TWI770380B - Detection device and method for wet clothes - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a detection device for wet clothes and a method thereof. The main structure includes a dehumidification device. The dehumidification device is provided with an infrared temperature detection element and a processing element that can swing and scan arbitrarily up, down, left and right arcs. The infrared temperature detector will be connected with the information of the processing element, so that the infrared temperature detector can perform temperature detection on a clothes drying area in a scanning manner of swinging up, down, left and right arcs, and divide the clothes drying area into a plurality of individual areas. The device calculates the average temperature of individual areas, and calculates the dehumidification area through the average temperature, so that the dehumidification equipment can dehumidify the dehumidification area. Since the object of comparison is not the room temperature but the average temperature, it can be more accurate. Know the location of wet clothes for more efficient and energy-saving advantages.

Description

Detection device and method for wet clothes

The present invention provides a detection device and method for wet clothes with better efficiency and energy saving.

Press, in the current society where every inch of land is expensive, the space available for each home is getting smaller and smaller, and even many apartments or buildings do not have external balconies in order to save space, but only have indoor space, resulting in Many modern families will dry the washed wet clothes indoors. However, if the wet clothes are dried indoors, not only the drying effect is slow, but also the indoor humidity is too heavy, which is easy to produce bacteria or make people feel uncomfortable. .

Therefore, most households drying clothes indoors will cooperate with dehumidifying equipment to dehumidify the clothes and prevent the indoor air from becoming too humid. The efficiency will be poor, and the energy consumption will be more serious, so there are dehumidification devices on the market that sense and blow dry air to the area of wet clothes to achieve the dehumidification effect. However, such devices are often used for room temperature. It is relatively standard, and the area with a lower temperature than room temperature is used as the area for wet clothes, but this method is relatively inaccurate, so it still has the problem of consuming more energy and time.

Therefore, how to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems and deficiencies is the direction that the inventors of the present invention and related manufacturers in the industry are eager to research and improve.

Therefore, in view of the above deficiencies, the inventors of the present invention collected relevant information, evaluated and considered from various parties, and based on years of experience accumulated in this industry, through continuous trials and revisions, before designing this kind of clothes drying area. The average temperature is used as a comparison standard, thereby achieving energy saving and improving dehumidification efficiency of the wet clothes detection device and the invention patentee of the method.

The main purpose of the present invention is to use the infrared temperature sensor to detect the temperature of the clothes drying area, calculate the average temperature of the clothes drying area, and then dehumidify the lower temperature position, thereby saving energy and improving efficiency. The advantages.

In order to achieve the above objects, the main structure of the present invention includes: a dehumidification device, an infrared temperature detecting element arranged on the dehumidifying device, and a processing element arranged in the dehumidifying device and connected to the infrared temperature detecting element.

With the above structure, the user can hang the wet clothes on the clothes drying position, and aim the dehumidifying device at the clothes drying area of the wet clothes. At this time, the processing element will divide the clothes drying area into a plurality of individual areas. Then use the infrared temperature detector to detect the temperature of the individual area through the scanning method of the up, down, left and right arc swing, to calculate an average temperature through the temperature of the individual area, and define the individual area with a lower temperature than the average temperature as hanging wet clothes The dehumidification area of the dehumidification device is used to dehumidify the dehumidification area, so as to achieve the advantages of saving energy and improving the dehumidification efficiency.

With the above-mentioned technology, a breakthrough can be made to solve the problem of poor efficiency of conventional dehumidification equipment, and the practical progress of the above-mentioned advantages can be achieved.

1. 1a‧‧‧Dehumidification equipment

11‧‧‧Air outlet

111‧‧‧Wind direction adjustment department

12a‧‧‧Humidity detection device

13a‧‧‧Indoor ambient temperature

2. 2a‧‧‧Infrared temperature detector

3‧‧‧Processing components

31, 31a‧‧‧Temperature judgment circuit

32, 32a‧‧‧Temperature calculation circuit

33‧‧‧Dehumidification judgment circuit

300‧‧‧Clothing area

301, 301a, 301b, 301c, 301d‧‧‧Individual areas

The first figure is a perspective perspective view of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

The second figure is a schematic block diagram of the structure of the preferred embodiment of the present invention.

The third figure is a flow chart of the steps of the preferred embodiment of the present invention.

The fourth figure is a schematic diagram of the detection of the preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 5 is a schematic diagram of a detection block according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 6 is a schematic diagram of the determination of the dehumidification area according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 7 is a perspective perspective view of yet another preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 8 is a schematic block diagram of the structure of another preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 9 is a flow chart of the steps of still another preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 10 is a schematic diagram of a detection block according to another preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 11 is a schematic diagram of determining the dehumidification area according to another preferred embodiment of the present invention.

In order to achieve the above objects and effects, the technical means and structures adopted by the present invention are described in detail with reference to the preferred embodiments of the present invention, and the features and functions are as follows, so as to be fully understood.

Please refer to Figures 1 to 6, which are three-dimensional perspective views of a preferred embodiment of the present invention to schematic diagrams for determining the dehumidification area. It can be clearly seen from the figures that the present invention includes: a dehumidification device 1, a dehumidification device 1 There is an air outlet 11 and an air direction adjusting part 111, the air outlet 11 is located on the dehumidifying device 1, and the air direction adjusting part 111 is a fan blade arranged at the air outlet 11, and the air outlet 11 can discharge dry air for the required dehumidification. The dehumidification action is performed in the area of the dehumidifier, and the wind direction adjustment part 111 can change the direction of the dry air discharged from the air outlet 11; an infrared temperature detection part 2 arranged on the dehumidification device 1, and the infrared temperature detection part 2 can be oscillated by an arc of up, down, left and right. and a processing element 3 arranged in the dehumidifying device 1, the processing element 3 is an electronic circuit board, and in this embodiment has a temperature determination circuit 31, A temperature calculation circuit 32 and a dehumidification determination circuit 33. The temperature determination circuit 31 is connected to the infrared temperature detection element 2 to receive the temperature detected by the infrared temperature detection element 2. The temperature determination circuit 31 determines the temperature of the clothes drying area 300. Divided into a plurality of individual areas 301, the temperature calculation circuit 32 is arranged at the side of the temperature determination circuit 31, and is informationally connected with the temperature determination circuit 31 to calculate the average temperature of the individual areas 301, and the dehumidification determination circuit 33 is arranged in the temperature calculation circuit 32. It is connected to the temperature calculation circuit 32 to receive the temperature and the average temperature of the individual area 301 to calculate the dehumidification area, and control the wind direction adjustment part 111 to perform dehumidification action for the dehumidification area.

From the above description, one can understand the structure of the present technology, and according to the corresponding cooperation of the structure, it can have the advantages of saving energy and increasing the dehumidification efficiency, and the detailed explanation will be described below.

When configured by the above-mentioned components, it can be clearly seen from the figure that the use method of the present invention is: (a) detecting the temperature of the drying area through an infrared temperature detector on the dehumidifying equipment; (b) detecting the infrared temperature The temperature detected by the piece is transmitted to the processing element on the dehumidifying device, and the processing element divides the drying area into a plurality of individual areas; (c) the processing element calculates an average temperature through the temperature of the individual areas; (d) the The individual areas whose temperature is lower than the average temperature are defined as dehumidification areas; (e) dehumidification operation is performed for the dehumidification area by using dehumidification equipment; and (f) when the temperature difference between the temperature of these individual areas and the average temperature decreases, the dehumidification equipment is stopped dehumidification action.

As described in the above steps, the user can hang the wet clothes on the clothes drying area 300 first, and then aim the dehumidifying device 1 at the clothes drying area 300, and then use the infrared temperature detector 2 to detect the temperature of the clothes drying area 300. The temperature value is transmitted to the temperature determination circuit 31 in the processing element 3, and the temperature determination circuit 31 will divide the received temperature into a plurality of individual area 301 temperatures (as shown in the fourth figure, the clothes drying area 300 is divided into There are 49 individual areas 301) in total, and the value of the temperature of each individual area 301 is sent to the temperature calculation circuit 32, the temperature calculation circuit 32 will calculate an average temperature through the temperature of each individual area 301, and the temperature of each individual area 301 will be calculated. The values of the temperature and the average temperature are sent to the dehumidification determination circuit 33, and the dehumidification determination circuit 33 will define the individual area 301 whose temperature is lower than the average temperature as the dehumidification area (as shown in the sixth figure, the temperature of the individual area 301a is low At the average temperature, the individual regions 301a are defined as dehumidification regions), and the air direction adjusting part 111 is controlled to align the dry air discharged from the air outlet 11 to the dehumidification region for dehumidification, so that the dehumidification effect can be achieved, and when the infrared rays When the temperature difference between the temperature of the dehumidification area detected by the temperature detection element 2 and the average temperature is reduced to within a predetermined range (for example, the original temperature difference is 6 degrees, and after the dehumidification action, the temperature difference is reduced to 3 degrees), then the processing element 3 The dehumidification device 1 will be controlled to stop, that is, the air outlet 11 will stop blowing dry air continuously, so as to end the dehumidification operation.

Since the method of determining the dehumidification area is to compare with the average temperature of the individual area 301 , rather than the conventional comparison with the ambient temperature, the location of the dehumidification area can be calculated more accurately, so the dehumidification area can be determined more accurately for dehumidification. Therefore, the dehumidification time can be reduced to improve the efficiency of use, and the reduction of the use time can naturally reduce the energy consumption, so it can also have the advantage of saving energy.

Please also refer to Figures 7 to 11, which are three-dimensional perspective views of still another preferred embodiment of the present invention to schematic diagrams for determining the dehumidification area. For example, there are similarities with minor differences, except that a humidity detection device 12a is provided on the dehumidification device 1a, so that the dehumidification device 1a can calculate a wet bulb temperature through the humidity detection device 12a in conjunction with the indoor ambient temperature 13a. Humidity, the temperature reached when the humidity of the area is saturated (relative humidity reaches 100%), and the indoor ambient temperature 13a in this embodiment is the temperature detected by the infrared detection element 2a, but it is not limited, and other By adding a thermometer to detect, you can use the following methods: (a) Detect the temperature of the drying area through an infrared temperature detector on the dehumidifier; (b) Send the temperature detected by the infrared temperature detector to the dehumidifier In the processing element, the processing element divides the drying area into a plurality of individual areas; (b1) a wet bulb temperature is calculated by using a humidity detection device provided on the dehumidification equipment in conjunction with an infrared temperature detection element; (c) The processing element calculates an average temperature through the temperature of the individual area, and the average temperature is the average temperature calculated for the remaining individual areas after deducting the individual areas whose temperature is higher than the indoor ambient temperature and the temperature is lower than the wet bulb temperature; (d) Dehumidification zones are defined as individual areas with a temperature lower than the average temperature; (e) Dehumidification operations are performed on the dehumidification zones by using dehumidification equipment; and (f) When the temperature difference between the individual zones and the average temperature decreases, Then stop the dehumidification action of the dehumidifier.

As described in the above steps, in this embodiment, the humidity detection device 12a will transmit the ambient humidity to the temperature calculation circuit 32a, so that the temperature calculation circuit 32a will pass through the temperature information of the temperature determination circuit 31a, and also based on the humidity and the indoor ambient temperature. 13a Calculates the wet bulb temperature in the indoor environment, and when calculating the average temperature, the individual regions 301c with a temperature higher than the ambient temperature and the individual regions 301d with a temperature lower than the wet bulb temperature are removed, and a more accurate average temperature is calculated (with the As shown in Figure 11, the individual areas 301c whose temperature is higher than the ambient temperature may be heat sources such as water heaters and radiators, and wet clothes are low temperature due to being filled with water. Therefore, in theory, the temperature of wet clothes will be the same as the wet bulb temperature. Therefore, if the temperature of the individual area 301d is lower than the wet bulb temperature, it may be caused by reasons other than wet clothes, such as air conditioners, windows, or entrances and exits. The average temperature can be more accurately calculated for the area that causes the temperature change), and the individual area 301b that can be used as the dehumidification area can be more accurately calculated according to the average temperature, so as to increase the efficiency and convenience of use again.

However, the above descriptions are only the preferred embodiments of the present invention, which do not limit the patent scope of the present invention. Therefore, all simple modifications and equivalent structural changes made by using the contents of the description and drawings of the present invention should be the same. Included in the scope of the patent of the present invention, it is hereby stated.

Therefore, the detection device and method for wet clothes of the present invention can improve the conventional technology. The key lies in:

1. The average temperature calculated by the individual area 301 is used as the standard value, thereby calculating the dehumidifying area where the wet clothes exist, so as to achieve better use efficiency and energy saving effect.

2. Cooperate with the wet bulb temperature and indoor ambient temperature to improve the accuracy of calculating the dehumidification area.

To sum up, in order to achieve the effect and purpose of the wet clothes detection device and the method thereof of the present invention in use, the present invention is an invention with excellent practicability, and in order to meet the application requirements of the invention patent, The application is filed in accordance with the law, and I hope that the review committee will grant the invention to the invention as soon as possible to protect the inventor's hard work.

1‧‧‧Dehumidification equipment

11‧‧‧Air outlet

111‧‧‧Wind direction adjustment department

2‧‧‧Infrared temperature detector

3‧‧‧Processing components

31‧‧‧Temperature judgment circuit

32‧‧‧Temperature calculation circuit

33‧‧‧Dehumidification judgment circuit

Claims (6)

A detection device for wet clothes, which mainly includes: a dehumidification device, which is used for dehumidifying a dehumidification area; an infrared temperature detection piece, the infrared temperature detection piece is arranged on the dehumidification device, and detects a The temperature of the clothes drying area, the dehumidification equipment is provided with a humidity detection device, and the infrared temperature detection element cooperates with the humidity detection device to calculate a wet bulb temperature; and a processing element, the processing element is arranged in the dehumidification equipment, It is connected with the information of the infrared temperature detection piece, and the processing element divides the drying area into a plurality of individual regions, and calculates the average temperature of the individual regions through the temperature measured by the infrared temperature detection piece, so as to The individual areas whose temperature is lower than the average temperature are defined as the dehumidification area, and the average temperature is calculated after excluding the individual areas whose temperature is higher than the indoor ambient temperature and lower than the wet bulb temperature. According to the detection device for wet clothes as described in item 1 of the claimed scope, when the temperature difference between the temperature of the individual areas and the average temperature is reduced, the dehumidifying device ends the dehumidification operation. The detection device for wet clothes as described in item 1 of the scope of the application, wherein the dehumidifying device has an air outlet and an air direction adjusting part, the air outlet is for blowing out dry air, and the air direction adjusting part is arranged at the air outlet to change the position of the air outlet, thereby blowing dry air to the dehumidifying area through the air outlet to perform the dehumidifying action. A method for detecting wet clothes, the steps comprising: (a) detecting the temperature of a drying area through an infrared temperature detector on a dehumidifying device; (b) transmitting the temperature detected by the infrared temperature detecting device to the dehumidifying device In the above processing element, and the processing element divides the drying area into a plurality of individual areas; (b1) utilizes a humidity detection device provided on the dehumidification equipment to cooperate with the infrared temperature detection element to calculate a wet bulb temperature; (c) the processing element calculates an average temperature through the temperature of the individual areas, and the average temperature is for the remaining individual areas after deducting the individual areas whose temperature is higher than the indoor ambient temperature and the temperature is lower than the wet bulb temperature (d) defining the individual areas with temperatures lower than the average temperature as dehumidification areas; and (e) using the dehumidification equipment to perform dehumidification operations on the dehumidification areas. The method for detecting wet clothes as described in item 4 of the scope of the patent application, wherein the step (e) is followed by the step (f), when the temperature difference between the temperature of the individual areas and the average temperature is reduced, the dehumidification is stopped. The dehumidification action of the device. The detection method for wet clothes as described in item 4 of the scope of the application, wherein the dehumidifying device has an air outlet and an air direction adjusting part, the air outlet is for blowing out dry air, and the air direction adjusting part is arranged at the air outlet to change the position of the air outlet, thereby blowing dry air to the dehumidifying area through the air outlet to perform the dehumidifying action.

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