EP2464777B1 - Control method for a washing machine - Google Patents
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- EP 1 983 088 A1 relates to a method for rinsing fabric in a washer having a wash chamber rotatable about a horizontal axis.
- the method comprises the step of adding water to the wash chamber and spraying the rinse water by recirculating it onto the fabric while spinning the wash chamber at a speed (s2) to effect a centrifugal force on said fabric such that the fabric will not tumble within the wash chamber as it spins.
- the method further comprises at least a last rinsing step in which the rotating speed (s1) of the wash chamber is such that the fabric tumbles within the wash chamber and in that the rinsing water is not recirculated and sprayed onto the fabric.
- Speed s2 can be resumed again.
- DE 196 19 603 A1 relates to a process for influencing the mechanism acting on the washing located in a washing machine or a dryer during the washing or the drying phase.
- the process features an alternating raising and lowering of the rotation speed of the drum. At maximum speed, centrifugal force is at a maximum such that the items cling to the drum. At minimum speed, centrifugal force is at a minimum such that the items drop down.
- a method of operating a laundry machine having a drum with an axis of rotation through a center of the drum, the method comprising rotating the drum in a first motion, comprising rotating the drum at a first predetermined rotational speed such that a reference point on the drum, initially positioned at an initial position, rotates about the axis of rotation, wherein the reference point is any point on a side of the drum, changing the rotational speed of the drum when the reference point has traveled a first predetermined distance about the axis of rotation of the drum, resuming rotation of the drum at a second predetermined rotational speed and changing the rotational speed of the drum when the reference point has traveled a second predetermined distance about the axis of rotation of the drum, such that the reference point of the drum has returned to a position substantially at the initial position.
- the present invention has following advantages effects.
- the various drum motions are provided and the efficiency of washing, rinsing and spinning cycle may be improved.
- the various combinaitons of drum motions are provided based on the weight of laundry, type of laundry, type of detergent, degree of dirt and selected course.
- FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of a laundry machine according to a first embodiment as broadly described herein, to which control methods according to various embodiments may be applied.
- a laundry machine 100 includes a cabinet 110 configured to define an exterior appearance thereof, a tub 120 provided in the cabinet 110 to hold wash water therein and a rotatable drum 130 provided in the tub 120.
- the cabinet 110 defines the exterior appearance of the laundry machine 100.
- a door 113 is provided at an opening 114 of the cabinet 110 and a user opens the door 113 to load laundry into the cabinet 110.
- the tub 120 is provided in the cabinet 110 to hold wash water therein.
- the drum 130 may be rotatable in the tub 120 and may accommodate laundry therein. In this case, a plurality of lifters 135 may be provided in the drum 130 to lift and drop the laundry during washing.
- the drum 130 includes a plurality of through-holes 131 to allow the wash water held in the tub 120 to pass therethrough.
- the tub 120 may be supported by one or more springs provided at an outer side of the tub 120.
- a motor 140 is mounted to a rear surface of the tub 120 and the motor 140 rotates the drum 130. When vibration is generated by the drum 130 rotated by the motor 140, the tub 120 is vibrated in communication with the drum 130. When the drum 130 is rotated, the vibration generated in the drum 130b and the tub 120 may be absorbed by a damper located under the tub 120.
- the tub 120 and the drum 130 may be provided substantially in parallel to a base plate of the cabinet 110.
- rear portions of the tub 120 and the drum 130 may be positioned at an oblique orientation, with the open end of the drum 130 oriented slightly upward to facilitate loading laundry into the drum 130.
- a control panel 115 may be provided in a predetermined portion of a front of the cabinet 110.
- the user may select a course of the washing machine via the control panel 115 or recognize information relating to the washing machine.
- a course selecting part 117 configured for the user to select a particular washing course may be provided in the control panel 115.
- an option selecting part 118 may be provided to allow the user to adjust operational conditions of each cycle or step provided in the selected course and a display part 119 may be provided in the control panel 115 to display current operation information of the washing machine. More details of the washing machine is described in U.S. Patent No. 6,460,382 B1 issued October 8, 2002 and U.S. Application Nos. 12/704,923 filed February 12, 2010 , whose entire disclosures are incorporated herein by reference.
- FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of a laundry machine according to another embodiment as broadly described herein.
- a laundry machine according to various embodiments as broadly described herein may include a tub fixedly supported to a cabinet, or a tub supported to a cabinet via a flexible structure such as suspension unit, and thus not fixedly secured thereto, as shown in FIG. 2 .
- the supporting structure of the tub may be between the supporting via the suspension unit and the complete fixing structure. That is, the tub may be supported flexibly via a suspension unit which will be described later, it may be supported fixedly to be a more rigidly supported state than the above flexible supported state.
- the laundry machine may be provided without a cabinet.
- an installation space of a built-in type laundry machine may be defined by a wall structure instead of a cabinet. That is, in certain embodiments, a cabinet configured to form an independent exterior appearance may not be provided.
- a tub may include a tub front 200 and a tub rear 220 composing a rear portion of the tub front 200.
- the tub front 200 and the tub rear 220 may be assembled by screws or other appropriate fastening mechanism, and a predetermined space is formed therein to accommodate a drum.
- the tub rear 220 includes an opening formed in a rear surface thereof and a rear gasket 250 may be connected to an inner circumference of the opening.
- the rear gasket 250 may be connected to a tub back 230 and the tub back 230 may include a through-hole having a shaft that passes through a center thereof.
- the rear gasket 250 is sealed and connected to each of the tub back 230 and the tub rear 220 to prevent wash water from leaking from the tub. As the tub back 230 vibrates when the drum is rotated, the tub back 230 may be distant from the tub rear 220 a pre-determined distance not to interfere with the tub rear 220. Also, the rear gasket 250 may be formed of flexible material to enable the tub back 230 to relative-move, not interfering with the tub rear 220. The rear gasket 250 may include a corrugated part which is extendible to an enough length to allow the relative motion of the tub back 230. This embodiment presents the rear gasket 250 connected to the tub back 230 and the present invention is not limited thereto.
- the rear gasket 250 is configured to seal the gap between the tub and a driving part (not shown) including a shaft 351 and a bearing housing 400 and to allow the driving part to relative-move with respect to the tub.
- a driving part (not shown) including a shaft 351 and a bearing housing 400
- the shapes and the connected objects of the rear gasket 250 may be variable unlimitedly, only if this function is enabled.
- a flexible material 280 which will be described as front gasket later may be installed at a front portion of the tub front 200.
- the drum may be configured of a drum front 300, a drum center 320 and a drum back 340.
- Ball balancers 310 and 330 may be installed in front and rear portions of the drum, respectively.
- the drum back 340 may be connected to a spider 350 and the spider 350 may be connected to the shaft 351.
- the drum is rotatable within the tub by a rotational force transmitted via the shaft 351.
- the shaft 351 may be connected to a motor and pass through the tub back 230.
- the motor may be connected to the shaft 351 concentrically.
- the motor may be directly connected to the shaft 351, and in particular, a rotor of the motor may be directly connected to the shaft 351.
- the motor and the shaft 351 may be indirectly connected with each other, for example, they may be connected by a belt.
- the bearing housing 400 may be secured to the tub back 230 to rotatably support the shaft, between the motor and the tub back 230.
- a stator may be fixedly secured to the bearing housing 400.
- the rotor may be located around the stator.
- the rotor may be directly connected to the shaft 351, with the motor being an outer rotor type motor that may be connected with the shaft directly.
- the bearing housing 400 may be supported by a base 600 via the suspension unit.
- the suspension unit may include a perpendicular suspension and an oblique suspension configured to support the bearing housing 400 with respect to a forward and backward direction.
- the laundry machine may have a substantially independent supporting structure between the tub and the drum or it may have a structure having the vibration of the drum not directly transmitted to the tub.
- the drum When the drum is rotated, the laundry is lifted by one or more lifts 135 provided at the inner circumferential surface of the drum. Because of that, the rotation direction of the drum may be controlled and the shock applied to the laundry may be varied accordingly. That is, a mechanical force applied to the laundry such as the friction generated between laundry items, the friction generated between the laundry and the water, and the dropping shock of the laundry may be varied. In other words, a degree of striking or scrubbing applied to the laundry items so as to wash the laundry may be varied and a degree of laundry distribution or turn-over inside the drum may be varied accordingly.
- such a control method of the laundry machine may provide various drum driving motions and the drum driving motions are varied according to each of the cycles and a specific step composing the cycle, such that an optimal mechanical force may be used to treat the laundry depending on the type of laundry being washed, the soil level, and other such factors. Because of that, washing efficiency of the laundry may be improved. In addition, the excessive time required by the typical drum driving motion may be avoided.
- the motor 140 may be a direct connection type. That is, the motor may have a stator fixed to a rear surface of the tub 120 and a rotor that rotates the drum 120 directly. Since the rotation direction and torque of the direct connection type motor may be controlled, time delay or backlash may be prevented and then the drum driving motion may be controlled as appropriate.
- the drum driving motion may be embodied by the control of the motor 140.
- the control method of the motor may be diversified and then the various drum driving motions may be achieved.
- a rubbing movement pattern may be achieved when the friction between the laundry and the drum is increased. For example, if the drum rotating at the reference speed or more in the clockwise direction is suddenly braked and then rotated in the counter-clockwise direction, the laundry is rolling-moved along the inner circumferential surface of the drum from a predetermined high point of the drum.
- Such a drum driving motion may be defined as'scrub motion'.
- a squeezing and filtrating movement pattern may be achieved if wash water is supplied while rotating the drum at the reference speed or more. Once the drum is rotated at a relatively high speed, the laundry may unfold, or spread out and cling along the inner circumferential surface of the drum and then the wash water sprayed into the drum passes through the laundry and then the laundry may be squeezed to improve the rinsing effect.
- Such a drum driving motion may be defined as'filtration motion'
- FIG. 3 is a diagram of various drum driving motions as embodied and broadly described herein.
- the tumbling motion enables the laundry to be washed by the shock generated by the friction with the washing water and the dropping shock. Because of that, in the tumbling motion, a mechanical force larger than the mechanical force of the rolling motion may be used to implement washing and rinsing. Also, the rolling motion may be effective in separating entangled-laundry and distributing the laundry uniformly.
- the timing point of the reversing-phase-braking with respect to the motor 140 may be closely related to the location of the laundry inside the drum 130. Because of that, a device used to determine or predict the location of the laundry may be provided and a sensing device such as, for example, a hall effect sensor configured to determine a rotation angle of a rotor, may be examples of such a device.
- the control part may determine the rotation angle of the drum by using the sensing device and control the motor 140 to reversing-phase-brake when or just before the drum has a rotation angle of 180°. As a result, the drum rotated in the clockwise direction is stopped quickly in response to the counter-clockwise direction torque. The centrifugal force applied to the laundry is removed and then the laundry is dropped to the lowest point.
- the swing motion has the lowest vibration level and washing ability and may be applied in a low noise and low vibration washing course and a course for washing sensitive or delicate articles.
- a detergent type determining step may be implemented to determine whether the detergent supplied during the initial stage of the water supplying step is a liquid type or powder type. This step is implemented to determine a drum driving motion or the number of rinsings in the rinsing cycle which will be implemented after the washing cycle. Information relating to the washing cycle and the rinsing cycle may be available to the user via a display part 119 in an initial operation of the washing machine. Because of that, the detergent type determining step may be implemented in the initial stage of the water supplying step, specifically, before a detergent dissolution promoting step.
- the detergent dissolving step may be implemented.
- the detergent may be more completely and effectively dissolved in the initial stage of the water supplying step.
- the detergent dissolution promoting step may be implemented in the water supplying step to promote detergent dissolution.
- a drum driving motion in the first drum driving step may be a scrub and/or swing motion, to move the maximum amount of laundry submerged into the wash water to improve rinsing performance.
- This scrub and swing motions correspond to a process of continuously hand-scrubbing the laundry under the wash water after submerging the laundry into the wash water.
- the tumbling and step motions correspond to a process of repeatedly moving the laundry into and out of the wash water.
- the first drum driving step may control the drum to be driven in the scrub and/or swing motion, with a high water level, allow the user to visually recognize that enough rinsing is implemented.
- a circulating step configured to circulate the wash water held in the tub into the drum may be implemented in the first drum driving step. Wash water is sprayed into the drum to rinse the laundry. This process may be referred to as'spray rinsing'. This also displays to a user, as it may be visible through the door, that enough rinsing is implemented.
- a heavy contaminant course B in which heavy dirt is to be removed from laundry items will be described in reference to FIG. 8 .
- the heavy contaminant course may be selected at the course selecting part 117 (S810).
- the eccentric rotation of the drum would be generated, and the control part may control the drum to be driven in the tumbling motion in the water supplying step to disentangle the laundry.
- the drum In the tumbling motion, the drum is rotated in a predetermined direction and the laundry is dropped to the lowest point of the drum from an approximately 90° or more position with respect to the rotation direction of the drum, such that the entangled laundry may be disentangled and distributed uniformly.
- control part may control the drum to be driven in the step motion or in the order of the step motion and/or tumbling motion and/or rolling motion, if the laundry amount is less than the reference value.
- the control part may drive the drum in the filtration motion and/or the tumbling motion.
- the heating step may be provided in case the measured temperature of the wash water is less than the reference temperature. As described above, the drum is not driven in the step motion during the heating step.
- the control part supplies cold water to the tub (1234) and may also implement a water temperature measuring step (S1235) and the cold water supplying simultaneously.
- a washing step S1240
- a warm water supplying step S1236
- FIG. 14 is a diagram of a color item course according to a second embodiment.
- the color item course according to the second embodiment allows a water temperature measuring step and a heating step to be implemented in a washing step (S1433) after a water supplying step (S1431). If the water temperature measuring step and the heating step are implemented before the washing step, the washing time would be increased disadvantageously. As a result, this embodiment presents a color item course capable of reducing the washing time in comparison to the above embodiment.
- Course F will be described in reference to FIG. 15 .
- Course F may be referred to as a 'functional clothing course'configured to wash functional clothing, including outdoor clothing such as mountain-climbing clothes and other athletic wear, effectively, without fabric damage.
- Functional clothing is manufactured to be appropriate for outdoor activities such as mountain-climbing, swimming, cycling and the like.
- Functional clothes absorb sweat quickly and discharge the absorbed moisture outside, and they help maintain body heat.
- these functional clothes are made of thin synthetic fabric and are more fragile than other kinds of fabrics.
- a washing course for functional clothes may be optimized to be proper for functional clothes.
- the control part implements a water supplying step of a washing cycle.
- the water supplying step supplies wash water required to wash the laundry. Also, the water supplying step dissolves detergent in the supplied wash water and wets the laundry loaded into the drum.
- a second water supplying may be implemented for a predetermined time period.
- wash water is continuously supplied and the filtration motion and the swing motion are sequentially implemented.
- the first and second water supplying steps may be classified according to a preset time.
- the time of each step may be adjustable according to the amount of the laundry and other parameters as appropriate. For that, a laundry amount determining step configured to determine the amount of the laundry may be provided before the water supplying step.
- the wash water is supplied to a predetermined water level, the water supplying step is completed and then a washing step may start.
- the control part in the water supplying step may supply a larger amount of wash water, compared with the water supplying step of the standard course.
- the control part may control the amount of wash water supplied in the washing step of the silent course to be 1.2 times as much as the amount of the wash water supplied to the same amount of laundry.
- the increase in the wash water amount results in increasing of the water level inside the drum.
- the friction between the wash water and the laundry may be further increased and the washing ability may be further improved.
- the rolling motion adapted in the washing step may provide adequate washing ability while also suppressing noise generation.
- the first rinsing step implemented in the initial stage of the rinsing cycle of the standard course includes the first drum driving step using the filtration motion, which may generate much noise. As a result, the filtration motion is not implemented in the rinsing cycle of the silent course. While the steps of the rinsing cycle of the standard course may adapt various drum motions, the silent course may apply only the rolling motion to the steps of the rinsing cycle to reduce noise as in the washing step.
- a washing course provided according to a type of fabric of the laundry may also include a wool course, rather than the cotton course, synthetic course and mixture course.
- the wool course is applied to laundry having less contaminants and a large concern for fabric damage. That is, the wool course may be provided to wash wool fabric laundry items which are hand washable. If washed using the strong mechanical force, the wool fabric laundry items are likely to be damaged.
- the drum is driven in a predetermined motion having a weak mechanical force, for example, the swing motion.
- drum driving motions of a washing cycle, a rinsing cycle and spinning cycle of the wool course may be different from the drum motion of the standard course.
- Sportswear has hydrophobic characteristics which prevent moisture from permeating into fabric easily.
- the sportswear fabric has a low percentage of water content/absorption and thus water may be supplied to the sportswear fabric sufficiently and continuously in the washing cycle.
- a drum driving motion of the washing cycle (S2030), especially, a water supplying step (S2033) provided in the washing cycle may be different from the drum motion of the washing cycle in the other courses.
- a drum driving motion may be the filtration motion.
- the filtration motion and the rolling motion may be implemented sequentially.
- the rolling motion continuously turns over the laundry to enable the wash water held in the lower portion of the drum to contact with the laundry uniformly and is proper in laundry wetting.
- the filtration motion broadens the laundry during the rotation of the drum to bring the laundry into close contact with the inner circumferential surface of the drum, while spraying the wash water into the drum simultaneously, such that the wash water may be discharged from the tub via the laundry and the through holes of the drum due to the centrifugal force.
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