Ice making device and control method thereof

Abstract

The invention discloses an ice-making device and the control method thereof. The ice-making device comprises a driver, a controller, an ice build-up tank, etc., and a switch control mechanism of the driver is provided with a switch control arm and a photoelectric signal generating part and drives the switch control arm through a camshaft gear wheel so as to trigger the photoelectric switching signal and drives a tumbler to drive an ice detecting arm so as to realize the action of detecting the ice back and forth in the longitudinal direction, and the tumbler restricts the movement of the switch control arm to result in that the switch is switched off at the position where the ice is detected. The control method is as follows: the invention tests the state that whether the ice storage box is full of ice, and then controls the movement action, the water supplementation control, fullness of the ice in the ice storage box of the ice build-up tank, thus resulting in that the ice making device stands by or stops the control of ice making. The lack of water in a water storage box results in that the ice-making device stands by or stops the control of the ice making and the control of position detection of the ice build-up tank; when the ice build-up tank is arranged at the position where the ice is made, the position where the ice is shed or the position where the ice is detected, the photoelectric switch can be turned off and the photoelectric switch is on when the ice build-up tank is arranged at other positions. The control is stable and reliable and realizes the goal that the system saves more energy and is more humanized.

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Technical field [0001] The present invention relates to an ice making device (machine), such as an independent ice making machine for making ice particles (ice cubes) or an ice making device placed inside the freezer compartment of a refrigerator, etc., and also relates to a control method of this type of ice making device. Background technique [0002] At present, refrigerators with automatic ice making functions are gradually being accepted by consumers in China, and they have become mainstream consumer products in the refrigerator market in developed countries. As an automatic ice making device arranged in a refrigerator to achieve ice removal by twisting and deforming a plastic ice making tank (ice making container), there have been prior art disclosures, for example, it relates to a drive device in the ice making device, which is external to the drive device. There is no independent control circuit module, but integrated with the refrigerator control circuit. The control cir...

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Problems solved by technology

Furthermore, when the existing ice-making device detects that the ice storage box is full, it cannot stand by or stop ice-making when the user does not take ice for a long time, which wastes energy.

[0005] The existing plastic tank ice machine is normally closed. If the user does not want the ice machine to work, the user cannot choose to stop the ice machine from working, or it is difficult to achieve

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