JP7159473B2 - CONTROL METHOD FOR CLOTH CARE DEVICE AND CLOTH CARE DEVICE - Google Patents

Description

The present invention belongs to the field of garment care technology, and specifically provides a control method for a garment treatment device and a garment care device.

With the improvement of living standards, people have a higher pursuit of clothing materials. Nowadays, many people like to wear some high-grade material clothing, and these clothing can not be washed with traditional water. It is not suitable to use the method to wash, and needs to be sent to a professional clothing care store for treatment, which is very inconvenient. Therefore, in order to meet the needs of such users, several garment care devices have appeared on the market, for example, garment care devices with air cleaning function, such garment care devices include air cleaning By using the principle of continuous air cleaning of high-grade material clothes, the clothes can be made smoother, dust on the clothes can be removed, and the clothes can be dehumidified and dried. It is possible and very convenient.

However, conventional clothes care devices cannot dehumidify indoor air, and if dehumidification is required, it must be realized by an air conditioner, which limits the functions of the clothes care device itself. .

Therefore, there is a need in the art for a new control method for a garment care device and a corresponding garment care device to solve the above problems.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems in the prior art, that is, the conventional clothes care device does not have an air dehumidifying function, the present invention comprises a housing and an indoor dehumidifying device provided in the housing. a control method for a garment care device, comprising the steps of: obtaining an opening degree of a door of the garment care device ; a step of causing the clothes care device to perform an indoor dehumidification mode; and issuing an alarm when the opening of the door is smaller than a preset opening, and dehumidifying the indoor air at the opening of the door. determining whether a preset indoor dehumidification effect can be achieved by, if it is determined that the preset indoor dehumidification effect can be achieved, the clothing care device dehumidifies the indoor air; and c. if it is determined that the preset room dehumidification effect cannot be achieved, the garment care device does not dehumidify the room air .

In a preferred embodiment of the above control method, in the step of causing the clothes care device to perform the indoor dehumidification mode, the control method includes the step of obtaining the humidity of the air, and depending on the humidity of the air, selectively adjusting the frequency of the compressor.

In a preferred embodiment of the above control method, the step of selectively adjusting the blowing volume of the blower and the frequency of the compressor of the garment care device according to the humidity of the air specifically comprises: If the humidity is equal to or higher than the set first humidity, the step of increasing the blowing volume of the blower and increasing the frequency of the compressor is included.

In a preferred aspect of the above control method, the step of selectively adjusting the blowing volume of the blower and the frequency of the compressor of the garment care device according to the humidity of the air comprises: The second preset humidity is less than the first preset humidity, further comprising reducing the blowing volume of the blower and reducing the frequency of the compressor if the humidity is less than or equal to the humidity.

In a preferred aspect of the above control method, the step of selectively adjusting the blowing volume of the blower and the frequency of the compressor of the garment care device according to the humidity of the air includes: The method further includes maintaining the blowing volume of the blower and maintaining the frequency of the compressor when the humidity is lower than the humidity and higher than a second preset humidity.

In another aspect, the invention comprises a housing, a door pivotally connected to the housing, and a room dehumidifier located within the housing , the garment care device comprising a door of the garment care device. acquiring the opening degree of the body; causing the clothes care device to execute an indoor dehumidification mode when the opening degree of the door body is equal to or greater than a preset opening degree; When the opening is smaller than a preset opening, an alarm is issued, and it is determined whether or not a preset indoor dehumidification effect can be achieved by dehumidifying the indoor air at the opening of the door body, and When it is determined that the preset indoor dehumidification effect can be achieved, the clothing care device dehumidifies the indoor air, and when it is determined that the preset indoor dehumidification effect cannot be achieved, and wherein the garment care device does not dehumidify the room air .

In a preferred embodiment of the above garment care device, the indoor dehumidifying device includes an air supply passageway, a blower, an evaporator, a condenser and a compressor, and the intake and exhaust ports of the air supply passageway are both in communication with the interior of the housing. The blower is installed in the air supply passage, the evaporator, the condenser and the compressor form a closed loop, the evaporator and the condenser are all installed in the air supply passage, and the evaporator is the condenser installed on the upstream side of the vessel.

In a preferred aspect of the above garment care device, the garment care device further includes a humidity sensor located within the housing.

As can be appreciated by those skilled in the art, in a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the opening of the door of the garment care apparatus is obtained, and the indoor dehumidification mode is activated when the opening of the door reaches the preset opening. to ensure that the inside of the garment care device communicates well with the door air, and the dehumidification effect of the indoor air is ensured. On the other hand, when the opening degree of the door has not reached the preset opening degree, an alarm is issued so that the user can timely adjust the opening degree of the door. With such a setting, the clothes care device has the function of dehumidifying the indoor air, and the dehumidifying effect on the indoor air is fully exhibited, thereby improving the user experience.

In addition, in the process of dehumidifying the indoor air, the clothes care device obtains the humidity of the air. The dehumidification strength can be strengthened. When the humidity is low, the garment care device can reduce the dehumidification intensity of the room air by reducing the airflow rate of the blower and lowering the frequency of the compressor. When the humidity is moderate, the garment care device maintains the current air dehumidification power by maintaining the current blower flow rate and maintaining the current compressor frequency. In this way, the clothes care device can complete the indoor dehumidification work in different humidity environments in the most suitable time and with the most energy saving, and also reduce the heat given to the room by the operation of the compressor to some extent, so that the user can can improve the experience.

In addition, the present invention further provides a garment care device, which comprises an indoor dehumidifier, and can dehumidify indoor air by the indoor dehumidifier, that is, the garment care device has an indoor dehumidification function. and increase the functionality of the garment care device.

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Preferred embodiments of the present invention are described below with reference to the drawings. Persons skilled in the art will understand that these embodiments are only for explaining the technical principle of the present invention and do not limit the protection scope of the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, terms indicating directions or positional relationships such as "middle", "upper", "lower", "inner", and "outer" are simply based on the directions or positional relationships shown in the drawings. and this is merely for ease of explanation and does not imply that the device or elements must have a particular orientation, be configured and operate in a particular orientation. Therefore, it cannot be understood as a limitation to the invention. Also, the terms "first" and "second" are used for descriptive purposes only and should not be understood as indicating or implying relative importance.

In the description of the present invention, the terms "installation", "connection", and "coupling" should be understood in a broad sense, unless otherwise specified or limited. It may be a removable connection, an integral connection, a mechanical connection, an electrical connection, a direct connection, or indirectly through an intermediate medium. A person skilled in the art can understand the specific meaning of the above-mentioned terms in the present invention according to the specific situation.

Based on the problem pointed out in the background art that the conventional clothes care device does not have the indoor air dehumidification function, the present invention provides a control method for the clothes care device and the clothes care device, the purpose of which is to: To provide a clothes care device with an indoor dehumidifying function, and to fully exhibit its dehumidifying effect on indoor air to improve user experience.

Specifically, the garment care apparatus of the present invention comprises a housing, a door pivotally connected to the housing, and a room dehumidifier installed within the housing. Here, if the clothes care device is a washing machine, the indoor dehumidifier may be directly installed in the housing of the washing machine. The device may be installed, and if the clothes care device itself has a clothes dehumidification function, the clothes dehumidifier in the clothes care device may be used as it is as the indoor dehumidifier. Hereinafter, the technical solution of the present invention will be described in detail by taking a garment care device with air cleaning function as an example.

The above clothes care device with air cleaning function includes an air cleaning device, which includes an air supply passage, a blower and a dehumidification heating module, and the air intake and exhaust ports of the air supply passage are both inside the housing. A blower is installed in the air supply passage, and at least a portion of the dehumidification heating module is installed in the air supply passage. Here, the dehumidification heating module may adopt a combination method of an evaporator, a condenser and a compressor, or a combination method of a condenser and a heater, and the dehumidification heating module is all in the air supply channel. may be installed in the air supply passageway or partially within the air supply passageway. A person skilled in the art can practically flexibly set the specific configuration and installation method of the dehumidifying and heating module as long as the dehumidifying and heating module can dehumidify and heat the air. In the present invention, if the blower can introduce air from the inside of the housing through the intake port into the air supply passage and return it to the inside of the housing through the exhaust port, any part of the air supply passage can be used. position. In one possible case, the dehumidifying heating module comprises an evaporator, a condenser and a compressor forming a closed loop, the evaporator and the condenser being both installed in the air supply passage, the evaporator being the condenser installed on the upstream side of the Since the volume of the compressor is relatively large here, the compressor is preferably installed outside the air supply passage. Of course, in some special constructions of garment care apparatus, it is also possible to place the compressor inside the air supply passageway. In the present invention, due to the action of the compressor, the refrigerant can repeat the circulation flow between the compressor, the evaporator and the condenser, and the surface temperature of the evaporator can be constantly lowered by the absorption of heat by evaporation, and the heat of condensation can be released. can make the temperature of the condenser surface very high, when the air passes through the evaporator first by the action of the blower, the moist and hot air is pre-cooled and directly condensed on the surface of the evaporator into water droplets, thereby dehumidification is achieved, and the dehumidified air is directly heated by the condenser when passing through the condenser, raising the temperature of the air. In this way, the air discharged from the exhaust port of the air supply passage to the interior of the housing is dry and hot air, which allows the clothes to be treated with the air and removes dust, odors and water vapor. Accomplish the purpose of elimination.

The air cleaning device described above can dehumidify the clothes, that is, the user can operate the control panel of the clothes care device to dehumidify the clothes when the door of the clothes care device is closed. , the air cleaner can be used as an indoor dehumidifier when the door is open. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 1, the control method of the present invention includes the steps of acquiring the opening degree of the door of the clothing care device, and setting the clothing care device to an indoor dehumidification mode according to the opening degree of the door. and selectively executing. In other words, depending on the opening of the door, whether or not it is suitable for dehumidifying the room air at this time, or at this opening of the door, dehumidifying the air in the door achieves the effect of dehumidifying the room. You can decide whether to One possibility is that the user selects the room dehumidification function on the garment care device, and the garment care device then detects the opening of the door (specifically, the displacement sensor detects the opening of the door). position can be detected). If the opening degree of the door is equal to or greater than the preset opening degree, the clothes care device is caused to execute the indoor dehumidification mode. In other words, dehumidification of the indoor air can be performed only when the degree of opening of the door ensures sufficient communication between the inside of the housing and the indoor air. If the opening of the door is smaller than the preset opening, an alarm is issued. When the alarm is issued, it is presented to the user that the current opening of the door is inappropriate and that the opening of the door needs to be adjusted. In addition, when the opening degree of the door body is smaller than a preset opening degree, an alarm may be issued to prevent the clothes care device from executing the indoor dehumidification mode. That is, the clothes care device dehumidifies the room air only when the opening of the door reaches the preset opening. Further, when the opening degree of the door is smaller than the preset opening degree, the clothes care apparatus may be made to continue to perform the indoor dehumidification mode even if the alarm is issued. That is, if the user selects the indoor air dehumidification function regardless of the opening of the door, the clothes care device dehumidifies the indoor air. Encourage adjustments. A person skilled in the art can flexibly set the specific control logic of the clothing care device when the opening degree of the door has not reached the preset opening degree in actual application, and the preset Depending on the boundary point determined by the opening degree, it is possible to determine whether indoor air dehumidification is appropriate at this time, or whether indoor air dehumidification can be achieved at this opening degree of the door body. It would be nice to be able to judge. In addition, the preset opening can be set to 60%, 75%, 100%, etc., and those skilled in the art can flexibly set the specific opening value of the preset opening in actual applications. can be set to In addition to the need for the user to select the indoor air dehumidification function, the clothing care device determines the opening degree of the door immediately after opening the door, and adjusts the opening of the door to the preset opening degree. It may be set to automatically dehumidify the room air when reached, and such adjustment or modification of the control logic does not depart from the principles or scope of the present invention.

Preferably, taking the clothes care device having the above-mentioned air washing function as an example, in the process of the clothes care device executing the indoor dehumidification mode, as shown in FIG. and selectively adjusting the airflow rate and compressor frequency of the garment care device depending on the humidity of the air. Here, the humidity of the air can be detected by providing a humidity sensor in the housing. Specifically, when the humidity of the air is equal to or higher than the preset first humidity, the step of selectively adjusting the frequency of the air is increased by increasing the air blowing volume of the blower, increasing the frequency of the compressor, and increasing the air is equal to or lower than the preset second humidity, the blowing volume of the blower is reduced, the frequency of the compressor is lowered, and the humidity of the air is lower than the preset first humidity and the preset If the second humidity is higher than the second humidity, maintain the blowing volume of the blower and maintain the frequency of the compressor, wherein the second preset humidity is less than the first preset humidity. That is, when the clothes care device executes the indoor dehumidification mode, if it detects that the humidity of the air is relatively high, the blowing volume of the blower and the frequency of the compressor are increased to increase the dehumidification power of the air. , when the detected air humidity is relatively low, the blower air volume and compressor frequency should be reduced (in this case, the blower and compressor may be turned off directly) . This lowers the power to dehumidify the air and ensures energy savings. If the sensed air humidity is relatively moderate, the current blower rate and compressor frequency are maintained to maintain the indoor humidity at a moderate level. Here, a person skilled in the art will understand that the specific humidity values of the preset first humidity and the preset second humidity are determined by the preset first humidity and the preset second humidity. Depending on the range, if the blowing volume of the blower and the frequency of the compressor can be adjusted in correspondence, they can be flexibly set in actual application.

Although the technical solutions of the present invention have been described above with reference to the preferred embodiments shown in the drawings, it is obvious for those skilled in the art that the protection scope of the present invention is not limited to these specific embodiments. be. Without departing from the principle of the present invention, those skilled in the art can equivalently change or replace the relevant technical features, and the technical solutions after these changes or replacements shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention. It is included.

Claims (8)

A control method for a garment care device, the garment care device comprising a housing and a room dehumidifier provided within the housing,
The control method comprises the step of obtaining an opening degree of a door of the garment care device;
causing the clothes care device to execute an indoor dehumidification mode when the opening of the door is equal to or greater than a preset opening;
When the degree of opening of the door body is smaller than the degree of opening set in advance, an alarm is issued, and indoor air is dehumidified at the degree of opening of the door body, thereby achieving a preset indoor dehumidification effect. If it is determined that the preset indoor dehumidification effect can be achieved, the clothes care device dehumidifies the indoor air to achieve the preset indoor dehumidification effect. and c. disabling the garment care device to dehumidify the room air if it is determined that it cannot . In the step of causing the garment care device to perform an indoor dehumidification mode, the control method includes:
2. The method of claim 1, further comprising obtaining air humidity and selectively adjusting a blower air volume and a compressor frequency of said garment care device in response to said air humidity. The control method described in . Specifically, the step of selectively adjusting the blowing volume of the blower and the frequency of the compressor of the garment care device according to the humidity of the air comprises: 3. The control method according to claim 2 , further comprising the step of increasing the blowing volume of the blower and increasing the frequency of the compressor when the humidity is higher than the humidity. The step of selectively adjusting the blowing volume of the air blower and the frequency of the compressor of the clothes care device according to the humidity of the air is performed when the humidity of the air is equal to or less than a second humidity that is preset. , further comprising reducing the blowing volume of the blower and reducing the frequency of the compressor;
4. The control method according to claim 3 , wherein the preset second humidity is lower than the preset first humidity. The step of selectively adjusting a blowing volume of a blower and a frequency of a compressor of the garment care device according to the humidity of the air comprises: the humidity of the air being lower than the first preset humidity; 5. The control method according to claim 4 , further comprising the steps of: maintaining the blowing volume of the blower and maintaining the frequency of the compressor when the humidity is higher than the preset second humidity. 1. A garment care apparatus comprising a housing, a door pivotally connected to said housing, and a room dehumidifier located within said housing ,
The garment care device comprises:
obtaining the opening degree of the door of the garment care device;
causing the clothes care device to execute an indoor dehumidification mode when the opening of the door is equal to or greater than a preset opening;
When the degree of opening of the door body is smaller than the degree of opening set in advance, an alarm is issued, and indoor air is dehumidified at the degree of opening of the door body, thereby achieving a preset indoor dehumidification effect. If it is determined that the preset indoor dehumidification effect can be achieved, the clothes care device dehumidifies the indoor air to achieve the preset indoor dehumidification effect. and if it is determined that the garment care device cannot dehumidify the room air . The indoor dehumidifier includes an air supply passage, a blower, an evaporator, a condenser, and a compressor, and the air intake and exhaust ports of the air supply passage communicate with the interior of the housing, and the blower Installed in the air supply passage, the evaporator, the condenser and the compressor form a closed loop, the evaporator and the condenser are all installed in the air supply passage, the evaporator is located upstream of the condenser. 8. The garment care device of claim 7 , further comprising a humidity sensor located within said housing.

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