CN212586708U - Household appliance - Google Patents
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Abstract
An appliance device (10) comprising: an actuator or sensor configured to implement at least one appliance function; a light emitting diode (3), the light emitting diode (3) being configured to provide information to a user regarding a status of the apparatus; a controller (1), the controller (1) being configured to measure an electrical signal resulting from the excitation of the light emitting diode by means of a first light emitting signal (4) received by the light emitting diode (3), the controller being configured to determine parameterization information from the electrical signal and to parameterize the household appliance on the basis of the parameterization information.
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Technical Field
The utility model relates to a field of networking household electrical appliances.
Background
It is known to connect home devices via a wide area network to a remote server implemented by the manufacturer, in particular to allow the manufacturer to automatically download software updates to the devices, but also to remotely monitor and control the home devices. To this end, a short-range connection, usually of the wifi type, should be established between the device and a local station of the box type, which is connected to the internet in ADSL mode over a fixed network or over a cellular network, and which therefore allows a connection to a remote server via a wide area network. However, local Wi-Fi connections are most often protected by identifiers and/or passwords; thus, a wifi connection of a device to the local station typically requires parameterization of the device by entering on the device a wifi identifier necessary to allow the device to establish a connection with the station connected to the internet and an identifier of the user account necessary to allow the device to establish an authorized connection with the manufacturer server. This parameterization may be relatively complex to perform.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
It is therefore an object of the present invention to propose a solution to all or part of these problems by simplifying the parameterization process for the user.
To this end, the utility model relates to a household electrical appliances, it includes:
-an actuator or sensor configured to implement at least one appliance function;
-a light emitting diode configured to provide information to a user about the status of the apparatus;
-a controller configured to measure an electrical signal resulting from the excitation of the light emitting diode by means of a first light emitting signal received by the light emitting diode, the controller being configured to determine parameterization information from the electrical signal and to parameterize the household appliance based on the parameterization information.
According to these arrangements, the parameterization process is simplified for the user, and it is possible to transmit parameterization information to the home appliance without manually entering such parameterization information via a specific interface.
According to one embodiment, the invention includes one or more of the following features, alone or in combination.
According to one embodiment, the actuator is a heating mechanism or a driving mechanism of a movable part of the device.
According to these arrangements, the simplified parameterization process involves different types of household appliances, such as cooking appliances, or vacuum cleaners, or even blowers.
According to one embodiment, the first luminescent signal is emitted by the mobile communication terminal.
According to these arrangements, the user does not manually input the parameterization information on the dedicated interface of the home appliance, but can use his mobile communication terminal to transmit the parameterization information.
According to one embodiment, the first light-emitting signal is emitted by a flash of the mobile communication terminal.
According to these arrangements, instead of manually entering the parameterization information on the dedicated interface of the household appliance, the user can use the flash already present on most mobile communication terminals to emit a light emission signal with parameterization information, via a simple software application installed on the mobile communication terminal for implementing the existing flash.
According to one embodiment, the parameterization information is pre-recorded on the mobile communication terminal.
According to these settings, the user does not need to re-enter the parameterization information that was recorded on his mobile communication terminal at the time of the previous parameterization of said mobile communication terminal.
According to one embodiment, the parameterization information includes information for controlling the operation of the actuator or the sensor after the home device has been parameterized by the controller.
According to these settings, the user can determine the operation of the home appliance in a simplified manner via his mobile communication terminal.
According to one embodiment, the household appliance further comprises a radio frequency communication module configured to communicate via a secure communication protocol requiring a connection identifier, and wherein the parameterization information comprises the connection identifier necessary for establishing the connection of the secure communication module with the connection station to the local area network and/or the wide area network, the parameterization of the household appliance by the controller based on the parameterization information comprising a parameterization of the communication module for establishing the connection with the connection station.
According to these arrangements, the user can ensure, in a simplified manner, the establishment of a connection between the home device and a wide area network or the insertion of the home device into a local area network via his mobile communication terminal.
According to one embodiment, the secure communication protocol is of the WIFI type.
According to these arrangements, the user can ensure in a simplified manner via his mobile communication terminal that the connection between the home device and the wide area network is established via a standard communication protocol or that the home device is plugged into a local area network.
According to one embodiment, the wide area network is of the internet type.
According to these settings, the user can ensure, in a simplified manner, the establishment of a connection between the home appliance and the internet via his mobile communication terminal.
According to one embodiment, the parameterization information includes an identifier of an account for connecting the home device to a server.
According to these arrangements, the user can ensure in a simplified manner, via his mobile communication terminal, that a connection is established between the home appliance and a server, for example a server of the provider of the home appliance. The parameterization of the household appliance, and in particular its connection to the internet, is therefore particularly easy for the user by means of a simple optical link between the household appliance and the mobile communication terminal, which has previously been connected to the internet at least once with the connection station and has stored parameterization information corresponding to this connection, and/or has been connected at least once to an account on a server and has also stored parameterization information corresponding to this connection.
According to these arrangements, the virtual keyboard of the mobile communication terminal is sufficient without any virtual keyboard on the home device for entering the parameterized information.
According to one embodiment, the mobile communication terminal is a portable phone or a tablet computer.
According to these arrangements, the user does not manually input the parameterization information on the dedicated interface of the home appliance, but can use his usual mobile communication terminal, such as his portable telephone or tablet computer, to transmit the parameterization information.
According to one embodiment, the controller is configured to send information about the progress of the appliance function or about the operating state of the appliance to a user or a remote server, the information being sent via the radio frequency communication module.
According to these settings, a user connected to a local area network and/or a wide area network can know the status of the home devices connected to the network.
According to one embodiment, the controller is configured to control the emission of a second modulated light emission signal by the light emitting diode in accordance with information about the progress of the appliance function or about the operating state of the appliance device.
According to these arrangements, the same light-emitting diode is used both for receiving parameterisation information and for transmitting information about the state of the household appliance.
According to one embodiment, said second modulated luminous signal is received by a mobile communication terminal configured to present information to the user about the progress of the functioning of said household appliance or about the operating state of said equipment.
According to these settings, a bidirectional optical link is established between the home appliance device and the mobile communication terminal of the user.
According to one embodiment, the second light signal is received by a camera of the mobile communication terminal.
According to these settings, a bidirectional optical link with the mobile communication terminal can be established by using cameras already existing on many mobile communication terminals; a simple software application installed on the mobile communication terminal allows the implementation of the camera.
The utility model discloses still relate to a method for following mobile communication terminal messenger's tame electric installation parameterization, tame electric installation includes:
-an actuator or sensor configured to implement at least one appliance function;
-a light emitting diode configured to provide information to a user about the status of the apparatus;
-a controller for controlling the operation of the electronic device,
the method comprises the following steps implemented by the household appliance:
-receiving, by a light emitting diode, a first light emitting signal comprising parameterisation information, the first light emitting signal being emitted by the mobile communication terminal;
-generating an electrical signal by the light emitting diode, the electrical signal being a function of the parametric information;
-measuring, by the controller, electrical signals generated by the light emitting diodes and determining, by the controller, the parametric information;
-parameterizing, by the controller, the home device.
According to these arrangements, the parameterization method, which allows parameterization information to be sent to the household appliance without having to manually enter it via a specific interface, is simplified for the user.
According to one embodiment, the method further comprises the steps of:
-controlling by the controller the emission of a second light signal to the mobile communication terminal through a light emitting diode.
According to these settings, the method allows to establish a bidirectional optical link between the household appliance and the mobile communication terminal of the user.
The utility model discloses still relate to a method for following mobile communication terminal messenger's tame electric installation parameterization, tame electric installation includes:
-an actuator or sensor configured to implement at least one appliance function;
-a light emitting diode configured to provide information to a user about the status of the apparatus;
-a controller for controlling the operation of the electronic device,
the method comprises the following steps implemented by the mobile communication terminal:
-emitting a first light emitting signal comprising parametric information by a light emitter of the mobile communication terminal.
According to these arrangements, the parameterization method, which allows parameterization information to be sent to the household appliance without having to manually enter it via a specific interface, is simplified for the user.
According to one embodiment, the method according to the invention further comprises the steps of:
-receiving, by said mobile communication terminal, a second light emitting signal emitted by said light emitting diode of said home appliance.
According to one embodiment, the method according to the invention comprises one or more of the following features, taken alone or in combination.
According to one embodiment, the light emitter of the mobile communication terminal is a flash of the mobile communication terminal.
According to one embodiment, the parameterization information includes a connection identifier necessary for establishing a local connection of the home device to the internet via the connection station.
According to one embodiment, the parameterization information includes an identifier of an account for connecting the home device to a server.
According to one embodiment, the parameterization information is pre-recorded on the mobile communication terminal.
According to one embodiment, the method further comprises the step of receiving, by the mobile communication terminal, a second light emitting signal emitted by the light emitting diode of the home appliance.
According to one embodiment, the second light signal is received by a camera of the mobile communication terminal.
According to these settings, the method allows establishing a bidirectional optical data link between the home device and the mobile communication terminal.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an electrical home device parameterized by a mobile communication terminal via an optical link.
Fig. 2 is a diagram of an embodiment of implementing parameterization of an electric home appliance using a mobile communication terminal.
Fig. 3 is a sequence diagram of an embodiment of a method for parameterizing a home appliance implemented by a mobile communication terminal.
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According to the embodiment shown in fig. 1, the household appliance 10 comprises an actuator or sensor 5.
The actuator or sensor may be configured to perform one or more appliance functions, such as a function for driving a moving part of the device, or a heating function, a weighing function.
The household appliance 10 further comprises a controller 1 configured to control the implementation of the different functions of the appliance, in particular the household appliance functions.
Control of the implementation of the appliance functions is achieved based on instructions received from a user via a user interface.
The user interface of the household appliance 10 comprises at least one light emitting diode 3, which light emitting diode 3 is first configured to provide visual information to the user about the status of the appliance.
For this purpose, the light-emitting diodes 3 are placed on a surface portion of the device that is accessible and visible, which surface portion is occupied by the user interface of the household appliance 10.
The light emitting diodes 3 are activated by the controller depending on the state of the device. The light emitting diode is configured to emit a light emitting signal 4', as is often the case when a particular state of the apparatus is signaled visually to the user.
According to one embodiment of the present invention, the light emitting diode 3 is further configured to generate an electrical signal to the controller 1 when it is excited by the light emitting signal 4 received by the light emitting diode 3.
The controller 1 is designed to measure the electrical signal generated after the activation of the light-emitting diode 3 by means of the luminous signal 4 and to determine the parameterization information on the basis of the electrical signal.
Based on this parameterization information, the controller is configured to parameterize the home device 10.
According to the embodiment shown in fig. 1, the light emitting signal 4 received by the light emitting diode may be emitted by the mobile communication terminal 2.
The mobile communication terminal 2 may be a tablet computer or an intelligent portable telephone, for example of the smartphone type.
The mobile communication terminal 2 may be equipped with a flash configured to emit a light emission signal 4 with parametric information, for example in the form of a light emission signal modulated by a signal representing the parametric information.
According to one embodiment, the flash of the mobile communication terminal 2 is activated in order to encode the string corresponding to the parametric information, and the light emitting diode 3 is activated by the light emission signal 4 thus encoded, so that the controller 1 reconstructs the string of parametric information after decoding the light emission signal 4.
The parameterization information may be pre-recorded on the mobile communication terminal 2, for example. The transmission of parametric information to the household appliance is thus made particularly easy from the mobile communication terminal 2, which mobile communication terminal 2 is configured to emit a modulated light emission signal 4 according to these pre-recorded information.
The parametric information may for example comprise information for controlling the operation of the actuators or sensors 5; thus, once the household appliance 10 has been parameterized by the controller 1 using the parameterization information received via the light-emitting signal 4 emitted by the mobile communication terminal 2, the operation of the actuator is determined by the parameterization information.
The parameterization information may for example comprise a connection identifier necessary for establishing a connection between the radio-frequency communication module 6 of the household appliance 10 and the connection station to the local area network and/or wide area network.
The connection station may be, for example, a dedicated box provided by an internet access provider, and the wide area network may be, for example, the internet.
The connection between the radio-frequency communication module 6 of the household appliance 10 and the connection station can be established via a secure communication protocol requiring a connection identifier, for example of the wifi type.
Thus, the transmission of the connection identifier to the household appliance 10 is made particularly easy from the mobile communication terminal 2, which information is pre-recorded in the mobile communication terminal 2 after the first connection between the mobile communication terminal 2 and the connection station, the mobile communication terminal 2 being configured to emit a modulated light emission signal in accordance with the pre-recorded information.
The parameterization information may, for example, include an identifier of an account on a server of the manufacturer or distributor that is used to connect the home device 10 to the home device 10, in order to allow updating of the software configuration of the home device 10. These connection identifiers may also be pre-recorded on the mobile communication terminal 2, for example after the first connection of the mobile communication terminal 2 with an account on a server.
According to these arrangements, connection of the home appliance 10 to the server becomes particularly easy from the mobile communication terminal 2, the information is recorded in advance on the mobile communication terminal 2, and the mobile communication terminal 2 is configured to emit a modulated light emission signal according to the information recorded in advance.
According to these arrangements, no virtual keyboard is required on the household appliance 10 to enter the parameterized information, and the keyboard of the mobile communication terminal 2 allows for such information to be entered on the mobile communication terminal 2 once and for all.
According to these settings, the household appliance 10, after having connected to the remote server according to the above-described procedure, can then send to the server or to the user connected to the remote server information about the progress of the household appliance functions or about the operating state of the appliance, said information being sent out via the radio-frequency communication module 6 under the control of the controller 1.
According to one embodiment, such information may be sent directly to the user holding the mobile communication terminal 2 without going through a local area network or a wide area network; according to this embodiment, the controller 1 is configured to control the emission of a modulated light emission signal 4' by the light emitting diode 3 in accordance with the information to be transmitted.
The modulated luminescent signal 4 'is then received by the mobile communication terminal 2 configured to receive the luminescent signal 4'.
To this end, the camera integrated into the mobile communication terminal 2 is configured to pick up the luminous signal 4' and present to the user of the mobile communication terminal 2 information about the progress of the household electrical function or the operating state of the household electrical appliance 10 emitted by the household electrical appliance 10.
According to these settings, the home appliance 10 performs bidirectional optical communication with the mobile communication terminal 2.
The invention also relates to a method 100 for parameterizing an electric household appliance 10 from a mobile communication terminal 2, said method 100 comprising the following steps, implemented by the electric household appliance 10 and schematically illustrated in fig. 3:
-receiving 101 by a light emitting diode 3 a first light emitting signal 4 comprising parametric information, said first light emitting signal 4 being emitted by said mobile communication terminal 2;
-generating 102 an electrical signal by said light emitting diode 3, said electrical signal being a function of said parametric information;
-measuring 103 by the controller 1 the electrical signal generated by the light emitting diode 3 and determining 104 by the controller 1 the parametric information;
parameterizing 105 the home device 10 by the controller 1.
The method 100 further comprises the steps of:
-emitting a second light signal by said controller control 106 to said mobile communication terminal 2 through a light emitting diode.
The present invention also relates to a method 200 for parameterizing an electric household appliance 10 from a mobile communication terminal 2, said method 200 comprising the following steps, implemented by the mobile communication terminal 2 and schematically shown in fig. 3:
-emitting 201 a first light emitting signal 4 comprising parametric information by a light emitter of the mobile communication terminal 2.
The method 200 further comprises the steps of:
receiving 202 by said mobile communication terminal 2 a luminous signal 4' emitted by a light emitting diode 3 of said household appliance 10.
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1. A home device (10), the home device (10) comprising:
-an actuator or sensor configured to implement at least one appliance function;
-a light emitting diode (3), said light emitting diode (3) being configured to receive a first light emitting signal (4) comprising parametric information from a mobile communication terminal, to generate an electrical signal based on said parametric information, and to provide information to a user about a state of said device;
-a controller (1), said controller (1) being configured to measure said electrical signal resulting from the excitation of said light emitting diode, and to determine parameterization information from said electrical signal and parameterize said household appliance based on said parameterization information for controlling the operation of said actuator or said sensor.
2. The home device (10) of claim 1, wherein the parameterization information includes information for controlling the operation of the actuators or sensors after the home device (10) has been parameterized by the controller (1).
3. The household appliance (10) according to any one of claims 1 or 2, wherein the household appliance (10) further comprises a radio frequency communication module (6) configured to communicate via a secure communication protocol requiring a connection identifier, and the parameterization information comprises the connection identifier necessary for establishing the connection of the secure communication module with the connection station to the local area network and/or the wide area network, the parameterization of the household appliance (10) by the controller (1) based on the parameterization information comprising a parameterization of the communication module for establishing the connection with the connection station.
4. A household appliance (10) as claimed in claim 3, characterized in that said controller is configured to send information to a user or a remote server about the progress of the household appliance functions or about the operating state of the appliance, said information being sent out via said radio-frequency communication module.
5. The household appliance (10) according to claim 1, wherein the controller (1) is configured to control the emission of a second modulated luminous signal (4') by means of the light emitting diode (3) as a function of the progress of the household appliance function or of the operating state of the household appliance (10).
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