Optimized Clothes Care with Load and Texture Detection
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Summary
Problems
Current clothes care apparatuses lack efficient methods to estimate the load and texture of clothes, leading to suboptimal control of air and steam parameters, which can result in prolonged drying times and potential damage to clothes.
Innovation solutions
Incorporating an optical sensor to identify the load and texture of clothes, allowing for the determination and adjustment of control parameters for the blowing device and steam generating device, such as air volume and steam generation time, to optimize clothes care processes.
TRIZ Analysis
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Principle concept:
If optical sensor is used to identify load and texture of clothes, then clothes care efficiency is improved and drying time is reduced, but device complexity increases
Why choose this principle:
The patent replaces manual load assessment and texture judgment with an optical sensor system that automatically detects clothes load and texture characteristics. The controller processes optical sensor signals to determine optimal air and steam parameters, substituting human decision-making with automated optical detection and control algorithms.
Principle concept:
If optical sensor is used to identify load and texture of clothes, then clothes care efficiency is improved and drying time is reduced, but device complexity increases
Why choose this principle:
The system enables self-service operation where the clothes care apparatus automatically identifies its own operational conditions (load and texture) through the optical sensor and autonomously adjusts control parameters without user intervention. The apparatus serves itself by making real-time decisions based on detected conditions.
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AI summary:
Incorporating an optical sensor to identify the load and texture of clothes, allowing for the determination and adjustment of control parameters for the blowing device and steam generating device, such as air volume and steam generation time, to optimize clothes care processes.
Abstract
A clothes care apparatus according to a disclosed embodiment includes: a chamber; an upper fan provided on an upper side of the chamber and configured to move air in a lower side direction of the chamber; a lower fan provided on a lower side of the chamber and configured to move air in an upper side direction of the chamber; a first motor configured to rotate the lower fan; a steam generating device configured to generate steam by heating water; and a controller configured to control on/off of the steam generating device and the first motor and turn on the steam generating device in a first section for supplying the generated steam into the chamber and turn on the first motor in a second section for dispersing the steam by the air moving into the chamber.