EP3286369B1 - Appareil d'entretien du linge muni d'un système de dosage - Google Patents

Appareil d'entretien du linge muni d'un système de dosage Download PDF

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EP3286369B1
EP3286369B1 EP16712022.9A EP16712022A EP3286369B1 EP 3286369 B1 EP3286369 B1 EP 3286369B1 EP 16712022 A EP16712022 A EP 16712022A EP 3286369 B1 EP3286369 B1 EP 3286369B1
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Hans Eglmeier
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
    • D06F39/00—Details of washing machines not specific to a single type of machines covered by groups D06F9/00 - D06F27/00 
    • D06F39/02—Devices for adding soap or other washing agents
    • D06F39/022—Devices for adding soap or other washing agents in a liquid state
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04B—POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS
    • F04B13/00—Pumps specially modified to deliver fixed or variable measured quantities
    • F04B13/02—Pumps specially modified to deliver fixed or variable measured quantities of two or more fluids at the same time
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04C—ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
    • F04C11/00—Combinations of two or more machines or pumps, each being of rotary-piston or oscillating-piston type; Pumping installations
    • F04C11/001—Combinations of two or more machines or pumps, each being of rotary-piston or oscillating-piston type; Pumping installations of similar working principle
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04C—ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
    • F04C14/00—Control of, monitoring of, or safety arrangements for, machines, pumps or pumping installations
    • F04C14/04—Control of, monitoring of, or safety arrangements for, machines, pumps or pumping installations specially adapted for reversible machines or pumps
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04B—POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS
    • F04B43/00—Machines, pumps, or pumping installations having flexible working members
    • F04B43/12—Machines, pumps, or pumping installations having flexible working members having peristaltic action
    • F04B43/1253—Machines, pumps, or pumping installations having flexible working members having peristaltic action by using two or more rollers as squeezing elements, the rollers moving on an arc of a circle during squeezing
    • F04B43/1292—Pumps specially adapted for several tubular flexible members
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04C—ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
    • F04C2/00—Rotary-piston machines or pumps
    • F04C2/02—Rotary-piston machines or pumps of arcuate-engagement type, i.e. with circular translatory movement of co-operating members, each member having the same number of teeth or tooth-equivalents
    • F04C2/025—Rotary-piston machines or pumps of arcuate-engagement type, i.e. with circular translatory movement of co-operating members, each member having the same number of teeth or tooth-equivalents the moving and the stationary member having co-operating elements in spiral form
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04C—ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
    • F04C2/00—Rotary-piston machines or pumps
    • F04C2/08—Rotary-piston machines or pumps of intermeshing-engagement type, i.e. with engagement of co-operating members similar to that of toothed gearing
    • F04C2/12—Rotary-piston machines or pumps of intermeshing-engagement type, i.e. with engagement of co-operating members similar to that of toothed gearing of other than internal-axis type
    • F04C2/14—Rotary-piston machines or pumps of intermeshing-engagement type, i.e. with engagement of co-operating members similar to that of toothed gearing of other than internal-axis type with toothed rotary pistons
    • F04C2/16—Rotary-piston machines or pumps of intermeshing-engagement type, i.e. with engagement of co-operating members similar to that of toothed gearing of other than internal-axis type with toothed rotary pistons with helical teeth, e.g. chevron-shaped, screw type
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04C—ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
    • F04C2/00—Rotary-piston machines or pumps
    • F04C2/30—Rotary-piston machines or pumps having the characteristics covered by two or more groups F04C2/02, F04C2/08, F04C2/22, F04C2/24 or having the characteristics covered by one of these groups together with some other type of movement between co-operating members
    • F04C2/34—Rotary-piston machines or pumps having the characteristics covered by two or more groups F04C2/02, F04C2/08, F04C2/22, F04C2/24 or having the characteristics covered by one of these groups together with some other type of movement between co-operating members having the movement defined in groups F04C2/08 or F04C2/22 and relative reciprocation between the co-operating members

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  • the present invention relates to a laundry care device with a metering system.
  • laundry care appliances can have dispensing systems by means of which an automatic addition of liquid substance can be ensured.
  • the publication DE 10 212 184 A1 shows a method for dosing a pasty detergent concentrate.
  • a laundry care device having a dosing system for dosing a first liquid substance and a second liquid substance
  • the dosing system comprises a first reservoir for providing the first liquid substance, a second reservoir for providing the second liquid substance and a pumping device having a first pump head and a second pump head
  • the dosing system having a common drive for driving the first pump head and the second pump head
  • Pump head comprises, wherein the common drive is drivable in a first drive direction and in a second drive direction, wherein the first pump head is formed in the first drive direction of the common drive, to convey the first liquid substance in a first conveying direction from the first reservoir, and wherein the second pump head in the second drive direction of the common drive is designed to promote the second liquid substance in a second conveying direction from the second reservoir.
  • the technical advantage is achieved that an effective metering of liquid substance from the first, or from the second reservoir is made possible by only one common drive by the metering system according to the invention.
  • a pump with a pump head is usually used per channel, which is operated in each case with a separate drive motor, drive gear and a coupling element.
  • a cost-effective, compact dosing system for two channels comprising the common drive installed in the laundry care device and the dosing device preferably to be taken from the laundry care device.
  • the metering device in turn comprises the pumping device with the first pump head and the second pump head.
  • the conveying direction of the pump device which comprises a reversible first pump head and a reversible second pump head, can advantageously be changed by changing the drive direction of the common drive.
  • the two pump heads are mechanically parallel, ie connected with a single common drive. However, the two pump heads may be hydraulically anti-parallel connected, i. when driving the pumping device in the first drive direction of the first pump head acts suction on the connected first reservoir, being metered from the first reservoir.
  • the second pump head acts in the first drive direction not sucking on the second reservoir, he runs, for example, empty.
  • a laundry care device is understood to mean a device which is used for laundry care, such as a washing machine or a tumble dryer.
  • a laundry care device is understood a household laundry care device. So a laundry care device, which is used in the context of household management, and is treated with the laundry in normal household quantities.
  • the first pump head and the second pump head are hydraulically connected in anti-parallel, wherein the first conveying direction corresponds to the first drive direction, and wherein the second conveying direction corresponds to the second drive direction.
  • the technical advantage is achieved that the anti-parallel hydraulic circuit of the first pump head and the second pump head, an effective dosing of only one liquid substance from one of the reservoir is made possible.
  • the common drive can operate the first pump head and the second pump head mechanically parallel, so that the first drive direction corresponds to the first feed direction and the second drive direction corresponds to the second feed direction. Due to the hydraulic anti-parallel circuit of the first pump head and the second pump head can be metered in a drive direction only from one of the reservoir.
  • the first pump head and the second pump head are hydraulically connected in parallel, wherein the metering comprises a reversing gear for a drive direction change, which is connected between the common drive and the second pump head, wherein the first pump head in the first drive direction of the common Drive is operable in the first conveying direction, and wherein the second pump head in the second drive direction of the common drive in the second conveying direction is operable.
  • the same pump heads can be used for both channels by using a reverse gear.
  • the first pump head and the second pump head can be hydraulically connected in parallel.
  • the first pump head is opposite to the first reservoir and the second pump head is connected to the second reservoir in the same hydraulic direction.
  • the switched between the common drive and the second pump head reversing gear can drive direction change carry out.
  • the first pump head can be operated in the first drive direction in the first drive direction of the common drive and can be metered out of the first supply reservoir.
  • the second pump head can be operated in the second drive direction in the second drive direction of the common drive and can be metered out of the second supply reservoir.
  • By using the reverse gear can be metered in a drive direction of the common drive only from one of the reservoir in a hydraulically parallel circuit of the first pump head and the second pump head.
  • the common drive comprises a drive motor, wherein the drive motor is designed to drive the first pump head and the second pump head, and wherein the drive motor in particular comprises an electric motor.
  • the drive motor may in particular comprise an electric motor, e.g. a BLDC motor, and be electrically switchable in the drive direction.
  • the drive motor is part of the common drive of the metering system and is brought into contact with the pumping device of the metering system so that the drive motor can effectively drive the pumping device.
  • a suitable downstream of the drive motor coupling can be realized a coupling between the drive direction of the drive motor and the conveying direction of the first, and the second pump head. This makes it possible to realize an effective metering of liquid substance from the first or from the second storage container with only one drive motor.
  • the common drive comprises a drive gear, wherein the drive gear is designed to translate a torque of the drive motor, and the dosing system comprises a coupling element, wherein the coupling element is formed, the drive gear mechanically with the first pump head and with the second Couple pump head.
  • the technical advantage is achieved that an effective translation of the torque of the drive motor is achieved by the drive gear.
  • the drive motor and the drive gear are part of the common drive of the dosing system.
  • coupling element it is possible to couple the drive gear with the pumping device of the dosing.
  • an effective coupling between the drive gear and the pumping device can be realized.
  • the drive gear comprises a worm shaft.
  • the technical advantage is achieved that a particularly effective transmission of torque from the drive motor to the pumping device can be realized by the formation of the drive gear as a worm shaft.
  • a worm shaft with only one right- or left-handed thread run on the same side of the worm shaft juxtaposed drive wheels under the condition that the pump heads point in the same direction, the same direction.
  • the two pump heads In order to obtain a direction of rotation selective pumping direction, the two pump heads must be symmetrical to each other, i. There are two different pump heads. In this configuration, with drive wheels mounted on the same side of the worm shaft and a pumping head having the same direction of rotation, two variants can be used.
  • a simple screw shaft with only one right- or left-handed thread is used, wherein the mating of the pump heads is made possible by lying on different sides of the screw drive wheels.
  • a zoned worm shaft is used, wherein the worm shaft has a left-hand thread in the first zone and a right-hand thread in the second zone, or has a right-hand thread in the first zone and a left-hand thread in the second zone.
  • the first pump head and the second pump head are arranged side by side on the same side of the worm shaft, and thus the first pump head and the second pump head can be made the same, which is an advantage in terms of the simple design and manufacturing cost of the pump device.
  • the first pump head is designed to pump the first liquid substance with a first volume flow
  • the second pump head is formed, the second liquid substance with a second Volume flow to pump, wherein the first and second volume flow is viscosity-dependent, and wherein the first volume flow and the second volume flow is greater than the volume flow when pumping air.
  • the technical advantage is achieved that the supply of air into the reservoir is prevented by the viscosity-selective volume flow of the pumping device.
  • pumpheads include non-elastic components
  • leaks may occur.
  • fluids e.g. liquid substances
  • the fluid is continuously pushed back during the pumping by the back pressure generated during pumping at the output of the pump heads by the leaks in the pump heads, the pump power is reduced accordingly.
  • viscous liquid substances having a high viscosity are used in laundry care appliances, the pressure which can be generated when conveying the viscous liquid substances is sufficient to allow efficient pumping of the liquid substance from the storage containers.
  • the viscosity of the sucked air is smaller by several orders of magnitude than the viscosity of the viscous liquid substances.
  • the pressure that can be generated when conveying air is not sufficient to supply air to the reservoirs, with the pump running idle without any delivery. This is particularly advantageous in oxygen-sensitive liquid substances or to counteract the drying out of the liquid substances in the storage containers.
  • the pumping device comprises a check valve or a float valve in order to reduce a backflow of liquid from the first storage container or second storage container.
  • the technical advantage is achieved that a hydraulic rectification of the pumping device can be ensured by the check valve.
  • the pump delivers fluid or air.
  • a float valve can distinguish between these two media by the difference in density, which is also referred to as buoyancy.
  • the valve closing body floats and releases the pipe; in the case of air it sinks and locks the pipe.
  • the effective direction and the switching direction identical to the check valve.
  • a float valve would allow the level in the pumphead to sink back to tank level with respect to the check valve after dosing.
  • the check valve or the float valve when switching off the pumping device and a pressure drop in the first or second substance line, the return flow from the first or second reservoir can be reduced.
  • the check valve or the float valve is attached to the first, or to the second substance line, and is designed such that, when the pump heads are reversed, the first and second substance lines are closed in order to reduce the return of liquid substance in the substance line ,
  • the dosing system comprises a first dispensing element for dispensing the first liquid substance from the first storage container to the laundry care device, and the dispensing system comprises a second dispensing element for dispensing the second liquid substance from the second storage container to the laundry care device, wherein the first Delivery element is disposed above the first reservoir, and wherein the second discharge element is disposed above the second reservoir.
  • the technical advantage is achieved that the first, or the second dispensing element is always arranged higher than the liquid level of the liquid substance in the storage containers.
  • an uncontrolled reflux of liquid substance from the first or from the second reservoir is prevented when the first and second pump heads are switched off.
  • such an arrangement is advantageous to prevent unwanted leakage of the reservoir.
  • the first pump head and the second pump head comprise a rotary piston pump, such as a gear pump, an eccentric screw pump, a scroll compressor or a Rotary vane pump, or a screw pump or a peristaltic pump, and in particular an eccentric screw pump.
  • a rotary piston pump such as a gear pump, an eccentric screw pump, a scroll compressor or a Rotary vane pump, or a screw pump or a peristaltic pump, and in particular an eccentric screw pump.
  • the technical advantage is achieved that an efficient pumping of liquid substance from the first and second reservoir is made possible by said pump heads. Preference is given to pump heads with less moving components, compact and space-saving design, which can be advantageously integrated in the metering system.
  • the first pump head or the second pump head is designed in each case as an eccentric screw pump, wherein the respective eccentric screw pump comprises a rotor element and a stator, and wherein the rotor element is rotatably mounted in the stator.
  • An eccentric screw pump comprises a rotating part, the rotor element, and a fixed part, the stator, in which the rotor element rotates.
  • the first pump head or the second pump head is designed in each case as a submersible pump.
  • the first pump head is connected to the first reservoir by a first substance line
  • the second pump head is connected to the second reservoir by a second substance line
  • the first and the second pump head form a peristaltic pump
  • the peristaltic pump having a rotor comprises at least two pressure rollers, wherein at least one pressure roller with the first substance line and at least one pressure roller is in contact with the second substance line.
  • a peristaltic pump comprises a rotor with pressure rollers, which are in contact with the substance lines.
  • the pressure rollers press here against the substance lines, thereby deforming the substance lines and cause a Abklemmstelle, which moves along the substance lines, thereby driving the liquid substance, or the air in the substance lines.
  • the first and second pump heads form the peristaltic pump. This is achieved by passing the first substance line on one side of the rotor and the second substance line on the other side of the rotor.
  • At least one pressure roller of the rotor is in each case in contact with one of the substance lines, so that there is always a pinch point in the first and in the second substance line, which prevents liquid substance from flowing back into the substance lines.
  • the clamping point in the first and the pinch point in the second substance line is moved in a different direction by the respective pressure rollers so that liquid substance or air is conveyed through the first and second fluid lines in opposite directions of conveyance becomes.
  • the rotor preferably comprises three, four or five contact rollers.
  • the laundry care appliance comprises at least one fill level sensor for detecting a fill level of the first liquid substance in the first storage container and for detecting a fill level of the second liquid substance in the second storage container.
  • the fill level sensor is arranged on the laundry care device and is designed to detect liquid substance emerging from the metering system, for example by a light barrier.
  • the first and the second pump head pump in a known riser cross section in each case in a known relationship between the total rotation angle to the volume delivered, in particular proportional, ie volume per height, an amount proportional to the total rotation angle.
  • the pump head pumps a quantity proportional to the total angle of rotation.
  • the laundry care device comprises a shaft with an induction bowl, and the metering system comprises a metering device, wherein the Ein Hughesschale is adapted to receive the metering device.
  • the technical advantage is achieved that an effective recording of the metering device is ensured by the laundry care device through the dispenser.
  • Fig. 1 shows a schematic view of a washing machine representative of a general laundry care device 100.
  • the laundry care device 100 comprises a shaft 101 with a dispenser tray, in the detergent or other liquid substances can be filled.
  • the laundry care appliance 100 comprises a door 103 for loading the laundry care appliance 100 with laundry.
  • Fig. 2 shows a schematic representation of a dosing system.
  • the metering system 105 comprises a metering device 111 with a first storage container 107 for providing a first liquid substance and a second storage container 109 for providing a second liquid substance.
  • the first and second liquid substances may be selected from the group consisting of detergent, detergent, disinfectant, fabric softener and bleach.
  • the metering device 111 is inserted into the induction bowl in the shaft 101 of the laundry care device 100.
  • the metering device 111 further comprises a pump device 112 having a first pump head 113 and a second pump head 115.
  • the first pump head 113 is connected to the first reservoir 107 by a first substance line 117.
  • the second pump head 115 is connected to the second reservoir 109 through a second substance line 119.
  • the first pump head 113 is connected to a first discharge element 121 through a first discharge line 123.
  • the second pump head 115 is connected to a second delivery member 125 through a second delivery conduit 127.
  • the dosing system 105 further comprises a common drive 129, which comprises a drive motor 131 and a drive gear 133.
  • the dosing system 105 comprises Furthermore, a coupling element 135, which is arranged between the common drive 129 and the metering device 111, and which is designed to mechanically connect the common drive 129 with the metering device 111.
  • the drive motor 131 of the common drive 129 moves in a first drive direction 137, wherein the torque is passed through the drive gear 133 and the coupling member 135 to the pumping means 112 of the metering device 111, whereby the first pump head 113 and the second pump head 115 in a first conveying direction to be moved.
  • the first pump head 113 pumps the first liquid substance from the first storage container 107 through the first substance line 117 and through the first discharge line 123 to the first delivery element 121. If the metering device 111 is located in the dispensing bowl of the laundry care device 100, this can the first liquid substance is delivered to the laundry care device 100.
  • the second pump head 115 sucks in air through the second discharge member 125 and the second discharge pipe 127, and guides the air, e.g. through the second substance line 119 to the second reservoir 109 to or the second pump head 115 runs empty.
  • the air may be introduced into the second liquid substance in the second reservoir 109.
  • Fig. 3 shows a schematic representation of a dosing according to Fig. 2
  • the metering system 105 comprises a metering device 111 with a first storage container 107, a second storage container 109 and lines, and a pumping device 112 with a first pump head 113 and a second pump head 115 according to FIG Fig. 2
  • the dosing system 105 comprises a common drive 129 according to the Fig. 2 ,
  • the drive motor 131 of the common drive 129 moves in a second drive direction 139, wherein the torque is passed through the drive gear 133 and the coupling element 135 to the pumping device 112, whereby the first pump head 113 and the second pump head 115 in a second conveying direction to be moved.
  • the first pump head 113 sucks air through the first discharge member 121 and through the first discharge pipe 123, and guides the air, e.g. through the first substance line 117 to the first reservoir 107, and the first pump head 113 runs empty.
  • the second pump head 115 pumps the second liquid substance from the second storage container 109 through the second substance line 119 and through the second discharge line 127 to the second delivery element 125.
  • the metering device 111 is in the dispensing bowl of the laundry care device 100, it can the second liquid substance is delivered to the laundry care device 100.
  • the drive motor 131 e.g. Electric motor, such as BLDC motor can be easily electrically switch in the drive direction 137, 139, which also changes the conveying direction of the pumping device 112 ,.
  • the first pump head 113 and the second pump head 115 are mechanically connected in parallel, i. they are driven by a single common drive 129.
  • the first and second pump heads 113, 115 are hydraulically connected in anti-parallel.
  • a pump head 113, 115 sucking on the connected storage container 107, 109, from this reservoir 107, 109 is metered.
  • the other pump head 113, 115 simultaneously runs in the opposite direction, i. it is e.g.
  • Air sucked from the outside of the laundry care device 100, or the other pump head 113, 115 runs empty.
  • the pumping device 112 can be selectively used for dosing with only one motor.
  • leaks in the first pump head 113 and the second pump head 115 can advantageously be utilized.
  • leaks in the first pump head 113 and the second pump head 115 can advantageously be utilized.
  • non-elastic components in conventional pumping devices 112 minimal leaks occur, wherein the fluid is continuously pushed back during pumping by the pumping back pressure generated at the pump outlet by the leaks in the pump and the pump power is reduced accordingly. Since 100 high viscous liquid substances are used with a high viscosity in laundry care equipment, the pressure that can be generated when conveying the viscous liquid Substances sufficient to allow effective pumping of the liquid substance from the storage containers 107, 109.
  • the viscosity of the sucked air is smaller by several orders of magnitude than the viscosity of the viscous liquid substances.
  • the pressure that can be generated when conveying air is not sufficient to supply air to the reservoirs 107, 109, with the pump running idle without conveying anything. This is particularly advantageous in the case of oxygen-sensitive liquid substances or to counteract the drying out of the liquid substances in the storage containers 107, 109.
  • the first and second delivery members 121, 125 may be disposed above the first and second storage containers 107, 109, respectively, to prevent undesirable leakage of the storage containers 107, 109 upon a pressure drop.
  • Fig. 4 shows a schematic representation of a dosing according to Fig. 2 or Fig. 3 with a reverse gear.
  • the metering system 105 comprises a metering device 111 with a first storage container 107, a second storage container 109, a first substance line 117, a second substance line 119, a first delivery element 121, a first delivery line 123, a second delivery element 125, a second delivery line 127 and a pumping device 112 with a first pump head 113 and a second pump head 115.
  • the first pump head 113 and the second pump head 115 are hydraulically connected in parallel.
  • the dosing system 105 comprises a common drive 129 accordingly Fig. 2 and Fig. 3 ,
  • the metering device 111 further includes a reverse gear 140, which is connected between the common drive 129 and the second pump head 115, wherein the reverse gear 140 is formed to perform a drive direction change.
  • the common drive 129 may drive the pumping device 112 in a first drive direction 137 or in a second drive direction 139, wherein the Reverse gear 140 performs a drive direction change for the second pump head 115.
  • the first conveying direction corresponds to the first drive direction 137 of the common drive 129.
  • the first pump head 113 pumps the first liquid substance from the first storage container 107 through the first substance line 117 and through the first discharge line 123 to the first delivery element 121 Reversing the drive direction by the reverse gear 140 sucks the second pump head 115 in the first drive direction 137 of the common drive 129 air through the second delivery element 125 or runs the second pump head 115 empty.
  • the first pump head 113 in the second drive direction 139 of the common drive 129 sucks air through the first delivery element 121 or the first pump head 113 runs empty.
  • the second pump head 115 pumps the second liquid substance from the second reservoir 109 through the second substance line 119 and through the second discharge line 127 to the second discharge element 125 in the second conveying direction.
  • Fig. 5 shows a schematic representation of a peristaltic pump.
  • the first and second pump heads 113, 115 are combined in one component.
  • the peristaltic pump 141 comprises a rotor 143 with three pressure rollers 145, wherein at least one pressure roller 145 is in contact with the first substance line 117 and at least one pressure roller 145 is in contact with the second substance line 119.
  • liquid substance or fluid from the first reservoir 107 is pumped in a first conveying direction 149 through the first substance line 117.
  • air is sucked in from the environment of the laundry care appliance 100 through the second substance line 119 and supplied to the second storage container 109.
  • a peristaltic pump 141 may also include a first peristaltic pump unit in exclusive contact with the first substance line 117, and another peristaltic pump unit in exclusive contact with the second substance line 119, wherein the first and second peristaltic pump units are stacked.
  • a peristaltic pump 141 pumps that make do with as few moving components are compact and can be advantageously integrated into the dosing system 105, such.
  • a rotary pump such as a gear pump, an eccentric screw pump, a scroll compressor or a rotary vane pump, or a screw pump or a hose pump 141, and in particular an eccentric screw pump.
  • Fig. 6 shows a schematic representation of a worm shaft with a first and a second pump head.
  • the drive motor 131 drives a drive gear 133, which is formed as a worm shaft and is in contact with the drive wheel of the first pump head 113 and with the drive wheel of the second pump head 115.
  • the first reservoir 107 and the second reservoir 109 of the dosing system 105 are in Fig. 5 shown.
  • the drive motor 131 and the drive gear 133, in particular the worm shaft are designed to drive the first pump head 113 and the second pump head 115 in a first direction of rotation 147.
  • the first and second pump heads 113, 115 run against each other, while when using different pump heads 113, 115, such as e.g. mirror-image shaped pump heads 113, 115, concurrent pumping devices 112 are made possible with different flow directions.
  • driving the first and second pump heads 113, 115 through a worm shaft is advantageous.

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  1. Lave-linge (100) muni d'un système de dosage (105) destiné au dosage d'une première substance fluide et d'une deuxième substance fluide, dans lequel le système de dosage (105) comprend une première trémie (107) destinée à fournir la première substance fluide, une deuxième trémie (109) destinée à fournir la deuxième substance fluide, et un dispositif de pompage (112) muni d'une première tête de pompe (113) et d'une deuxième tête de pompe (115), caractérisé en ce que
    le système de dosage (105) comprend un entraînement commun (129) destiné à entraîner la première tête de pompe (113) et la deuxième tête de pompe (115), dans lequel l'entraînement commun (129) peut être entraîné dans une première direction d'entraînement (137) et dans une deuxième direction d'entraînement (139) ; en ce que
    la première tête de pompe (113) est réalisée pour, dans la première direction d'entraînement (137) de l'entraînement commun (129), refouler la première substance fluide dans une première direction de refoulement (149) à partir de la première trémie (107), et en ce que
    la deuxième tête de pompe (115) est réalisée pour, dans la deuxième direction d'entraînement (139) de l'entraînement commun (129), refouler la deuxième substance fluide dans une deuxième direction de refoulement (153) à partir de la deuxième trémie,
    dans lequel la première tête de pompe (113) peut être inversée et dans lequel la deuxième tête de pompe (115) peut être inversée.
  2. Lave-linge (100) selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la première tête de pompe (113) et la deuxième tête de pompe (115) sont commutées de manière hydrauliquement antiparallèle, en ce que la première direction de refoulement (149) correspond à la première direction d'entraînement (137), et en ce que la deuxième direction de refoulement (153) correspond à la deuxième direction d'entraînement (139).
  3. Lave-linge (100) selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la première tête de pompe (113) et la deuxième tête de pompe (115) sont commutées de manière hydrauliquement parallèle, et en ce que le système de dosage (105) comprend un mécanisme d'inversion (140), permettant un changement de direction d'entraînement, qui est commuté entre l'entraînement commun (100) et la deuxième tête de pompe (115) de sorte que la première tête de pompe (113) peut, dans la première direction d'entraînement (137) de l'entraînement commun (129), être utilisée dans la première direction de refoulement (149), et en ce que la deuxième tête de pompe (115) peut, dans la deuxième direction d'entraînement (139) de l'entraînement commun (129), être utilisée dans la deuxième direction de refoulement (153).
  4. Lave-linge (100) selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que l'entraînement commun (129) comprend un moteur d'entraînement (131), dans lequel le moteur d'entraînement (131) est réalisé de manière à entraîner la première tête de pompe (113) et la deuxième tête de pompe (115), et dans lequel le moteur d'entraînement (131) comprend en particulier un moteur électrique.
  5. Lave-linge (100) selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que l'entraînement commun (100) comprend un mécanisme d'entraînement (133), dans lequel le mécanisme d'entraînement (133) est réalisé de manière à transmettre un moment de rotation du moteur d'entraînement (131), et en ce que le système de dosage (105) comprend un élément de couplage (135), dans lequel l'élément de couplage (135) est réalisé de manière à coupler mécaniquement le mécanisme d'entraînement (133) avec la première tête de pompe (113) et avec la deuxième tête de pompe (115).
  6. Lave-linge selon la revendication 5, caractérisé en ce que le mécanisme d'entraînement (133) est une vis sans fin.
  7. Lave-linge (100) selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que la première tête de pompe (113) est réalisée de manière à pomper la première substance fluide avec un premier écoulement volumétrique, et en ce que la deuxième tête de pompe (115) est réalisée de manière à pomper la deuxième substance fluide avec un deuxième écoulement volumétrique, dans lequel le premier ou deuxième écoulement volumétrique est fonction de la viscosité, et dans lequel les premier et deuxième écoulements volumétriques sont supérieurs à l'écoulement volumétrique correspondant à un pompage d'air.
  8. Lave-linge (100) selon la revendication 7, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif de pompage (112) comprend un clapet antiretour ou un robinet à flotteur, afin de réduire un reflux de fluide en provenance de la première trémie (107) ou de la deuxième trémie (109).
  9. Lave-linge (100) selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le système de dosage (105) comprend un premier élément d'expulsion (121) destiné à expulser la première substance fluide en provenance de la première trémie (107) au niveau du lave-linge (100), et en ce que le système de dosage (105) comprend un deuxième élément d'expulsion (125) destiné à expulser la deuxième substance fluide en provenance de la deuxième trémie (109) au niveau du lave-linge (100), dans lequel le premier élément d'expulsion (121) est agencé au-dessus de la première trémie (107), et dans lequel le deuxième élément d'expulsion (125) est agencé au-dessus de la deuxième trémie (109).
  10. Lave-linge (100) selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que la première tête de pompe (113) et la deuxième tête de pompe (115) comprennent une pompe à piston rotatif, par exemple une pompe à engrenages, une pompe à vis excentrique, un compresseur scroll ou une pompe à obturateur tournant, ou une pompe hélicoïdale ou une pompe péristaltique (141), et en particulier une pompe à vis excentrique.
  11. Lave-linge (100) selon la revendication 10, caractérisé en ce que la première tête de pompe (113) ou la deuxième tête de pompe (115) est réalisée respectivement en tant que pompe à vis excentrique, et en ce que la pompe à vis excentrique respective comprend un élément formant rotor et un stator, dans lequel l'élément formant rotor peut être monté rotatif au sein du stator.
  12. Lave-linge (100) selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que la première tête de pompe (113) ou la deuxième tête de pompe (115) est réalisée respectivement sous forme de pompe submersible.
  13. Lave-linge (100) selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 10, caractérisé en ce que la première tête de pompe (113) est reliée à la première trémie (107) grâce à une première conduite de substance (117), en ce que la deuxième tête de pompe (115) est reliée à la deuxième trémie (109) grâce à une deuxième conduite de substance (119), et en ce que les première et deuxième têtes de pompe (113, 115) forment une pompe péristaltique (141), dans lequel la pompe péristaltique (141) comprend un rotor (143) muni d'au moins deux galets presseurs (145), dans lequel au moins un galet presseur (145) est en contact avec la première conduite de substance (117) et au moins un galet presseur (145) est en contact avec la deuxième conduite de substance (119).
  14. Lave-linge (100) selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le lave-linge (100) comprend au moins un capteur d'état de remplissage destiné à enregistrer un état de remplissage de la première substance fluide dans la première trémie (107) et destiné à enregistrer un état de remplissage de la deuxième substance fluide dans la deuxième trémie (109).
  15. Lave-linge (100) selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le lave-linge (100) comprend une goulotte (101) munie d'un compartiment à lessive, et en ce que le système de dosage (105) comprend un dispositif de dosage (111), dans lequel le compartiment lessive est réalisé de manière à accueillir le dispositif de dosage (100).
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