CN114606717A - Clothes treatment equipment and control method and control system thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses a clothes treatment device and a control method and a control system thereof, wherein the clothes treatment device control method comprises the steps of obtaining information of a washing and protecting additive; calling a washing and caring program, wherein the washing and caring program allows at least one washing and caring additive to be put in; and associating the washing program with corresponding washing additive releasing information which allows releasing. The control system comprises an acquisition unit, a storage unit and a control unit, wherein the acquisition unit is used for acquiring the type of the washing and caring additive; and the processing unit is connected with the acquisition unit, receives the information of the washing and protecting additive acquired by the acquisition unit, and calls and associates a washing and protecting program allowing the washing and protecting additive to be put according to the information of the washing and protecting additive. According to the invention, before the clothes treatment equipment runs, the adaptive washing and protecting program is obtained according to the information of the washing and protecting additive, so that the problem of clothes damage caused by putting the washing and protecting additive which is not suitable for the washing and protecting program is avoided.

Description

Clothes treatment equipment and control method and control system thereof

Technical Field

The invention belongs to the field of clothes treatment equipment, and particularly relates to clothes treatment equipment and a control method and a control system thereof.

Background

With the development of automation technology, home appliances such as clothes treatment equipment become more and more intelligent. For example, some washing machines can automatically dispense detergent; some washing machines may also recommend a washing program or the like to the user before washing the laundry.

At present, when a washing machine recommends a washing program to a user, the washing machine recommends corresponding washing parameters to the user according to parameters such as clothes types, clothes amounts and the like and according to preset standards, such as heating temperature, washing time, rinsing time, motor rotation-stop ratio, dosage of washing additives and the like. However, the association between wash additives and wash programs is often neglected in these recommended parameters.

The washing and protecting additive plays an important role in the washing and protecting process of clothes, along with the development of chemical technology, the types of the washing and protecting additive are more and more, and the feeding requirement of the clothes washing and protecting on the additive is higher and higher. The different types of wash-care additives allow different wash-care procedures due to their different types and compositions, e.g., normal, concentrated, super-concentrated or neutral, acidic, alkaline, etc. If only the dosage of the washing and caring additive is concerned in the washing and caring program and the influence of parameters such as the type or the components of the washing and caring additive on the washing and caring program is ignored, the washing and caring effect of the clothes is not ideal, the material of the clothes is damaged in severe cases, and the service life of the clothes is shortened.

In view of the above, the present invention is particularly proposed.

Disclosure of Invention

The technical problem to be solved by the invention is to overcome the defects of the prior art and provide a control method of a clothes treatment device, which aims to obtain an adaptive washing and caring program according to the information of a washing and caring additive before the clothes treatment device runs and avoid the problem of clothes damage caused by putting the washing and caring additive which is not suitable for the washing and caring program.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a control system for a clothes treatment apparatus, which can ensure the suitability of a washing program and a washing additive by providing a processing unit capable of calling and associating the washing program allowing the washing additive to be added according to the information of the washing additive, thereby preventing the clothes from being damaged due to the addition of the washing additive which is not suitable for the washing program.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide a laundry treatment apparatus control system, which uses a mobile terminal to achieve the purpose of calling and associating a laundry program allowing to put in the laundry additive according to the information of the laundry additive, and also can achieve the purpose of running a newly added laundry program adapted to a greater variety of laundry additives on an existing laundry treatment apparatus.

It is a further object of the present invention to provide a laundry treating apparatus, employing the control method as described above, and/or having the laundry treating apparatus control system as described above.

In order to solve the technical problems, the invention adopts the technical scheme that:

a laundry treating apparatus controlling method includes,

acquiring information of the washing and protecting additive;

calling a washing and caring program, wherein the washing and caring program allows at least one washing and caring additive to be put in;

and associating the washing program with corresponding washing additive releasing information which allows releasing.

Further, the step of acquiring the information of the washing and protecting additive is a step executed after adding a new washing and protecting additive or replacing a new washing and protecting additive.

Further, the washing and protecting program and the adding information of the washing and protecting additive are stored in a correlated mode and used for directly calling the adding information of the washing and protecting additive corresponding to the washing and protecting program when the washing and protecting program is started;

the information stored last time is updated every time the newly stored wash additive and wash program associated information.

Further, the step of acquiring the information of the laundry care additive is a step of starting the laundry treatment device for execution.

Further, the information for obtaining the laundry additive includes,

acquiring the type of the washing and protecting additive by detecting the components of the washing and protecting additive;

and/or, acquiring the type of the washing and protecting additive by identifying the container label information of the washing and protecting additive;

and/or receiving information input by a user to acquire the type of the washing and caring additive;

preferably, the laundry additive comprises a main wash and a builder.

Further, the step of calling the washing and nursing program comprises,

receiving a washing and protecting program which is matched with the information of the washing and protecting additive and allowed to be put and sent by the mobile terminal or the cloud;

preferably, the wash-and-care program comprises a main wash program and an additional program.

Furthermore, each washing and caring program is correspondingly associated with the putting information of at least one group of washing and caring additives, and the clothes treatment equipment has the default associated washing and caring additive putting information corresponding to the washing and caring programs;

preferably, the user can modify/select the laundry care additive feeding information allowed by the laundry care program, or the laundry treatment device can call the laundry care additive feeding information allowed by the laundry care program according to the load amount, and/or the load material, and/or the dirt degree, and/or the water inflow, and/or the water quality, and/or the water temperature.

Further, the adding information of the washing and protecting additive comprises the type of the washing and protecting additive, the storage position of the washing and protecting additive and the adding time sequence of the washing and protecting additive;

and the washing and protecting program controls the washing and protecting additive to be timely put in according to the type of the washing and protecting additive, the storage position of the washing and protecting additive and the putting time sequence of the washing and protecting additive which are correspondingly associated.

Further, the control method further comprises the step of,

dividing the washing and protecting program into a selectable washing and protecting program and a washing and protecting program forbidden to be selected according to the relation between the washing and protecting program and the obtained washing and protecting additive information;

wherein the selectable wash care programs are programs associated with at least one of the wash care additives, and the prohibited wash care programs are programs not associated with any of the wash care additives.

Further, the method comprises the following steps of,

s1, receiving a starting instruction of the washing and protecting program;

s2, calling the putting information of the washing and caring additive corresponding to the washing and caring program;

and S3, performing washing and protecting.

A laundry treating apparatus control system includes

The acquisition unit is used for acquiring the information of the washing and caring additive;

and the processing unit is connected with the acquisition unit, receives the information of the washing and protecting additive acquired by the acquisition unit, and calls and associates a washing and protecting program allowing the washing and protecting additive to be put according to the information of the washing and protecting additive.

Further, the acquisition unit comprises a washing and protecting additive component detection unit and/or an electronic identification unit and/or an information input unit.

The washing and protecting system further comprises a server connected with the processing unit, and washing and protecting program information matched with the washing and protecting additive is stored in the server and is called by the processing unit.

Further, the control system further comprises,

the washing and protecting additive feeding module is provided with a plurality of storage chambers for storing different types of washing and protecting additives;

the washing and protecting additive feeding module is connected with the processing unit, and the processing unit receives the information of the washing and protecting additive and also receives the storage position of the washing and protecting additive in the washing and protecting additive feeding module;

the laundry additive feeding module and the clothes treatment equipment are two sets of mutually independent equipment, or the laundry additive feeding module is installed inside or outside the clothes treatment equipment.

A laundry treating apparatus control system includes,

the mobile terminal is used for acquiring the information of the washing and protecting additive and matching a selectable washing and protecting program according to the information of the washing and protecting additive;

and the control unit is in communication connection with the mobile terminal and is used for receiving selectable washing program information which is sent by the mobile terminal and matched with the washing additive.

Further, the control system further comprises,

the washing and protecting additive feeding module is provided with a plurality of storage chambers for storing the washing and protecting additives;

the mobile terminal is in communication connection with the mobile terminal, and receives the storage position of the washing and protecting additive in the washing and protecting additive feeding module when acquiring the information of the washing and protecting additive;

the laundry additive feeding module and the clothes treatment equipment are two sets of mutually independent equipment, or the laundry additive feeding module is installed outside the clothes treatment equipment.

A clothes treatment device adopts the control method and/or the control system of the clothes treatment device.

After the technical scheme is adopted, compared with the prior art, the invention has the following beneficial effects.

1. The control method of the clothes treatment equipment can acquire the adaptive washing and caring program according to the information of the washing and caring additive before the clothes treatment equipment runs, and avoids the problem that the clothes are damaged due to the fact that the washing and caring additive which is not suitable for the washing and caring program is put in the clothes treatment equipment.

2. According to the control system of the clothes treatment equipment, the treatment unit capable of calling and associating the washing and protecting program allowing the washing and protecting additive to be put in is arranged according to the information of the washing and protecting additive, so that the adaptability of the washing and protecting program and the washing and protecting additive is guaranteed, and the condition that clothes are damaged due to the fact that the washing and protecting additive which is not suitable for the washing and protecting program is put in is avoided.

3. The control system of the clothes treatment equipment utilizes the mobile terminal to call and associate the washing and protecting program allowing the washing and protecting additive to be put in according to the information of the washing and protecting additive, and can also run the newly added washing and protecting program adaptive to more different kinds of washing and protecting additives on the existing clothes treatment equipment.

The following describes embodiments of the present invention in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the invention, are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the invention and together with the description serve to explain the invention without limiting the invention to the right. It is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments, and that for a person skilled in the art, other drawings can be derived from them without inventive effort. In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a flow chart of a control method of a clothes treating apparatus according to the present invention;

FIG. 2 is another schematic flow chart of a control method of a laundry treating apparatus according to the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a control system of the laundry treating apparatus according to the present invention;

FIG. 4 is another schematic view of the control system of the clothes treating apparatus of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is still another schematic view of the control system of the laundry treating apparatus according to the present invention;

in the figure: 100. an acquisition unit; 200. a processing unit; 300. a server; 400. a wash additive delivery module; 500. a computer board of the laundry treating apparatus; 600. a mobile terminal; 700. a control unit.

It should be noted that the drawings and the description are not intended to limit the scope of the inventive concept in any way, but to illustrate it by a person skilled in the art with reference to specific embodiments.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and the following embodiments are used for illustrating the present invention and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that the terms "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "inner", "outer", etc. indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplicity of description, but do not indicate or imply that the referred devices or elements must have specific orientations, be constructed in specific orientations, and be operated, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, e.g., as meaning either a fixed connection, a removable connection, or an integral connection; can be mechanically or electrically connected; may be directly connected or indirectly connected through an intermediate. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood in specific cases to those skilled in the art.

As shown in fig. 1 to 5, the present invention provides a laundry treating apparatus control method and a control system, wherein as shown in fig. 1 and 2, the laundry treating apparatus control method of the present invention comprises the steps of:

acquiring information of the washing and protecting additive;

calling a washing and caring program, wherein the washing and caring program allows at least one washing and caring additive to be put in;

and associating the washing program with corresponding washing additive releasing information which allows releasing.

Specifically, different washing and protecting additives have different components and uses, and users usually buy corresponding types of washing and protecting additives according to the needs of families; in addition, with the development of chemical technology, the types of the washing and protecting additives suitable for nursing clothes are more and more, the requirements for nursing clothes by adopting the washing and protecting additives are higher and higher, different washing and protecting programs also need different types of washing and protecting additives, and the clothes can be better washed and protected by obtaining the washing and protecting program matched with the washing and protecting additives.

Preferably, the types of the wash-care additive include a main wash and a builder, and the main wash includes each type of detergent; builders are functionally classified as softeners, bleaches, disinfectants, odorants, and the like.

Whether the main or builder is classified from an acid-base standpoint, includes acidic wash care additives, neutral wash care additives, and alkaline wash care additives.

The washing and caring program comprises a main washing program and an additional program which can be called.

The main washing program comprises washing and protecting programs aiming at different fabric materials, such as mixed washing, cotton fabric washing, linen fabric washing, silk fabric washing, wool fabric washing, polyester fabric washing, down jackets and the like; and washing and protecting programs aiming at different processes, such as rinsing, dewatering, washing and rinsing, can also be included.

The additional programs include disinfection, sterilization, steam, self-cleaning, etc. to achieve different functions.

Each washing and caring program is related to the control parameters of the clothes processing equipment, such as heating temperature, rotating speed, rotating-stopping ratio, running time and the like.

Different types, components and pH value of the washing and protecting additives are different from washing and protecting programs suitable for nursing clothes.

For example, for cotton fabrics, it is strongly alkali resistant but not acid resistant, while for silk fabrics, it is wash-free with alkaline water, suitable for neutral wash-care additives. If all the washing and protecting additives are found to be alkaline washing and protecting additives after the information of the washing and protecting additives is obtained, the corresponding cotton fabric washing aiming at the cotton fabrics is a washing and protecting program which is allowed to be carried out, and the corresponding silk fabric washing aiming at the silk is a washing and protecting program which is not allowed to be carried out.

The allowed cotton fabric washing and protecting program for the cotton fabrics is associated with the information of the washing and protecting additive, and when the cotton fabric washing and protecting program is operated, the washing and protecting additive is put in according to the program preset according to the program in time and quantity.

That is, the washing and protecting program for washing and protecting silk fabrics does not appear in the called washing and protecting program, and the silk fabric washing is not recommended to the user. If a user wants to care silk fabrics, the washing and protecting additive suitable for silk fabrics, such as a silk wool detergent, is replaced, so that the washing and protecting additive is associated with a washing and protecting program, the care effect of the clothes treatment equipment on clothes is greatly improved, and the clothes can be prevented from being damaged due to the fact that the user does not know the washing and protecting additive.

In some embodiments of the invention, obtaining information about the wash additive is a step performed after adding a new wash additive or replacing a new wash additive. That is, after adding a new detergent additive or replacing a new detergent additive, the information of the detergent additive needs to be obtained again, and the information of the detergent additive obtained last time is used to call the detergent program without adding a new detergent additive or replacing a new detergent additive.

In detail, in the case of a dispensing device having an automatic dispensing function, which has a storage container for storing a detergent additive, when the detergent additive in the storage container is not used up, the information of the detergent additive is not changed in general, and when the same kind of detergent additive is replenished into the original storage container, the information of the detergent additive is not changed, but when the storage container is taken out and then is placed therein, it is not certain whether the type of the detergent additive is changed, and therefore, the step of obtaining the information of the detergent additive should be performed. The storage container is a disposable and replaceable container, and can also be a reusable container capable of being replenished with liquid.

It will be appreciated that the above embodiments are equally applicable to dispensing devices that do not have an automatic dispensing function. For example, the user may decide when to add new wash additives or to renew wash additives. And if the user does not update the information of the washing and caring additive, calling the washing and caring program by using the information of the washing and caring additive acquired last time.

In a specific scheme, the washing and protecting program and the adding information of the washing and protecting additive are stored in a correlated mode and used for directly calling the adding information of the washing and protecting additive corresponding to the washing and protecting program when the washing and protecting program is started; the information stored last time is updated every time the newly stored wash additive and wash program associated information.

In some other embodiments of the present invention, the step of obtaining the information of the laundry additive may be a step performed when the laundry treating apparatus is powered on.

In detail, for the step of acquiring the information of the detergent additive performed each time the washing machine is started in this embodiment, the information of the detergent additive does not need to be stored, and the information of the detergent additive is acquired each time the washing machine is started, and then the washing program adapted to the information of the detergent additive is called.

In addition, in the embodiment, the step of acquiring the information of the laundry additive is performed every time the laundry treatment apparatus is started, which is of practical significance for some special cases. For example, for publicly used laundry treatment devices, laundry additives are needed to be carried by users, and laundry additives carried by different users are different. When the clothes treatment equipment is started, the information of the washing and protecting additive carried by the user can be obtained, one or more washing and protecting programs matched with the washing and protecting additive carried by the user are called, and if at least one washing and protecting program is suitable for the clothes needing nursing by the user, the next operation can be carried out for washing and protecting. If all the invoked washing programs are not matched with the clothes to be cared by the user, the user should replace the washing and caring additive when finding that the clothes treatment equipment does not provide the optional washing and caring programs.

The information of the washing and protecting additive can be obtained by adopting the following implementation mode in the scheme:

alternatively, the type of wash-care additive is determined by detecting the wash-care additive composition. In detail, an additive component detecting unit capable of detecting a wash-care additive component, such as a micro spectrometer or a probe, is provided. It can be understood that the additive component detection unit can be arranged on the clothes treatment equipment local machine, and can also be arranged on an additive feeding module which is relatively independent from the clothes treatment equipment local machine.

In a further alternative embodiment, the type of laundry additive is determined by identifying container label information for the laundry additive. For example, containers of laundry additives purchased by consumers are often provided with container labels that embed information regarding the contents of the laundry additives, such as usage, ph, amount, etc. The container label can be a two-dimensional code, a bar code and the like, and relevant information of the washing and protecting additive in the container is obtained by scanning the information of the container label; the washing care additive can also be an RFID electronic tag and the like, and the related information of the washing care additive in the washing care additive can be obtained through the identification of an electronic identifier.

In a further alternative embodiment, the information received from the user is used to determine the type of laundry additive. In detail, the user can manually input or select the information marked on the label of the container of the washing and caring additive so as to fetch the washing and caring program matched with the washing and caring additive for the user to select.

The above alternative embodiments may be implemented in combination or separately.

In some embodiments of the invention, the step of invoking the washing program comprises:

and receiving the washing programs which are allowed to be put and matched with the information of the washing additives and sent by the mobile terminal 600 or the cloud.

In detail, for the existing clothes treatment device, there is not enough washing programs embedded in the computer board and capable of calling the washing programs adapted to the washing programs based on various types of washing additives, but the existing clothes treatment device generally has a communication module capable of wirelessly communicating with the mobile terminal 600 or the cloud. Therefore, after the mobile terminal 600 or the cloud retrieves a washing and caring program allowing to put at least one washing and caring additive based on the acquired information of the washing and caring additive, the washing and caring program can be transmitted to the computer board 500 of the existing clothes processing device through the communication module, so that the computer board can execute the washing and caring process according to the received washing and caring program.

In some embodiments of the present invention, each laundry program corresponds to at least one set of laundry additive delivery information, and the laundry treatment device has default associated laundry additive delivery information corresponding to the laundry program.

Preferably, the user can modify/select the dosing information of other wash additives allowed by the wash program, or the laundry treatment device can call the dosing information of other wash additives allowed by the wash program according to the load amount, and/or the load material, and/or the degree of soiling, and/or the water inflow, and/or the water quality, and/or the water temperature.

In a further aspect, the information about the laundry care additive includes a type of the laundry care additive, a storage location of the laundry care additive, and a timing sequence of the laundry care additive.

And the washing and protecting program controls the washing and protecting additive to be timely put in according to the type of the washing and protecting additive, the storage position of the washing and protecting additive and the putting time sequence of the washing and protecting additive which are correspondingly associated.

In detail, it is assumed that there are n different washing and protecting additives X1, X2, X3, … … XN, and there are m different washing and protecting programs Y1, Y2, Y3, … … YM that can be selected for the n different washing and protecting additives. The operation parameters in the wash program Y1 allow the wash additives X1, X2, XN to be dosed, and the wash program Y1 is associated with the dosing information of the wash additives X1, X2, XN. For example, the amounts and timing of the laundry additives X1, X2, and XN put in when the laundry program Y1 is running and the storage locations of the laundry additives X1, X2, and XN are associated by default, and when the user selects the laundry program Y1 to perform the laundry, the laundry additives X1, X2, and XN are put in the associated relationship by default.

Optionally, when the operating parameters in the wash program Y1 allow the wash additives X1, X2, and XN to be dosed, the dosing information of the wash additives X1, X2, and XN is associated with the wash program Y1, but the user may modify the dosing information of the wash additives X1, X2, and XN. For example, the amount and timing of the dosing can be modified by the user, and the user can also cancel the dosing information for one or two of the wash additives X1, X2, XN.

The laundry treating apparatus or the user may make the above-mentioned modification based on the load amount, and/or the load material, and/or the degree of contamination, and/or the water inflow, and/or the water quality, and/or the water temperature.

After the modification is completed, when the user selects the wash program Y1, the execution is performed according to the modified delivery information.

In the above scheme, the washing and caring program is divided into the selectable washing and caring program and the washing and caring program prohibited from being selected according to the relationship between the washing and caring program and the acquired washing and caring additive information.

Wherein the selectable wash care programs are programs associated with at least one of the wash care additives, and the prohibited wash care programs are programs not associated with any of the wash care additives.

The selectable washing programs can be selected by the user to carry out the washing treatment of the clothes, and the washing programs which are forbidden to be selected can not be selected by the user to carry out the washing treatment of the clothes. If the user selects the washing course for which the selection is prohibited, the laundry treating apparatus is not activated and an alarm message is issued. In the scheme, when all the washing and protecting additives are alkaline washing and protecting additives, the corresponding cotton fabric washing aiming at cotton fabrics is the selectable washing and protecting program, and the corresponding silk fabric washing aiming at silk is the washing and protecting program forbidden to be selected. That is, at this time, "silk washing" is prohibited from being selected by the user.

Specifically, as shown in fig. 2, the laundry treating apparatus controlling method of the present invention includes the steps of,

s1, receiving a starting instruction of the washing and protecting program;

s2, calling the putting information of the washing and caring additive corresponding to the washing and caring program;

and S3, performing washing and protecting.

The following steps are performed before step S1:

s01, acquiring the information of the washing and protecting additive;

s02, calling a washing and caring program, wherein the washing and caring program allows at least one washing and caring additive to be put in;

and S03, determining the washing and caring program.

In detail, when a new laundry additive is added or the laundry additive is updated or the machine is started, the information of all the laundry additives is acquired, the laundry program allowing to put at least one laundry additive is called for the user to select, after the user/the laundry processing device selects the determined laundry program, the computer board 500 of the laundry processing device receives the starting instruction of the laundry program, then the computer board controls the laundry processing device to execute the determined laundry program, and the putting information of the laundry additive corresponding to the laundry program is called in the execution process.

According to the scheme, the washing and protecting program is associated with the information of the washing and protecting additive before the washing and protecting program of the clothes processing equipment is operated, and the problems that the washing and protecting effect of clothes is not ideal and the clothes are damaged due to the fact that the washing and protecting program which is not suitable for the washing and protecting additive is operated are avoided.

As shown in fig. 3, the laundry treating apparatus control system of the present invention includes an acquiring unit 100 and a treating unit 200.

Wherein the obtaining unit 100 is used for obtaining the type of the wash-care additive. The acquisition unit 100 comprises a wash additive component detection unit and/or an electronic identification unit and/or an information input unit.

In detail, the additive component detection unit may be a micro spectrometer or a probe, etc. It is understood that the additive component detecting unit may be disposed on the laundry treating apparatus itself, and may also be disposed on an additive dispensing module independent from the laundry treating apparatus itself.

The electronic identification unit can have a scanning function, or an electronic identification function, and the like, and can acquire the information of the washing and caring additive by identifying the container label information of the washing and caring additive.

The information input unit may have a selection function or an input function for manually inputting or selecting the wash additive information to be transmitted to the processing unit 200 after the user reads the information marked on the container label of the wash additive.

The processing unit 200 is connected to the obtaining unit 100, and is configured to receive the information of the laundry care additive obtained by the obtaining unit 100, and call and associate a laundry care program allowing to put in the laundry care additive according to the information of the laundry care additive.

In an alternative embodiment, after receiving the information of the laundry care additive from the obtaining unit 100, the processing unit 200 invokes a laundry care program allowing to put in the laundry care additive from preset laundry care programs and associates the invoked laundry care program with the information of the laundry care additive.

Generally, the preset washing and caring programs comprise a plurality of washing and caring programs capable of being matched with the washing and caring additives for a user to select, the user selects a determined washing and caring program from the plurality of washing and caring programs according to the information of clothes to be nursed, and when the clothes treatment equipment runs the determined washing and caring program, the preset washing and caring program calls the putting information of the washing and caring additives correspondingly associated with the washing and caring program. The preset washing and protecting program can be preset in the clothes treatment equipment, and also can be preset in an additive feeding module which is relatively independent from the clothes treatment equipment.

In the above scheme, by setting the processing unit 200 capable of calling and associating the washing and caring program allowing the washing and caring additive to be put in according to the information of the washing and caring additive, the adaptability of the washing and caring program and the washing and caring additive is ensured, and the phenomenon that the washing and caring program which is not suitable for the washing and caring additive runs to damage clothes is avoided.

In a further alternative embodiment, as shown in fig. 4, the laundry treatment apparatus control system further includes a server 300, the server 300 is connected to the processing unit 200, and the server 300 stores therein washing program information matched with the washing additives for the processing unit 200 to call.

In the above solution, the processing unit 200 may be connected to the server 300 through wireless communication, and retrieve the washing and caring program information matched with the washing and caring additive from the server 300. A large amount of washing program information matched with the washing additive is stored in the server 300 and is called by the processing unit 200. The wash care program information stored in the server 300 can be updated in real time, and the problem that no wash care program is matched with the increase of the type or the component of the wash care additive can be solved.

In a further aspect, the laundry treatment apparatus control system further includes a laundry additive dispensing module 400, and the laundry additive dispensing module 400 is provided with a plurality of storage chambers for storing different types of laundry additives.

The washing and caring additive feeding module 400 is connected with the processing unit 200, and the processing unit 200 receives the information of the washing and caring additive and also receives the storage position of the washing and caring additive in the washing and caring additive feeding module 400.

In an optional scheme, the laundry additive feeding module 400 and the laundry treatment apparatus are two sets of apparatuses independent from each other, or the laundry additive feeding module 400 is installed inside or outside the laundry treatment apparatus.

In the above scheme, both the obtaining unit 100 and the processing unit 200 may be disposed on the laundry additive feeding module 400, or the obtaining unit 100 is disposed on the laundry additive feeding module 400 and the processing unit 200 is disposed on the laundry treatment apparatus.

For the wash additive dosing module 400 described above, a dosing module body may also be included. The throwing module body is provided with the storage chamber, a throwing water channel and a pump. The water throwing-discharging road is provided with a water inlet, a feed inlet and a liquid outlet.

And the feed inlet of the water throwing-off water channel is communicated with the storage chamber through a pump and is used for sucking the washing and protecting additive from the storage chamber into the water throwing-off water channel. The water inlet of the water throwing-releasing road is communicated with a water source at home of a user and is used for flushing and diluting the washing and protecting additive when water enters the water throwing-releasing road. The liquid outlet of the water feeding and discharging passage is connected with the water inlet of a washing drum of the clothes treatment equipment and is used for guiding the solution mixed with the washing protection additive and water into the washing drum to protect and treat clothes. The storage chambers may be separate containers, each containing a wash-and-care additive, and may be a disposable container or a container for multiple fluid refills.

If the washing and protecting additive feeding module and the clothes treatment equipment are two sets of mutually independent equipment, the liquid outlet of the feeding and discharging water channel is preferably communicated with the water inlet of the clothes treatment equipment.

In the present invention, after the processing unit 200 retrieves the selectable washing program capable of matching with the washing additive, the washing program is selected by the user or automatically selected by the laundry treatment apparatus according to various parameters of load and/or various parameters of water intake, the selected washing program is finally transmitted to the computer board 500 of the laundry treatment apparatus, and the computer board 500 of the laundry treatment apparatus controls the laundry treatment apparatus to execute the washing course. Of course, in the process of executing the washing and caring process, the adding information of the washing and caring additive corresponding to the washing and caring program should be called to control the adding module 400 to add the washing and caring additive.

Also, as shown in fig. 5, the laundry treating apparatus control system of the present invention includes a mobile terminal 600 and a control unit 700.

The mobile terminal 600 is configured to obtain information of the laundry care additive and match a selectable laundry care program according to the information of the laundry care additive.

The control unit 700 is in communication connection with the mobile terminal 600, and is configured to receive selectable washing program information that is sent by the mobile terminal 600 and matched with the washing additives.

In the above scheme, the steps of acquiring the information of the washing and caring additive and matching the selectable washing and caring program according to the information of the washing and caring additive are all completed on the mobile terminal 600. The invention utilizes the mobile terminal 600 to call and associate the washing and protecting program allowing the washing and protecting additive to be put in according to the information of the washing and protecting additive, and can also run newly-added washing and protecting programs adaptive to more different kinds of washing and protecting additives on the existing clothes treatment equipment.

In detail, the mobile terminal 600 is provided with an APP for remotely controlling the laundry treatment device, and the APP is embedded with an interface for acquiring information of the laundry additive and an interface for matching a selectable laundry program.

When the user clicks the interface for acquiring the information of the washing and caring additive, the APP automatically jumps to the scanning page, and the user scans the scanner of the mobile terminal 600 aiming at the container label of the washing and caring additive, so that the information of the washing and caring additive can be acquired.

And when the user clicks an interface for acquiring the information of the washing and protecting additive, the APP automatically jumps to a page where the user can input the information of the washing and protecting additive by himself, and the user fills or selects the information item by item according to the requirements of the page to finally acquire the information of the washing and protecting additive.

Or the additive feeding module relatively independent from the clothes treatment device local machine acquires the information of the washing and caring additives and sends the information to the APP on the mobile terminal 600.

After the step of acquiring the information of the washing and protecting additive is completed, the APP automatically jumps to a page matched with the selectable washing and protecting program, and the APP displays the selectable washing and protecting program matched with the washing and protecting additive and the washing and protecting program which is forbidden to be selected and not matched with the washing and protecting additive on the page after a series of algorithms.

Or the node for acquiring the information of the washing and protecting additive is determined by the user, when the user inputs all or part of the information of the washing and protecting additive, the user clicks an interface of the selectable washing and protecting program matched with the user, and the APP displays the selectable washing and protecting program matched with the washing and protecting additive and the selection-forbidden washing and protecting program unmatched with the washing and protecting additive in a page after passing through a series of algorithms.

The selectable washing and caring program and the washing and caring program prohibited from being selected may be selected by the user after the mobile terminal 600 sends the control unit 700 of the laundry processing device, or may be selected by the user on the APP of the mobile terminal 600 and sent to the control unit 700 of the laundry processing device, and the control unit 700 of the laundry processing device receives the information of the selectable washing and caring program matched with the washing and caring additive sent by the mobile terminal 600 and then executes the washing and caring program.

In the above scheme, the control unit 700 and the mobile terminal 600 may be connected by wifi, bluetooth, infrared, radio frequency and other communication connection methods.

In a further aspect, the laundry treatment apparatus control system further includes a laundry additive dosing module 400. The wash additive dosing module 400 is provided with a number of storage chambers for storing different types of wash additives.

The washing and caring additive feeding module 400 is in communication connection with the mobile terminal 600, and the mobile terminal 600 receives the storage position of the washing and caring additive in the washing and caring additive feeding module 400 when acquiring the information of the washing and caring additive.

The laundry additive feeding module 400 and the laundry treatment apparatus are two sets of apparatuses independent from each other, or the laundry additive feeding module 400 is installed outside the laundry treatment apparatus.

In detail, when acquiring the information of the laundry additives, the mobile terminal 600 should also receive the information from the storage location of the laundry additives in the laundry additives dispensing module 400, and solidify the different laundry additives in the selectable laundry programs at the corresponding storage locations in the laundry additives dispensing module 400. When any selected washing program in the selectable washing programs is executed, the washing additives are automatically added according to the corresponding storage positions of the washing additives in the washing additives adding module 400.

The invention also provides a clothes treatment device, which adopts the control method and/or has the clothes treatment device control system.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to a preferred embodiment, it should be understood that various changes, substitutions and alterations can be made herein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

Claims (17)

1. A laundry treating apparatus controlling method, comprising,

acquiring information of the washing and protecting additive;

calling a washing program, wherein the washing program allows at least one washing additive to be put in;

and associating the washing programs with corresponding washing additive release information allowing release.

2. The laundry treating apparatus controlling method according to claim 1,

the step of obtaining the information of the washing and protecting additive is a step executed after adding a new washing and protecting additive or replacing a new washing and protecting additive.

3. The laundry treating apparatus controlling method according to claim 2,

storing the washing and protecting program and the putting information of the washing and protecting additive in a correlation manner, and directly calling the putting information of the washing and protecting additive corresponding to the washing and protecting program when the washing and protecting program is started;

the information stored last time is updated every time the newly stored wash additive and wash program associated information.

4. The laundry treating apparatus controlling method according to claim 1,

the step of acquiring the information of the washing and protecting additive is the step of starting the clothes treatment equipment for execution.

5. The laundry treating apparatus controlling method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the acquiring of the information of the laundry additive includes,

acquiring the type of the washing and protecting additive by detecting the components of the washing and protecting additive;

and/or, acquiring the type of the washing and protecting additive by identifying container label information of the washing and protecting additive;

and/or receiving information input by a user to acquire the type of the washing and caring additive;

preferably, the laundry additive comprises a main wash and a builder.

6. The laundry treating apparatus controlling method according to claim 1,

the step of invoking the washing and caring program comprises,

receiving a washing and protecting program which is matched with the information of the washing and protecting additive and allowed to be put and sent by the mobile terminal or the cloud;

preferably, the wash-and-care program comprises a main wash program and an additional program.

7. The laundry treating apparatus controlling method according to claim 1,

each washing and caring program is correspondingly associated with the putting information of at least one group of washing and caring additives, and the clothes treatment equipment has the default associated washing and caring additive putting information corresponding to the washing and caring programs;

preferably, the user can modify/select the laundry care additive feeding information allowed by the laundry care program, or the laundry treatment device can call the laundry care additive feeding information allowed by the laundry care program according to the load amount, and/or the load material, and/or the dirt degree, and/or the water inflow, and/or the water quality, and/or the water temperature.

8. The laundry treating apparatus controlling method according to claim 1 or 7,

the feeding information of the washing and protecting additive comprises the type of the washing and protecting additive, the storage position of the washing and protecting additive and the feeding time sequence of the washing and protecting additive;

and the washing and protecting program controls the washing and protecting additive to be timely put in according to the type of the washing and protecting additive, the storage position of the washing and protecting additive and the putting time sequence of the washing and protecting additive which are correspondingly associated.

9. The laundry treating apparatus control method according to claim 1, further comprising,

dividing the washing and protecting program into a selectable washing and protecting program and a washing and protecting program forbidden to be selected according to the relation between the washing and protecting program and the obtained washing and protecting additive information;

wherein the selectable wash care programs are programs associated with at least one of the wash care additives, and the prohibited wash care programs are programs not associated with any of the wash care additives.

10. The laundry treating apparatus controlling method according to any one of claims 1 to 9, comprising the steps of,

s1, receiving a starting instruction of the washing and protecting program;

s2, calling the putting information of the washing and caring additive corresponding to the washing and caring program;

and S3, performing washing and protecting.

11. A clothes treatment equipment control system is characterized by comprising

The acquisition unit is used for acquiring the information of the washing and caring additive;

and the processing unit is connected with the acquisition unit, receives the information of the washing and protecting additive acquired by the acquisition unit, and calls and associates a washing and protecting program allowing the washing and protecting additive to be put according to the information of the washing and protecting additive.

12. The laundry treating apparatus control system according to claim 11,

the acquisition unit comprises a washing and caring additive component detection unit and/or an electronic identification unit and/or an information input unit.

13. The laundry treating apparatus control system according to claim 11,

the washing and protecting system further comprises a server connected with the processing unit, and washing and protecting program information matched with the washing and protecting additive is stored in the server and is called by the processing unit.

14. The control system of a laundry treating apparatus according to any one of claims 11 to 13, further comprising,

the washing and protecting additive feeding module is provided with a plurality of storage chambers for storing different types of washing and protecting additives;

the washing and protecting additive feeding module is connected with the processing unit, and the processing unit receives the information of the washing and protecting additive and also receives the storage position of the washing and protecting additive in the washing and protecting additive feeding module;

the laundry additive feeding module and the clothes treatment equipment are two sets of mutually independent equipment, or the laundry additive feeding module is installed inside or outside the clothes treatment equipment.

15. A laundry treating apparatus control system, comprising,

the mobile terminal is used for acquiring the information of the washing and protecting additive and matching a selectable washing and protecting program according to the information of the washing and protecting additive;

and the control unit is in communication connection with the mobile terminal and is used for receiving selectable washing and caring program information which is sent by the mobile terminal and matched with the washing and caring additive.

16. The laundry treating apparatus control system according to claim 15, further comprising,

the washing and protecting additive feeding module is provided with a plurality of storage chambers for storing the washing and protecting additives;

the mobile terminal is in communication connection with the mobile terminal, and receives the storage position of the washing and protecting additive in the washing and protecting additive feeding module when acquiring the information of the washing and protecting additive;

the laundry additive feeding module and the clothes treatment equipment are two sets of mutually independent equipment, or the laundry additive feeding module is installed outside the clothes treatment equipment.

17. A laundry treatment apparatus, characterized in that a control method according to any of claims 1-10 is employed, and/or in that a laundry treatment apparatus control system according to any of claims 11-16 is provided.

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