EP3899672A1 - Elektronisches haushaltsgerät mit einem steuerungssystem - Google Patents
Elektronisches haushaltsgerät mit einem steuerungssystemInfo
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- EP3899672A1 EP3899672A1 EP19812990.0A EP19812990A EP3899672A1 EP 3899672 A1 EP3899672 A1 EP 3899672A1 EP 19812990 A EP19812990 A EP 19812990A EP 3899672 A1 EP3899672 A1 EP 3899672A1
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- Prior art keywords
- internal control
- communication
- household appliance
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- G—PHYSICS
- G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
- G05B—CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS
- G05B19/00—Program-control systems
- G05B19/02—Program-control systems electric
- G05B19/04—Program control other than numerical control, i.e. in sequence controllers or logic controllers
- G05B19/042—Program control other than numerical control, i.e. in sequence controllers or logic controllers using digital processors
- G05B19/0421—Multiprocessor system
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- G—PHYSICS
- G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
- G05B—CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS
- G05B19/00—Program-control systems
- G05B19/02—Program-control systems electric
- G05B19/418—Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible manufacturing systems [FMS], integrated manufacturing systems [IMS] or computer integrated manufacturing [CIM]
- G05B19/4185—Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible manufacturing systems [FMS], integrated manufacturing systems [IMS] or computer integrated manufacturing [CIM] characterised by the network communication
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- G—PHYSICS
- G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
- G05B—CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS
- G05B19/00—Program-control systems
- G05B19/02—Program-control systems electric
- G05B19/04—Program control other than numerical control, i.e. in sequence controllers or logic controllers
- G05B19/042—Program control other than numerical control, i.e. in sequence controllers or logic controllers using digital processors
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
- H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
- H04L12/00—Data switching networks
- H04L12/28—Data switching networks characterised by path configuration, e.g. LAN [Local Area Networks] or WAN [Wide Area Networks]
- H04L12/2803—Home automation networks
- H04L12/2823—Reporting information sensed by appliance or service execution status of appliance services in a home automation network
- H04L12/2825—Reporting to a device located outside the home and the home network
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- G—PHYSICS
- G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
- G05B—CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS
- G05B2219/00—Program-control systems
- G05B2219/20—Pc systems
- G05B2219/25—Pc structure of the system
- G05B2219/25168—Domotique, access through internet protocols
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- G—PHYSICS
- G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
- G05B—CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS
- G05B2219/00—Program-control systems
- G05B2219/20—Pc systems
- G05B2219/26—Pc applications
- G05B2219/2613—Household appliance in general
Definitions
- the present invention relates to an electronic household appliance with a control system which has a plurality of internal control units and a communication network between the plurality of internal control units.
- Electronic household appliances are increasingly being networked with other household appliances, intelligent home controls or the Internet.
- This networking can be used, for example, to transmit software updates to the control units of the household appliances or to provide external usage data for the household appliances.
- EP 2 704 007 B1 discloses a household appliance with a number of control units which can be updated and which are connected via an internal bus, the household appliance being additionally equipped with an intelligent communication module for the purpose of secure firmware update of the control units, which has a non-volatile memory for temporary storage of program update data and can retrieve the program update data from an external communication partner outside the household appliance.
- the electronic home appliance of the invention includes a control system that has multiple internal control units and a communication network between the multiple internal NEN control units. According to the invention it is proposed to additionally provide a selected internal control unit of the plurality of internal control units which contains a control with a communication device which is designed for data communication with at least one external management unit without intermediate storage of the data to be communicated.
- the control of the selected internal control unit is also designed, according to the invention, to control data communication between the at least one external management unit and the plurality of internal control units of the control system via the communication device.
- the additional communication device does not have to temporarily store the data to be communicated and the control of the data communication between the at least one external management unit and the several internal control units of the control system takes place via this communication device by controlling the selected internal control unit
- a simple and inexpensive communication device can be used , which can be integrated into an existing internal control unit of the household appliance or can be connected to one.
- the communication device used according to the invention is in particular not an independent communication module with its own non-volatile memory and its own data communication controller. Instead, the existing computing capacities and possibly also storage capacities of the selected internal control unit are used.
- a non-volatile intermediate storage of the data to be communicated in the communication device is neither possible nor intended according to the invention.
- the terms internal and external refer to household appliances.
- the plurality of internal control units are components of the control system in or on the household appliance, while the external management units are separate components outside the control system and outside the household appliance.
- the data to be communicated via the communication device include, in particular, control program data and firmware updates for the internal control units and usage data of the internal control units.
- control program data and firmware updates for the internal control units and usage data of the internal control units.
- you can tunnels to the internal control units can also be built.
- Data streaming to or from internal control units is also conceivable if, for example, camera modules or video displays are provided on the household appliance.
- the external administrative units include, in particular, the Internet, cloud servers, central home controls, service computers, smartphones, memory cards, memory sticks and the like.
- the external management units can communicate with the communication device wirelessly or in a wired manner or can be connected directly to the communication device.
- the communication network between the several internal control units of the control system can in principle be of any design. It preferably contains a bus system, a daisy chain chain, several individual communication connections in a star structure, several communication connections in a tree structure or combinations of the aforementioned possibilities.
- the communication network can also be entirely or partially wired or wireless.
- the control of the selected internal control unit is, for example, a CPU or a microcontroller.
- the selected internal control unit preferably also has a memory, preferably a non-volatile memory, which is connected to the controller.
- the other internal control units of the control system preferably, but not necessarily, also each have a control and possibly also a memory.
- the electronic household appliance is, for example, a hob, a stove, an extractor hood, a dishwasher, a laundry treatment device (e.g. washing machine, tumble dryer), a refrigerator (e.g. refrigerator, freezer), an air conditioner or the like.
- the internal control units of such an electronic household appliance serve, for example, to control the various units of the household appliance, such as pumps, heaters, cooling devices, fans, etc., or serve as an operating device or as central control of the household appliance.
- the communication device has a communication module with at least one module interface for data communication with the at least one external management unit and a connection interface for data communication with the controller of the selected internal control unit.
- This communication module preferably has at least one module interface for wired (eg Ethernet) or wireless communication connection with an external management unit (eg via radio, Bluetooth, etc.) and / or at least one module interface for direct connection with an external management unit (eg USB, memory card slot, etc.).
- the communication device can have at least one control interface for the direct connection of the control of the selected internal control unit to an external management unit.
- An operating device with an input device and / or a display device for a user of the household appliance is preferably selected for the selected internal control unit.
- the control unit with the greatest computing power is preferably selected.
- control of the selected internal control unit is designed to control the input device and / or the display device for an information exchange regarding data communication via the communication device.
- the exchange of information preferably includes the display of information regarding possible data communications (for example software updates available) and current data communications (for example the status of the current data communication) via the display device to a user of the household appliance and / or the input of control commands for data communications (eg starting of available software updates, requests for available software updates, etc.) via the display device by a user of the household appliance.
- the communication module can preferably contain a CPU and a non-volatile memory for the internal control of the communication.
- CPU and non-volatile memory are not used by the communication device for storing the data from an external communication unit.
- Figure 1 shows the structure of a control system for a household appliance according to a first embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 2 shows the structure of a control system for a household appliance according to a second exemplary embodiment of the invention.
- Fig. 3 shows the structure of a control system for a household appliance according to a third embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 1 shows a first embodiment of a control system according to the invention for an electronic household appliance.
- the control system 10 contains a plurality of internal control units 12, 14, one of which serves as a selected internal control unit 12 and the other internal control units are connected as submodules to this selected internal control unit 12 via a communication network 16.
- the communication network 16 is a bus system and part of the submodules 14 is connected in the form of a tree structure.
- the bus system 16 can be wired or wireless, or also partially wired and partially wireless.
- the selected internal control unit 12 contains, for example, a CPU as the controller 18 and a non-volatile memory 22 connected to this controller 18.
- the controller 18 has a network interface 20 for connection to the bus system 16.
- the selected internal control unit 12 is, for example, an operating device of the household appliance, which is equipped with an input device 40 and a display device 42.
- the input device 40 and the display device 42 are connected to the controller 18.
- the selected internal control unit 12 is also equipped with a communication device 24.
- the communication device 24 is preferably integrated into the control unit 12 or connected to it. Via this communication device 24, the internal control units 12, 14 of the control system 10 can carry out data communication with external management units 26, 28 in order, for example, to receive software updates or to provide usage data.
- the communication device 24 has a simple communication module 30, which has a module interface 32 for wireless communication connection with an external management unit 26 (eg Internet, cloud, laptop with Bluetooth, etc.), a module interface 34 (eg USB Connection, memory card slot, etc.) for direct connection to an external management unit 28 (e.g. USB stick, SD memory card, laptop with USB cable, etc.) and a connection interface 36 (e.g. SDIO, SPI, I2C, UART, etc.) for connection to the controller 18.
- the communication device 24 shown in FIG. 1 has a control interface 38 (eg USB connection, memory card slot, etc.) for the direct connection of the control 18 to an external management unit 28 (eg USB stick, SD memory card, laptop with USB cable) , etc.).
- only some of these components 24, 38 of the communication device 24 or only some of the module interfaces 32, 34 of the communication module 24 are present.
- the data communication between the internal control units 12, 14 and the external management units 26, 28 is controlled by the control 18 of the internal control unit 12 selected.
- Non-volatile buffering of the data to be communicated takes place within the communication device 24 and also in the memory 22 the control unit 12 does not take place. In the event of a power interruption during data communication via the communication device 24, the data communication must be carried out again. If there is sufficient storage space, the communicating data can, if necessary, also be temporarily or completely temporarily stored in the memory 22 of the control unit 12.
- FIG. 2 shows a second embodiment of a control system according to the invention for an electronic household appliance.
- the control system 10 of FIG. 2 differs from the first embodiment of FIG. 1 only in the configuration of the communication network 16.
- the communication network 16 is implemented in the form of a daisy chain.
- FIG. 2 corresponds to that of the first embodiment, with some components of the selected internal control unit 12 being omitted from FIG. 2 for the sake of simplicity.
- 3 shows a third embodiment of a control system according to the invention for an electronic household appliance.
- the control system 10 of FIG. 3 also differs from the first embodiment of FIG. 1 only in the configuration of the communication network 16.
- the communication network 16 is configured in a star shape.
- FIG. 3 corresponds to that of the first embodiment, with some components of the selected internal control unit 12 being omitted in FIG. 3 for the sake of simplicity.
- module interface for wireless communication connection 34 module interface for direct connection
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| DE102018009944.0A DE102018009944A1 (de) | 2018-12-18 | 2018-12-18 | Elektronisches Haushaltsgerät mit einem Steuerungssystem |
| PCT/EP2019/083029 WO2020126409A1 (de) | 2018-12-18 | 2019-11-29 | Elektronisches haushaltsgerät mit einem steuerungssystem |
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