Clothes processing equipment control method and device and clothes processing equipment

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention provides a control method and device of clothes processing equipment and the clothes processing equipment. The control method of the clothes treatment equipment comprises the steps that it is determined that the actual foam amount of a clothes treatment barrel is larger than the set foam amount, and softener is controlled to be put into the clothes treatment barrel. By putting the softener into the clothes treatment barrel, the softener can be quickly neutralized with the detergent, so that the foam can be quickly disintegrated and eliminated.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The present disclosure relates to the technical field of household appliances, and specifically provides a control method and device for a clothing processing device, and the clothing processing device. Background Art

[0002] When using a clothing treatment device to treat clothing, the clothing treatment device may generate a large amount of foam due to excessive detergent, unreasonable ratio of detergent to washing water, etc. A large amount of foam will seriously affect the washing function and washing effect of the clothing treatment device. When the clothing treatment device detects excessive foam, it is necessary to perform defoaming treatment. Current methods for defoaming treatment of clothing treatment equipment include a static defoaming method, a water inlet spray defoaming method, and a drainage and re-injection defoaming method. However, it takes a long time to achieve defoaming using the aforementioned defoaming methods and the calibration defoaming methods, which causes the clothing treatment device to take too long to clean the clothes, seriously affecting the user experience.

[0003] Invention

[0004] In order to solve the above technical problems, the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a control method and device for a clothes treating device, and the clothes treating device.

[0005] In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for controlling a clothing processing device, comprising: determining that an actual amount of foam in a clothing processing barrel is greater than a set amount of foam, and controlling the addition of softener into the clothing processing barrel.

[0006] In some embodiments, the clothing treatment device comprises a water injection mechanism and a softener delivery tank; the softener is pre-deposited into the softener delivery tank;

[0007] The controlling of adding softener into the clothes processing tub comprises: controlling a water injection mechanism to inject water to flush the softener injection slot, so as to flush the softener from the softener injection slot into the clothes processing tub.

[0008] In some embodiments, the clothing treatment device is equipped with a quantitative softener delivery box;

[0009] The controlling of adding softener into the laundry processing tub includes: controlling the softener quantitative adding box to quantitatively add softener into the laundry processing tub.

[0010] In some embodiments, before quantitatively adding softener to the laundry treatment tub, the method further includes: detecting an actual amount of foam in the laundry treatment tub, and determining an amount of softener to be added according to the actual amount of foam;

[0011] The controlling of adding softener into the clothes processing tub includes: controlling the adding softener into the clothes processing tub according to the softener adding amount.

[0012] In some embodiments, detecting the actual amount of foam in the laundry treatment tub includes:

[0013] detecting the conductivity of the foam, and determining the actual amount of foam based on the conductivity; and / or,

[0014] Determining that the laundry processing device is in a non-water-intake operation process, detecting the water level of the laundry processing tub, and determining the actual foam amount based on the water level; and / or,

[0015] The actual amount of foam is determined based on input power of a motor for driving the laundry treating tub to rotate.

[0016] In some embodiments, the clothing processing equipment includes a spray mechanism; and the controlling the introduction of softener into the clothing processing tub includes: controlling the spray mechanism to introduce softener into the clothing processing tub in a spraying manner.

[0017] In some embodiments, after controlling the adding of softener into the laundry treatment tub, the method further comprises:

[0018] The laundry treatment tub is driven to rotate to accelerate the homogenization of the softener in the aqueous solution in the laundry treatment tub.

[0019] In some embodiments, the step of determining that the actual foam amount in the laundry processing tub is greater than the set foam amount and controlling the addition of softener into the laundry processing tub comprises: detecting the actual foam amount in the laundry processing tub during washing, draining and dehydrating, or rinsing;

[0020] It is determined that the actual foam amount is greater than the set foam amount, and softener is added to the clothes processing barrel.

[0021] In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a control device for a clothing processing equipment, comprising: a control unit for controlling the addition of softener into the clothing processing tub when it is determined that the actual foam amount in the clothing processing tub is greater than the set foam amount.

[0022] In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a clothing processing device, including a controller and an actuator, wherein the controller executes the control method of the clothing processing device as described above, and controls the actuator to put softener into the clothing processing barrel.

[0023] Compared with the prior art, the technical solution provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure has the following advantages:

[0024] By adopting the solution provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, since the surface chemical properties of the softener are opposite to those of the detergent, after determining that the actual amount of foam in the clothing treatment tub is greater than the set amount of foam, the softener can be added into the clothing treatment tub. The softener can be quickly neutralized with the detergent, thereby causing the foam to quickly disintegrate and disappear. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0025] The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments consistent with the present disclosure and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the present disclosure.

[0026] In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present disclosure or the prior art, the following briefly introduces the drawings required for use in the embodiments or the prior art description. Obviously, for ordinary technicians in this field, other drawings can be obtained based on these drawings without creative work, including:

[0027] Figure 1 is a flow chart of a control method of a clothes processing device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

[0028] Figure 2 is a flow chart of a control method for a clothes processing device provided by other embodiments of the present disclosure;

[0029] Figure 3 is a structural schematic diagram of a control device for a clothes processing device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure;

[0030] Figure 4 It is a structural schematic diagram of a clothing processing device provided by the present disclosure. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0031] Embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in more detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. Although certain embodiments of the present disclosure are shown in the accompanying drawings, it should be understood that the present disclosure can be implemented in various forms and should not be construed as being limited to the embodiments described herein, which are instead provided for a more thorough and complete understanding of the present disclosure. It should be understood that the drawings and embodiments of the present disclosure are only for exemplary purposes and are not intended to limit the scope of protection of the present disclosure.

[0032] The term "including" and its variations used in this document are open inclusions, that is, "including but not limited to". The term "based on" means "based at least in part on". The term "one embodiment" means "at least one embodiment"; the term "another embodiment" means "at least one other embodiment"; the term "some embodiments" means "at least some embodiments". Relevant definitions of other terms will be given in the description below. It should be noted that the concepts of "first", "second", etc. mentioned in this disclosure are only used to distinguish different devices, modules or units, and are not used to limit the order or interdependence of the processes performed by these devices, modules or units.

[0033] It should be noted that the modifications of "one" and "plurality" mentioned in the present disclosure are illustrative rather than restrictive, and those skilled in the art should understand that unless otherwise clearly indicated in the context, it should be understood as "one or more".

[0034] In order to achieve rapid defoaming when a large amount of foam appears in a clothes processing barrel, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a new control method for a clothes processing device. Figure 1 1 is a flow chart of a control method for a clothes processing device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure. Figure 1 As shown, the control method of the clothing processing device provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure includes S110.

[0035] S110: Determine that the actual foam amount in the clothes processing tub is greater than the set foam amount, and control the addition of softener into the clothes processing tub.

[0036] The laundry treatment tub is a device in the laundry treatment device that is directly used for laundry cleaning. When the laundry treatment device is a laundry treatment device, the laundry treatment tub is the inner and outer drums of the laundry treatment device; when the laundry treatment device is a drum washing machine, the laundry treatment tub is the rotating drum of the drum washing machine.

[0037] The actual foam amount is the real-time foam amount of the clothes processing device during the process of cleaning clothes. Under normal circumstances, the clothes processing device includes washing, draining and dehydrating, and rinsing processes. The corresponding actual foam amount can be the foam amount in the washing process, the foam amount in the draining and dehydrating process, or the foam amount in the rinsing process. It should be noted that the actual foam amount is the actual foam amount in the aforementioned cleaning process, that is, there will be corresponding actual foam amounts at each sampling moment in the cleaning process.

[0038] In a specific implementation, the clothes treating device may detect the actual amount of foam in various ways.

[0039] In some embodiments, the clothing treatment device can detect the water level of the clothing treatment tub and determine the actual amount of foam based on the water level. Since foam is formed and located when air is mixed into water with detergent added under the action of driving force and relies on the surface activity of detergent, water is consumed when foam is formed. If the amount of washing water added to the clothing treatment tub is constant, the corresponding washing water level will also decrease as the amount of foam increases. Therefore, when the clothing treatment device is in a non-water-intake operation process, the water level of the clothing treatment tub can be detected, and the actual amount of foam can be determined based on the water level. At this time, the water level is inversely proportional to the actual amount of foam, and the lower the water level, the greater the amount of foam.

[0040] In some embodiments, the laundry treatment tub of the laundry treatment device is provided with suspended detection electrodes at multiple height positions. If the amount of foam in the laundry treatment device reaches a certain height, the detection electrodes at the corresponding height position will be turned on, causing the detected conductivity to change. Therefore, the actual amount of foam in the laundry treatment device can be determined by the conductivity.

[0041] For another example, since the foam itself has a large viscosity, a specific amount of foam can generate a specific motion impedance. In order for the laundry treatment tub to be able to wash the clothes, it is necessary to control the laundry treatment tub to rotate at a set speed. The greater the motion impedance, the greater the input power required to rotate the laundry treatment tub at the set speed. Based on this principle, the actual amount of foam can be estimated based on the input power of the motor driving the laundry treatment tub.

[0042] In a specific implementation, the clothing treatment device does not inject water at the initial stage of washing, and uses a driving motor to drive the clothing treatment barrel for placing dry clothes to rotate, so as to estimate the weight of the dry clothes according to the operating parameters of the clothing treatment barrel. Subsequently, the clothing treatment device determines the water injection level according to the weight of the dry clothes, and controls the water injection mechanism to inject water into the clothing treatment barrel according to the water injection level. Because the clothing treatment device has determined the water injection level, it can determine the water injection weight at this time. Combining the weight of the dry clothes and the water injection weight, the input power of the driving motor in the absence of foam can be roughly determined. In the case of foam, the foam generates resistance, which increases the input power of the driving motor. The input power of the driving motor actually detected is subtracted from the pre-estimated input power in the absence of foam, that is, the work power required to overcome the foam viscous impedance. The above-mentioned work power can be used to track the actual amount of foam.

[0043] In a specific implementation, the memory of the clothing processing device stores a comparison relationship table of work power and actual foam amount. After calculating the work power required to overcome the foam viscous impedance, the comparison relationship table is used to search the above work power to obtain the estimated actual foam amount.

[0044] The set foam amount is a predetermined amount of foam that affects the normal rotation of the laundry treatment tub or may cause serious foam overflow problems if not controlled in time. In a specific implementation, the set foam amount may be a foam amount determined experimentally.

[0045] If it is determined that the actual amount of foam in the laundry treatment tub is greater than the set amount of foam, it is determined that the current actual amount of foam will affect the normal rotation of the laundry treatment tub, or may subsequently cause serious foam overflow problems, and may even cause safety accidents. In order to avoid the aforementioned problems, a defoaming process is required to eliminate the excess foam in the laundry treatment tub.

[0046] In the embodiment of the present disclosure, when it is determined that the actual amount of foam in the clothes processing tub is greater than the set amount of foam, the control device controls the addition of softener into the clothes processing tub.

[0047] Softener is a washing and care product used to soften clothes, making them soft and fluffy and removing the classic characteristics of clothes. Because softener needs to adhere to the surface of clothes, the surface chemical properties of softener are opposite to those of detergent. When softener and detergent are mixed together, they can neutralize each other and offset their effects.

[0048] In conventional laundry cleaning, softener is usually added to the laundry treatment tub at the last rinse stage, so that a softener aqueous solution is formed in the laundry treatment tub, and the softener aqueous solution is used to soften the basically cleaned laundry. Since the detergent content in the aqueous solution in the laundry treatment tub is already very low at this time, the softener mainly plays a softening role.

[0049] In the disclosed embodiment, softener is not added in the last rinsing stage according to the conventional treatment method, but softener is added to the clothing treatment tub when it is determined that the actual foam amount in the clothing treatment tub is greater than the set foam amount. Since the aqueous solution and foam in the clothing treatment tub contain a large amount of detergent at this time, the softener will neutralize the detergent when it is added to the clothing treatment tub, thereby making at least part of the surface chemical properties of the detergent ineffective, and then the foam shape cannot be maintained by tension, causing the foam to collapse.

[0050] Since the surface chemical properties of the softener are opposite to those of the detergent, after the softener is added to the laundry treatment tub, the softener can quickly neutralize the detergent, thereby causing the foam to quickly disintegrate. In a specific implementation, the foam can be eliminated within 1 minute by properly controlling the amount of softener added and allowing the softener to be quickly homogenized in the washing water solution.

[0051] That is to say, when excessive foam is formed in the detergent aqueous solution in the clothing processing tub due to various reasons, by adding softener into the clothing processing tub, defoaming can be achieved faster than the existing static defoaming method, water spraying defoaming method and water drainage and re-injection defoaming method, which can also reduce the time spent on cleaning clothes by the clothing processing equipment as a whole.

[0052] As analyzed above, in the embodiment of the present disclosure, when it is determined that the actual foam amount of the laundry treatment tub is greater than the set foam amount, softener is added to the laundry treatment tub. In specific implementation, the method of adding softener to the laundry treatment tub varies according to the structure of the laundry treatment device.

[0053] In some embodiments, the clothing treatment device includes a softener delivery tank and a water injection mechanism. The softener delivery tank is an open storage tank for temporarily storing softener, and the open solute tank is also connected to the clothing washing tub. The water injection mechanism has a water injection waterway connected to the open storage tank, and the water injection waterway is connected to the open storage tank. Before washing clothes, the user can pre-add softener to the softener washing tank.

[0054] When softener is pre-placed in the softener delivery tank, the shut-off valve in the water injection waterway is controlled to open, so that water flows through the water injection waterway to the open receiving tank, and the water flow can flush the open receiving tank, so that the softener temporarily stored in the open receiving tank is flushed and delivered to the clothes processing barrel. In other words, by controlling the water injection mechanism to inject water to flush the softener delivery grass, the softener can be flushed from the softener delivery tank into the clothes processing barrel.

[0055] In some cases, the clothing treatment device may be provided with only one softener dispensing tank. The softener core temporarily stored in the softener dispensing tank is used to be added to the rinsing water in the final rinsing stage to form a softener aqueous solution, and then the softener aqueous solution is used to soften the clothes. In order to avoid that the softener used for softening the clothes is all used for defoaming, the clothing treatment device can control the water injection mechanism to inject water into the softener dispensing tank in a slow, small-volume manner, so that water and softener are mixed in the softener dispensing tank to form an aqueous solution, and the aqueous solution overflows the softener dispensing tank and is injected into the clothing treatment barrel, and the aforementioned process time is relatively short, so that the softener is consumed as little as possible, and sufficient softener is retained as much as possible for the softening treatment operation in the subsequent rinsing process.

[0056] In other cases, the clothing processing device is provided with two softener delivery slots, namely a main delivery slot and a spare delivery slot. Both the main delivery slot and the spare delivery slot are connected to the clothing processing tub. The main delivery slot is specially used to temporarily store softener for softening and rinsing, and the spare delivery slot temporarily stores spare softener. The main delivery slot is connected to the first water injection waterway in the water injection mechanism, and the spare delivery slot is connected to the second water injection waterway in the water injection mechanism.

[0057] When it is determined that the actual amount of foam in the clothing treatment barrel is greater than the set amount of foam, the shut-off valve in the second water injection waterway is opened so that the water flow flushes the spare delivery slot, so that the softener in the spare delivery slot can be flushed into the clothing treatment barrel, and then the softener in the spare delivery slot is used for defoaming. It should be noted that the first water injection waterway is not opened at this time, and the softener temporarily stored in the main delivery slot will not be flushed into the clothing treatment barrel for defoaming. In the subsequent soft rinsing process, the shut-off valves in the first water injection waterway and the second water injection waterway are opened, so that the two water flows flush the main delivery slot and the spare delivery slot respectively. At this time, the softener in the main delivery slot is flushed into the clothing treatment barrel for soft rinsing of clothes. If there is no need to try to use softener for defoaming in the previous stage, the softener in the spare delivery slot will also be flushed into the clothing treatment barrel at this time for soft rinsing of clothes. Through the structural settings of the aforementioned main dispensing tank, spare dispensing tank and two water injection waterways, as well as the aforementioned control strategy settings, the softener in the spare dispensing tank can be used for defoaming; if the softener in the spare dispensing tank is not used for defoaming, it will also be used for softening and rinsing clothes.

[0058] It should be noted that in most cases, the foam in the clothes treatment barrel is caused by excessive detergent concentration. Defoaming can be achieved with a high probability by adding softener once, and the probability of the actual foam amount being greater than the set foam amount again is not high. Therefore, setting two softener feeding slots and corresponding control strategies can meet most situations where defoaming and clothing softening treatments are required at the same time.

[0059] In some embodiments, for example, a softener quantitative dispensing box is configured in some high-end clothing processing equipment. The softener quantitative dispensing box is a dispensing device that pre-stores a large amount of softener and can quantitatively dispense a smaller amount of softener into the clothing processing barrel. The softener dispensing box includes a storage box for storing softener and an extrusion device. When the extrusion device is in operation, the softener in the storage box can be quantitatively squeezed out and dispensed into the clothing processing barrel, rather than using water flow to flush the dispensing trough to dispense the softener into the clothing processing barrel as before. In the case where the softener quantitative dispensing box is configured in the clothing processing equipment, the softener can be quantitatively dispensed into the clothing processing barrel by controlling the softener quantitative dispensing box.

[0060] Figure 21 is a flow chart of a control method for a laundry processing device provided by other embodiments of the present disclosure. Figure 2 As shown, in some embodiments, in order to more accurately and quantitatively dispense softener, avoid the problem of failure to quickly defoam due to insufficient softener dosage, and avoid the problem of waste due to excessive softener dosage, the control method of the clothing processing equipment includes S210-S230.

[0061] S210: Determine that the actual foam amount in the laundry processing tub is greater than the set foam amount, and detect the actual foam amount in the laundry processing tub.

[0062] The method for determining whether the actual amount of foam in the clothes processing barrel is greater than the set amount of foam, and the method for estimating the actual amount of foam in the embodiment of the present disclosure are the same as those described above and will not be repeated here.

[0063] S220: Determine the amount of softener to be added according to the actual amount of foam.

[0064] Different from the foregoing, in the embodiment of the present disclosure, after determining that the actual foam amount is greater than the set foam amount and estimating the actual foam amount, the amount of softener to be added will also be determined based on the actual foam amount.

[0065] Because the actual amount of foam is large because too much detergent is added. And the more detergent is added, the greater the actual amount of foam. In order to eliminate the corresponding foam, a sufficient amount of softener needs to be added to neutralize the excess detergent so that the corresponding amount of foam is eliminated. That is to say, in the specific implementation, when the amount of softener is determined according to the actual amount of foam, the amount of softener added is proportional to the actual amount of foam.

[0066] In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the clothes processing device stores a comparison table including correspondences between various foam amounts and softener dosage amounts. After obtaining the actual foam amount, the comparison table is searched using the actual foam amount to determine the softener dosage.

[0067] S230: Add softener into the clothes processing tub according to the softener dosage.

[0068] After determining the amount of softener to be added, softener can be added to the laundry processing tub according to the amount of softener to be added. Because the softener is added quantitatively, the laundry processing device implementing the method S210-S220 should be equipped with a softener quantitative delivery box to be able to quantitatively deliver the softener according to the amount of softener to be added.

[0069] In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the clothing processing device may further include a spray mechanism. The spray mechanism is a mechanism for delivering liquid into the clothing processing barrel by spraying. In a specific implementation, the spray mechanism preferably adopts a nozzle such as a venturi principle, so that the liquid can be sprayed as finely as possible. The aforementioned liquid may be a detergent, a softener, a detergent aqueous solution or a softener aqueous solution. In a specific implementation, the spray mechanism may be connected to the softener delivery trough or the softener directional delivery box mentioned above, and the liquid flowing out of the softener delivery trough or the softener quantitative delivery box flows into the spray mechanism, and is delivered into the clothing processing barrel by spraying through the spray mechanism.

[0070] In some embodiments of the present disclosure, in order to eliminate foam as much as possible, after adding softener to the clothing treatment tub, the clothing treatment device can also drive the clothing treatment tub to rotate, so as to speed up the homogenization of the softener in the aqueous solution in the clothing treatment tub, thereby allowing the softener to neutralize the detergent more quickly, thereby speeding up the foam elimination speed.

[0071] As analyzed above, in the specific implementation of the present disclosure, the actual amount of foam in the clothing treatment barrel can be detected during the washing process, the drainage and dehydration process, or the rinsing process, and when it is determined that the actual amount of foam is greater than the set amount of foam, the softener is controlled to be added to the clothing treatment barrel. In practical applications, since excessive foam is mostly generated during the washing process and the drainage and dehydration process, and if the problem of excessive foam does not occur during the washing process and the drainage and dehydration process, then the problem of excessive foam will not occur during the rinsing process. Based on this, in the specific implementation, if it is detected that the actual amount of foam is greater than the set amount of foam during the washing process and the drainage and dehydration process, the actual amount of foam can continue to be monitored during the rinsing process. If the actual amount of foam is not detected to be greater than the set amount of foam during the washing process and the first drainage and dehydration process, the actual amount of foam may no longer be monitored during the rinsing process.

[0072] In addition to providing the aforementioned control method for a clothes treating apparatus, an embodiment of the present disclosure also provides a control device for a clothes treating apparatus. Figure 3 Schematic diagram of the structure of the control device of the laundry processing device provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure. Figure 3 As shown, the control device 300 of the clothing processing equipment includes a control unit 301, and the control unit 301 is used to control the addition of softener into the clothing processing tub when it is determined that the actual foam amount in the clothing processing tub is greater than the set foam amount.

[0073] In some embodiments, the clothing processing device includes a water injection mechanism and a softener delivery slot; the softener is pre-deposited into the softener delivery slot; accordingly, the control unit 301 controls the water injection mechanism to inject water to flush the softener delivery slot, so as to flush the softener from the softener delivery slot into the clothing processing barrel.

[0074] In some embodiments, the softener dispensing tank includes a spare dispensing tank; the control unit 301 controls the water injection mechanism to flush the spare dispensing tank, so as to flush and dispense the softener in the spare dispensing tank into the clothes processing tub.

[0075] In some embodiments, the clothing processing device is equipped with a quantitative softener delivery box; the control unit 301 controls the quantitative softener delivery box to quantitatively deliver softener into the clothing processing barrel.

[0076] In some embodiments, the laundry processing device further includes a dosage determination unit for detecting the conductivity of the foam and determining the dosage of the softener based on the conductivity; accordingly, the control unit 301 dispenses the softener into the laundry processing tub according to the dosage of the softener.

[0077] In some embodiments, before adding softener to the clothing treatment tub, the control unit 301 will also detect the actual amount of foam in the clothing treatment tub, and determine the amount of softener added based on the actual amount of foam. The control unit 301 then controls the addition of softener to the clothing treatment tub according to the amount of softener added.

[0078] In some embodiments, the clothing processing device includes a spray mechanism; the control unit 301 controls the spray mechanism to dispense softener into the clothing processing barrel in a spraying manner.

[0079] In some embodiments, after controlling the addition of softener into the laundry treatment tub, the control unit 301 further controls the laundry treatment tub to rotate, so as to speed up the homogenization of the added softener in the aqueous solution in the laundry treatment tub.

[0080] In a specific embodiment, the control unit 301 detects the actual amount of foam in the clothing processing tub during washing, draining and dehydrating, or rinsing, and controls the addition of softener into the clothing processing tub when it is determined that the actual amount of foam is greater than the set amount of foam.

[0081] In addition to providing the aforementioned control method and control device for the clothes treating apparatus, the embodiments of the present disclosure also provide a clothes treating apparatus. Figure 4 Schematic diagram of the structure of the clothes processing device provided by the present disclosure. Figure 4 As shown, the clothing treatment device includes the aforementioned clothing treatment barrel and other structural components, and also includes a controller. The controller can execute the control method of the clothing treatment device as described above to achieve defoaming control. For the convenience of description, the aforementioned structural components are divided into a sensor 401 and an actuator 402. In a specific implementation, the controller includes a processor 403 and a memory 404.

[0082] The processor 403 may be a central processing unit (CPU) or other forms of processing units having data processing capabilities and / or instruction execution capabilities, and may control other components in the laundry treating apparatus to perform desired functions.

[0083] The memory 404 may include one or more computer program products, which may include various forms of computer-readable storage media, such as volatile memory and / or non-volatile memory. Volatile memory may include, for example, random access memory (RAM) and / or cache memory (cache), etc. Non-volatile memory may include, for example, read-only memory (ROM), hard disk, flash memory, etc. One or more computer program instructions may be stored on a computer-readable storage medium.

[0084] The processor 403 can run program instructions and control each actuator 402 according to the control method of the clothing processing device described above according to the signal detected by the sensor 401 to achieve the foam elimination function. As analyzed above, the sensor 401 can include a conductivity sensor, etc.

[0085] The embodiment of the present disclosure also provides a storage medium, the storage medium stores a program or instruction, the program or instruction enables a computer to execute any of the control methods for clothing processing devices provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure. When the computer executable instruction is executed by a computer processor, it can also be used to execute any of the control methods for clothing processing devices provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure to achieve corresponding beneficial effects.

[0086] Through the above description of the implementation method, the technicians in the relevant field can clearly understand that the embodiments of the present disclosure can be implemented with the help of software and necessary general hardware, and of course can also be implemented by hardware, but in many cases the former is a better implementation method. Based on such an understanding, the technical solution of the embodiments of the present disclosure is essentially or the part that contributes to the prior art can be embodied in the form of a software product, and the computer software product can be stored in a computer-readable storage medium, such as a computer floppy disk, read-only memory (ROM), random access memory (RAM), flash memory (FLASH), hard disk or optical disk, etc., including a number of instructions to enable a computer device (which can be a personal computer, server, or network device, etc.) to execute the methods of each embodiment of the present disclosure.

[0087] The above are only specific embodiments of the present disclosure, so that those skilled in the art can understand or implement the present disclosure. Various modifications to these embodiments will be apparent to those skilled in the art, and the general principles defined herein may be implemented in other embodiments without departing from the spirit or scope of the present disclosure. Therefore, the present disclosure will not be limited to the embodiments described herein, but will conform to the widest scope consistent with the principles and novel features disclosed herein.

Claims

1. A control method for a clothes processing device, characterized in that: include: It is determined that the actual foam amount of the clothes processing tub is greater than the set foam amount, and softener is added to the clothes processing tub.

2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that The clothing processing device comprises a water injection mechanism and a softener delivery slot; the softener is pre-deposited into the softener delivery slot; The controlling of adding softener into the clothes processing tub comprises: controlling a water injection mechanism to inject water to flush the softener injection slot, so as to flush the softener from the softener injection slot into the clothes processing tub.

3. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that The clothing treatment equipment is equipped with a quantitative softener delivery box; The controlling of adding softener into the laundry processing tub includes: controlling the softener quantitative adding box to quantitatively add softener into the laundry processing tub.

4. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that: Before adding softener to the laundry processing tub, the method further includes: detecting an actual amount of foam in the laundry processing tub, and determining an amount of softener to be added according to the actual amount of foam; The controlling of adding softener into the clothes processing tub includes: controlling the adding softener into the clothes processing tub according to the softener adding amount.

5. The method according to claim 4, characterized in that The detecting the actual amount of foam in the laundry treatment tub comprises: detecting the conductivity of the foam, and determining the actual amount of foam based on the conductivity; and / or, Determining that the laundry processing device is in a non-water-intake operation process, detecting the water level of the laundry processing tub, and determining the actual foam amount based on the water level; and / or, The actual amount of foam is determined based on input power of a motor for driving the laundry treating tub to rotate.

6. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that: The clothes processing device comprises a spray mechanism; The controlling of adding softener into the clothes processing barrel comprises: controlling a spray mechanism to add softener into the clothes processing barrel in a spraying manner.

7. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that: After the control of adding softener into the clothes processing tub, the method further includes: The laundry treatment tub is driven to rotate to accelerate the homogenization of the softener in the aqueous solution in the laundry treatment tub.

8. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that: The step of determining that the actual amount of foam in the laundry processing tub is greater than the set amount of foam and controlling the addition of softener into the laundry processing tub comprises: During the washing process, the draining and dehydrating process or the rinsing process, detecting the actual amount of foam in the laundry processing tub; It is determined that the actual foam amount is greater than the set foam amount, and softener is added to the clothes processing barrel.

9. A control device for a clothes processing device, characterized in that: include: The control unit is used for controlling the addition of softener into the clothing processing tub when it is determined that the actual foam amount in the clothing processing tub is greater than the set foam amount.

10. A clothes processing device, characterized in that: It comprises a controller and an actuator, wherein the controller executes the control method of the clothing processing equipment according to any one of claims 1 to 8, and controls the actuator to put softener into the clothing processing barrel.

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