CN1215148A - Method and apparatus for controlling initial operation of refrigerator - Google Patents
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A method and apparatus for controlling a refrigerator to run. When power is applied the temperature in the refrigerator is compared with the external atmosphere temperature to judge whether the applied power is due to temporary power failue, a cooling temperature range is set according to the measured temperature in the refrigerator. If the applied power is due to a initial use not the temporary power failure, the cooling temperature is set to the middle value in the cooling temperature range, and then controls loads such as a compressor and a blowing fan in the refrigerator to the driven so that the inside of the refrigerator is cooled according to the set cooling temperature.
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The present invention relates to control the method and apparatus of initial operation of refrigerator, wherein when switching on to refrigerator, temperature state of a control automatic setting starts the refrigerator operation then.Specifically, the present invention relates to a kind of device of controlling the method for initial operation of refrigerator and using this method, return to the previous state of setting of user in order under situation about temporarily can not switch on, making the temperature state of a control to refrigerator owing to power failure.
The normal domestic use refrigerator is divided into a refrigerating chamber and a refrigerating chamber.When the compressor operating of refrigeration system, produce and make refrigerating chamber and refrigerating chamber all obtain cooling by the cold air of fan supply by evaporimeter.By intermittence drive compression machine and fan, make refrigerating chamber and refrigerating chamber remain on required temperature.Extensively adopted in the present refrigerator according to the multiple processing capacity of ambient conditions, use microcomputer and accurately controlled the control circuit of multiple loads such as compressor and fan.When beginning to switch on to refrigerator, this control circuit of refrigerator is comprising the running status of the default value of refrigerator design temperature as refrigerator.That is to say that if again to the refrigerator energising, the refrigerator method of operation is for keeping refrigerator in above-mentioned default value temperature.Certainly, after refrigerator brought into operation, the user can change design temperature according to the wish of oneself.Generally each default value is decided to be a median in the temperature controlling range.
According to this mode, when causing that because of improper use refrigerator power plug disengaging supply socket can not be switched on then again to the refrigerator energising owing to power failure, electric source connecting box loose contact or refrigerator run duration, the temperature value that the user sets is got back to above-mentioned default value respectively.In other words, if keep under the state of refrigerator at specified temp considering the fresh-keeping of some food, owing to temporary transient power failure makes specified temp revert to default value, refrigerator just is controlled to keeps a not desired temperatures.And since moment power failure can not be realized that it is very fresh that food just can not keep by the user well.Thereby, make when refrigerator resumes operation behind power failure refrigerator keep required temperature, will readjust the temperature state of a control, cause like this use inconvenient.
As relating to the prior art that restarts refrigerator behind the power failure, Japan Patent open source literature 8-303921,8-313139,9-79726 and 9-113090 are arranged.In these existing lists of references, when switching on to refrigerator, the temperature of condenser and refrigerating chamber in the measurement refrigerant loop.When working as two temperature being surveyed then and not being higher than predetermined temperature, can not move compressor and fan in advance and allow refrigerator control routinely immediately to bring into operation.Thereby refrigerator temperature returns to predetermined temperature rapidly behind power failure.But when switching on to refrigerator once more behind the power failure, the refrigerator temperature of setting can not return to previous value, and this has just produced the problem that the user must reset to refrigerator own desired temperature.
Certainly, may by use when the power failure also can holding circuit work the problems referred to above of producing because of power failure of battery backup device solves.But additional battery backup device cost is very big, and makes complex structure.
In order to address the above problem, one object of the present invention just provides a kind of method of controlling initial operation of refrigerator, wherein in case energising, just judge the previous temperature state of a control of setting, make the refrigerator restoring running to the state of above-mentioned judgement then, to prevent because temporary transient power failure changes the temperature state of a control of refrigerator setting.
Another object of the present invention provides a kind of device of controlling initial operation of refrigerator, wherein in case energising, just judge the previous temperature state of a control of setting, make the refrigerator restoring running to the state of above-mentioned judgement then, to prevent because temporary transient power failure changes the temperature state of a control of refrigerator setting.
In order to finish above-mentioned first purpose of the present invention, a kind of method of controlling initial operation of refrigerator is provided in the specification, so that refrigerator remains on the temperature of setting, this method comprises the steps: the temperature of refrigerator energising back detection refrigerator; Set the chilling temperature of refrigerator according to the temperature that detects; Recover the operation of refrigerator, the chilling temperature that makes refrigerator inside be cooled to set.
Here, the present invention also comprises the step that detects refrigerator atmosphere outside temperature with independent temperature sensor, so that judge that whether energising is because of temporary transient power failure.And when the former is equal to or less than the latter, just carries out and set refrigerator chilling temperature step when refrigerator temperature is compared with the outside atmosphere temperature of detection.And when refrigerator temperature is higher than the outside atmosphere temperature of detection, above-mentioned chilling temperature is set at a median in the temperature controlling range.
Specifically, the present invention is divided into several grades of mutual predetermined space with the chilling temperature scope of setting, and that grade of wherein setting chilling temperature is than low one grade of that grade under the refrigerator temperature that detects.
In order to finish above-mentioned second purpose of the present invention, here provide a kind of control to have initial operation of refrigerator device as the load of a compressor being used to cool off refrigerator inside and at least one fan, this control device comprises: a temperature sensor of measuring refrigerator temperature; The drive unit of drive compression machine and fan; And controller, this controller detects the Current Temperatures of refrigerator immediately by temperature sensor after switching on to refrigerator, set the chilling temperature of refrigerator according to the refrigerator temperature that detects, and the rotation of leaning on driving device controls compressor and fan, so that refrigerator inside is cooled to design temperature.
The present invention also comprises the outside atmosphere temperature sensor of a detection refrigerator outside atmosphere temperature, to judge that whether energising is because of temporary transient power failure.The present invention also further comprises display and keyboard that changes chilling temperature of the chilling temperature that a luminous demonstration sets.Here display and controller are contained on the same panel.
Fig. 1 represents the perspective view of the refrigerator that part is cut open;
Fig. 2 represents to implement the refrigerator control circuit block diagram of initial operation of refrigerator control method of the present invention;
The front view of panel in Fig. 3 presentation graphs 2;
Fig. 4 represents the flow chart of initial operation of refrigerator control method of the present invention.
The preferred embodiments of the present invention are described below with reference to accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 represents that has been used a refrigerator of the present invention, and this refrigerator has one and is used for cooling efficient, that many evaporimeters (H.M) circulate and freezing self-contained refrigerating system.Two evaporimeters 4 and 5 and two fans 6 and 7 are contained in respectively in the refrigerating chamber 2 and refrigerating chamber 3 that has separated in the casing 1.When compressor 8 runnings, make evaporimeter 4 and 5 obtain cooling.At this moment, if drive fan 6 and 7, cold air is circulation just, makes refrigerating chamber 2 and refrigerating chamber 3 obtain cooling respectively.
Fig. 2 represents to implement the refrigerator control circuit that refrigerator of the present invention starts motion control method.Control circuit shown in Figure 2 comprises the monitoring refrigerator temperature, promptly monitors the sensor 21 and 22 of temperature of refrigerating chamber and freezer temperature, detect the sensor 23 of refrigerator outside atmosphere temperature, controller 24, be used to change the keyboard 25 of the needed chilling temperature of user, be used for the chilling temperature of display setting and the display 26 of running status of living in thereof, and be used to drive load driver 27 as compressor and fan even load.Here keyboard 25 and display 26 are arranged on the same panel as shown in Figure 3, and this plate is contained on the Qianmen of electric refrigerator housing body.Panel 30 comprises and is used for setting respectively the button 31 and 32 of refrigerating chamber and freezer temperature, be used for the luminous demonstration lamp group 33 and 34 of stepping design temperature scope at regular intervals, select to drive the button 35 and 36 of cold storage function and driving freezing function respectively, and be used to indicate the indicator lamp 37 and 38 that drives cold storage function and drive the freezing function selection mode.Lamp group 33 and 34 is lighted lamp 33 and 34 from " weak " shelves to " by force " shelves successively according to the shelves number of temperature setting button, thereby indicates current setting chilling temperature visibly.If button 31 and 32 still rests on the state that lamp 33 and 34 is in " by force " shelves, then extinguish all lamps in lamp group 33 and 34, restart then to light with " weak " shelves successively.
In the control circuit of Fig. 2, sensor 21 and 22 refrigerator Current Temperatures and the users that detect are compared through the setting shelves temperature of keyboard 25 as control of microcomputer device 24.Set the shelves temperature if Current Temperatures is equal to or higher than, load driver 27 is with regard to drive compression machine and fan.Otherwise, carry out conventional control program, drive to stop load.In addition, if the refrigeration of the driving on the panel 30 among selection Fig. 3 button 35 and the freezing button 36 of driving, controller 24 is just lighted corresponding indicator lamp 37 and 38 respectively, and control compressor and refrigerating chamber fan successively, temperature of refrigerating chamber in driving cold storage procedure reaches predetermined temperature (being higher than-4 ℃), and irrelevant with setting shelves temperature.Drive cool freeze to carry out in the process control the control program that compressor and refrigerating chamber fan drive in succession within a certain period of time.
In the present invention, controller 24 also comprises the control program of control initial operation of refrigerator method, and this control program comprises that the energising back sets the step S1 and the S2 of each refrigerating chamber and refrigerating chamber chilling temperature at once, and the step S3 of startup refrigerator shown in Figure 4 operation.Among the figure, after the step S1 that sets the refrigerating chamber chilling temperature, carry out the step S2 that sets the refrigerating chamber chilling temperature.Certainly said sequence also can be conversely.
In setting refrigerating chamber and the step S1 and S2 of refrigerating chamber chilling temperature, detect the temperature T of refrigerator hereinafter referred to as refrigerator temperature
rAnd T
fAnd outside atmosphere temperature T
e(S11 and S21), and the refrigerator temperature T that detects
r, T
rWith the outside atmosphere temperature T
eCompare best and T
e-5 ℃ compare (S12 and S22).Detected temperatures T when refrigerator
r, T
fBe greater than or equal to the outside atmosphere temperature T
eThe time, just judge it is the initial launch energising, and when the former is lower than the latter, just judge that energising is because of temporary transient power failure.If power failure occurring in the short period relatively, the temperature difference that the user sets before refrigerator temperature and the power failure is little.But when refrigerator is operation or time spent not first for a long time, refrigerator temperature is with regard to very near the outside atmosphere temperature.Thereby the present invention compares refrigerator temperature with the outside atmosphere temperature, to judge that whether energising is because of temporary transient power failure.
In this process, if judge that energising is not because of temporary transient power failure, that is to say, judge that energising is because of the refrigerator initial launch, just refrigerator temperature is set at " in " the shelves temperature, the lamp group 33 and 34 of the panel 30 that this moment is shown in Figure 3 lights up as middle-grade (S16 and S26).
At that time, if judge that energising is because of temporary transient power failure, just refrigerator temperature T
rAnd T
fCompare with each grade temperature of lamp group 33 and 34 respectively,, set chilling temperature according to comparative result then with the previous state of temperature of setting of estimating user.When setting the chilling temperature of refrigerator, preferably set chilling temperature to such an extent that be lower than the refrigerator temperature T of detection slightly by said procedure
rAnd T
fBecause the chilling temperature that refrigerator temperature is set before can be than power failure during the moment power failure raises a little.For this reason, the present invention with lamp group 33 and 34 shelves a number be divided into " by force ", " in ", " weak " third gear, and at first with the detection refrigerator temperature T
rAnd T
fWith " weak " shelves temperature value T
RmAnd T
Fw(S13 and S23) compares.When the temperature that detects is higher than " weak " shelves temperature value, just the cooling degree of refrigerating chamber and refrigerating chamber is set at " weak " shelves temperature (S14 and S24) in lamp group 33 and 34.Then, if temperature T
rAnd T
fBe equal to or less than " weak " shelves temperature value T
RwAnd T
Fw, just refrigerator temperature T
rAnd T
rWith " in " shelves temperature value T
RmAnd T
Fm(S15 and S25) compares.When refrigerator temperature be higher than " in " shelves are during temperature value, just chilling temperature is set in lamp group 33 and 34 and illuminates " in " temperature (S16 and S26) of shelves.Then, if refrigerator temperature T
rAnd T
rBe equal to or less than " in " shelves temperature value T
RmAnd T
Fm, just refrigerator temperature T
rAnd T
fWith " by force " shelves temperature value T
RsAnd T
Fs(S17 and S27) compares.When refrigerator temperature is higher than " by force " shelves temperature value, just chilling temperature is set at the temperature value (S18 and S28) that illuminates " by force " shelves in lamp group 33 and 34.If refrigerator temperature T
rAnd T
fBe equal to or less than " by force " shelves temperature value T
RsAnd T
Fs, just refrigerating chamber and refrigerating chamber are set at driving refrigeration pattern respectively and drive frozen mode (S19 and S29).
As a result, the refrigerator temperature that detects is compared with each grade temperature value successively, constantly control the chilling temperature setting value, make the user can obtain more approaching previous temperature state of a control.
After refrigerating chamber and refrigerating chamber chilling temperature were set fully, refrigerator just began by the temperature state of a control operation of setting (S3).After refrigerator brings into operation, controller among Fig. 2 24 detects each temperature of refrigerator from sensor 21 and 22 in real time, and the refrigerator temperature that has changed is compared with the chilling temperature of setting.So program is got back to conventional control program, wherein, if the temperature that has changed is elevated to the chilling temperature that is equal to or higher than setting, with regard to drive compression machine and fan, and if the temperature that has changed drops to the chilling temperature that is lower than setting, compressor and fan are stopped operating.
As mentioned above, according to the present invention, in energising is because when temporary transient power failure but not initial launch, judge the temperature state of a control that the user set in the past, make refrigerator institute restoring running to this state then, this breaks down that the back user need reset chilling temperature and the problem of the inconvenience that brings with regard to having solved power supply.Therefore, the present invention has made things convenient for the user.Especially, the present invention can solve a difficult problem that causes the food freshness decline that the change of temperature state of a control causes in the refrigerator owing to power failure, has strengthened the security and the reliability of food preservation.
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1. control initial operation of refrigerator so that refrigerator remains on the method for temperature that sets for one kind, comprise step:
The temperature of refrigerator is detected in refrigerator energising back;
Set the refrigerator chilling temperature according to the temperature that detects; And
Recover the operation of refrigerator, so that the chilling temperature that refrigerator inside is cooled to set.
2. the method for control initial operation of refrigerator as claimed in claim 1, also comprise the step that detects refrigerator atmosphere outside temperature with independent temperature sensor, so that judge that whether energising is because of temporary transient power failure, wherein when refrigerator temperature is compared with the outside atmosphere temperature of detection, and the former is when being equal to or less than the latter, just carry out the refrigerator chilling temperature and set step, and when refrigerator temperature is higher than the outside atmosphere temperature of detection, chilling temperature is set at a median in the temperature controlling range.
3. the method for control initial operation of refrigerator as claimed in claim 2, wherein said outside atmosphere temperature allows-5 ℃ correction.
4. the method for control initial operation of refrigerator as claimed in claim 1, wherein the chilling temperature scope of She Dinging is divided into several grades of mutual predetermined space, and that grade of wherein setting chilling temperature is than low one grade of that grade under the refrigerator temperature that detects.
5. the method for control initial operation of refrigerator as claimed in claim 1, wherein the chilling temperature scope of She Dinging is divided into several grades of predetermined space, to carry out following steps:
The refrigerator temperature that detects is compared with " weak " shelves temperature value of the interior maximum temperature of chilling temperature scope of indicative of settings;
When the temperature that detects is higher than " weak " shelves temperature value, " weak " shelves temperature of chilling temperature setting;
If the temperature that detects is equal to or less than " weak " shelves temperature value, just the medium temperature in the chilling temperature scope of the refrigerator temperature that detects and indicative of settings " in " a grade temperature value compares;
Temperature at refrigerator be higher than " in " shelves temperature value, just chilling temperature is set at " in " shelves temperature; And
If the refrigerator temperature that detects be equal to or less than " in " the shelves temperature value, just chilling temperature is set at " by force " grade temperature value of minimum temperature in the chilling temperature scope of indicative of settings.
6. the method for control initial operation of refrigerator as claimed in claim 5, wherein:
Only when the refrigerator temperature that detects be equal to or less than " in " shelves temperature and when being higher than " by force " shelves temperature value of minimum temperature in the chilling temperature scope of indicative of settings, chilling temperature is set at " by force " grade temperature, reaches
If the temperature of refrigerator is equal to or less than " by force " shelves temperature value, then refrigerator inside is cooled off a scheduled time continuously or is cooled to a predetermined temperature.
7. a control has the device of the initial operation of refrigerator of the load as a compressor and at least one fan, and this device comprises:
The temperature sensor of an interior temperature of measurement refrigerator;
A driver that drives load; And
A controller, this controller is used for detecting the refrigerator Current Temperatures from temperature sensor when energising, and set the chilling temperature of refrigerator, and through the running of driver control compressor and fan, so that the temperature that refrigerator inside is cooled to set according to the refrigerator temperature that detects.
8. the device of control initial operation of refrigerator as claimed in claim 7, also comprise an outside atmosphere temperature sensor that is used for measuring refrigerator outside atmosphere temperature, the control program of wherein said controller comprises the steps: to detect the outside atmosphere temperature from the outside atmosphere sensor; Temperature in the refrigerator and detected outside atmosphere temperature are compared,, just the refrigerator chilling temperature is set to the median of temperature controlling range if the temperature of refrigerator is higher than the outside atmosphere temperature; Have only when refrigerator temperature is equal to or less than the outside atmosphere temperature and set chilling temperature according to detected refrigerator temperature.
9. the device of control initial operation of refrigerator as claimed in claim 7 also comprises display that is used for the chilling temperature that luminous demonstration sets and the keyboard that changes chilling temperature.
10. the device of control initial operation of refrigerator as claimed in claim 9, wherein said display and described keyboard layout are on same panel.
11. the device of control initial operation of refrigerator as claimed in claim 9, wherein said display comprise the lamp group that several grades and one luminous each grades of demonstration certain intervals, expression chilling temperature setting range are arranged mutually.
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