KR0119032B1 - Bad detect method of temperature sensor for refrigerators - Google Patents

Bad detect method of temperature sensor for refrigerators

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KR0119032B1
KR0119032B1 KR1019930008723A KR930008723A KR0119032B1 KR 0119032 B1 KR0119032 B1 KR 0119032B1 KR 1019930008723 A KR1019930008723 A KR 1019930008723A KR 930008723 A KR930008723 A KR 930008723A KR 0119032 B1 KR0119032 B1 KR 0119032B1
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The driving of a compressor is immediately controlled in the former condition of sensor error, after the detection of the error of the temperature sensor to the repair o the error so as to prevent the cooling. The driving period of the compressor(P) is more than the setting frequency, the average period(T1) of driving period is calculated. The each driving period(T2) is calculated from the next driving period so as to compare with the average period(T1). If T2 is longer than T1, the temperature sensor(TH) detecting the temperature of the cold room to be low inspire of the high temperature is checked to be inferior. The indication according the error of the temperature sensor is displayed to the LED driving means(5). The next operation of the compressor is controlled to T1.

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냉장고의 온도감지센서 불량검출방법How to detect defective temperature sensor in refrigerator

제1도는 본 발명이 적용된 회로의 개략도.1 is a schematic diagram of a circuit to which the present invention is applied.

제2도는 본 발명을 설명하기 위한 냉동실의 온도곡선.2 is a temperature curve of a freezer compartment for explaining the present invention.

제3도는 본 발명에 따른 플로우챠트.3 is a flowchart according to the present invention.

* 도면의 주요부분에 대한 부호의 설명* Explanation of symbols for main parts of the drawings

1 : 제어부 2 : 냉동실 온도감지부1: control unit 2: freezer temperature sensing unit

3 : 압축기 구동부 4 : 냉동실 온도설정부3: compressor drive unit 4: freezer compartment temperature setting unit

5 : LED구동부 6 : LED5: LED driving part 6: LED

본 발명은 냉장고의 냉동실에 채용되어 냉동실의 온도를 감지하는 온도센서(써미스터:THERMISTOR)의 불량여부를 검출할 수 있도록한 냉장고의 온도감지센서의 불량검출방법에 관한 것이다.The present invention relates to a failure detection method of the temperature sensor of the refrigerator employed in the freezer of the refrigerator to detect whether the temperature sensor (Thermistor: THERMISTOR) for detecting the temperature of the freezer.

전자식 냉장고에 있어서, 온도센서를 이용하여 냉동실의 온도를 감지하는 것은 일반적인 기술이다.In the electronic refrigerator, it is a general technique to sense the temperature of the freezer compartment using a temperature sensor.

또한, 상기 온도센서는 온도에 따라 자체의 저항이 가변되고, 이때 변화되는 저항치를 주변회로를 이용하여 전압으로 변환한 후, 전자식 냉장고의 신호처리원인 마이크로 컴퓨터의 소정 입력포트로 입력하여 주고, A/D 콘버터(아날로그-디지탈 변환기)를 내장한 상기 마이크로 컴퓨터는 이때 입력되는 신호로 온도센서가 위치한 곳의 온도를 인식하게 된다.In addition, the temperature sensor has its own resistance varies according to temperature, and at this time, the resistance is changed to a voltage using a peripheral circuit, and then input to a predetermined input port of a microcomputer, which is a signal processing source of the electronic refrigerator, A The microcomputer incorporating the / D converter (analog-to-digital converter) recognizes the temperature at which the temperature sensor is located as an input signal at this time.

위와 같은 온도센싱(SENSING)과정에 있어서, 온도센서의 불량여부를 검출하는 종래의 방법은 단순히 온도센서의 단선(OPEN)상태 또는 단락(SHORT)상태만을 검출하는 것이 전부였다. 상기 단선불량 또는 단락불량은 온도센서를 통해 마이크로 컴퓨터로 입력되는 전압이 최대값 또는 최소값인 경우를 감지함으로써 쉽게 판별할수 있다.In the above-described temperature sensing process, the conventional method of detecting whether the temperature sensor is defective was simply to detect an open state or a short state of the temperature sensor. The disconnection failure or short circuit failure can be easily determined by detecting a case where the voltage input to the microcomputer through the temperature sensor is the maximum value or the minimum value.

그러나 상기한 종래의 검출방법은 온도센서의 최종불량현상인 단선고장 또는 단락고장만을 검출하게되어 상기 최종 불량상태로 진행되는 중간불량상태(온도센서의 감지능력 저하)를 전혀 감지할 수 없는 문제점이 있었다. 이러한 문제점은 특히 냉동실 온도를 제어하는데 있어서 약냉을 초래하게 되어 냉동효율을 저하시키는 요인이 되어 왔다.However, the conventional detection method detects only the disconnection failure or the short circuit failure, which is the final failure phenomenon of the temperature sensor, so that it is impossible to detect an intermediate failure state (degradation of the sensing capability of the temperature sensor) that proceeds to the final failure state at all. there was. This problem, in particular, causes a weak cooling in controlling the freezer compartment temperature, which has been a factor of lowering the freezing efficiency.

본 발명은 상기한 문제점을 감안하여 안출된 것으로, 본 발명의 목적은 냉동실의 온도를 감지하는 온도센서의 감지능력 저하에 따른 불량현상을 검출하고, 이를 외부로 알려주어 수리토록 하여줌과 동시에 온도센서의 불량이 검출된 직후부터 고장수리시까지 압축기(COMPRESSOR)의 구동을 온도센서 불량 이전(前)의 상태로 제어하여 고장수리시까지 발생될 수 있는 약냉을 방지하도록 한 냉장고의 온도감지센서 불량검출 방법을 제공하는 것에 있다.The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems, an object of the present invention is to detect a defect caused by a decrease in the sensing capacity of the temperature sensor for detecting the temperature of the freezer compartment, and to inform the outside to repair and at the same time temperature Refrigerator temperature detection sensor that prevents weak cooling that can occur until troubleshooting by controlling the operation of the compressor to the state before the temperature sensor failure from immediately after the failure of the sensor is detected until the troubleshooting It is providing the detection method.

이하 첨부된 도면에 의거하여 본 발명을 설명한다.Hereinafter, the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

제1도는 본 발명이 적용된 회로의 개략도를 나타낸 것으로, 본 발명에 따른 일정 프로그램을 내장한 원칩 마이크로 컴퓨터의 제어부(1)의 입력포트(PI1)에는 온도센서(TH), 저항(R1)(R2), 콘덴서(C1)(C2)로 이루어진 냉동실 온도감지부(2)가 접속되어, 냉동실의 소정부위에 취부된 온도센서(TH)(Negative Temperature Coefficient)가 냉동실의 온도를 감지함에 따라 자체저항이 가변되고, 그에 따라 저항(R1) 양단의 전압이 가변되어 제어부(1)의 입력포트(PI1)에는 가변된 전압이 입력되고, 이 입력전압을 통해 제어부(1)는 냉동실의 온도를 인식한다. 또한, 제어부(1)의 출력포트(PO1)에는 인버터(IV), 다이오드(D1), 릴레이(RY1), 압축기(CP)등으로 이루어진 압축기 구동부(3)가 접속되어, 제어부(1)의 하이레벨신호 출력으로 압축기(CP)는 구동된다. 그 과정을 알아보면 제어부(1)의 출력포트(PO1)로 출력된 하이레벨신호는 인버터(IV)를 통하여 반전되고 그에 따라 릴레이(RY1)가 통전됨으로서 압축기(CP)에 전원(AC)이 인가되기 때무이다.1 is a schematic diagram of a circuit to which the present invention is applied. The input port PI 1 of the controller 1 of the one-chip microcomputer incorporating a predetermined program according to the present invention has a temperature sensor TH and a resistor R 1 . (R 2 ) and a freezer compartment temperature sensing unit (2) consisting of a condenser (C 1 ) and (C 2 ) are connected, and a temperature sensor (TH) mounted at a predetermined portion of the freezer compartment detects the temperature of the freezer compartment. As a result, the self-resistance is variable, and accordingly the voltage across the resistor R 1 is varied so that a variable voltage is input to the input port PI 1 of the controller 1, and the controller 1 is controlled by the input voltage. Recognize the temperature of the freezer compartment. In addition, a compressor driving unit 3 composed of an inverter IV, a diode D 1 , a relay RY 1 , a compressor CP, and the like is connected to the output port PO 1 of the control unit 1. The compressor CP is driven by the high level signal output of the. Looking at the process, the high level signal outputted to the output port PO 1 of the controller 1 is inverted through the inverter IV and the relay RY 1 is energized accordingly, thereby supplying power to the compressor CP. This is because it is authorized.

또한, 제어부(1)의 입력포트(PI1)에는 가변저항(VR), 저항(R3)(R4), 콘덴서(C3)(C4)로 이루어진 냉동실 온도설정부(4)가 접속되어, 사용자가 가변저항(VR)의 저항값을 조절함으로서 임의의 냉동실 온도를 설정할 수 있으며, 이때 가변저항(VR)에 의해 설정된 일정 저항값에 따른 일정전압이 저항(R4)를 통해 제어부(1)의 입력포트(PI2)로 인가되어 제어부(1)는 이 입력신호를 읽어들여 이 신호를 기준으로 냉동실의 온도를 제어한다. 또한, 제어부(1)의 출력보트군(群)(POn)에는 LED(발광다이오드)구동부(5)와 숫자 표시용 LED(6)가 접속되어 상기 온도센서(TH)불량시 제어부(1)는 출력포트군(POn)으로 소정출력을 행하여 LED(6)에는 온도센서(TH)불량에 따른 특정코드(CODE)표시가 디스플레이 된다.Further, the input port of the controller (1) (PI 1) has a variable resistor (VR), a resistance (R 3) (R 4), a capacitor (C3) is (C 4), freezer compartment temperature setting unit (4) consisting of a connected The user may set an arbitrary freezer temperature by adjusting the resistance value of the variable resistor VR, wherein a constant voltage according to the constant resistance value set by the variable resistor VR is controlled by the resistor R 4 . ) it is applied to the input port (PI 2), the control unit 1 of the reads the input signal and controls the temperature of the freezer compartment with respect to this signal. In addition, an LED (light emitting diode) driving unit 5 and a numeric display LED 6 are connected to the output boat group POn of the control unit 1 so that the control unit 1 at the time of the temperature sensor TH failure A predetermined output is made to the output port group POn, and the LED 6 displays a specific code CODE according to the temperature sensor TH failure.

제2도는 본 발명을 설명하기 위한 냉동실 온도를 나타내는 그래프로서, 냉동실의 온도가 영상의 상태일때, 일례로 10℃에서 5℃의 범위에서 냉동실의 온도를 유지하기 위한 압축기의 온(ON), 오프(OFF) 구동주기는 영하의 상태 -18℃에서 -23℃를 유지하기 위한 압축기 온·오프 구동주기보다 더 짧은 것을 알 수 있다. 이와 같이 영상상태시 냉동실 온도곡선(I)과 영하상태시의 온도곡선(II)이 차이를 보이는 것은 압축기의 냉각능력에 기인되는 현상으로 같은 온도를 떨어뜨리는데 있어 영상시보다 영하시가 압축기 구동시간을 길게 된다.2 is a graph showing a freezer compartment temperature for explaining the present invention. When the freezer compartment temperature is in an image state, for example, the compressor is turned on or off to maintain the freezer compartment temperature in a range of 10 ° C to 5 ° C. It can be seen that the (OFF) drive cycle is shorter than the compressor on / off drive cycle to maintain -23 ° C to -23 ° C in the subzero state. The difference between the freezer compartment temperature curve (I) in the image state and the temperature curve (II) in the subzero state is a phenomenon caused by the cooling capacity of the compressor. Becomes long.

이하 제3도(가)(나)의 플로우챠트를 통하여 본 발명의 작용 및 효과를 설명한다.Hereinafter, the operation and effect of the present invention will be described through the flowchart of FIG. 3A.

우선, 전술한 바와 같은 본 발명이 적용된 회로에 전원이 인가되면, 제어부(1)는 냉동실 온도설정부(2)에서 설정한 온도를 읽어들여 이 온도를 기준으로 냉동실 온도를 제어한다. 압축기(CP)구동후 냉동실 온도센서(TH)를 통해 냉동실 온도가 상기 설정한 온도로 내려가면 압축기(CP)를 정지시키고, 냉동실의 온도가 설정된 온도보다 높게 되면 압축기(CP)를 다시 구동시킨다. 이와 같이 1회의 압축기 온,오프 시간을 '압축기 구동주기'라 하고, 이러한 압축기 구동주기가 일정회수(3회) 이상 되면 상기 3회의 압축기 구동주기의 평균주기(시간)(T1)를 산출하고, 압축기 구동주기가 3회 이하일 때는 냉동실 설정온도 검출단계 후의 압축기 구동단계로 복귀하여 이후과정을 수행한다.First, when power is applied to the circuit to which the present invention as described above is applied, the controller 1 reads the temperature set by the freezer compartment temperature setting unit 2 and controls the freezer compartment temperature based on this temperature. After the compressor CP is driven, the compressor CP is stopped when the freezer compartment temperature is lowered to the set temperature through the freezer compartment temperature sensor TH. When the temperature of the freezer compartment is higher than the preset temperature, the compressor CP is driven again. Thus, one compressor on / off time is referred to as a 'compressor drive cycle', and when the compressor drive cycle is more than a predetermined number (three times), the average period (time) T 1 of the three compressor drive cycles is calculated. When the compressor driving cycle is three times or less, the process returns to the compressor driving step after the freezing chamber set temperature detection step and performs the subsequent process.

그리고 그 다음 압축기의 구동주기부터는 매회 구동주기(시간)(T2)를 산출하고, 이를 상기한 초기 3회의 압축기 평균구동주기(T1)와 비교하여 비교결과 T1과 T2가 유사하면 압축기 구동주기(T1)3회 평균시간 산출단계 후의 압축기 구동단계로 복귀하여 이후 과정을 수행하나, 압축기 구동주기(T2)가 압축기 평균구동주기(T1)보다 길게 되면, 실제 냉동실의 온도가 높음에도 낮은 온도로 검출하는 냉동실 온도센서(TH)의 불량으로 판단하여 LED구동부(5)로 온도센서(TH)불량에 따른 특정코드 표시가 LED(6)에 디스플레이되도록 소정출력하여 외부로 알려주고, 다음부터의 압축기 운전을 상기 압축기 평균구동주기(T1)로 제어하는 것이다.And that calculates the next each time the driving cycle (time) (T 2) starting the driving period of the compressor, and the average driving cycle this end, the initial three compressors (T 1) and the comparison result T when 1 and T 2 are similar to the compressor as compared The driving cycle (T 1 ) is returned to the compressor driving stage after the average time calculating step three times, and the subsequent process is performed. However, when the compressor driving cycle (T 2 ) is longer than the compressor average driving cycle (T 1 ), the actual freezer temperature is increased. Judging that the freezer temperature sensor (TH) detects a low temperature even at a high temperature, the LED driver 5 outputs a predetermined code so that the specific code display according to the temperature sensor (TH) defect is displayed on the LED (6) and informs the outside, The compressor operation from the next time is controlled by the compressor average driving period T 1 .

이상에서와 같이 본 발명은 냉동실 온도센서에 불량이 발생하면 이를 곧바로 외부로 알려주어 수리토록 하여주고, 수리가 되기까지의 기간동안 냉동실의 온도를 거의 정상적으로 구동할 수 있으므로, 자칫 발생하기 쉬운 약냉을 방지하여 냉동효율을 높일 수 있는 장점이 있다.As described above, in the present invention, when a defect occurs in the freezer compartment temperature sensor, it is immediately notified to the outside for repair, and the freezer compartment can be driven almost normally during the period until repair, so that it is easy to cause weak cooling. There is an advantage to increase the refrigeration efficiency by preventing.

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온도센서(TH)를 채용하여 냉동실의 온도를 감지하는 냉동실 온도감지부(2), 압축기(CP)를 구동시키는 압축기 구동부(3)및 숫자표시용 LED(6)를 구동하는 LED구동부(5)등을 구비하고, 마이크로 컴퓨터인 제어부(1)의 제어로 구동되는 냉장고의 온도센서 불량검출방법에 있어서, 압축기 구동주기 초기 일정회수 동안의 압축기 평균구동주기(T1)를 산출하는 과정과, 상기 압축기 평균구동주기(T1)산출후, 다음 압축기구동주기부터는 매회 압축기 구동주기(T2)를 산출하는 과정과, 상기 압축기 구동주기(T2)산출후, 상기 압축기 평균구동주기(T1)와 압축기 구동주기(T2)를 비교하는 과정과, 상기 압축기 평균구동주기(T1)와 압축기 구동주기(T2)를 비교하여 두개의 주기가 유사할 때는 압축기 구동주기(T1)평균시간 산출단계 후의 압축기 구동단계로 복귀하고, 상기 압축기 평균구동주기(T1)에 비해 압축기 구동주기(T2)가 클 경우 온도센서(TH)불량 코드신호를 LED(6)로 출력하는 과정과, 상기 온도센서(TH)불량시, 압축기 평균구동주기(T1)로 압축기(CP)를 제어하는 과정을 구비하여 된 것을 특징으로 하는 냉장고의 온도센서 불량검출방법.The freezing chamber temperature sensing unit 2 for sensing the temperature of the freezer compartment by employing the temperature sensor TH, the compressor driving unit 3 for driving the compressor CP, and the LED driving unit 5 for driving the LED 6 for number display. In the method for detecting a temperature sensor failure of the refrigerator driven by the control of the control unit 1, which is a microcomputer, the method comprising: calculating a compressor average drive cycle (T 1 ) during the initial predetermined number of compressor drive cycles; After calculating the compressor average drive cycle (T 1 ), the process of calculating the compressor drive cycle (T 2 ) every time from the next compressor drive cycle, and after calculating the compressor drive cycle (T 2 ), the compressor average drive cycle (T 1 ) Comparing the compressor drive cycle (T 2 ) with the compressor average drive cycle (T 1 ) and the compressor drive cycle (T 2 ), when the two cycles are similar, the compressor drive cycle (T 1 ) average time. Return to the compressor driving step after the calculating step, When the compressor drive cycle (T 2 ) is larger than the compressor average drive cycle (T 1 ), the process of outputting a temperature sensor (TH) failure code signal to the LED (6), and when the temperature sensor (TH) failure, Defective detection method of the temperature sensor of the refrigerator, characterized in that it comprises the step of controlling the compressor (CP) in the average drive cycle (T 1 ).
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