JPH01299600A - Clothing drier - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily confirm the rotating condition of a rotary drum by providing an indication setting changeover means for carrying out the setting changeover of the existence of indication on a rotating condition indicating means for indicating the rotating condition obtained by a rotating condition detecting means. CONSTITUTION:As a rotary drum 1 is rotated in the arrow 15 direction, a lead switch 8 and a magnet 7 are brought close to or separated from each other in accordance with the movement of the rotary drum and, at the time of being brought close to each other, the contact of the lead switch 8 is closed lighting a LED indicating device 9 whereas, as the rotary drum 1 is further rotated with the magnet 7 getting far away, the contact of the lead switch 8 is opened to turn off the LED indicating device. Also, by giving a special switch input operation such as, throwing in a power source while keeping both drying-method changeover switch 10 and start/stop switch 11 simultaneously pressed, any one LED indicating device out of LED indicating devices 12-14 is set as the indicating portion of the detecting condition of the rotary drum. That is, the function of the LED indicating device 9 is executed by any of the LED indicating devices 12-14 for indicating drying methods.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Field of Industrial Application The present invention relates to a clothes dryer used in general households, and in particular, to detecting the rotational state of a rotating drum.
It concerns detection and its display functions.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, this type of clothes dryer has had means for detecting the rotational state of the rotary drum, but has not had means for displaying the detected state.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention In such a conventional configuration, when some kind of failure occurs in the detection function and the detection is not performed satisfactorily, in the device that has the function of detecting the rotational state of the rotating drum. However, it has been impossible to easily detect that there is a malfunction in the function of the detection means.

In view of the above problems, an object of the present invention is to easily check the rotational state of a rotating drum.

Means for Solving the Problems In order to achieve the above object, the first means of the present invention is to provide a rotating part display means for displaying the rotational state of the rotating drum,
Further, the second means is provided with a display setting switching means for setting whether or not to display the display. Further, in the third means, a display means is already included in the main body as necessary.

11), the display contents of the existing display means can be changed according to the settings of the display setting switching means.

Effect: By the first means described above, the detection state of the rotational state of the single-rotation drum can be easily confirmed from the outside, thereby making it possible to efficiently perform a failure analysis of the detection means of the rotary drum.

Further, the second means allows the display setting switching means to be operated and displayed only when necessary.Furthermore, the third means allows the rotation state to be displayed without providing a separate display means.

Embodiments Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 3.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a rotating drum that stores clothing 2, and is driven by a motor 3. The detection contents of the rotational state detection means 4 for detecting the rotational state of the rotary drum 1 are displayed by the rotational state display means 6. In order to determine the display method of the rotational state display means 6, a display setting switching means 6 is provided.

In FIG. 2, 7 is a magnet attached to a part of the body of the rotating drum 1, and 8 is a reed switch whose contacts close when the magnet 7 approaches. In addition, 9 is an L that lights up when the contact of reed switch 8 is closed.
ICD display device.

FIG. 3 shows an example of the operation section of the main body. In the figure, there are two switches, a drying method changeover switch 1o and a start/stop switch 11, and 12 to 14 are LICD display devices for displaying the drying method set by the drying method changeover switch 1o.

In such a configuration, when the rotating drum 1 rotates in the direction of the arrow 16 in FIG. , the contact of the reed switch 8 closes and the LICD display device 9 lights up, and as the rotary drum 1 further rotates and the magnet 7 moves away, the contact of the reed switch 8 opens and the LID display device 9 turns off.

However, providing such a CD display device 9 solely for the purpose of detecting the rotating state of the rotating drum 10 is
It is not necessary for the configuration of the product, and it is desirable to have this function only for specific uses such as failure analysis. Therefore, a display section for the rotation status should be provided in a separate location from the operation section of the main unit, and should be hidden from view from the outside as much as possible. However, in order to display it only when necessary, such as during failure analysis, It is desirable to have a changeover switch for setting the presence/absence.

It is also conceivable that the function normally used as the display section of the operating section of the main body can also be used as a display section for detecting the rotation state of the rotary drum 10. For example, by applying a special switch input operation such as turning on the power while simultaneously pressing the drying method selector switch 1o and the start/stop switch 11 in FIG. one LED
The display device can be set as a display section for the detection state of the rotating drum. That is, the function of the LID display device 90 shown in FIG. 2 can be substituted by any one of the LID display devices 12 to 14 that display the drying method shown in FIG. 3.

Effects of the Invention As described above, according to the present invention, since the rotation state display means is provided, it is possible to easily check the rotation state of the rotary drum, and as a result, the rotation state detection means of the rotary drum is Even if some kind of failure occurs, the effect can be obtained that the repair can be carried out efficiently. In addition, since it is equipped with a display setting switching means, it is possible to display the rotational state as needed, and the rotational state can also be displayed using the existing display section of the main body. is obtained.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram of a clothes dryer according to an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a diagram mainly showing a detecting section for detecting the rotational state of the rotary drum and its display section, and Fig. 3 is a display of Fig. 2. FIG. 4 is a front view of a display section showing an embodiment in which the display section is displayed using an existing display section of the main body. 1...Rotating drum, 13. Old motor, 4.
... Rotation state detection means, 6 ... Rotation state display means, 6 ... Display setting switching means. Name of agent: Patent attorney Toshio Nakao and 1 other person No. 1
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Claims (3)

[Claims] (1) A rotating drum for storing clothing, a motor for rotationally driving the rotating drum, and a rotating state detecting means for detecting the rotating state of the rotating drum, and displaying the rotating state obtained by the rotating state detecting means. A clothes dryer equipped with rotation status display means. (2) The clothes dryer according to claim 1, wherein the rotational state display means includes display setting switching means for switching settings between display and non-display. (3) The clothes dryer according to claim 2, wherein the rotation state display means shares an existing display means for displaying another function according to the setting of the display setting switching means.