KR0177066B1 - Operation control method by real area calculating of a humidifier - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method of controlling a heater operation of a humidifier by calculating a full scale of a humidifier, and more particularly, to a method of controlling a heater operation of a humidifier by operating a vibrator, a fan motor and a heater to convert water into minute water particles, A first step of detecting a current time while humidifying a specific space and determining whether a humidity reaches a predetermined value in a specific space; and a step of detecting the current time after stopping the operation of the vibrator and the heater when the humidity reaches a predetermined value A second step of calculating a time taken until the humidity reaches a predetermined value, a third step of reading the corresponding humidity corresponding to the humidification time from the table, and a third step of adjusting the humidification mode of the humidifier according to the humidity, The user is not required to set the specific space to be humidified separately, It is possible to accurately set the size of the space to be used.

Description

Control method of heater operation of humidifier by calculation of full scale of humidifier.

The present invention relates to a humidifier.

In particular, the present invention relates to a method for controlling the operation of a heater of a humidifier by calculating the full scale of a humidifier that senses the size of a specific space to be humidified and performs each of the balanced purge modes based on the detected humidity.

1, the conventional humidifier includes a key input unit 12 for inputting various states such as operation time reservation, humidification time, spray amount, desired humidity, etc. of the humidifier, A microprocessor 20 for controlling the overall operation of the humidifier according to the input, a constant voltage unit 10 for maintaining the input power supply at a constant voltage of a constant level and supplying the power to the microprocessor 20 as operating power, A temperature sensing unit 16 for sensing the ambient temperature and supplying the sensed temperature to the microprocessor 20 and a control unit 20 for controlling the temperature of the humidifier 20, A display unit 28 for receiving a control signal outputted from the microprocessor 20 and informing the state of the humidifier, An alarm unit 26 for outputting a predetermined alarm sound according to a control signal of the microprocessor 20 to notify the operating state of the humidifier and a humidifying circuit 24 for performing a humidifying operation by a control signal of the microprocessor 20 A fan for sucking outside air so that fine particles of water generated and sprayed by the humidification circuit section 24 under the control of the microprocessor 20 are discharged to the outside, And a motor driving unit 22.

In the conventional humidifier configured as described above, when the humidification switch of the key input unit 12 is turned on to set the desired humidity, the set time, and the comfortable humidity to drive the humidifier, the input AC power is rectified And is applied to the microprocessor 20. The microprocessor 20 reads the ambient humidity sensed by the humidity sensing unit 14 by the voltage input from the constant voltage unit 10 and compares the ambient humidity with the conditions set in the key input unit 12. [ If the desired humidity and temperature set by the user are higher than those sensed by the humidity sensing unit 14, the water sensing unit 18 senses the presence or absence of water in the body of the humidifier.

At this time, if it is determined that there is no water in the water tank of the humidifier, an alarm sound is generated through the alarm unit 26, and if there is water, humidification is started by driving the humidification circuit unit 24 under the control of the microprocessor 20. Further, under the control of the microprocessor 20, the fan motor of the fan motor driving section 22 is driven, and fine water particles generated by the humidification circuit section 24 are blown to the outside of the humidifier to humidify a specific space.

In this humidifier, there is a purge mode that allows a specific space to be humidified in an arbitrary humidification mode. In the case of the equilibrium purge mode, humidifying a specific space while switching the humidification mode corresponding to the corresponding humidity is set .

However, in the equilibrium purge mode, it is inconvenient to manually set the size of the space to be humidified. Further, since the size of the space to be humidified is visually calculated and set, the accuracy is low.

Disclosure of the Invention The present invention has been conceived to overcome the above-mentioned drawbacks of the prior art, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a humidity control apparatus and a humidity control method, The present invention provides a method of controlling a heater operation of a humidifier by calculating a real number of a humidifier,

In order to accomplish the above object, the present invention provides a method of operating a vibrator, a fan motor, and a heater to convert water into fine water particles to humidify a specific space, A first step of detecting a current time and determining whether a humidity reaches a predetermined value in a specific space; and a second step of stopping the operation of the vibrator and the heater when the humidity reaches a predetermined value, A third step of reading the corresponding number corresponding to the humidification time from the table, a fourth step of executing each of the equilibrium purge modes by adjusting the humidification mode of the humidifier according to the corresponding number, And the like.

1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a conventional humidifier,

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an operation state of a humidifier for achieving the object of the present invention;

3 is a graph showing the relationship between the humidification level and the time.

Description of the Related Art [0002]

0: constant voltage section 12: key input section

14: Humidity sensing unit 16: Temperature sensing unit

18: level detecting section 20: microprocessor

22: Fan motor driving part 24: Humidification circuit part

26: alarm unit 28: display unit

Mod Pleasure Humidifier operating time One 10 minutes 2 20 minutes 3 30 minutes 4 40 minutes 5 50 minutes 6 60 minutes Indefinite More than 60 minutes

The present invention is constituted by a key input unit, a microprocessor, a constant voltage unit, a humidity sensing unit, a temperature sensing unit, a water level sensing unit, a display unit, an alarm unit, a humidification circuit unit, and a fan motor driving unit as in the conventional humidifier.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an operation state of the humidifier according to the present invention. In operation of humidifying a specific space by converting water into minute water particles by operating a vibrator, a fan motor, and a heater, the vibrator, the fan motor, A first step of detecting a current time while humidifying the space and determining whether a humidity reaches a predetermined value in a specific space; a step of stopping the operation of the vibrator and the heater when the humidity reaches a predetermined value, A second step of computing a time taken until the humidity becomes equal to a predetermined value, a third step of reading the corresponding humidity corresponding to the humidification time from the table, and a third step of adjusting the humidification mode of the humidifier The fourth step is performed.

The humidifier detects the current humidity by the humidity sensor (S1), and confirms whether the power is switched to the on state by the key input (S2). If it is determined that the power is not turned on, the microprocessor determines whether the water level sensor is turned on or not. The microprocessor outputs a control signal to the alarm unit to drive the buzzer (S4), and then confirms whether the alarm sound is outputted a predetermined number of times (e.g., 10 times) or more.

If the result is not outputted more than a predetermined number of times (for example, 10 times), the buzzer is continuously driven by half by outputting a control signal to the alarm unit. However, if the buzzer is outputted more than a predetermined number of times (S5) the light emitting diode is turned on by outputting a control signal to the display unit and there is no water in the water tank or there is an abnormality in the discharge port of the water tank (the passage for supplying the water to the humidification tank from the water tank) . However, when the water level sensing unit is determined to be off, the desired humidity set by the key input is stored in the internal memory.

Then, the oscillator is operated in the turbo mode (S6) in order to determine the specific space, while the fan motor and the heater are operated in the ON state (S7) (S8), and the time data supplied from the timer IC The current time is detected (S9). Next, it is determined whether the humidity of a specific space humidified by the operation of the vibrator, the fan motor, and the heater is detected to be equal to or higher than a predetermined value (50% is explained as an example) (S10). When the humidity of the specific space is detected to be less than a predetermined value, the vibrator, the fan motor, and the heater are continuously operated to humidify the specific space. However, when the humidity value of the specific space is detected as a predetermined value or more, The current time is detected by the time data supplied from the IC (S11), and the operation of the vibrator, the fan motor, and the heater is stopped (S12) (S13).

After stopping the operation of the vibrator, the heater, and the fan motor, the time obtained by subtracting the time at which the vibrator, the fan motor, and the heater were initially operated from the time when the humidity of the specific space was detected to be a predetermined value or more, The time required for the humidity of the specific space to rise to a predetermined value is calculated (S14). After the time is calculated, a table corresponding to the humidification time is read from the table stored in the RAM as shown in FIG. 3, and the balance mode for executing the humidification mode of the humidifier is determined (S16). That is, as shown in FIG. 3, a certain number of pungs (1 pyeong, 10 pyeong, 20 pyeong, 30 min, 40 min, 2 pyeong, 3 pyeong, 4 pyeong, 5 pyeong, 6 pyeong, unlimited) is to judge.

In the case where the space to be humidified is 3 pyeong (S17), the operation of the humidifier is controlled so that the 3-pyeong fuzzy mode can be performed. For this purpose, before the vibrator, the heater and the fan motor are operated, To delay the operation of them for a certain period of time so that the humidity of the original humidity can be maintained.

In more detail, when the 3-balance purge mode is recognized, the timer is operated (S18) to count the time at which the oscillator and the heater are stopped, and it is determined whether the predetermined time has elapsed (S19). If the predetermined time has not elapsed, the operation state of the vibrator and the heater is continuously maintained (S20) (S21), and when the predetermined time has elapsed, the operation of the timer is stopped (S22) and each balance purge mode is performed.

This time delay operation is performed not only in the 3-balanced type fuzzy mode but also in the 3.5-pyeong, 4-pyeong, and 4.5-pyeong fuzzy modes, so that detailed description of the time delay operation in these balanced fuzzy modes is omitted. After finishing the time delay, the oscillator is set to weak mode (S23), and the fan motor and heater are turned on (S24) to detect the current humidity. Then, the magnitude relation is determined (S27) in comparison with the desired humidity set at the key input (S26). If the current humidity is higher than the desired humidity, the vibrator and the heater are switched to the off state (S28) (S29), and the magnitude relationship between the current humidity and the desired humidity set by the key input is determined (S27) Repeat. However, if the current humidity is lower than the desired humidity, a timer is operated (S30) to count the operation time of the vibrator, the heater and the fan motor, and it is determined whether the operation time of the vibrator, the fan and the motor has exceeded a predetermined time (S31).

Subsequently, when it is determined that they have been operated for a predetermined time, the operation of the timer is stopped, and at the same time, the magnitude relation between the current humidity and the reference humidity (50%) is compared (S33). Thus, if the current humidity is higher than the reference humidity, the heater operates in the weak mode (S34) while performing the 3-phase purge mode. When the reference humidity is higher than the current humidity, the general 3-balance purge mode is performed. The operation for maintaining the humidity in each of the balanced purge modes is the same as the operation modes of the vibrator and the heater, but the remaining operations are the same, so detailed description of the humidity maintenance operation will be omitted in each of the balanced purge modes described below.

Next, when the 3.5 pyeong fuzzy mode is recognized (S35), the fan motor and the heater are turned on (S38) to operate the rear vibrator having a time delay (S36) While controlling the humidity of 3.5 pyeong space (S39). Next, when the average of the specific space is recognized as the 4-balance type purge mode (S40), the rear vibrator having the time delay S41 of a certain time is operated to the strong mode S42, the fan motor and the heater are operated to the on state S43 To adjust the humidity of 4 pyeong space (S44) while humidifying 4 pyeong space. (S45), the fan is driven to the turbo mode (S47) with a time delay (S46) of a certain time, the fan motor and the heater are turned on (S48) Adjust the humidity of 4.5 pyeong space (S49).

However, in the infinite balanced purge mode S50, the current humidity is detected (S53) while the vibrator is operated in the turbo mode (S51), the heater and the fan motor are turned on (S52) (S55). If the desired humidity is higher than the current humidity, the oscillator is continuously operated in the turbo mode (S51) and the heater and the fan motor are turned on (S52). On the contrary, if the desired humidity is lower than the current humidity, (S56) (S57), the above-described operation is repeated while determining the magnitude relationship in comparison with the desired humidity set by the key input and the current humidity.

Thus, the humidity of the specific space can be adjusted more appropriately.

The present invention detects the time required for the humidity of a specific space to rise to a predetermined value while humidifying the specific space by operating the vibrator, the heater and the fan motor, calculates the average of the specific space to be humidified based on the detected humidity, By operating the vibrator, the heater, and the fan motor to perform the balanced purging mode, it is not necessary to set the specific space to be humidified separately, and it is possible to accurately set the space to be humidified.

Claims (8)

By operating the vibrator, the fan motor and the heater to convert water into fine water particles to humidify a specific space, A first step of operating the vibrator, the fan motor, and the heater to detect a current time while humidifying a specific space and determining whether the humidity reaches a predetermined value in a specific space; A second step of stopping the operation of the vibrator and the heater when the humidity reaches a predetermined value and then detecting the current time and calculating the time taken until the humidity reaches a predetermined value; A third step of reading the corresponding water level corresponding to the humidification time from the table; And performing a fourth step of adjusting the humidification mode of the humidifier according to the predetermined water level and executing each of the balanced purge modes. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein in step 3, when the humidification time is 10 minutes, it is determined to be 1 pyeong, and when the humidification time is increased by 10 minutes, A method of controlling the operation of a heater of a humidifier. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein in the step 4, the 3-balance purge mode detects the current humidity while operating the vibrator in the weak mode, the fan motor and the heater in the ON state, And controlling the heater operation of the humidifier by calculating the full scale of the humidifier. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein in the step (4), the 3.5-balanced purge mode detects the current humidity while operating the vibrator as a middle mode, the fan motor and the heater are in an ON state, and controls the operation of the current humidity to maintain the desired humidity And controlling the operation of the humidifier based on the actual rate of the humidifier. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein in the step 4, the 4-balance purge mode detects the current humidity while operating the vibrator in the strong mode, the fan motor and the heater in the ON state, And controlling the heater operation of the humidifier by calculating the full scale of the humidifier. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in step 4, the 4.5-balance purge mode detects the current humidity while operating the vibrator in the turbo mode, the fan motor and the heater in the ON state, And controlling the heater operation of the humidifier by calculating the full scale of the humidifier. The method of any one of claims 3 to 6, wherein each of the balanced purge modes is performed after having a time delay of a predetermined time before performing each of the balanced purge modes. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein in the step (4), the infinite equilibrium purge mode detects the current humidity while operating the vibrator in the turbo mode and the heater and the fan motor in the ON state, And controlling the heater operation of the humidifier by calculating the full scale of the humidifier.