EP4098162A1 - Soil working implement and method for setting a parameter range on a soil working implement andsystem comprising a soil working implement and an external terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for setting at least one parameter range (3) of a device parameter (4) of the soil cultivation device (1 ), wherein the parameter area (3) has a defined range of amounts of the device parameter (4) that can be selected by the user for processing the area (2). In order to adapt the soil cultivation device (1) individually to the needs of a user, it is proposed that the user move the soil cultivation device (1) over the area (2) to be worked during an adjustment process, with a Limit device parameters (5, 6) dependent on a condition of the surface (2), which when used for processing the surface (2) leads to a previously defined error case, is determined, and the parameter range (3) is automatically determined based on the determined Limit device parameters (5, 6) is set by the limit device parameters (5, 6) defining a range end (7, 8) of the parameter range (3).

Description

field of technology

The invention relates to a method for setting at least one parameter range of a device parameter of the soil cultivation device that is available on a soil cultivation device for working an area and is dependent on a soil type of the area to be worked, the parameter range being a defined range of selectable by the user for the cultivation of the area Has amounts of the device parameter.

In addition, the invention relates to a soil cultivation device with a control device, which is designed to carry out such a method, and a system with a soil cultivation device and a terminal device external to the soil cultivation device, with an application being installed on the external terminal device, which is used to control a method of the aforementioned Art is formed.

State of the art

Methods of the aforementioned type are known in the prior art and are usually carried out by a manufacturer of the soil cultivation device in order to set defined parameter ranges on the soil cultivation device for operating the soil cultivation device for surface cultivation. In this case, suitable parameter ranges are predefined for common household surfaces to be processed, in particular floor types laid there such as carpeting, wooden floors, tiled floors or other, within the parameter limits of which a user sets a device parameter of the floor processing device can be set to process the surface. For example, an adjustable device parameter can be a rotational speed of a rotating cleaning brush, a suction power of a fan of the floor treatment device, or others. The user can select the respective device parameter via an actuating element on the soil cultivation device, for example via a rotary knob, a touchscreen, a slide switch or the like. The actuating element can be adjusted as desired between a minimum amount and a maximum amount for the respective device parameter. Furthermore, it is also known to provide several such actuating elements on a soil cultivation device so that the user has the option of setting different device parameters for cultivation of an area.

Although the aforementioned methods and the corresponding soil tillage equipment have proven themselves in the prior art, these are only adapted by the manufacturer to a limited number of different areas to be tilled, so that there can also be areas that do not fall into any of the preset categories and are therefore not worked optimally be able. Alternatively, the user of the soil cultivation device would have to try out device parameters manually without knowing what the optimal conditions for the cultivation of the respective soil area are.

Summary of the Invention

Proceeding from the state of the art mentioned, it is therefore the object of the invention to further develop a method of the aforementioned type in such a way that the user can adjust the soil tillage implement optimally to the individual areas to be tilled.

In order to solve this problem, it is proposed that the user move the soil cultivation device over the area to be worked during an adjustment process, with a limit device parameter that is dependent on the nature of the surface automatically being activated during the movement of the soil cultivation device, which when used for the cultivation of the surface results in a in the previously defined error case, is determined, and the parameter range is set automatically on the basis of the determined limit device parameter by the limit device parameter defining a range end of the parameter range.

According to the invention, the user is thus given the opportunity to adapt the soil cultivation device to the requirements of his household, in particular to the types of soil laid there. It is known that it is advantageous for different types of floor coverings, for example different carpets, different hard floors, such as tiled floors, wooden floors, PVC and other, to make different settings of the floor preparation device. The different settings relate to different device parameters that are particularly advantageous for processing the respective area. Processing of the surface can be, for example, suction cleaning, wet or dry wiping, polishing, grinding, waxing or the like. The user can thus calibrate his personal soil cultivation device to the floor coverings in his home in order to achieve the best possible soil cultivation. This eliminates the disadvantage represented in the state of the art, that parameter ranges preset on a commercially available soil cultivation device can in principle only optimally serve a finite proportion of possible soil types. Due to the associated generalization, some floor types may not be processed optimally, since the user has to select one of several presets, which may not be optimally matched to his own floor coverings. According to the invention Method, the user is instructed to move the soil cultivation device for an adjustment process over the area to be worked, so that properties of the soil surface traveled over or a behavior of the soil cultivation device resulting therefrom can be determined. This in turn leads to a determination of the optimal parameter range for the surface.

For a soil cultivation activity, a device parameter that is optimal for the area can be adjusted by the user between certain range limits, depending on whether, for example, a particularly gentle, a particularly intensive, a particularly fast, a particularly thorough cleaning or the like is desired. A device parameter that can be adjusted by the user is, for example, a suction power of a fan or a speed of a cleaning brush. While the user guides the soil tillage implement as part of a setting process for the parameter ranges over the area to be worked later, the relevant implement parameters of the soil tillage implement are either automatically adjusted by a controller of the soil tillage implement, or the user is instructed by the soil tillage implement or a terminal connected to it, to adjust the device parameters yourself. The device parameters are preferably adjusted automatically, starting from a minimum limit device parameter up to a maximum limit device parameter, at which an error then occurs which the user and/or a detection device of the soil cultivation device can detect. The minimum limit device parameter can have the amount zero, for example, but can also be set individually to a different amount if the amount "zero" of the device parameter or another small amount causes an error. In addition, it can also be provided that the user initially specifies rough minimum and maximum limits of the parameter range. For example, the user could already predefine a soil type of the area to be worked, for example, that the surface is a floor covering that does not adhere to a substrate. As a result, relatively high amounts of brush speeds and a moderate value for a volume flow of a suction fan can be specified directly. In the case of a very high-pile floor or fur, for example, the speed of a cleaning brush could basically be set to zero and only a volume flow of a suction fan could be adjusted. The subsequent process for a fine adjustment of the parameter range then takes place as described according to the invention. Furthermore, it can preferably be provided in this connection that the limit device parameter is the absolute value of the device parameter at which no error occurred the last time. The occurrence of an error can thus be ruled out with a high degree of probability. An error is not to be understood in the strict sense, but can be a specific situation that the user defines for an abort of the setting process. A "case of error" can also be, for example, a manual termination of the setting process, which in the narrower sense does not constitute an error in principle. Likewise, certain device states can represent a user-defined error case, for example because a noise emission from the soil cultivation device or a current consumption of an electrical consumer of the soil cultivation device exceeds a desired amount.

In addition to the setting process described above, the user can also be provided with prefabricated parameter ranges for certain surface types for selection within the scope of the method, from the parameter limits of which the described setting process can then be started. The ready-made settings can, for example, also be stored in a memory depending on the user, so that a specific pre-selection is made available to a respective user. In any case, the predefined settings are not binding, but can also be rejected or varied by the user. Furthermore, predefined settings be overwritten. It is also possible for the parameter ranges set within the scope of the setting method according to the invention to be changed or overwritten, so that the user has the option of repeating a setting process at any time. This is particularly recommended if the user changes floor coverings in his apartment, if they have changed due to wear and tear or the like.

In particular, it is proposed that as part of the setting process, two limit device parameters that define the range ends of the same parameter range are determined by increasing the device parameters from a minimum amount, which can still be used without an error occurring, to a maximum amount, which can still be used without an error occurring applicable is varied. The device parameter can be varied either in discrete magnitude steps or continuously. If, for example, two or more device parameters that a user usually wants to set are essential for surface processing, the setting process can proceed in such a way that a parameter range is first determined for a first device parameter, while a second device parameter is kept constant. As soon as this parameter range is set, the constant second device parameter can then be set to an increased constant amount and the first device parameter can in turn be varied to determine the relevant range limits. In this way, two or more device parameters can be adjusted dependent on one another.

It is particularly advantageously proposed that the user set the parameter range using an application installed on a terminal device that is external to the soil cultivation device. As part of the setting process, the application can instruct the user to carry out certain actions to vary the respective device parameters themselves. Alternatively, the application fully automatically control a variation of the respective device parameters on the tillage implement. For this purpose, the external end device that has the application is connected to the soil tillage implement via a communication connection, for example via a WLAN or Bluetooth connection. In particular, both the tillage device and the external terminal device can be integrated into a user's home network and communicate with one another via it. The application installed on the external terminal device preferably provides a user interface on a touchscreen of the terminal device, via which the user can make manual entries and/or call up information. The user can also be offered pre-set basic settings for specific soil types on a display of the external terminal, so that the user can start a setting process based on predefined rough limit device parameters of a provisionally defined parameter range.

The application can particularly advantageously control a predefined calibration process on the soil cultivation device, which involves determining the limit device parameter to be set on the soil cultivation device by successively approximating the controlled device parameter to the limit device parameter defined by the occurrence of the error. The application thus directly controls the adjustment process of the soil cultivation device and acts on a control device of the soil cultivation device. In addition, the application can also monitor the occurrence of a predefined error. However, it is also possible for an error to be monitored by an evaluation device of the soil tillage implement itself. The evaluation device of the soil cultivation device can then report the detected error to the application of the external terminal, so that the application can link the previously set parameter values with the occurrence of the error and advantageously also store them.

Furthermore, it is proposed that a suction volume flow of a fan of the floor treatment device, a speed of a rotating floor treatment element, a frequency of an oscillating floor treatment element, a speed of movement of the floor treatment device over the area to be worked and/or an amount of liquid applied by the floor treatment device to the area to be worked as device parameters is set. The adjustable device parameters mentioned above relate to those which are regularly relevant for the processing quality of certain types of soil. If the floor treatment device is a vacuum cleaner, for example, a suction volume flow of a fan and a speed or vibration frequency of a floor treatment element are relevant as device parameters. In the case of wet mopping devices, the quantity of a liquid applied to a surface to be treated or a floor treatment element is also particularly relevant. In addition, a processing quality also depends on the speed of travel of a soil processing device that is moving forward automatically over the area to be processed. In the case of soil types that require particularly intensive processing, it makes sense to keep the speed of movement of the soil processing device over the area to be processed as low as possible, so that the exposure time per area is as long as possible.

As previously suggested, one or more failure cases are predefined. These error cases are used to define the range limits of the parameter range to be set. In particular, a fall in a suction volume flow of a fan of the floor treatment device below a minimum value, a blocking of a movable floor treatment element, a drop in a forward speed of the floor treatment device below a minimum value, an energy consumption of an electrical consumer of the floor treatment device exceeding a maximum value, exceeding a sliding resistance of the soil cultivation device above a maximum amount, a floor covering lifting off the surface to be worked on, a sound emission of the soil cultivation device exceeding a maximum amount, a degree of moisture in the surface to be worked on exceeding a maximum amount, a degree of moisture in a soil cultivation element of the soil cultivation device exceeding a maximum amount and /or receiving a stop command from a user that ends the setting process. The above list is not final. Other error cases can also be predefined within the scope of the invention. Cases of error are regularly those which lead to improper functioning of the soil cultivation device or mean a manual termination by a user of the soil cultivation device. The occurrence of an error case defined in this way leads to an end of the adjustment process according to the invention. With regard to conventional vacuum cleaning devices, the adjustment process can be carried out, for example, until an error occurs, which means that the maximum amounts for a volume flow of a suction fan and a speed of a cleaning brush have been reached, that a cleaning brush is blocked, for example due to the cleaning brush engaging excessively in a carpet that a pushing force to be applied by a user to move the floor preparation device is too high, that a negative pressure in the floor preparation device increases excessively, for example when a non-adhesive carpet is lifted from a subsurface and then completely covers a suction channel of the cleaning device, or that the user Setting process ended manually by pressing a button on the cleaning device or an external device.

The error case is preferably defined by a user before the setting process or can alternatively be specified by the manufacturer. If the manufacturer of the soil cultivation device has already predefined error cases, these are preferably in a local memory of the soil cultivation device stored or can be retrieved from a manufacturer's server by the soil tillage implement or an external terminal device that is in communication with it.

In addition, it can be provided that the determined limit device parameter is stored in a memory of the soil cultivation device and/or a memory of the external terminal and/or a memory of an external server. In addition, it is proposed that the set parameter range be assigned to an actuating element of the soil tillage implement that can be actuated manually by the user, with the user selecting an amount of the implement parameter desired for soil tillage of the area within the limits of the preset parameter range by actuating the actuating element. The assignments between specific actuating elements of the soil cultivation device and the optimal parameter ranges determined by the adjustment process can be stored in a memory of the soil cultivation device and/or a memory of the external terminal device and/or also a memory of an external server. In particular, an assignment can be made by an application installed on an external terminal to, for example, one of a number of selectable levels of an actuating element. Each stage can be optimized for a specific floor type, for example hard floor, short-pile carpet, long-pile carpet or others. Allocations that have been created and stored once can be deleted again, but advantageously remain available in a memory for future access. This means that assignments that have been defined can be set again. In a particularly advantageous manner, assignments between actuating elements and predefined parameter ranges are also synchronized via a server, so that they continue to be available for access by a user, for example when a mobile terminal device is changed.

In addition to the above-described method according to the invention for setting at least one parameter range available on the soil cultivation device for working an area, the invention also proposes a soil cultivation device with a control device which is designed to carry out a method of the aforementioned type. In addition, a system with a soil cultivation device and a terminal device that is external to the soil cultivation device is also proposed, with an application being installed on the external terminal device, which application is designed to control such a setting process for the parameter range. To avoid repetition, reference is made in this regard to the previous statements on the method according to the invention. The features and advantages described there also apply accordingly to the soil cultivation device according to the invention or the system according to the invention.

Brief description of the drawings

Fig. 1

ein erfindungsgemäßes Bodenbearbeitungsgerät,

Fig. 2

ein externes Endgerät mit einer darauf installierten Applikation,

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eine Kommunikation zwischen dem externen Endgerät und dem Bodenbearbeitungsgerät,

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eine Kommunikation zwischen dem externen Endgerät und einem externen Server,

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eine Übertragung von Einstellungen von dem externen Endgerät an das Bodenbearbeitungsgerät.

The invention is explained in more detail below using exemplary embodiments. Show it:

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a soil cultivation device according to the invention,

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an external device with an application installed on it,

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communication between the external end device and the tillage implement,

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communication between the external terminal and an external server,

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a transmission of settings from the external terminal to the tillage device.

Description of the embodiments

figure 1 1 shows one of a number of possible embodiments for a floor treatment device 1 according to the invention. The floor treatment device 1 is embodied here as a cleaning device manually operated by a user, namely here as a manually operated vacuum cleaner. However, the invention can also be used in soil cultivation implements 1 that move automatically. The floor treatment device 1 is used to clean different surfaces 2, which can include, for example, hard floors and carpets, in particular high-pile carpets, short-pile carpets, wooden parquet, wooden floorboards, tiles, cork, PVC and others. The soil cultivation device 1 has a base device 17 in which, for example, a fan, a fan motor and a dust chamber are arranged (not visible here). The base device 17 is detachably connected to an attachment 15, which serves to act on the surface 2 to be processed. Here the attachment 15 is, for example, a suction nozzle with a suction mouth 16 and a floor treatment element 10 assigned to the suction mouth 16. The floor treatment element 10 is here, for example, a cleaning brush rotating about an axis oriented essentially parallel to the surface 2. A handle 14 with a handle 18, by means of which a user of the soil tillage implement 1 can guide the soil tillage implement 1 in a normal back and forth motion over the area 2 to be worked, also extends from the base unit 17, facing away from the attachment 15. The handle 14 is advantageously designed to be telescopic, so that the user can adjust its length to his body size in order to handle the soil tillage implement 1 comfortably. The handle 18 has a plurality of actuating elements 12, which are designed here, for example, as pushbuttons. Alternatively other types of actuating elements 12 can also be provided, for example slide switches, rotary switches, toggle switches or the like. By actuating the actuating elements 12, the user can set a desired mode of the soil tillage implement 1 in order to till the surface 2. For example, a mode can be an energy-saving eco mode, in which the blower motor is operated in the most energy-saving manner possible. Another mode can be an intensive mode, for example, which is suitable for removing stubborn dirt from the surface 2 as well. Furthermore, for example, a quick mode can also be provided, which cleans the floor surface 2 in the shortest possible time span. Each mode is characterized by an available parameter range 3 with a plurality of different amounts of a device parameter 4, which relate, for example, to a power consumption of the blower motor, a speed of the floor treatment element 10, a setting of sealing elements in the area of the suction mouth 16 of the floor treatment device 1 and others . The parameter range 3 can contain, for example, low and high values for a rotational speed of the actuating element 12, which the user can optionally select for tillage. The settings of the respective mode, in particular the device parameters 4, are preferably stored in a local memory of the soil tillage implement 1 and are retrieved from the memory when an actuating element 12 is actuated and used by a control device of the soil tillage implement 1 to control the corresponding units of the soil tillage implement 1, for example to control the fan motor or a drive motor for the soil treatment element 10. Furthermore, the modes can be optimized for certain soil types of the area 2 to be worked. For example, an eco mode can be optimized for processing a hard floor, while an intensive mode is optimized for processing a carpet. In addition, the soil treatment device 1 can also have actuating elements 12, for example, which control other combinations, for example Eco carpet mode, carpet mode Intensive, Hard Floor Eco, Hard Floor Intensive and others. The various modes are usually predefined by a manufacturer of the soil tillage implement 1 and are stored in a memory of the soil tillage implement 1 in soil tillage implements 1 according to the prior art. In contrast, an alternative is proposed with the invention, which is explained in more detail below.

figure 2 shows an external terminal 9, which is a mobile phone here, for example. In addition, however, the external terminal 9 can also be another, preferably mobile, terminal 9 . In particular, it can also be provided to use a tablet computer, a laptop or the like as terminal device 9 . The external end device 9 preferably has a display 13 in the usual way, particularly preferably designed as a touchscreen, via which a user can both receive information and make entries. The external end device 9 is in communication with the soil cultivation device 1 to carry out a method according to the invention. A communication module of the soil tillage implement 1 and a communication module of the external terminal 9 are particularly preferably integrated into a user's home network. Furthermore, an application is installed on the external terminal 9 in order to carry out the method steps according to the invention. Furthermore, a server 11 (see, for example, figure 4 ) integrated, so that data relating to the settings of the tillage device 1 can be stored in the server 1 and can be accessed there by other participants in the home network, in particular the tillage device 1 and the external terminal 9.

Using the application installed on the external terminal 9, the user can optimize his floor treatment device 1 to the individual floor coverings of the areas 2 to be cleaned in his household. For this purpose, device parameters 4 of the tillage device 1, which are used for tilling the surfaces 2, are set to the individual properties of the surfaces 2 in the user's household, i. H. calibrated. However, the soil cultivation device 1 can also be calibrated in the same way on surfaces 2 which do not belong to a household environment but, for example, to a commercial environment, for example in a shop, an office, a warehouse or others. The functionality of the invention remains unaffected.

Using the application installed on the external terminal 9, the user can now set his soil tillage implement 1 to his individual areas 2 in a few simple steps and thus achieve an optimal soil tillage result. In the case of a cleaning device, an optimal soil cultivation result can be understood, for example, on the basis of a quantity of particles picked up by the soil cultivation device 1 . Furthermore, the invention ensures that the user experiences optimum handling of the soil cultivation device 1 and that all components of the soil cultivation device 1 function without problems. This includes, for example, that floor treatment elements 10, such as the rotating cleaning brush here, do not block, the floor treatment device 1 can be moved over the surface 2 to be worked with little effort, carpets lying loosely on a subsurface are not lifted from the subsurface and the like. To do this, the user first has to start the application on his external terminal device 9 and carry out the displayed calibration steps, which are used to set at least one parameter range 3 of a device parameter 4 of the soil cultivation device 1 that is available on his soil cultivation device 1 . In figure 2 are only examples two different adjustable device parameters 4 are displayed, namely here a speed of the brush (soil treatment element 10) and a volume flow, which can be generated by a fan of the floor treatment device 1. After starting the application, the user is preferably asked to move the soil cultivation device 1 over the relevant area 2 to which the soil cultivation device 1 is to be optimally adjusted. By moving the soil cultivation device 1 during the calibration process, a dynamic load of the soil cultivation device 1 can be taken into account, which then occurs later in the same way when using the soil cultivation device 1 for actual soil cultivation of this area 2. The application then automatically controls a calibration process on the soil treatment device 1, which includes the speed of the soil treatment element 10 and the volume flow of the fan in discrete steps or alternatively also continuously from a preferably low amount of the respective device parameter 4 to a higher amount of the device parameter 4 be changed. The procedure can be such that initially only the volume flow is varied, while a lowest speed of the soil treatment element 10 is kept constant. In successive steps, the speed of the soil treatment element 10 can then be set to a higher amount than in the previous step and then the volume flow can be varied again, with the speed of the soil treatment element 10 also being kept constant, from a small amount to a higher amount. The lowest speed of the soil treatment element 10, from which the calibration process is started, can have the amount zero, for example. Alternatively, however, it is also possible for the user himself to specify a starting speed, from which the setting process for the parameter range 3 of the volume flow or also the speed of the soil treatment element 10 is started. Furthermore, already provisionally rough minimum or maximum values can be used for the adjustment process Limit device parameters 5, 6 be set in advance and called up by the user in the application. For example, such a presetting can differentiate between hard floors and carpets, so that the setting process for parameter range 3 of device parameter 4 starts directly in ranges that are sensible for hard floors, or in ranges that are sensible for carpets. As a result, the calibration process can be shortened overall in terms of time. The presettings can be stored in the application or also on a server 11 which the application accesses. Such presettings can furthermore also be defined depending on the country and/or market, so that for a soil tillage implement 1 which is operated in Asia, for example, other calibration start parameters and calibration end parameters than in Europe, for example, make sense. The user can preferably also delete, modify or the like the stored default settings using the application.

Furthermore, the manufacturer of the soil cultivation device 1, or also the user, has stored so-called errors in the application, which should lead to the termination of a setting step during the calibration. By defining such an error case or several error cases, it is achieved that the user can later, i.e. after calibration, only operate the soil cultivation device 1 in a parameter range 3 of the respective device parameter 4, which enables trouble-free and successful cultivation of the area 2. In the present example, a blocking of the rotating soil treatment element 10 or the occurrence of a maximum pushing force, which the user has to exert to move the soil treatment device 1 over the surface 2, can be defined as an error case. Other error cases can be characterized, for example, by a maximum amount for the volume flow, a maximum amount for a negative pressure prevailing at the suction mouth 16, a lift-off of a floor covering of a sub-floor or other. In addition, an error can also be a manual termination of the calibration process by the user, although this does not describe an error in the narrower sense. The user can end the calibration process for the respective device parameter 4, for example via a button on the soil tillage device 1 or via an entry on the display 13 of the external terminal device 9. If a predefined error is detected during the setting process for the usable parameter range 3 of the device parameter 4, the calibration step is ended and preferably the last setting before the error occurred is adopted as the limit device parameter 5, 6. This limit device parameter 5, 6, which still enables optimal processing of the area 2, defines a lower range end 7 or an upper range end 8 of the parameter range 3, which is later available to the user when using the soil cultivation device 1. The user can also use the application to select that actuating element 12 on the soil cultivation device 1 via which the device parameter 4 should be controllable.

In figure 2 the user starts the calibration process for the tillage device 1, for example, from the lower limit device parameter 5 "zero", which indicates the lower end of the range 7 of the parameter ranges 3 for the device parameters 4 "brush speed" and "volume flow". Then the parameter ranges 3 for “brush speed” and “volume flow” are calibrated as previously explained. As in figure 3 shown, an "error" occurs, for example, at a speed which corresponds to 20 percent of a maximum possible speed of the soil treatment element 10 here. This speed is then stored as the upper limit device parameter 6 for the speed of the soil working element 10 . Likewise, with regard to the volume flow of the fan, an error occurs at 80 percent of the maximum possible volume flow of the soil cultivation device 1 . This amount at 80 percent is saved as upper limit device parameter 6 for the volume flow. The amounts saved for the lower limit device parameters 5 and upper limit device parameters 6 of the device parameters 4 "brush speed" and "volume flow" are then sent to the soil tillage device 1 and the external server 11 as shown (see figure 4 ) transfer. The stored settings are advantageously permanently stored both in the soil cultivation device 1 and in the external terminal device 9 and the server 11, but can be deleted or changed there by the user. As a result, the user can retrieve saved settings from the server 11 again, for example when exchanging his external terminal device 9 . The user can then use the saved settings for the parameter ranges 3 that can be used via the assigned actuating elements 12 in order to achieve an optimal soil tillage result for his individual areas 2 .

Just as in the manner described above, the user can also set specific combinations of base units 17 and attachments 15 on individual surfaces 2 . It is clear to the person skilled in the art that the set device parameters 4 can be not only a speed of a soil treatment element 10 or a volume flow of a fan, but rather also any other type of device parameter 4, such as a frequency of an oscillating soil treatment element 10, a speed of movement of a automatically moving over a surface 2 tillage implement 1, an amount of liquid which is applied to the surface to be treated 2 or to a soil processing element 10 of the tillage implement 1, or others. Furthermore, error cases other than those mentioned above can also be defined.

List of References

1. 1 tillage implement
2. 2 area
3. 3 parameter area
4. 4 device parameters
5. 5 limit device parameters
6. 6 limit device parameters
7. 7 End of range
8. 8 End of range
9. 9 External terminal
10. 10 tillage element
11. 11 servers
12. 12 actuator
13. 13 displays
14. 14 stem
15. 15 header
16. 16 suction mouth
17. 17 base unit
18. 18 handle

Claims (10)

Method for setting at least one parameter range (3) of a device parameter (4) of the soil cultivation device (1) which is available on a soil cultivation device (1) for the cultivation of an area (2) and is dependent on a soil type of the area (2) to be worked on, wherein the Parameter range (3) has a defined range of amounts of the device parameter (4) that can be selected by the user for working the area (2), characterized in that the user controls the soil working device (1) during an adjustment process over the area (2) to be worked moved, wherein during the movement of the soil tillage implement (1) automatically a limit implement parameter (5, 6) dependent on the nature of the area (2) which, when used for the tillage of the area (2), leads to a previously defined error case, is determined, and wherein the parameter range (3) is set automatically based on the determined limit device parameters (5, 6) by de r limit device parameters (5, 6) defines a range end (7, 8) of the parameter range (3). Method according to Claim 1, characterized in that two limit device parameters (5, 6) defining the range ends (7, 8) of the same parameter range (3) are determined by the device parameter (4) from a minimum amount which still without the occurrence of a Is applicable in the event of an error, is varied up to a maximum amount which can still be used without an error occurring. Method according to Claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the user sets the parameter range (3) by means of an application installed on a terminal (9) external to the soil cultivation device (1). Method according to Claim 3, characterized in that the application controls a predefined calibration process on the soil cultivation device (1), which includes the limit device parameter (5, 6) to be set on the soil cultivation device (1) by successively approximating the controlled device parameter (4 ) is determined at the limit device parameters (5, 6) defined by the occurrence of the error. Method according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that as device parameters (4) a suction volume flow of a fan of the floor treatment device (1), a speed of a rotating floor treatment element (10), a frequency of an oscillating floor treatment element (10), a speed of movement of the floor treatment device (1 ) over the area to be worked (2) and/or a quantity of liquid applied by the soil treatment device (1) to the area (2) to be worked is set. Method according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that as an error case a drop in a suction volume flow of a fan of the floor treatment device (1) below a minimum amount, a blocking of a movable floor treatment element (10), a drop in a forward movement speed of the floor treatment device (1) below a minimum value, an energy consumption of an electrical consumer of the floor treatment device (1) exceeding a maximum value, a sliding resistance of the floor treatment device (1) exceeding a maximum value, a floor covering lifting from the area to be worked (2), a sound emission of the floor treatment device (1 ) over a maximum amount, going beyond a moisture level of the to be processed Area (2) over a maximum amount, a moisture level of a soil treatment element (10) of the soil treatment device (1) exceeding a maximum amount and/or receiving a stop command from a user ending the setting process is defined. Method according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the determined limit device parameter (5, 6) is stored in a memory of the soil cultivation device (1) and/or a memory of the external terminal (9) and/or a memory of an external server (11 ) is saved. Method according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the set parameter range (3) is assigned to an actuating element (12) of the soil cultivation implement (1) which can be actuated manually by the user, the user specifying an amount of soil cultivation desired for soil cultivation of the area (2). Selects device parameters (4) within the limits of the preset parameter range (3) by actuating the actuating element (12). Soil cultivation device (1) with a control device which is designed to carry out a method according to one of the preceding claims. System with a soil processing device (1) and a terminal (9) external to the soil processing device (1), an application being installed on the external terminal (9) which is designed to control a method according to one of the preceding claims.

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