice bank 26 in the last ice making cycle may be a plurality of trays, in order to rapidly reduce the power consumption of the refrigerating apparatus, the present invention also provides an example two in which the refrigerating apparatus rapidly and accurately makes the amount of ice required by the user: m is an integer part of the division result of the remaining ice amount and the single ice making amount.

Based on the foregoing description, it can be understood by those skilled in the art that in some embodiments of the present invention, by obtaining the last ice making number of the ice making tray 24 in the last ice making cycle, obtaining the remaining ice amount in the ice bank 26, further comparing the remaining ice amount with the single ice making amount of the ice making tray, and then determining the next ice making number of the ice making tray 24 in the next ice making cycle according to the comparison result and the last ice making number, the ice making device of the present invention can autonomously learn the ice using habit of the user, especially, after repeating a plurality of ice making cycles, can accurately confirm the ice using habit of the user, and further make a corresponding amount of ice, thereby avoiding excessive ice making by the ice making device and further avoiding wasting electric energy while making the required ice amount of the user.

It should be noted that, although the foregoing embodiment describes the control method of the ice making apparatus in detail in the order of sequence, this does not mean that the steps must be performed in this order to achieve the object of the present invention. In practice, the sequence of steps may be adjusted, for example, step S130 may be performed first and then step S120 may be performed.

It should be further noted that the foregoing description of some embodiments of the invention is merely illustrative of some of the basic embodiments that can be used to achieve the objects of the invention. In other words, the control method of the ice making apparatus to be protected by the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above, but includes any other possible embodiments, such as other embodiments described later.

As shown in fig. 4, the ice making apparatus further includes an instruction receiving module 3, where the instruction receiving module 3 is configured to enable the ice making apparatus to receive a control instruction issued by a user. The instruction receiving module 3 is illustratively provided on the apparatus body 1 with a display touch screen so that a user issues a control instruction to the ice making apparatus through the display touch screen.

Further, in the current ice making cycle, if the ice cubes made by the ice making tray 24 cannot meet the user's use requirement or the user considers that the number of ice cubes made by the ice making tray 24 is too large, the user can adjust the number of ice cubes made by the ice making tray 24 through the instruction receiving module 3.

In other embodiments of the present invention, the control method of the ice making apparatus further includes: in response to the instruction receiving module 3 receiving the ice making number adjustment information, the ice making tray 24 is caused to increase or decrease the ice making number according to the ice making number adjustment information in the current ice making cycle.

Specifically, when the instruction receiving module 3 receives an instruction issued by the user, the ice making apparatus causes the ice making tray 24 to increase or decrease the corresponding number of ice making times (tray number) on the basis of the number of present ice making cycles.

Alternatively, as required, when the instruction receiving module 3 receives the instruction issued by the user, the ice making tray 24 may make ice cubes with a corresponding number of trays according to the instruction issued by the user.

Since the change of the user's demand for the ice amount may be temporarily proposed, in order to avoid the ice making amount of the ice making apparatus from being changed due to the user's temporary demand, in other embodiments of the present invention, it is preferable that the ice making tray 24 does not serve as a determining factor of the next ice making number because of the ice making number adjustment information increased or decreased by the user.

Accordingly, further embodiments of the invention have at least the technical effect with respect to the embodiments described above: the ice making tray 24 can increase or decrease the number of ice making according to the ice making number adjustment information in the current ice making cycle, satisfying the ice use demand of the user suddenly increasing or decreasing. By causing the ice making tray 24 to increase or decrease the number of ice making times due to the ice making times adjustment information, not to be a determining factor of the next number of ice making times, it is avoided that the ice making amount of the ice making apparatus in the next ice making cycle is affected by the ice demand of the user suddenly increasing or decreasing.

Further, although not shown in the figures, in further embodiments of the present invention, the ice-making device further comprises a processor, a memory, and execution instructions stored on the memory, the execution instructions being configured to, when executed by the processor, enable the ice-making device to perform the control method described in any one of the preceding embodiments.

Further, the ice making apparatus has a conventional ice making mode and an intelligent ice making mode, and a function button for a user to operate is provided on the refrigerating apparatus so that the user operates the ice making apparatus in the conventional ice making mode or the intelligent ice making mode through the function button. When the ice making apparatus is operated in the conventional ice making mode, a control method of the ice making apparatus for making ice is the same as a conventional control method, and will not be described in detail herein. When the ice making apparatus is operated in the intelligent ice making mode, the ice making apparatus makes ice using the control method described in any of the foregoing embodiments.

The memory is used for storing execution instructions, and the execution instructions are specifically computer programs capable of being executed. Further, the memory may include memory and non-volatile memory (non-volatile memory) and provide the processor with instructions and data for execution. By way of example, the Memory may be a Random-Access Memory (RAM), and the non-volatile Memory may be at least 1 disk Memory.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the control method described above may be applied to the processor or may be implemented by the processor. The processor is illustratively an integrated circuit chip having the capability of processing signals. In the process of executing the control method by the processor, each step of the control method can be completed by an integrated logic circuit in a hardware form or an instruction in a software form in the processor. Further, the processor may be a general purpose processor such as a central processing unit (Central Processing Unit, CPU), a network processor (Network Processor, NP), a digital signal processor (Digital Signal Processor, DSP), an application specific integrated circuit (Application Specific Integrated Circuit, ASIC), a Field-programmable gate array (Field-Programmable Gate Array, FPGA) or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic, discrete hardware components, a microprocessor, and any other conventional processor.

Thus far, the technical solution of the present invention has been described in connection with the foregoing embodiments, but it will be readily understood by those skilled in the art that the scope of the present invention is not limited to only these specific embodiments. The technical solutions in the above embodiments can be split and combined by those skilled in the art without departing from the technical principles of the present invention, and equivalent changes or substitutions can be made to related technical features, so any changes, equivalent substitutions, improvements, etc. made within the technical principles and/or technical concepts of the present invention will fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims (10)

1. A control method of an ice making apparatus including a water tank for supplying water to an ice making tray for freezing water thereon into ice, an ice making tray for driving the ice making tray to be turned over so that the ice on the ice making tray falls into an ice storage box, a driving device, and an ice storage box;

the control method comprises the following steps:

acquiring the last ice making times of the ice making tray in the last ice making period;

acquiring the residual ice amount in the ice bank;

comparing the remaining ice amount with a single ice making amount of the ice making tray;

and determining the next ice making times of the ice making tray in the next ice making period according to the comparison result and the last ice making times.

2. The control method of an ice making apparatus according to claim 1, wherein,

and determining the next ice making times of the ice making tray in the next ice making period according to the comparison result and the last ice making times, wherein the method comprises the following steps of:

if the remaining ice amount is smaller than the single ice making amount and larger than 0, making the next ice making number equal to the last ice making number; and/or the number of the groups of groups,

if the remaining ice amount is equal to 0, making the next ice making number equal to the last ice making number plus 1; and/or the number of the groups of groups,

and if the remaining ice amount is greater than the single ice making amount, making the next ice making number equal to the last ice making number minus M, wherein M is a natural number not less than 1.

3. The control method of an ice making apparatus according to claim 2, wherein,

m is 1; or alternatively, the process may be performed,

m is an integer part of the division result of the remaining ice amount and the single-time ice making amount.

4. The control method of an ice making apparatus according to claim 1, wherein,

the control method further includes:

and in the first ice making period, making ice by the ice making tray for preset times, wherein the preset times are natural numbers not smaller than 1.

5. The control method of an ice making apparatus according to claim 4, wherein,

the preset times are ice making times when the ice making tray makes the ice storage box full of ice.

6. The control method of an ice making apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein,

the ice making cycle was 24 hours.

7. The control method of an ice making apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein,

the ice making device further comprises an instruction receiving module;

the control method further includes:

and in response to the instruction receiving module receiving the ice making frequency adjustment information, the ice making tray increases or decreases the ice making frequency according to the ice making frequency adjustment information in the current ice making period.

8. The control method of an ice making apparatus according to claim 7, wherein,

the number of ice making times of the ice making tray increased or decreased due to the ice making times adjustment information is not a determining factor of the next number of ice making times.

9. The control method of an ice making apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein,

the ice making apparatus is a refrigerator.

10. An ice making apparatus comprising a processor, a memory and execution instructions stored on the memory, the execution instructions being arranged, when executed by the processor, to cause the ice making apparatus to perform the control method of any one of claims 1 to 9.

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