EP0736625B1 - Vorrichtungen zum Vermeiden von Unwucht in einer Wäschewaschmaschine in Topladerbauweise - Google Patents
Vorrichtungen zum Vermeiden von Unwucht in einer Wäschewaschmaschine in Topladerbauweise Download PDFInfo
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- EP0736625B1 EP0736625B1 EP96103921A EP96103921A EP0736625B1 EP 0736625 B1 EP0736625 B1 EP 0736625B1 EP 96103921 A EP96103921 A EP 96103921A EP 96103921 A EP96103921 A EP 96103921A EP 0736625 B1 EP0736625 B1 EP 0736625B1
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- D—TEXTILES; PAPER
- D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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- the present invention refers to a clothes washing machine provided with a cylindrical drum arranged to rotate about a horizontal axis and having an opening in its outer side mantle, and with improved means adapted to measure and balance unbalanced washloads in the drum of such clothes washing machines during the execution of spin-extraction phases, without any need arising to make use of permanent masses to counter-balance the weight of the lid (see FR-A-2 645 553).
- sensors of various kinds are used to measure oscillations in view of detecting the unbalance condition, whereas unbalance conditions are determined according to the patent specification J 6013 2598 by comparing the rotating speed of the drum against a pre-determined reference rotating speed profile that is stored in advance in the system's memory.
- said lid along with the opening, locking and reinforcement means associated therewith, generates an additional mass whose weight can reasonably be considered to amount to approx. 500 to 600 gr.
- the second drawback refers to the need arising to reinforce the lid.
- the latter tends to quite evenly distribute all along the inner periphery of the cylindrical mantle of the drum, and therefore also in corrispondence of the loading lid, which, as a consequence, must be able to withstand the centrifugal force imparted to the corresponding portion of washload and must therefore be strengthened accordingly in its various load-bearing elements, such as hinges, walls, pins, etc.
- this adds significantly to the manufacturing costs, too.
- the clothes washing machine being described comprises a drum 2 rotating within a washing tub (not shown) and adapted to hold the washload 1, a lid 3 that can be opened to introduce the washload into the drum, a pre-selectably variable-speed driving motor, a plurality of rib-like elevators 4 adapted to favour the agitation of the washload, means adapted to detect the unbalance condition of the washload in the drum and selectively compare it against a plurality of pre-defined unbalance levels, as well as selectively perform different operations in accordance with the outcome of such comparisons.
- a balancing mass 8 is associated to the rib-like elevator arranged in the opposite position with respect to the lid.
- a machine arranged in such a manner is generally known, so that it will not be described here any longer.
- the machine is provided with means (not shown) adapted to identify the rotational position of the drum with respect to the position of the lid, as well as control and actuation means adapted to receive and process the information concerning said position and generate corresponding control signals for the driving motor to start driving the drum at high spin-extraction speed.
- means for identifying the position of the lid may be anyone among the various devices available and currently used to such a purpose, such as for instance a proximity sensor installed in the machine and adapted to co-operate with a corresponding appendix rotating with the drum, or a photoelectric cell adapted to detect the passage of a corresponding opaque element rotating with the drum.
- Such elements defining the position of the rotating drum may also be mounted on means that rotate synchronically therewith, such as for instance the pulley associated therewith or the driving belt, provided that the position of the drum is in any case detected univocally.
- the afore mentioned control and actuation means becomes activated to cause the drum to be driven for a pre-determined period at a sufficiently low speed of rotation, typically in the vicinity of 35 rpm, so as to prevent the washload items from getting distributed along the inner wall of the drum and enable them on the contrary to substantially collect on the bottom portion of the drum as they fall there by gravity and keep rolling there so as to maintain their lowest position.
- the control means enables the position sensor to operate, so that when the latter conveys the signal indicating that the drum is in a position in which the lid is on top, this means that, at exactly that moment, the lid and the washload are positioned opposite to each other.
- the washload acts as a lid-balancing mass, so that the overall unbalance is correspondingly reduced. And this is exactly the moment selected by the control means for actuating the driving motor so as to cause the drum to start rotating at high spin-extraction speed.
- the drum only gradually manages to reach a spin-extraction speed of rotation which is sufficient to cause the washload item to keep sticking against the wall of the dum along the inner periphery thereof, so that a certain period of time, not very long indeed, but nevertheless quite appreciable, generally elapses from the moment in which the rotation at high spin-extraction speed is started, to the moment in which the washload items are actually sticking firmly against the wall of the drum.
- the above described invention can be used to best advantage in machines with relatively low spin-extraction speeds of the drum. Unfortunately, however, the residual unbalance that remains in some cases may still prove excessive, ie. objectionable, in the presence of machines with drums rotating at high speeds during spin-extraction, so that an advantageous improvement of the same invention lies in combining the use of the well-known and currently applied unbalance detection technique and the elimination of the weight used to counterbalance the mass of the lid.
- the washing machine is provided with means for detecting the unbalance condition, which are in turn associated to control and actuation means that, before any spin-extraction phase is started, activates the driving motor so as to cause the drum to rotate at a low speed V 1 , typically at approx. 85 rpm, which is however sufficient to cause the washload items to distribute along the inner periphery of the drum.
- V 1 typically at approx. 85 rpm
- the unbalance detecting means are activated, which preferably operate on the basis of the current absorbed by the motor.
- the unbalance measured in this way will obviously be the overall unbalance brought about by the distribution of the washload items, which is usually quite uneven, and the presence of the mass of the lid.
- control and actuation means are pre-arranged so as to be adapted to carry out the following sequence:
- the sequence is returned to the starting point of the whole procedure, with the drum caused to slow down to a rotation speed V 0 , in correspondence of which the washload falls on to the bottom of the drum and the above described sequence is then started again.
- a procedure of drum revolutions at low speed V 0 , drum revolutions at a higher speed V 1 and drum load balance controls is repeated automatically until a value is reached which is lower than the pre-set level B c1 , or until a pre-determined maximum number of repetitions of the same procedure has been completed.
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Claims (2)
- Waschmaschine für Kleidung, versehen mit:einer Waschwanne,einer zylindrischen Trommel, die sich um eine horizontale Achse in der Wanne dreht und geeignet ist, die Waschladung zu halten, die darin über einen Deckel eingelegt ist, der eine Öffnung schließt, die in einem Abschnitt der zylindrischen Oberfläche der Trommel bereitgestellt ist, die frei von jeder Masse zum Ausgleich des Gewichtes des Beladungsdeckels ist,einem Motor, der geeignet ist, die Trommel rotierend mit variablen und vorher auswählbaren Geschwindigkeiten anzutreiben,einer Einrichtung, die geeignet ist, die Position des Beladungsdeckels zu bestimmen, es zu ermöglichen, daß die Trommel sich für eine vorbestimmte Zeitperiode mit einer angemessen geringen Drehgeschwindigkeit weiterdreht, so daß es ermöglicht wird, daß die Waschladung sich im wesentlichen auf dem Boden der Trommel ansammelt und dort weiterrollt, so daß eine solche Position während der Periode der Rotation mit geringer Geschwindigkeit der Trommel beibehalten wird, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Maschine imstande ist, das Schleudern zu starten, wenn die Einrichtung anzeigt, daß der Beladungsdeckel eine obere Position erreicht hat, so daß die Schleuderphase begonnen wird, wenn der Beladungsdeckel und die Waschladung gegenüberliegend zueinander in der Trommel positioniert sind.
- Waschmaschine für Kleidung gemäß Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß es der Trommel ermöglicht wird, die Drehung mit hoher Schleudergeschwindigkeit vor dem Zeitpunkt zu beginnen, bei dem der Beladungsdeckel seine obere Position erreicht.
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ITPN950021 | 1995-04-06 | ||
IT95PN000021A IT1282416B1 (it) | 1995-04-06 | 1995-04-06 | Lavabiancheria a carica dall'alto con mezzi perfezionati anti-sbilanciamento |
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EP0736625A1 EP0736625A1 (de) | 1996-10-09 |
EP0736625B1 true EP0736625B1 (de) | 1999-11-10 |
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EP (1) | EP0736625B1 (de) |
DE (1) | DE69605073T2 (de) |
ES (1) | ES2141409T3 (de) |
IT (1) | IT1282416B1 (de) |
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US9267225B2 (en) | 2011-12-22 | 2016-02-23 | Whirlpool Corporation | Method of estimating bending moment of a laundry treating appliance drum shaft using a proximity sensor |
US9279206B2 (en) | 2011-03-30 | 2016-03-08 | Whirlpool Corporation | Method and apparatus for forming a counterbalance to an imbalance in a laundry treating appliance |
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Cited By (3)
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US8984693B2 (en) | 2010-12-10 | 2015-03-24 | Whirlpool Corporation | Method and apparatus for redistributing an imbalance in a laundry treating appliance |
US9279206B2 (en) | 2011-03-30 | 2016-03-08 | Whirlpool Corporation | Method and apparatus for forming a counterbalance to an imbalance in a laundry treating appliance |
US9267225B2 (en) | 2011-12-22 | 2016-02-23 | Whirlpool Corporation | Method of estimating bending moment of a laundry treating appliance drum shaft using a proximity sensor |
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DE69605073D1 (de) | 1999-12-16 |
ITPN950021A0 (it) | 1995-04-06 |
EP0736625A1 (de) | 1996-10-09 |
IT1282416B1 (it) | 1998-03-23 |
ITPN950021A1 (it) | 1996-10-06 |
DE69605073T2 (de) | 2000-03-16 |
ES2141409T3 (es) | 2000-03-16 |
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