CN116491863A

CN116491863A - Self-cleaning method for cleaning equipment, cleaning device, equipment and storage medium

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Publication number: CN116491863A
Application number: CN202210059811.3A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 王承冰
Original assignee: Dreame Technology Suzhou Co ltd
Current assignee: Dreame Technology Suzhou Co ltd
Priority date: 2022-01-19
Filing date: 2022-01-19
Publication date: 2023-07-28
Also published as: WO2023138368A1

Abstract

The application belongs to the technical field of cleaning equipment, and particularly relates to a self-cleaning method, a cleaning device, equipment and a storage medium of the cleaning equipment. The method comprises the following steps: in response to receiving the first self-cleaning instruction, repeating the following steps until the self-cleaning process of the cleaning device is completed: performing a first cleaning action on a cleaning mechanism on the cleaning device; performing a second cleaning action on the cleaning mechanism; the water spraying amount of the second cleaning action to the cleaning mechanism is smaller than the water spraying amount of the first cleaning action to the cleaning mechanism, and the water absorbing amount of the second cleaning action to the sewage is larger than the water absorbing amount of the first cleaning action to the sewage; the problem that the cleaning effect of the traditional cleaning method on the cleaning mechanism is poor can be solved, the cleaning mechanism is repeatedly cleaned by repeatedly executing the first cleaning action and the second cleaning action, and the water spraying amount and the water absorbing amount of the first cleaning action and the second cleaning action are different, so that the cleaning effect of the cleaning mechanism can be improved.

Description

Self-cleaning method for cleaning equipment, cleaning device, equipment and storage medium

Technical Field

The application belongs to the technical field of cleaning equipment, and particularly relates to a self-cleaning method, a cleaning device, equipment and a storage medium of the cleaning equipment.

Background

Currently, cleaning apparatuses can clean a surface to be cleaned by a cleaning mechanism mounted thereon. After the cleaning operation is completed, the cleaning mechanism is typically required to be rinsed.

Conventional methods of cleaning a cleaning mechanism include: the clean water is sprayed to the cleaning mechanism through the liquid spraying device, and the sewage suction motor is controlled to recover sewage after the cleaning is finished so as to achieve the effect of the cleaning mechanism.

However, the conventional cleaning method can only perform simple cleaning of the cleaning mechanism, and the cleaning effect of the cleaning mechanism is poor.

Disclosure of Invention

The application provides a self-cleaning method, a cleaning device, equipment and a storage medium of cleaning equipment, and can solve the problem that the traditional cleaning method can only carry out simple cleaning on a cleaning mechanism and has poor cleaning effect on the cleaning mechanism. The application provides the following technical scheme:

in a first aspect, there is provided a self-cleaning method of a cleaning apparatus, the method comprising: in response to receiving the first self-cleaning instruction, repeating the following steps until the self-cleaning process of the cleaning device is completed:

performing a first cleaning action on a cleaning mechanism on the cleaning device;

Performing a second cleaning action on the cleaning mechanism; the water spraying amount of the second cleaning action to the cleaning mechanism is smaller than the water spraying amount of the first cleaning action to the cleaning mechanism, and the water absorbing amount of the second cleaning action for absorbing sewage is larger than the water absorbing amount of the first cleaning action for absorbing sewage.

Optionally, the water spraying amount of the first cleaning action and the execution times of the first cleaning action are in a negative correlation.

Optionally, when the self-cleaning state of the cleaning device satisfies a preset condition, it is determined that the self-cleaning process of the cleaning device is completed.

Optionally, when the self-cleaning state of the cleaning device meets a preset condition, determining that the self-cleaning process of the cleaning device is completed includes:

collecting and determining the dirt degree of the cleaning mechanism through a preset sensor; in response to detecting that the degree of soiling of the cleaning mechanism meets a soiling condition, determining that a self-cleaning state of the cleaning device meets the preset condition;

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

recording the execution times of the first cleaning action and the second cleaning action; and when the execution times meet the times conditions, determining that the self-cleaning state of the cleaning equipment meets the preset conditions.

Alternatively, when the self-cleaning state of the cleaning apparatus satisfies the preset condition and the last performed cleaning action is the second cleaning action, it is determined that the self-cleaning process of the cleaning apparatus is completed.

Optionally, the performing a first cleaning action on a cleaning mechanism on the cleaning device includes:

controlling the cleaning mechanism and the water delivery mechanism to work together, wherein the water delivery direction of the water delivery mechanism faces to the cleaning mechanism;

the performing a second cleaning action on the cleaning mechanism includes:

and controlling the cleaning mechanism to work together with the water pumping mechanism.

Optionally, obtaining a first amount of fresh water tank and a second amount of sewage tank; the clean water tank is used for containing clean water so as to spray water to the cleaning mechanism; the sewage tank is used for containing sewage after the cleaning mechanism is cleaned;

based on the first and second amounts of water, it is determined whether to perform the self-cleaning process.

Optionally, the determining whether to perform the self-cleaning process based on the first water amount and the second water amount includes:

and determining to clean the cleaning mechanism when the first water amount is greater than a first water amount threshold and the second water amount is less than the second water amount threshold.

Optionally, the cleaning apparatus has a cleaning mechanism detecting function for detecting whether the cleaning mechanism is mounted, the method further comprising:

in response to receiving the first self-cleaning instruction, the cleaning mechanism detection function is turned off.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

and in response to receiving the second self-cleaning instruction, spraying water to the cleaning mechanism with a preset water spraying amount, and absorbing water with a preset water absorbing amount.

In a second aspect, there is provided a cleaning apparatus for cleaning the cleaning mechanism of the cleaning device, the apparatus comprising a processor and a memory; the memory has stored therein a program which is loaded and executed by the processor to implement the self-cleaning method of the cleaning device according to the first aspect.

In a third aspect, a computer-readable storage medium is provided, in which a program is stored which, when being executed by a processor, is adapted to carry out a self-cleaning method of a cleaning device according to the first aspect.

In a fourth aspect, there is provided a cleaning apparatus comprising:

a cleaning mechanism;

a clean water tank;

One end of the water delivery mechanism is connected with the clean water tank, and the other end of the water delivery mechanism faces the cleaning mechanism;

a sewage tank;

one end of the water pumping mechanism is connected with the sewage tank;

the processor is respectively connected with the water delivery mechanism and the water pumping mechanism and is used for executing the following steps:

in response to receiving the first self-cleaning instruction, repeating the following steps until the self-cleaning process of the cleaning device is completed:

controlling the water pumping mechanism and the water delivery mechanism to execute a first cleaning action on a cleaning mechanism on the cleaning equipment;

controlling the water pumping mechanism and the water delivery mechanism to execute a second cleaning action on the cleaning mechanism; the water spraying amount of the second cleaning action to the cleaning mechanism is smaller than the water spraying amount of the first cleaning action to the cleaning mechanism, and the water absorbing amount of the second cleaning action for absorbing sewage is larger than the water absorbing amount of the first cleaning action for absorbing sewage.

The beneficial effects of this application lie in: by receiving the self-cleaning instruction of the cleaning device and repeatedly executing the first cleaning action and the second cleaning action, the water spraying amount of the second cleaning action is smaller than the water spraying amount of the first cleaning action, the water absorbing amount of the second cleaning action for absorbing sewage is larger than the water absorbing amount of the first cleaning action for absorbing sewage, and the self-cleaning process is completed, so that on one hand, the cleaning mechanism can be cleaned for multiple times by repeatedly executing the first cleaning action and the second cleaning action, and the cleaning effect is improved. On the other hand, the water spraying amount of the first cleaning action is larger than that of the second cleaning action, so that water is mainly sprayed to the cleaning mechanism when the first cleaning action is executed, the wetting force to the cleaning mechanism can be increased when the first cleaning action is executed, and the cleaning effect of the cleaning mechanism is further improved; meanwhile, the water absorption capacity of the second cleaning action is larger than that of the first cleaning action, so that sewage is mainly absorbed when the second cleaning action is executed, the absorption force on the sewage can be increased when the second cleaning action is executed, a large amount of sewage is prevented from remaining on the cleaning mechanism, and the cleaning effect of the cleaning mechanism is further improved.

In addition, as the execution times of the first cleaning action are increased, the dirt degree of the cleaning mechanism is lower and lower, and the water quantity in the clean water tank can be saved by setting the negative correlation between the water spraying quantity of the first cleaning action and the execution times of the first cleaning action.

In addition, by setting that the self-cleaning process of the cleaning device is confirmed to be completed when the self-cleaning state of the cleaning device meets the preset condition, the problem that the cleaning device circularly executes the first cleaning action and the second cleaning action for unlimited times without human intervention can be avoided, the equipment resources of the cleaning device are saved, and the automation degree of the cleaning device is improved.

In addition, through setting up under the dirty degree of clean mechanism satisfies the dirty condition, confirm that the self-cleaning state of cleaning equipment satisfies the condition of predetermineeing, can guarantee that cleaning equipment is from the cleaning action of automatic stop under the clean condition of clean mechanism to guarantee the self-cleaning effect.

In addition, by setting the self-cleaning process of the cleaning device to be determined to be completed when the self-cleaning state of the cleaning device meets the preset condition and the cleaning action executed last time is the second cleaning action, the cleaning action executed last time of the cleaning device can be ensured to absorb sewage cleanly, and the self-cleaning effect of the cleaning device is ensured.

In addition, whether the cleaning mechanism is cleaned or not is determined based on the water quantity of the clean water tank and the sewage tank, so that the water quantity of the clean water tank is sufficient in the cleaning process of the cleaning equipment, the water quantity of the sewage tank cannot overflow, and the problem that the cleaning process is interrupted due to insufficient water quantity of the clean water or excessive sewage in the cleaning process is avoided.

In addition, through setting up first self-cleaning mode and second self-cleaning mode on cleaning equipment for cleaning equipment can self-adaptation be according to the cleaning demand setting up corresponding cleaning mode, improves cleaning equipment's intelligent degree.

In addition, after the cleaning device is docked with the base station, the cleaning device responds to receiving the first self-cleaning instruction, and the cleaning mechanism detection function is turned off. Based on this, in the present embodiment, by turning off the cleaning mechanism detecting function during self-cleaning, therefore, the cleaning apparatus does not output a result that the cleaning mechanism is not mounted, and control of the cleaning mechanism during self-cleaning can be ensured.

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In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings that are needed in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described, and it is obvious that the drawings in the description below are some embodiments of the present invention, and other drawings can be obtained according to the drawings without inventive effort for a person skilled in the art.

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a cleaning apparatus according to one embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a flow chart of a method of self-cleaning a cleaning apparatus provided in one embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 3 is a flow chart of a self-cleaning method of a cleaning apparatus provided in another embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a cleaning device provided in one embodiment of the present application;

fig. 5 is a block diagram of a cleaning apparatus provided in one embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

The following description of the embodiments of the present application will be made apparent and fully in view of the accompanying drawings, in which some, but not all embodiments of the invention are shown. The present application will be described in detail hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings in conjunction with embodiments. It should be noted that, in the case of no conflict, the embodiments and features in the embodiments may be combined with each other.

It should be noted that the terms "first," "second," and the like in the description and claims of the present application and the above figures are used for distinguishing between similar objects and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order.

In the application, unless otherwise indicated, terms of orientation such as "upper, lower, top, bottom" are used generally with respect to the orientation shown in the drawings or with respect to the component itself in the vertical, vertical or gravitational direction; also, for ease of understanding and description, "inner and outer" refers to inner and outer relative to the profile of each component itself, but the above-mentioned orientation terms are not intended to limit the present application.

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a cleaning device according to an embodiment of the present application, where the cleaning device may be a cleaning device such as a floor scrubber, a sweeper, or the like, and the embodiment does not limit the type of the cleaning device. The surface to be cleaned may be a floor, a table top, a wall, a solar cell surface, etc., and the type of the surface to be cleaned is not limited in this embodiment.

As can be seen from fig. 1, the cleaning device comprises at least: a cleaning mechanism 110, a clean water tank 120, a water delivery mechanism 130, a sewage tank 140, a water pump 150, and a processor 160.

The cleaning mechanism 110 contacts the surface to be cleaned when the cleaning apparatus performs a cleaning operation to clean the surface to be cleaned. The cleaning mechanism 110 is a cleaning object when the cleaning apparatus performs self-cleaning.

Alternatively, the cleaning mechanism may be a brush, a rolling brush, a rag, or the like, and the number of the cleaning mechanisms may be one or at least two, and the implementation and the number of the cleaning mechanisms are not limited in this embodiment.

Typically, the cleaning mechanism 110 is mounted at the bottom of the cleaning device, such as: mounted in a bottom center position, a bottom front end, and/or a bottom edge, etc., the mounting position of the cleaning mechanism 110 is not limited in this embodiment.

The clean water tank 120 is used for storing a liquid having a cleaning property, which may be clean water or cleaning liquid, etc., and the type of liquid stored in the clean water tank is not limited in this embodiment.

Optionally, the clean water tank 120 includes one or at least two holding chambers, and when the number of holding chambers is at least two, the liquids stored in different holding chambers are the same or different.

One end of the water delivery mechanism 130 is connected to the clean water tank 120 and the other end is directed toward the cleaning mechanism 110 to deliver the liquid in the clean water tank to the cleaning mechanism.

Illustratively, the water delivery mechanism includes a water pump and a water delivery pipe connected to the water pump. The water pump is located in the water delivery pipeline, one end of the water delivery pipeline is connected with the clean water tank 120, and the other end of the water delivery pipeline faces the cleaning mechanism 110.

The water pumping mechanism 150 serves to pump and convey sewage generated after being sprayed toward the cleaning mechanism 110 to the sewage tank 140.

Illustratively, the water pumping mechanism comprises a water suction motor (or main motor) and a water suction pipeline connected with the water suction motor. Wherein the water suction motor is located in the water suction pipe, one end of the water suction pipe is connected with the sewage tank 140, and the other end of the water suction pipe faces the cleaning mechanism 110.

The sewage tank 140 is connected to the water pump 150 and stores sewage sucked by the water pump 150.

The water delivery mechanism 130 and the water pumping mechanism 150 are respectively connected with the processor 160 to deliver the liquid of the clean water tank 120 to the cleaning mechanism 110 and suck the generated sewage to the sewage tank 140 after being sprayed to the cleaning mechanism 110 under the control of the processor 160.

Alternatively, the processor 160 may be implemented as a single chip or a microcomputer, and the implementation of the processor 160 is not limited in this embodiment.

In this embodiment, the processor 160 is configured to: in response to receiving the first self-cleaning instruction, repeating the following steps until the self-cleaning process of the cleaning device is completed: controlling the water pumping mechanism and the water conveying mechanism to execute a first cleaning action on a cleaning mechanism on the cleaning equipment; and controlling the water pumping mechanism and the water conveying mechanism to execute a second cleaning action on the cleaning mechanism.

The water spraying amount of the second cleaning action to the cleaning mechanism is smaller than that of the first cleaning action to the cleaning mechanism, and the water absorbing amount of the second cleaning action to the sewage is larger than that of the first cleaning action to the sewage.

Optionally, to enable monitoring of the amount of water in the clean water tank 120, a first sensor 170 is provided in the clean water tank 120 to obtain a first amount of water in the clean water tank. The first sensor 170 may be a laser sensor, a capacitive sensor, a radar sensor, or an image sensor, and the type of the first sensor 170 is not limited in this embodiment.

Optionally, in order to enable monitoring of the amount of water in the tank 140, a second sensor 180 is provided in the tank 140 to obtain a second amount of water in the tank. The type of the second sensor 180 is the same as or different from the type of the first sensor 170, and the second sensor 180 may be a laser sensor, a capacitive sensor, a radar sensor, or an image sensor, and the embodiment is not limited to the type of the second sensor 180.

Optionally, a preset sensor is mounted on the cleaning device, the preset sensor being used to determine the degree of soiling of the cleaning mechanism. Among other things, implementations of the preset sensor include, but are not limited to, the following:

first kind: the preset sensor is an image sensor. At this time, the image sensor is used to acquire a mechanism image of the cleaning mechanism to obtain the degree of contamination of the cleaning mechanism by performing image recognition on the mechanism image. Accordingly, the collection range of the image sensor includes the cleaning mechanism. Alternatively, the image sensor is used to collect a sewage image of the sewage tank 140 to obtain a dirty level of the sewage, which is in positive correlation with the dirty level of the cleaning mechanism, by performing image recognition on the sewage image.

Second kind: the preset sensor is an infrared sensor and/or a photoelectric sensor. At this time, the preset sensor is installed in the water pumping mechanism and/or the sewage tank to collect the transparency degree of sewage, and the transparency degree of sewage and the dirt degree of the cleaning mechanism are in negative correlation.

In actual implementation, the cleaning device may also include other components, such as: the power supply assembly, the mechanism driving assembly, etc., are not listed here for the components comprised by the cleaning device.

Because the conventional cleaning method can only simply clean the cleaning mechanism, the problem of poor cleaning effect on the cleaning mechanism can be caused. In this embodiment, by receiving a self-cleaning instruction of the cleaning device and repeatedly executing the first cleaning action and the second cleaning action, the water spraying amount of the second cleaning action is smaller than that of the first cleaning action, and the water absorbing amount of the second cleaning action for absorbing sewage is larger than that of the first cleaning action for absorbing sewage, so as to complete the self-cleaning process, on one hand, the cleaning mechanism can be cleaned for multiple times by repeatedly executing the first cleaning action and the second cleaning action, and the cleaning effect is improved. On the other hand, the water spraying amount of the first cleaning action is larger than that of the second cleaning action, so that water is mainly sprayed to the cleaning mechanism when the first cleaning action is executed, the wetting force to the cleaning mechanism can be increased when the first cleaning action is executed, and the cleaning effect of the cleaning mechanism is further improved; meanwhile, the water absorption capacity of the second cleaning action is larger than that of the first cleaning action, so that sewage is mainly absorbed when the second cleaning action is executed, the absorption force on the sewage can be increased when the second cleaning action is executed, a large amount of sewage is prevented from remaining on the cleaning mechanism, and the cleaning effect of the cleaning mechanism is further improved.

The self-cleaning method of the cleaning device provided in the present application is described in detail below.

The self-cleaning method of the cleaning device provided in this embodiment is shown in fig. 2. This embodiment will be described taking the method as an example for use in the cleaning apparatus shown in fig. 1. In other embodiments, it may be performed by other devices communicatively coupled to the cleaning device, such as: the cleaning device is remotely controlled by a device such as a mobile phone, a computer, a tablet computer, and the like, and the implementation manner of other devices and the execution subject of each embodiment are not limited in this embodiment. The self-cleaning method at least comprises the following steps:

in step 201, in response to receiving the first self-cleaning instruction, steps 202 and 203 are repeatedly performed until the self-cleaning process of the cleaning device is completed.

The manner in which the cleaning device receives the self-cleaning instructions includes, but is not limited to, the following:

first kind: the cleaning device is provided with a self-cleaning button. Accordingly, the cleaning device generates a self-cleaning instruction upon receiving a trigger operation acting on the self-cleaning key.

The self-cleaning key may be a physical key installed on the cleaning device, or may be a virtual key displayed by touching the display screen, and the implementation manner of the self-cleaning key is not limited in this embodiment.

Second kind: the cleaning device generates a self-cleaning instruction after detecting docking with the base station. The base station is used to charge the cleaning device.

Third kind: the cleaning device receives self-cleaning instructions sent by other devices. The other devices are in communication connection with the cleaning device, and the other devices may be a remote controller, a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a wearable device, etc., and the embodiment does not limit the device types of the other devices.

In practical implementation, the manner in which the cleaning device obtains the self-cleaning instruction may be other manners, and the embodiment does not limit the manner in which the self-cleaning instruction is obtained.

Optionally, in repeatedly performing steps 202 and 203, the cleaning device needs to determine whether the self-cleaning process is complete.

The step of the cleaning device determining whether the self-cleaning process is completed may be performed after step 202, or may be performed after step 203, or may be performed simultaneously with steps 202 and 203, the present embodiment does not limit the timing of the cleaning device determining whether the self-cleaning process is completed.

The cleaning apparatus determines whether the self-cleaning process is complete, including: and when the self-cleaning state of the cleaning device meets the preset condition, determining that the self-cleaning process of the cleaning device is finished. When the self-cleaning state of the cleaning apparatus does not satisfy the preset condition, it is determined that the self-cleaning process is not completed, and the step 202 or 203 is continued to be performed.

Or, when the self-cleaning state of the cleaning apparatus satisfies the preset condition and the last performed cleaning action is the second cleaning action, it is determined that the self-cleaning process of the cleaning apparatus is completed. When the self-cleaning state of the cleaning apparatus does not satisfy the preset condition, or the self-cleaning state satisfies the preset condition but the cleaning action performed last time is not the second cleaning action, it is determined that the self-cleaning process is not completed, and the step 202 or 203 is continued to be performed.

Optionally, when the self-cleaning state of the cleaning device meets a preset condition, it is determined that the self-cleaning process of the cleaning device is completed, including but not limited to the following ways:

first kind: collecting and determining the dirt degree of a cleaning mechanism through a preset sensor; in response to detecting that the degree of soiling of the cleaning mechanism satisfies the soiling condition, it is determined that the self-cleaning state of the cleaning device satisfies the preset condition.

Illustratively, the soil condition is a soil threshold value pre-stored in the cleaning device. At this time, when the degree of contamination is smaller than the contamination threshold value, it is determined that the degree of contamination of the cleaning mechanism satisfies the contamination condition; in the event that the soil level is greater than or equal to the soil threshold, it is determined that the soil level of the cleaning mechanism does not satisfy the soil condition.

Second kind: recording the execution times of the first cleaning action and the second cleaning action; when the execution times meet the times conditions, determining that the self-cleaning state of the cleaning equipment meets preset conditions.

Illustratively, the first cleaning action corresponds to the same or different number of times condition as the second cleaning action.

If the frequency condition corresponding to the first cleaning action is different from the frequency condition corresponding to the second cleaning action, when the execution frequency satisfies the frequency condition, determining that the self-cleaning state of the cleaning device satisfies the preset condition includes: when the execution times of the first cleaning action do not meet the times conditions corresponding to the first cleaning action and the execution times of the second cleaning action meet the times conditions corresponding to the second cleaning action, triggering the executing step 202 until the execution times of the first cleaning action meet the times conditions corresponding to the first cleaning action, and determining that the self-cleaning state of the cleaning equipment meets the preset conditions.

Or when the number of times of execution of the first cleaning action meets the number of times condition corresponding to the first cleaning action and the number of times of execution of the second cleaning action does not meet the number of times condition corresponding to the second cleaning action, triggering the execution step 203 until the number of times of execution of the second cleaning action meets the number of times condition corresponding to the second cleaning action, and determining that the self-cleaning state of the cleaning equipment meets the preset condition.

Or when the execution times of the first cleaning action do not meet the times conditions corresponding to the first cleaning action and the execution times of the second cleaning action do not meet the times conditions corresponding to the second cleaning action, triggering the execution steps 202 and 203 in sequence until the execution times of the first cleaning action meet the times conditions corresponding to the first cleaning action and the execution times of the second cleaning action meet the times conditions corresponding to the second cleaning action, and determining that the self-cleaning state of the cleaning equipment meets the preset conditions.

Optionally, after the cleaning device has acquired the self-cleaning instruction, it may also be determined whether to perform the self-cleaning process. In case it is determined to perform the self-cleaning process, steps 202 and 203 are performed until the self-cleaning process is completed; and under the condition that the self-cleaning process is not executed, ending the flow or outputting an abnormal prompt. Wherein the anomaly prompt is used to prompt the cleaning device that the self-cleaning process cannot be performed.

The abnormal prompt may be an audio prompt, or a light prompt, or a communication message sent to other devices, etc., and the output mode of the abnormal prompt is not limited in this embodiment.

In one example, a cleaning apparatus determines whether to perform a self-cleaning process, comprising: acquiring a first water quantity of a clean water tank and a second water quantity of a sewage tank; based on the first and second amounts of water, it is determined whether to perform a self-cleaning process.

In this example, whether confirm to clean the mechanism based on the water yield of clean water tank sewage case, guaranteed that the water yield of clean water tank is sufficient at cleaning equipment's clean process, and the water yield of sewage case can not overflow, can avoid the clean in-process because the clean water yield is not enough or sewage too much leads to the problem of cleaning process interruption.

Wherein determining whether to perform the self-cleaning process based on the first and second amounts of water comprises: in the event that the first water volume is greater than the first water volume threshold and the second water volume is less than the second water volume threshold, determining to clean the cleaning mechanism. In the case that the first water amount is less than or equal to the first water amount threshold value, or the second water amount is greater than the second water amount threshold value, it is determined that the cleaning mechanism is not cleaned.

In other embodiments, the cleaning device may also detect whether the power of the power supply assembly reaches a power threshold; in the case where the electric quantity threshold value is reached, it is determined to perform the self-cleaning process, and the present embodiment does not limit the manner in which the cleaning apparatus determines whether to perform the self-cleaning process.

Step 202, a first cleaning action is performed on a cleaning mechanism on a cleaning device.

As the number of times of execution of the first cleaning action increases, the degree of dirt of the cleaning mechanism becomes lower. Based on this, in order to save the water in the clean water tank, in this embodiment, the water spraying amount of the first cleaning action is inversely related to the execution times of the first cleaning action.

In other embodiments, the water spraying amount may be kept unchanged every time the first cleaning action is performed, or the water spraying amount is reduced once every time the first cleaning action is performed n times, and n is a positive integer.

In one example, performing a first cleaning action on a cleaning mechanism on a cleaning device includes: the cleaning mechanism and the water delivery mechanism are controlled to work together, and the water delivery direction of the water delivery mechanism faces the cleaning mechanism.

Alternatively, the water pump may be operated during the co-operation of the cleaning mechanism and the water delivery mechanism, however, the power of the water pump in the first cleaning action is lower than the power of the water pump in the second cleaning action. In other words, when the first cleaning action is performed, water is mainly sprayed to the cleaning mechanism.

Optionally, a first end condition of the first cleaning action is stored in the cleaning device, and step 203 is performed if the execution state of the first cleaning action reaches the first end condition; if the execution state of the first cleaning operation does not reach the first end condition, the process proceeds to step 202.

The first end condition includes, but is not limited to: the execution duration reaches the first duration threshold, or the cleaning degree of the present cleaning reaches the first degree threshold, or the water spraying amount is greater than the first water amount threshold, etc., and the implementation manner of the first end condition is not limited in this embodiment.

The cleaning degree may be a difference between a dirt degree before the current cleaning action is executed and a current dirt degree in the cleaning action executing process.

Step 203, executing a second cleaning action on the cleaning mechanism; the water spraying amount of the second cleaning action to the cleaning mechanism is smaller than that of the first cleaning action to the cleaning mechanism, and the water absorbing amount of the second cleaning action to the sewage is larger than that of the first cleaning action to the sewage.

In other words, when the second cleaning action is performed, the sewage is mainly absorbed.

In one example, performing a second cleaning action on the cleaning mechanism includes: the cleaning mechanism is controlled to work together with the water pumping mechanism.

Alternatively, the water delivery mechanism may operate during the co-operation of the cleaning mechanism and the water pump mechanism, but the power of the water delivery mechanism in the second cleaning action is lower than the power of the water delivery mechanism in the first cleaning action.

Optionally, a second end condition of the second cleaning action is stored in the cleaning device, and step 201 is performed when the execution state of the second cleaning action reaches the second end condition; if the execution state of the second cleaning operation does not reach the second end condition, step 203 is continued.

The second end condition includes, but is not limited to: the execution duration reaches the second duration threshold, or the cleaning degree of the present cleaning reaches the second degree threshold, or the water spraying amount is greater than the second water amount threshold, etc., and the implementation manner of the second end condition is not limited in this embodiment.

Alternatively, the cleaning apparatus has a cleaning mechanism detecting function for detecting whether the cleaning mechanism is mounted. Since the cleaning device is docked with the base station, there is typically a gap with the cleaning device that allows the detection of the cleaning device detection function as a result of the cleaning device not being installed. At this time, the cleaning device cannot control the cleaning mechanism to operate based on the detection result. Based on this, the cleaning device turns off the cleaning mechanism detection function in response to receiving the first self-cleaning instruction. Therefore, the detection function of the cleaning mechanism is closed, the result that the cleaning mechanism is not installed is not output, and the control of the cleaning mechanism in the self-cleaning process can be ensured.

Optionally, at least two self-cleaning modes are provided in the cleaning device, the at least two self-cleaning modes comprising a first self-cleaning mode and a second self-cleaning mode. Wherein the first self-cleaning mode is a mode in which self-cleaning is achieved by performing steps 201 to 203. The second self-cleaning mode is a mode of spraying water to the cleaning mechanism with a preset water spraying amount and absorbing water with a preset water absorbing amount.

At this point, prior to step 201, the cleaning device determines whether a first self-cleaning mode is activated; in case it is determined that the first self-cleaning mode is activated, steps 201-203 are performed; and under the condition that the first self-cleaning mode is not started, performing self-cleaning according to the second self-cleaning mode.

Wherein, carry out self-cleaning according to the second self-cleaning mode, include: and responding to the second self-cleaning instruction, spraying water to the cleaning mechanism with a preset water spraying amount, and absorbing water with a preset water absorbing amount.

In the second self-cleaning mode, the power of the water delivery mechanism and the water absorption mechanism remains unchanged.

The manner in which the cleaning apparatus determines whether to activate the first self-cleaning mode includes, but is not limited to, the following:

first kind: the cleaning device is provided with a first self-cleaning mode setting key. At this time, in the case where an activation operation acting on the first self-cleaning mode device key is received, it is determined to activate the first self-cleaning mode.

Second kind: the cleaning device identifies the dirt degree of the cleaning mechanism, and determines to start a first self-cleaning mode under the condition that the dirt degree is greater than a certain threshold value; in case the degree of soiling is less than or equal to a certain threshold value, it is determined that the first self-cleaning mode is not activated.

In practice, the manner in which the cleaning device determines whether to activate the first self-cleaning mode may also be other, which embodiment is not explicitly described herein.

In order to more clearly understand the self-cleaning method provided in this embodiment, an example of the method will be described below, and as shown in fig. 3, the self-cleaning method at least includes steps 31 to 34:

step 31, determining whether to execute the first self-cleaning mode, if yes, executing step 33; if not, step 32 is performed.

Step 32, spraying water with a preset water spraying amount and absorbing water with a preset water absorbing amount to execute the second self-cleaning mode, and ending the self-cleaning at the end of the self-cleaning process.

In a second self-cleaning mode, determining whether the self-cleaning process is complete includes: collecting and determining the dirt degree of a cleaning mechanism through a preset sensor; in response to detecting that the degree of soiling of the cleaning mechanism meets a soiling condition, determining that a self-cleaning process of the cleaning device is ended; or, when the working time length of the second self-cleaning mode reaches the set time length, it is determined that the self-cleaning process of the cleaning device is finished, and when the self-cleaning process is actually implemented, the determination mode of the self-cleaning process can be other modes, which is not described herein.

Step 33, performing a first cleaning action and a second cleaning action in a loop to perform a first self-cleaning mode, ending the self-cleaning at the end of the self-cleaning process.

In summary, in the self-cleaning method of the cleaning device provided in the present embodiment, by responding to the receiving of the first self-cleaning instruction, the following steps are repeatedly executed until the self-cleaning process of the cleaning device is completed: performing a first cleaning action on a cleaning mechanism on the cleaning device; performing a second cleaning action on the cleaning mechanism; the cleaning device can solve the problems that the traditional cleaning method can only carry out simple cleaning on the cleaning mechanism and has poor cleaning effect on the cleaning mechanism; by receiving the self-cleaning instruction of the cleaning device and repeatedly executing the first cleaning action and the second cleaning action, the water spraying amount of the second cleaning action is smaller than the water spraying amount of the first cleaning action, the water absorbing amount of the second cleaning action for absorbing sewage is larger than the water absorbing amount of the first cleaning action for absorbing sewage, and the self-cleaning process is completed, so that on one hand, the cleaning mechanism can be cleaned for multiple times by repeatedly executing the first cleaning action and the second cleaning action, and the cleaning effect is improved. On the other hand, the water spraying amount of the first cleaning action is larger than that of the second cleaning action, so that water is mainly sprayed to the cleaning mechanism when the first cleaning action is executed, the wetting force to the cleaning mechanism can be increased when the first cleaning action is executed, and the cleaning effect of the cleaning mechanism is further improved; meanwhile, the water absorption capacity of the second cleaning action is larger than that of the first cleaning action, so that sewage is mainly absorbed when the second cleaning action is executed, the absorption force on the sewage can be increased when the second cleaning action is executed, a large amount of sewage is prevented from remaining on the cleaning mechanism, and the cleaning effect of the cleaning mechanism is further improved.

Fig. 4 is a block diagram of a cleaning apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application, which is described by taking the application of the apparatus to the cleaning device shown in fig. 1 as an example. The device at least comprises the following modules: the repeated execution module 410, the first execution module 420, and the second execution module 430.

A repeated execution module 410, configured to repeatedly execute the following steps until the self-cleaning process of the cleaning device is completed in response to receiving the first self-cleaning instruction;

a first execution module 420 for executing a first cleaning action on a cleaning mechanism on the cleaning device;

a second execution module 430 for executing a second cleaning action on the cleaning mechanism; the water spraying amount of the second cleaning action to the cleaning mechanism is smaller than the water spraying amount of the first cleaning action to the cleaning mechanism, and the water absorbing amount of the second cleaning action to the sewage is larger than the water absorbing amount of the first cleaning action to the sewage;

for relevant details reference is made to the above embodiments.

It should be noted that: in the cleaning device provided in the above embodiment, only the division of the above functional modules is used for illustration, and in practical application, the above functional allocation may be performed by different functional modules according to needs, i.e. the internal structure of the cleaning device is divided into different functional modules to perform all or part of the functions described above. In addition, the cleaning device provided in the above embodiment and the self-cleaning method embodiment belong to the same concept, and the specific implementation process is detailed in the method embodiment, which is not described herein again.

The present embodiment provides a cleaning apparatus, as shown in fig. 5, which may be the cleaning apparatus of fig. 1. The cleaning device comprises at least a processor 501 and a memory 502.

The processor 501 may include one or more processing cores, such as: 4 core processors, 8 core processors, etc. The processor 501 may be implemented in at least one hardware form of DSP (Digital Signal Processing ), FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array, field programmable gate array), PLA (Programmable Logic Array ). The processor 501 may also include a main processor and a coprocessor, the main processor being a processor for processing data in an awake state, also referred to as a CPU (Central Processing Unit ); a coprocessor is a low-power processor for processing data in a standby state. In some embodiments, the processor 501 may integrate a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit, image processor) for rendering and drawing of content required to be displayed by the display screen. In some embodiments, the processor 501 may also include an AI (Artificial Intelligence ) processor for processing computing operations related to machine learning.

Memory 502 may include one or more computer-readable storage media, which may be non-transitory. Memory 502 may also include high-speed random access memory, as well as non-volatile memory, such as one or more magnetic disk storage devices, flash memory storage devices. In some embodiments, a non-transitory computer readable storage medium in memory 502 is used to store at least one instruction for execution by processor 501 to implement the self-cleaning method provided by the method embodiments herein.

In some embodiments, the cleaning device may further optionally include: a peripheral interface and at least one peripheral. The processor 501, memory 502, and peripheral interfaces may be connected by buses or signal lines. The individual peripheral devices may be connected to the peripheral device interface via buses, signal lines or circuit boards. Illustratively, peripheral devices include, but are not limited to: radio frequency circuitry, touch display screens, audio circuitry, and power supplies, among others.

Of course, the cleaning apparatus may also include fewer or more components, as the present embodiment is not limited in this regard.

Optionally, the present application further provides a computer readable storage medium, in which a program is stored, the program being loaded and executed by a processor to implement the self-cleaning method of the above-described method embodiment.

The technical features of the above-described embodiments may be arbitrarily combined, and all possible combinations of the technical features in the above-described embodiments are not described for brevity of description, however, as long as there is no contradiction between the combinations of the technical features, they should be considered as the scope of the description.

The above examples merely represent a few embodiments of the present application, which are described in more detail and are not to be construed as limiting the scope of the invention. It should be noted that it would be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and improvements could be made without departing from the spirit of the present application, which would be within the scope of the present application. Accordingly, the scope of protection of the present application is to be determined by the claims appended hereto.

Claims

1. A method of self-cleaning a cleaning apparatus, the method comprising:

2. The self-cleaning method of a cleaning apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the amount of water sprayed by the first cleaning action is inversely related to the number of times the first cleaning action is performed.

3. A method of self-cleaning a cleaning apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

and when the self-cleaning state of the cleaning device meets the preset condition, determining that the self-cleaning process of the cleaning device is finished.

4. A self-cleaning method of a cleaning apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said determining that the self-cleaning process of the cleaning apparatus is completed when the self-cleaning state of the cleaning apparatus satisfies a preset condition comprises:

and/or the number of the groups of groups,

5. A method of self-cleaning a cleaning apparatus according to claim 3 or 4, characterized in that the method further comprises:

When the self-cleaning state of the cleaning device satisfies the preset condition and the last performed cleaning action is the second cleaning action, it is determined that the self-cleaning process of the cleaning device is completed.

6. A self-cleaning method of a cleaning apparatus according to claim 1, wherein,

the performing a first cleaning action on a cleaning mechanism on the cleaning device includes:

the performing a second cleaning action on the cleaning mechanism includes:

7. A method of self-cleaning a cleaning apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

acquiring a first water quantity of a clean water tank and a second water quantity of a sewage tank; the clean water tank is used for containing clean water so as to spray water to the cleaning mechanism; the sewage tank is used for containing sewage after the cleaning mechanism is cleaned;

8. The self-cleaning method of a cleaning apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the determining whether to perform the self-cleaning process based on the first water amount and the second water amount includes:

9. A self-cleaning method of a cleaning apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the cleaning apparatus has a cleaning mechanism detecting function for detecting whether the cleaning mechanism is mounted, the method further comprising:

10. A method of self-cleaning a cleaning apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

11. A cleaning apparatus for cleaning the cleaning mechanism of the cleaning device, the apparatus comprising a processor and a memory; stored in the memory is a program that is loaded and executed by the processor to implement a self-cleaning method of a cleaning apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 10.

12. A computer-readable storage medium, characterized in that the storage medium has stored therein a program which, when executed by a processor, is adapted to carry out a self-cleaning method of a cleaning device as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 10.

13. A cleaning apparatus, the cleaning apparatus comprising:

a cleaning mechanism;

a clean water tank;

a sewage tank;

one end of the water pumping mechanism is connected with the sewage tank;