JP2006204566A - Washing and drying machine, and its program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform an operation against mold in accordance with the conditions of the mold grown in a washing tub. <P>SOLUTION: A washing and drying machine comprises: a turbidity sensor 30 for detecting the stain of washing water by arranging a light emitting element 30a and a light receiving element 30b to face each other; a mold growth decision means 31 for deciding the degree of growth of the mold by the output of the turbidity sensor 30; a mold measure mode control means 32 for controlling the conditions of washing and drying depending on the output of the mold growth decision means 31; a mold condition display means 33; and a mold measure operation start switch 34. Mold growth in the washing tub is detected from the output of the turbidity sensor 30 and the operation against the mold by washing and drying is performed. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a washing / drying machine for controlling operation according to the degree of wrinkles in a washing tub and a program thereof.

Conventionally, it has been considered that this type of washing / drying machine prevents the generation of mold and bacteria by drying the inside of the outer tub with heat generating means (see, for example, Patent Document 1). FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the operation of the conventional washing / drying machine described in the above-mentioned patent document, in which the dehydration tub is rotated by a driving device to start the dehydration operation, and then the heating means is operated after a predetermined time has elapsed. It is. An air flow is generated by the rotation of the dehydrating tank, and the air heated by the heat generating means is sucked into the dehydrating tank. Thereby, the warm air flows from the dewatering hole provided in the dewatering tank to the gap between the outer tank and the inside of the dewatering tank and the inside of the external tank can be dried, and moisture is eliminated. Therefore, mold and bacteria are not generated here, and the inside of the tank can be kept clean. And, since the timing of heating the inside of the tub is a predetermined time after the dehydrating tub starts rotating, it is after most of the moisture contained in the laundry is dehydrated, and the drying efficiency is reduced. Absent. And since the inside of a tank is automatically started in the spin-drying | dehydration operation, it operate | moves as a washing dryer which the inside of a tank is drying reliably at the time of completion | finish of a driving | operation.
JP 2000-296881 A

  However, the conventional configuration has a problem that it is impossible to determine the state of the soot once generated and to perform an operation for removing the soot according to the state of the soot.

  The present invention solves the above-described conventional problems, and an object thereof is to provide a laundry dryer that detects wrinkle generation in a washing tub from the output of a turbidity sensor and performs a wrinkle countermeasure operation by washing and drying. .

  In order to solve the above-described conventional problems, a washing and drying machine according to the present invention includes a turbidity sensor that detects dirt of washing water, a heel determination unit that determines the degree of cocoon based on an output of the turbidity sensor, and the cocoon黴 countermeasure mode control means for controlling washing and drying conditions according to the output of the judging means, and 黴 countermeasure operation switch, and by detecting the occurrence of wrinkles in the washing tub by the output of the turbidity sensor,黴 Countermeasure operation is performed.

  As a result, it is possible to perform a drought countermeasure driving operation in accordance with the situation of the soot that has occurred.

  The washing / drying machine of the present invention can accurately remove the wrinkles by the driving operation of the wrinkle countermeasure according to the situation of the generated wrinkles.

  The first invention includes a housing, an outer tub elastically supported by the housing, an inner tub rotatably supported in the outer tub, and a rotation provided rotatably on the inner bottom of the inner tub. Wings, driving means for driving the inner tub, drying means for drying the inner tub, a turbidity sensor for detecting dirt in the washing water, and the degree of wrinkles determined by the output of the turbidity sensor A determination means, a wrinkle countermeasure mode control means for controlling washing and drying conditions according to the output of the wrinkle determination means, and a wrinkle countermeasure operation switch, and the occurrence of wrinkles in the washing tub is detected by the output of the turbidity sensor By performing the anti-wrinkle operation by washing and drying, it is possible to detect the occurrence of wrinkles in the washing tub from the output of the turbidity sensor and perform the anti-wrinkle operation by washing and drying.

  In the second aspect of the present invention, in particular, the wrinkle determination means of the first aspect of the present invention can perform the wrinkle determination from the output of the turbidity sensor in the rinsing step, so that the state of the wrinkle can be determined each time washing is performed. .

  According to the third invention, in particular, the soot judging means of the second invention judges that “so much” when the output of the turbidity sensor in the rinsing process changes in a pulse shape. It is possible to determine a state where the mass of the material becomes larger and peels off.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a heel status display means for displaying the status of the heel, and the result of the heel determination performed by the heel determination means is displayed on the heel status display means. Can be informed.

  In the fifth aspect of the invention, in particular, a display for prompting the start of the drought countermeasure operation is displayed on the dredging status display means of the fourth invention, and when the user turns on the drought countermeasure operation start switch after taking out the laundry after the laundry is finished, According to the judgment result of the judgment means, the habit countermeasure mode control means starts the habit countermeasure operation, so that the user instructs the start of the habit countermeasure operation, so that the habit countermeasure is performed in the state where the laundry is not contained. Operation can be started.

  In a sixth aspect of the present invention, in particular, the drought countermeasure mode control means of the first invention is such that the drought countermeasure mode control means performs a drying operation for a predetermined time when the determination result of the drought determining means is “low wrinkle”, When there is a lot of soot, a strong drying operation for a predetermined time and a washing operation with a strong water flow can be performed, so that a drought handling operation without excess or deficiency can be accurately performed according to the situation of the soot. .

  In the seventh aspect of the present invention, in particular, when the determination result of the wrinkle determination means of the first invention becomes “has a lot of wrinkles” and the situation is not improved even if the wrinkle countermeasure mode control means performs the predetermined wrinkle countermeasure operation, By displaying the display of prompting the use of the wrinkle removal agent on the status display means, it is possible to recommend the user to remove wrinkles by using the wrinkle removal agent.

  According to an eighth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a program for causing a computer to execute at least a part of the washing and drying machine according to any one of claims 1 to 7, thereby preventing wrinkles using a general-purpose computer or a server. The driving operation can be easily performed.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Note that the present invention is not limited to the embodiment.

(Embodiment 1)
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the washing / drying machine according to the first embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the washing / drying machine. In FIG. 1, a housing 1 is provided with an outer tub 3 that is elastically suspended by a plurality of suspensions 2, and the suspension 2 absorbs vibration during washing and dehydration. Further, inside the outer tub 3, an inner tub 4 for storing clothing is disposed rotatably around a washing / dehydrating shaft 5 having a hollow and double structure, and the garment is stirred at the inner bottom of the inner tub 4. The rotating blade 6 is rotatably arranged. A large number of small holes (not shown) are provided in the inner peripheral wall of the inner tank 4, and a fluid balancer 7 is provided above.

  The motor 8 is a driving means for the inner tub 4 and the rotary wing 6, and is attached to the bottom of the outer tub 3, and through the clutch 9 and the washing / dehydrating shaft 5 for switching the transmission of rotational force to the washing / dehydrating shaft 5 during washing It is connected to the inner tank 4 or the rotor blade 6. The rotary blade 6 has a substantially W-shaped cross section having an inclined surface that increases in the outer peripheral direction at the outer peripheral portion, forms a protruding rib for stirring, and rotates clothes of the rotary blade 6 during the heating process at the start of washing. It is easy to soar upward along the inclined surface by the centrifugal force.

  10 is a blower, 11 is a heater, and the blower 10 blows warm air heated by the heater 11 into the inner tub 4 through a telescopic upper bellows-shaped hose 12. The blower 10 and the heater 11 are drying means. As a warm air blowing means. One end of the circulation path 14 is connected to the lower bellows-like hose 16 connected to the drainage path port 15 of the outer tub 3, and the other end is connected to the blower 10.

  22 is a water supply path for supplying water into the inner tank 4, and 23 is a water supply valve. The drain valve 17 is fixed to the bottom of the outer tub 3, and drains from the lower bellows-like hose 16 and the circulation path 14 are guided to the drain valve 17 through the drain path 18 and drained from the drain hose 19 to the outside of the machine. ing. The outer tank cover 20 covers the upper surface of the outer tank 3 in an airtight manner, and an inner lid 21 is provided on the outer tank cover 20 so as to be freely opened and closed so that clothes can be taken in and out. The cloth amount detection means (not shown), the rotation speed detection means (not shown), and a control circuit unit (not shown) for controlling them constitute an intermittent rotation control means.

  A turbidity sensor 30 is attached to the circulation path 14. Reference numeral 31 is a wrinkle determination means, 32 is a wrinkle countermeasure mode control means, 33 is a wrinkle status display means composed of a liquid crystal panel, and 34 is a wrinkle countermeasure operation start switch. In this embodiment, wrinkle determination means 31 and wrinkle countermeasure mode control means 32 are constituted by a microcomputer.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the turbidity sensor 30 has a light emitting element 30 a and a light receiving element 30 b facing each other to detect washing water stains, and the sensitivity variable means 42 can change the output. That is, the light emission output of the light emitting element 30a controls the transistor 45 by converting a pulse width control signal (hereinafter referred to as PWM signal), which is an output signal of the control means 43, into a DC voltage via the D / A conversion circuit 44. When the wash water is fresh water, the output signal of the turbidity sensor 30 (A / D terminal of the control means 43) becomes a reference value, and the output voltage of the turbidity sensor 30 has a certain set value. The pulse width of the PWM signal is varied to control a certain set voltage.

  At that time, pulse driving is performed to turn on and off the transistor 46 with a signal from the P1 terminal of the control means 43. The P2 terminal is set to the high level to turn on the transistor 47 and set the output voltage of the load resistor 48. Further, the sensitivity improvement circuit 50 is configured by connecting the transistor 47 and the resistor 49 in parallel. That is, when the P2 terminal is set to the low level, the output voltage becomes (R8 + R9) / R8 times and the sensitivity is improved. R8 and R9 are resistance values of the resistors 48 and 49, respectively.

  The control means 43 is composed of a microcomputer and controls a series of operations of washing, rinsing and dehydration. The wrinkle determination means 31 receives the output signal of the turbidity sensor 30 as input, makes a wrinkle determination while the control means 43 controls the rinsing process, and sends the determination result to the wrinkle countermeasure mode control means 32 and the wrinkle status display means 33. Output. When the wrinkle countermeasure operation start switch 34 is turned on, the wrinkle countermeasure mode control means 32 instructs the control means 43 according to the determination result of the wrinkle determination means 31 to start the wrinkle countermeasure operation.

  Next, the operation of wrinkle determination means 31 will be described with reference to FIG. When entering the rinsing process, the wrinkle determination means 31 starts its operation in step 1. In step 2, it is determined whether or not the rinsing process is being performed. If the rinsing process is being performed, the process proceeds to step 3; In step 3, the output of the turbidity sensor 30 is read. In step 5, it is determined whether the output of the turbidity sensor 30 is a pulse. If it is not a pulse, in step 5, the defect determination variable Kabi = 0 is set, the process returns to step 2, and the operation from step 2 is repeated. If the output of the turbidity sensor 30 is a pulse in step 4, the variable Kabi = 1 for the soot determination is set in step 6, the value of the variable Kabi is output as the output of the soot determining means 31 in step 7, and the soot status display The determination result is output to the means 33. Subsequently, in step 8, the operation of the eyelid determining means 31 is terminated.

  FIG. 4 shows a method of determining whether the output of the turbidity sensor 30 is a pulse in Step 5 of the operation of the soot determining means 31. FIG. 4A shows the case of not a pulse, and FIG. 4B shows the case of a pulse. The output signal level Vs of the turbidity sensor 30 at the start of determination is measured, and the pulse determination level Vp is set to ½ of Vs. If the time when the output signal of the turbidity sensor 30 is Vp or less continues for tp or more, it is determined that the pulse is a pulse.

  FIG. 5 shows a display example of the wrinkle status display means 33. The wrinkle status display means 33 responds depending on the situation when the wrinkle determination means 31 outputs the wrinkle determination result at the end of the rinsing process, while the wrinkle countermeasure mode control means 32 performs the operation of the wrinkle countermeasure mode, and after the end. 5A to 5E are displayed.

  Next, the operation of wrinkle countermeasure mode control means 32 will be described with reference to FIG. The wrinkle countermeasure mode control means 32 starts operation at the end of rinsing. In step 11, the operation starts, and in step 12, the value of the variable Kabi that is the result of the eyelid determination by the eyelid determining means 31 is input. In step 13, it waits until the wrinkle countermeasure operation start switch 34 is turned on. When the wrinkle countermeasure operation start switch 34 is turned on, the wrinkle countermeasure mode operation from step 14 is started.

  In step 14, the subsequent operations are sorted according to the Kabi value that is the wrinkle determination result. If Kabi = 1, that is, if there are many wrinkles, the process proceeds to step 15. If Kabi = 0, that is, if there are few wrinkles, the process proceeds to step 19.

  If there are many wrinkles, drying is performed in step 15, and the wrinkles attached to the walls of the washing tub are dried to be easily peeled off. Drying is performed by opening the drain valve 17 and driving the motor 8 to rotate the rotary blade 6 while blowing air from the blower 10 and heat generated by the heater 11, through the upper bellows-like hose 12 and from the outlet 13 to above the inner tank 4. Warm air is sent into the inner tank 4 more. The warm air exits from the inner tank 4 to the inner side of the outer tank 3 and then passes through the lower bellows-like hose 16 to reach the circulation path 14.

  Next, in step 16, washing is performed. In this case, the amount of water is “medium” and the rotational force is “strong”. After drying again at step 17 and washing again at step 18 to peel off the basket, the washing tub is dried at step 19 and the operation is terminated at step 20. In step 18, at the same time as washing, the wrinkle determination means 31 performs the wrinkle determination again. The wrinkle determination operation is the same operation as in the rinsing process.

  If there are few wrinkles, the process proceeds from step 14 to step 19, and only the washing tub is dried and the process ends. If it is determined in step 18 that there are many wrinkles, the wrinkle status display means 33 displays the screen shown in FIG. When it is determined that there are few wrinkles, the display shown in FIG.

  In the present embodiment, as described above, the wrinkles that have occurred are determined, and in accordance with the situation, the apparatus operates as a washing and drying machine capable of performing a driving operation for measures against wrinkles.

  A program according to an eighth aspect of the present invention causes a computer to function as a part of the washing and drying machine according to any one of the first to seventh aspects. And since it is a program, a part of washing-drying machine of this invention is easily realizable using a general purpose computer or a server. In the embodiment of the program of the operation described above, a flowchart of the program is shown in FIG.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, it is possible to realize a washing / drying machine capable of performing a driving operation as a countermeasure against wrinkles according to the situation of wrinkles that have occurred.

  As described above, the washing and drying machine, and a program according to the present invention, since it is possible to determine the status of the molds, can be adapted for use to advise the use prospect of mold removal agent.

Configuration diagram of the washing and drying machine in Embodiment 1 of the present invention Block diagram of the washer / dryer Flow chart showing the operation of the washing and drying machine (A) A graph showing the case where the output of the turbidity sensor of the washer / dryer is not a pulse (b) A graph when the output of the turbidity sensor of the washer / dryer is a pulse (A) The figure which shows the example of a display which prompts the wrinkle countermeasure driving | operation of the dredging situation display means of the said washing dryer (b) The figure which shows the example of a display when there are few wrinkles of the cohabitation situation display means (c) (D) A display example of the cohabitation state display means when there are few defects after the coping countermeasure operation (e) A coffin situation display means of the coffin situation display means Of display example when there are many Flow chart showing the operation of the washing and drying machine Flow chart showing the operation of a conventional washing and drying machine

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Housing | casing 3 Outer tank 4 Inner tank 6 Rotary blade 8 Motor (drive means)
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Blower 11 Heater 14 Circulation path 17 Drain valve 23 Water supply valve 30 Turbidity sensor 31 黴 Determination means 32 黴 Countermeasure mode control means 33 黴 Situation display means 34 黴 Countermeasure operation start switch

Claims (8)

A housing, an outer tub elastically supported by the housing, an inner tub rotatably supported in the outer tub, a rotating blade provided rotatably on an inner bottom of the inner tub, and the inner tub A driving means for driving the inner tub, a drying means for drying the inside of the inner tub, a turbidity sensor for detecting dirt of washing water, a wrinkle determination means for judging the degree of wrinkle from the output of the turbidity sensor, and the wrinkle黴 countermeasure mode control means for controlling washing and drying conditions according to the output of the judging means, and 黴 countermeasure operation switch, and by detecting the occurrence of wrinkles in the washing tub by the output of the turbidity sensor,洗濯 A washing and drying machine designed to take measures against damage. The washing / drying machine according to claim 1, wherein the wrinkle determination means performs a wrinkle determination from the output of the turbidity sensor in the rinsing step. 3. The washing / drying machine according to claim 2, wherein the wrinkle determination means determines that the amount of turbidity sensor output in the rinsing step changes to a pulse when the pulse changes. 2. The washing and drying machine according to claim 1, further comprising a heel status display means for displaying a heel status, wherein the result of the heel determination performed by the heel determination means is displayed on the heel status display means. When the user takes the laundry after the washing is finished and turns on the 黴 countermeasure operation start switch, the 黴 countermeasure mode control is performed according to the determination result of the 黴 determining means. The washing / drying machine according to claim 4, wherein the means starts the anti-wrinkle operation. The drought countermeasure mode control means performs a drying operation for a predetermined time when the determination result of the drought determination means is “low drought”, and when the drought is high, the drought countermeasure mode control means performs a strong drying operation and a strong water flow for a predetermined time. The washing and drying machine according to claim 1, wherein the washing operation is performed. When the judgment result of the soot judging means becomes “many soot” and the situation is not improved even after the soot countermeasure mode controlling means performs the prescribed soot countermeasure operation, a display prompting the use of the soot removing agent on the soot displaying means The washing / drying machine according to claim 1, wherein The program for making a computer perform at least one part means of the washing-drying machine of any one of Claims 1-7.

Images