EP3401431A1 - Mehrtrommelwaschmaschine und steuerungsverfahren dafür - Google Patents

Mehrtrommelwaschmaschine und steuerungsverfahren dafür Download PDF

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EP3401431A1
EP3401431A1 EP17735861.1A EP17735861A EP3401431A1 EP 3401431 A1 EP3401431 A1 EP 3401431A1 EP 17735861 A EP17735861 A EP 17735861A EP 3401431 A1 EP3401431 A1 EP 3401431A1
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Wenwei Li
Jun Wu
Haibo Wang
Jinkai Wang
Rongshuai CAI
Xiao NING
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
    • D06F29/00—Combinations of a washing machine with other separate apparatus in a common frame or the like, e.g. with rinsing apparatus
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
    • D06F31/00—Washing installations comprising an assembly of several washing machines or washing units, e.g. continuous flow assemblies
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
    • D06F34/00—Details of control systems for washing machines, washer-dryers or laundry dryers
    • D06F34/28—Arrangements for program selection, e.g. control panels therefor; Arrangements for indicating program parameters, e.g. the selected program or its progress
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
    • D06F2101/00—User input for the control of domestic laundry washing machines, washer-dryers or laundry dryers
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
    • D06F2105/00—Systems or parameters controlled or affected by the control systems of washing machines, washer-dryers or laundry dryers
    • D06F2105/58—Indications or alarms to the control system or to the user
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
    • D06F23/00—Washing machines with receptacles, e.g. perforated, having a rotary movement, e.g. oscillatory movement, the receptacle serving both for washing and for centrifugally separating water from the laundry 
    • D06F23/02—Washing machines with receptacles, e.g. perforated, having a rotary movement, e.g. oscillatory movement, the receptacle serving both for washing and for centrifugally separating water from the laundry  and rotating or oscillating about a horizontal axis
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
    • D06F37/00—Details specific to washing machines covered by groups D06F21/00 - D06F25/00
    • D06F37/02—Rotary receptacles, e.g. drums
    • D06F37/04—Rotary receptacles, e.g. drums adapted for rotation or oscillation about a horizontal or inclined axis

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  • the present disclosure relates to a technical field of design and manufacture of washing machines, in particular relates to a multi-drum washing machine and a control method therefor.
  • An ordinary drum washing machine is a single-drum washing machine.
  • a washing machine with a large capacity such as a large washing machine over 6 kg, is generally selected by a family.
  • the pace of life is getting faster and faster.
  • many problems occur in the use of the above-mentioned washing machines.
  • clothes may be divided into adult clothes, underwear and children's clothes.
  • the washing machines are used for several times just for performing separated washings, which requires a lot of washing time and consumes a lot of energy.
  • the washing process set in a large washing machine generally consumes a large amount of water and a large amount of electricity as well.
  • the washing process set by the large washing machine is expected to be mainly general clothes, and may not be suitable for washing fine clothes such as underwear or children's clothing, etc.
  • a double-drum washing machine has been developed in a related art.
  • Such a double-drum washing machine has a large-capacity washing drum and a small-capacity washing drum that are driven individually or simultaneously, and performs separate washing operations in each drum. It is as if that the user should use two drum washing machines with different capacities at the same time, without occupying additional physical space. It is possible to flexibly perform washings simultaneously or separately according to the washing amount and the type of washing clothes.
  • the present disclosure provides a multi-drum washing machine and a control method therefor to solve the problem of controlling each washing dram of the multi-drum washing machine so as to reduce the manufacturing cost of the multi-drum washing machine.
  • Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a multi-drum washing machine, including:
  • the plurality of washing drums share a part or all of the input control elements and the output display elements, and shared input control elements and/or shared output display elements uniquely correspond to an operating program of one of the washing drums by selecting one of the washing drums at the time of operation and serve as input elements or output elements of one of the washing drums.
  • a selection switch is disposed on the control panel for designating one of the washing drums.
  • the switch is a button or a rotary knob.
  • a plurality of the washing drums have respective separate output display elements, and only the input control elements are shared.
  • the plurality of the washing drums have respective separate input control elements, and only the output display elements are shared.
  • the plurality of the washing drums share the input control elements and the output display elements.
  • control panel has a power switch served as a total control power switch.
  • the input control element and the output display element are a same button.
  • the embodiments of the present disclosure also provides a control method of a multi-drum washing machine, which adopts the multi-drum washing machine provided by any one embodiment of the present disclosure, and the method includes:
  • input control elements and output display elements are provided on the control panel.
  • a plurality of washing drums share all or a part of the input control elements and the output display elements.
  • the corresponding washing program is retrieved, and the above-mentioned input control elements and/or output display elements are associated with the washing program as a corresponding input and output of one of the washing drums so that operations and controls of a plurality of washing drums are incorporated with a set of control systems.
  • FIG. 1 a schematic diagram of the appearance of a double-drum washing machine is provided.
  • the washing machine is equipped with an upper drum 1 and a lower drum 2 in a machine body to form a pair of separate washing drums, and has a control panel 3 at the same time.
  • the capacity of the upper drum 1 is usually designed to be small, generally 2-3 kg
  • the capacity of the lower drum 2 is designed to be large, generally 6-8 kg, which is also beneficial to lower of the overall washing machine's center of gravity.
  • two separate washing drums can be operated separately or simultaneously. For a user, it is as if that there should be two drum washing machines with different capacities at the same time, and there are more choices when the user faces various washing conditions at home.
  • the upper drum can be used for the fine washing of single or small batches of clothes
  • the lower drum can be used for washing large items of clothing, such as the cleaning of bed sheets.
  • the two batches of washing can be performed simultaneously, and the waiting time can be reduced. From the aspect of actual use effect, it provides the advantages of saving time and energy.
  • the drum washing machine involves the control of two independent washing drums (the upper and lower washing drums)
  • the composition of the control system of the double-drum washing machine is shown in FIG. 2 .
  • the user performs settings of a variety of laundry parameters and programs through the control panel.
  • the IC controller performs a communication connection with the control panel, the input parameter of the control panel is received, a selected program is inputted, and instructions are sent to the driving circuit.
  • the driving circuit drives the corresponding operations of the upper drum or the lower drum, and the corresponding IC controller transmits the working state parameters of the corresponding drum in real time to the control panel for a real-time display, so as to facilitate the user's control over a washing process.
  • the control panel may adopt structures shown in FIGS. 3 to 5 .
  • the areas in the control panel can be divided into an input control unit 4, an output display unit 5, 6 and a switching unit 7.
  • the input control unit 4 is composed of six buttons of "temperature”, “rotation speed”, “wash”, “rinse”, “reserve” and “clean”, as input control elements 9, and all the input control elements in the input control unit 4 are taken as common parts of the upper and lower drums.
  • the output display unit 5 is also composed of a plurality of output display elements 10, which respectively correspond to the displays of the selected parameters at the time of inputting the input control elements of the upper drum as "temperature”, “rotation speed”, “wash”, “rinse”, “reserve” and "clean".
  • the output display unit 6 is also composed of a plurality of output display elements, which respectively correspond to the displays of the selected parameters at the time of inputting the input control elements of lower drum as "temperature”, “rotation speed”, “wash”, “rinse”, “reserve” and "clean".
  • the corresponding upper or lower drum is selected by the selection of the switching unit 7. As shown in FIG.
  • the upper drum is selected, shared input control elements uniquely correspond to the operating procedure of the upper drum, and the IC controller transfers the above-mentioned input parameters to the corresponding operation program.
  • shared control elements 9 are merely used as the input of a control program the upper drum, and the output display units of the corresponding upper and lower drums are independent, e.g. the "rotation speed” is 900 rpm for the upper drum and 1000 rpm for the lower drum; and the "washing" is 30 minutes for the upper drum and 20 minutes for the lower drum. This enables the real-time status of the operation of the washing machine to be more visible.
  • FIG. 6 Another option of the structure of the control panel is shown in FIG. 6 .
  • the area of the control panel is divided into an input control unit 4 and an output display unit 5.
  • the corresponding output display unit 5 is formed by a plurality of output display elements 10, which are served as common output display elements.
  • Each input control unit 4 is formed by six buttons marked with "temperature”, “rotation speed”, “wash”, “rinse”, “reserve” and “clean” as the input control elements 9, and each of the six buttons corresponds to the input control elements of control programs of the upper and lower drum.
  • the corresponding upper or lower drum is selected by the selection of the switching unit 7. As shown in FIG.
  • the upper drum is selected at this time, and the common output display elements uniquely correspond to the operating procedure of the upper drum.
  • the IC controller outputs the status parameters of the upper drum in real-time through the above display elements.
  • the upper drum has a "temperature” of 60 °C, a "rotation speed” of 800 rpm, a "washing" time of 30 minutes and “rinse” for three times. At this time, the inputs of the upper and lower drums are inputted through separate control elements.
  • FIG. 7 A third option of the structure of the control panel is shown in FIG. 7 .
  • the area of the control panel is divided into an input control unit 4 and an output display unit 5.
  • the corresponding output display unit 5 is formed by a plurality of output display elements 10, which are served as common output display elements.
  • the input control unit 4 is formed by six buttons marked with "temperature”, “rotation speed”, “wash”, “rinse”, “reserve” and “clean” as the input control elements 9, which are also served as common output display elements.
  • the corresponding upper or lower drum is selected by the selection of the switching unit 7. As shown in FIG. 7 , the upper drum is selected at this time, and the common output display elements and the common input control elements uniquely correspond to the operating procedure of the upper drum.
  • the IC controller outputs the status parameters of the upper drum in real-time through the above display elements.
  • the upper drum has a "temperature” of 60 °C, a “rotation speed” of 800 rpm, a “washing” time of 30 minutes and “rinse” for twice.
  • the advantage of this solution is that the input and output functions necessary for separately controlling the upper and lower drums can be satisfied with merely using a set of common input control elements and common output display elements.
  • Another advantage of the embodiments of the present disclosure is that, for two or more separate washing drums, no major changes are required for their respective control systems, i.e. only one separate system needs to be maintained during maintenance, which is of practical significance to the later software upgrading of the product, such as the increasing demands of the customers driven by the Internet.
  • one power switch 8 can be separately configured as the total power control.
  • the corresponding switching unit 7 also can be configured in a variety of external forms.
  • a single button can be used for switching.
  • a knob can be used for performing selections and switching.
  • FIG. 8 shows a fourth possible selection of the structure of the control panel.
  • the rotary knob can be used as a selection switch, a rotation direction serves as the input control elements, and program items on both sides serve as the output display elements.
  • the corresponding input control elements and output display elements are shared, and the washing drum is selected by a selection switch. As shown in the figure, it is used as the output of the lower drum.
  • a corresponding input control element and an output display element are configured on a same button position, which is used as an input and also as an output status.
  • the "chemical fiber” washing program is selected at this time, and at the same time, just at this time, the corresponding "chemical fiber” button lights up as the output of the state.
  • FIG. 10 correspondingly shows a flow chart of the control method applied in the above-mentioned washing machine.
  • the washing machine When the washing machine is operated, it includes the following steps: in S110, acquiring a selection instruction of a corresponding washing drum by a washing machine, and in S120, retrieving a background control program of the washing drum and enabling shared input control elements and/or shared output display elements to uniquely correspond to the operating procedure of one of the washing drums and serve as input elements or output elements of one of the washing drums.
  • the background control program of the washing drum is configured to be retrieved according to the structure of the control panel, only the input control element is used as an input element, and when the background control program of the washing drum is retrieved, only the output control elements are used as output elements.
  • the embodiment of the present disclosure provides a multi-drum washing machine and a control method therefor, which achieves a set of control systems incorporating the operation and control of a plurality of washing drums. It replaces a superposition of conventionally simple hardware and reduces the number of the input control units and the output display units of the multi-washing drum washing machine control panel, thereby simplifying the hardware structure of the control panel, reducing the cost of the hardware of the washing machine and contributing to the later upgrade and maintenance of the control system.

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