Drying control method for cleaning apparatus, and cleaning apparatus

Abstract

A drying control method for a cleaning apparatus, and a cleaning apparatus, relating to the technical field of cleaning apparatuses. The drying control method comprises: controlling a drying device to simultaneously dry, at least within a partial time period, an object to be dried in a first cleaning chamber (101) and an object to be dried in a second cleaning chamber (102). Two cleaning chambers for drying cleaning parts of cleaning apparatuses and drying laundry are integrated in one cleaning apparatus, and the two cleaning chambers share a same drying device, thereby reducing the number of drying devices provided, reducing the hardware configuration cost, achieving miniaturization in cleaning apparatus spatial design, reducing energy consumption during simultaneous drying of two cleaning chambers, and improving the drying energy utilization.

Description

Drying control method of cleaning device and cleaning device

[0001] The present application claims priority to the Chinese patent application No. 202410458260.7, filed on April 17, 2024, and entitled "Drying control method of cleaning device and cleaning device", the content of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. TECHNICAL FIELD

[0002] The present application relates to the technical field of cleaning devices, and in particular to a drying control method of a cleaning device and the cleaning device. BACKGROUND

[0003] A cleaning device is a device capable of cleaning and drying a to-be-cleaned object, thereby replacing manual cleaning and airing to some extent, reducing labor intensity and accelerating the cleaning cycle of the to-be-cleaned object. In the prior art, the cleaning and drying of to-be-cleaned objects such as clothes are usually performed by a washing machine, and the cleaning and drying of cleaning parts of a robot cleaner are usually performed by a base station. The combination of the existing robot cleaner and washing machine on the market is to directly stack the washing machine on the base station of the robot cleaner, and each still works to achieve its own cleaning and drying functions. This results in the need to set at least two cleaning devices, i.e., a washing machine and a base station, in a home environment, which occupies space in the home environment and also increases the total energy consumption of the home devices.

[0004] SUMMARY

[0005] The present application provides a drying control method of a cleaning device and the cleaning device, to solve the problem that at least two cleaning devices, i.e., a washing machine and a base station, need to be set in a home environment, which occupies space in the home environment and also increases the total energy consumption of the home devices.

[0006] In a first aspect, the present application provides a drying control method of a cleaning device, wherein the cleaning device comprises a first cleaning cavity, a second cleaning cavity, a drying device, and a control device, the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity share the drying device;

[0007] The method is applied to the control device, and the method comprises:

[0008] controlling the drying device to simultaneously dry to-be-dried objects in the first cleaning cavity and to-be-dried objects in the second cleaning cavity at least in a part of time period;

[0009] wherein the first cleaning cavity is at least used for drying cleaning parts of a robot cleaner or a floor cleaner, and the second cleaning cavity is at least used for drying clothes; or the first cleaning cavity is at least used for drying clothes, and the second cleaning cavity is at least used for drying cleaning parts of a robot cleaner or a floor cleaner.

[0010] By the above manner, the two cleaning cavities can share the same drying device, so that the number of drying devices is reduced, and the space design of the cleaning equipment is miniaturized; meanwhile, the hardware configuration cost is reduced, and the drying function of the drying device can be provided for the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity at a time, so that the start-up energy loss and the preheating energy loss are reduced.

[0011] In a possible design, the control of the drying device to dry the to-be-dried objects in the first cleaning cavity and the to-be-dried objects in the second cleaning cavity at the same time at least in a part of time period comprises:

[0012] In the part of time period in which the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity, the drying device is controlled to continuously deliver the drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity; or,

[0013] In the part of time period in which the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity, the drying device is controlled to deliver the drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity in at least one first time period and to deliver the drying airflow to the second cleaning cavity in at least one second time period; the part of time period comprises at least one first time period and at least one second time period.

[0014] By the above manner, different shared drying modes can be set according to different use requirements, the flexibility of shared drying of the cleaning equipment is increased, the function implementation manner of the equipment is enriched, and the use experience of the user is improved; by simultaneously delivering the drying airflow to the two cleaning cavities, the drying parameters in a single cleaning cavity can be controlled while the shared drying resource is controlled, the drying airflow in the two cleaning cavities is distributed on demand, the overall drying resource utilization rate is improved, and the drying efficiency is improved; and when the drying airflow is heated, the drying effect of the cleaning cavity on the dried side can be maintained, and the possibility of bacterial growth is reduced; by delivering the drying airflow to the two cleaning cavities in the drying time period of the cleaning cavity on one side, the water in the cleaning cavities can be quickly taken away by the concentrated dominant wind, and then the remaining water is dried by multiple switching of the shared drying resource, so that the effect that both sides of the cleaning cavities can be dried is achieved; the switching gap between the different cleaning cavities can be used to improve the contact degree of the drying resource such as airflow and temperature with the clothes or cleaning pieces, the possibility that the drying resource is directly discharged due to insufficient contact is reduced, and then the utilization rate of the drying resource is improved, and the energy loss is reduced.

[0015] In a possible design, the control of the drying device to continuously deliver the drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity in the part of time period in which the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity comprises:

[0016] In a part of the time period during which the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity, the drying device is controlled to continuously deliver the drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity according to the set flow distribution ratio.

[0017] In this way, the drying resource can be reasonably allocated according to the different drying requirements in the two cleaning cavities, and the drying resource can be inclined to the side with a large drying requirement, so that the drying efficiency is improved under the condition of sharing, the drying resource is maximized, and the energy waste of ineffective or inefficient drying is reduced.

[0018] In a possible design, the first time period and the second time period are adjacent or not adjacent in time sequence.

[0019] In this way, the time length control of the drying airflow delivered into the two cleaning cavities can be realized, so that the drying resource can be reasonably allocated according to the different drying requirements in the two cleaning cavities, and the drying resource can be inclined to the side with a large drying requirement, so that the drying efficiency is improved under the condition of sharing, the drying resource is maximized, and the energy waste of ineffective or inefficient drying is reduced.

[0020] In a possible design, the control of the drying device to dry the to-be-dried objects in the first cleaning cavity and the to-be-dried objects in the second cleaning cavity at the same time at least in part of the time period includes:

[0021] In a part of the time period during which the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity, when the drying time length of the second cleaning cavity meets the preset drying time length, or the humidity of the second cleaning cavity meets the preset humidity, the drying device is controlled to pause the delivery of the drying airflow to the second cleaning cavity.

[0022] When the pause time length of the drying device meets the preset waiting time length, and / or there are to-be-dried objects in the first cleaning cavity, the drying device is controlled to dry the first cleaning cavity.

[0023] In this way, when the user does not need to take the dried objects in the second cleaning cavity in a hurry, the drying resource in the drying process of the second cleaning cavity can be shared with the first cleaning cavity in a waiting manner, so that the multiple startings of the drying device caused by the drying of the second cleaning cavity and the first cleaning cavity are reduced, and the energy consumption loss caused by the startings is reduced. In addition, since the drying resource required by the second cleaning cavity in the later stage is relatively small, the allocation of the drying resource to the first cleaning cavity will not have a great impact on the drying of the second cleaning cavity. Therefore, the sharing of the drying resource can reduce the use amount of the drying resource by the second cleaning cavity and the first cleaning cavity as a whole, so that the utilization rate of the drying resource is improved.

[0024] Optionally, the drying device comprises a fan assembly for generating a drying airflow and a heating assembly for heating the drying airflow, and the control of the drying device to simultaneously dry the to-be-dried objects in the first cleaning cavity and the to-be-dried objects in the second cleaning cavity at least in part of the time period comprises:

[0025] When the drying time of the second cleaning cavity meets the preset drying time or the humidity of the second cleaning cavity meets the preset humidity during the part of the time period in which the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity, the heating assembly of the drying device is controlled to pause heating the delivered drying airflow;

[0026] When the duration of the pause of the drying device meets the preset waiting time and / or there are to-be-dried objects in the first cleaning cavity, the drying device is controlled to dry the first cleaning cavity, and the heating assembly of the drying device is controlled to resume heating the delivered drying airflow.

[0027] In this way, the second cleaning cavity waits for the first cleaning cavity to share the drying resource in a cold-drying waiting mode, reducing the multiple starts of the drying device caused by the drying of the second cleaning cavity and the first cleaning cavity respectively, thereby reducing the energy loss of the start; the heating assembly is turned off during the waiting for the appointment time, the cold-drying waiting mode is realized, the heating energy loss is reduced, the drying operation of the second cleaning cavity is maintained, and when the two cleaning cavities share the drying resource, the heating assembly is restarted to improve the drying efficiency and improve the utilization rate of the drying resource.

[0028] In a possible design, after the control of the drying device to simultaneously dry the to-be-dried objects in the first cleaning cavity and the to-be-dried objects in the second cleaning cavity at least in part of the time period, the method further comprises:

[0029] When the drying of the second cleaning cavity is completed, the delivery of the drying airflow to the second cleaning cavity is controlled to be stopped and the delivery of the drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity is controlled to be continuously performed; or,

[0030] When the drying of the first cleaning cavity is completed, the delivery of the drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity is controlled to be stopped and the delivery of the drying airflow to the second cleaning cavity is controlled to be continuously performed.

[0031] In this way, the drying resource is concentrated to the cleaning cavity that has not been dried after the drying task of any one of the two cleaning cavities is completed, thereby improving the overall drying efficiency and the utilization rate of the drying resource.

[0032] Illustratively, the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity adopt straight-line drying or internal circulation drying; the drying device of the straight-line drying at least comprises a fan assembly and an air duct; the drying device of the internal circulation drying at least comprises a fan assembly, a condensing assembly and an air duct.

[0033] By the above manner, the method can be applied to various types of cleaning equipment, improving the universality of the method.

[0034] In a possible design, the air duct is provided with a reversing valve, and the reversing valve is configured to control air volume distribution of the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity.

[0035] By the above manner, the drying device controls the air volume and / or heat of the drying airflow conveyed into the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity, the control method is simple and effective, does not need complex algorithm support, is convenient to use, improves the universality of the method.

[0036] In a second aspect, the application provides a drying control method of a cleaning equipment, the cleaning equipment comprising a first cleaning cavity, a second cleaning cavity, a drying device and a control device, the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity sharing the drying device; the first cleaning cavity being configured to dry cleaning parts of a floor cleaning machine or a floor washing machine, and the second cleaning cavity being configured to dry laundry;

[0037] The method is applied to the control device, and the control device controls the drying device to dry the to-be-dried objects in the first cleaning cavity and the to-be-dried objects in the second cleaning cavity at the same time at least in a part of time period, and the method comprises the following steps of:

[0038] Before the drying of the second cleaning cavity by the drying device is completed, a pre-booking drying time is sent to the floor cleaning machine, or the floor washing machine, or other terminal in communication connection with the cleaning equipment; the pre-booking drying time is at least in a part of time period of the drying of the second cleaning cavity by the drying device;

[0039] When the pre-booking drying time is reached, the drying device is controlled to dry the first cleaning cavity.

[0040] By the above manner, the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity can share the drying resource of the drying device in a pre-booking manner by using simple communication means, the starting energy loss caused by the drying of the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity respectively is reduced, and energy is saved; the drying time loss of the starting preheating process is shortened, the utilization rate of the drying resource is improved; the participation of the user is reduced, and the intelligent degree of the cleaning equipment is improved.

[0041] In a third aspect, the application provides a drying control method of a cleaning equipment, the cleaning equipment comprising a first cleaning cavity, a second cleaning cavity, a drying device and a control device, the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity sharing the drying device;

[0042] The method is applied to the control device which controls the drying device to dry the to-be-dried objects in the first cleaning cavity and the to-be-dried objects in the second cleaning cavity at the same time at least in a part of time period, and the method comprises:

[0043] At least in a part of time period when the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity, the drying device is controlled to continuously deliver the drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity.

[0044] In an implementation manner, the controlling the drying device to continuously deliver the drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity at least in a part of time period when the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity comprises:

[0045] In the part of time period when the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity, the drying device is controlled to continuously deliver the drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity according to a set flow distribution ratio.

[0046] For example, the controlling the drying device to continuously deliver the drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity at least in a part of time period when the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity comprises:

[0047] In the part of time period when the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity, when a drying time length of the second cleaning cavity meets a preset drying time length or a humidity of the second cleaning cavity meets a preset humidity, the drying device is controlled to suspend delivering the drying airflow to the second cleaning cavity;

[0048] When a suspended time length of the drying device meets a preset waiting time length and / or there is a to-be-dried object in the first cleaning cavity, the drying device is controlled to continuously deliver the drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity.

[0049] Optionally, the drying device comprises a fan assembly for generating the drying airflow and a heating assembly for heating the drying airflow, and the controlling the drying device to continuously deliver the drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity at least in a part of time period when the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity comprises:

[0050] In the part of time period when the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity, when a drying time length of the second cleaning cavity meets a preset drying time length or a humidity of the second cleaning cavity meets a preset humidity, the heating assembly of the drying device is controlled to suspend heating the delivered drying airflow;

[0051] When the duration of the suspension of the drying device satisfies a preset waiting duration, and / or there is to-be-dried object in the first cleaning cavity, the drying device is controlled to continuously deliver drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity, and the heating assembly of the drying device is controlled to resume heating the delivered drying airflow.

[0052] The cleaning device provided by the third aspect and the possible implementation manners of the third aspect has the advantages of the first aspect and the possible implementation manners of the first aspect, which will not be described here.

[0053] In a fourth aspect, the application provides a drying control method of a cleaning device, the cleaning device comprising a first cleaning cavity, a second cleaning cavity, a drying device, and a control device, the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity sharing the drying device;

[0054] The method is applied to the control device, which controls the drying device to dry to-be-dried object in the first cleaning cavity and to-be-dried object in the second cleaning cavity at the same time at least in part of the time period, and the method comprises:

[0055] At least in part of the time period during which the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity, the drying device is controlled to deliver drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity only in at least one first time period and to deliver drying airflow to the second cleaning cavity only in at least one second time period; the part of the time period comprises at least one first time period and at least one second time period.

[0056] Optionally, the first time period and the second time period are adjacent or not adjacent in time sequence.

[0057] For example, at least in part of the time period during which the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity, the drying device is controlled to deliver drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity only in at least one first time period and to deliver drying airflow to the second cleaning cavity only in at least one second time period, which comprises:

[0058] When the drying duration of the second cleaning cavity satisfies a preset drying duration, or the humidity of the second cleaning cavity satisfies a preset humidity, during part of the time period during which the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity, the drying device is controlled to suspend delivering drying airflow to the second cleaning cavity;

[0059] When the duration of the suspension of the drying device satisfies a preset waiting duration, and / or there is to-be-dried object in the first cleaning cavity, the drying device is controlled to deliver drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity only in at least one first time period and to deliver drying airflow to the second cleaning cavity only in at least one second time period.

[0060] Optionally, the drying device comprises a fan assembly for generating a drying airflow and a heating assembly for heating the drying airflow, and the control device controls the drying device to deliver the drying airflow to only the first cleaning cavity in at least one first time period and to only the second cleaning cavity in at least one second time period during the part of the time period in which the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity, comprising:

[0061] When the drying time of the second cleaning cavity meets a preset drying time or the humidity of the second cleaning cavity meets a preset humidity during the part of the time period in which the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity, the control device controls the heating assembly of the drying device to pause heating the delivered drying airflow;

[0062] When the duration of the pause of the drying device meets a preset waiting time and / or there is a drying object in the first cleaning cavity, the control device controls the drying device to deliver the drying airflow to only the first cleaning cavity in at least one first time period and to only the second cleaning cavity in at least one second time period, and controls the heating assembly of the drying device to resume heating the delivered drying airflow.

[0063] The cleaning device provided by the fourth aspect and the possible implementation manners of the fourth aspect has the beneficial effects of the cleaning device provided by the first aspect and the possible implementation manners of the first aspect, which will not be described here in detail.

[0064] In a fifth aspect, the present application provides a cleaning device, comprising:

[0065] a first cleaning cavity, a second cleaning cavity, and a drying device and a control device, the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity share the drying device; the drying device comprises a fan assembly and an air duct, the air duct has an air inlet, a first air outlet and a second air outlet, the air inlet of the air duct is connected with the output end of the fan assembly, and the first air outlet and the second air outlet of the air duct are respectively communicated with the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity; the control device controls the drying device to dry the drying object in the first cleaning cavity and the drying object in the second cleaning cavity at the same time during at least part of the time period;

[0066] The first cleaning cavity is used for drying at least cleaning parts of a sweeping robot or a scrubber, and the second cleaning cavity is used for drying at least clothes; or the first cleaning cavity is used for drying at least clothes, and the second cleaning cavity is used for drying at least cleaning parts of a sweeping robot or a scrubber.

[0067] Optionally, the drying device further comprises a reversing valve arranged in the air duct, and the reversing valve comprises one inlet and two outlets.

[0068] The inlet of the reversing valve is communicated with the air inlet of the air duct, and the two outlets of the reversing valve are switchably communicated with the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity, respectively.

[0069] Optionally, the drying device further comprises a condensing assembly and a reversing valve, the reversing valve comprises a first reversing valve arranged at the air outlet side of the fan assembly and a second reversing valve arranged at the air inlet side of the fan assembly, the first reversing valve comprises one inlet and two outlets, and the second reversing valve comprises two inlets and one outlet.

[0070] The inlet of the first reversing valve is communicated with the air inlet of the air duct, and the two outlets of the first reversing valve are switchably communicated with the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity.

[0071] The two inlets of the second reversing valve are switchably communicated with the outlet of the condensing assembly and the external atmosphere, and the outlet of the second reversing valve is communicated with the air inlet side of the fan assembly.

[0072] Optionally, the drying device further comprises a heating assembly for heating the airflow, the heating assembly is arranged in the air duct between the fan assembly and the reversing valve, and is signal-connected with the control device.

[0073] Optionally, the drying device further comprises a temperature sensor and a humidity sensor, the temperature sensor and the humidity sensor are arranged inside the second cleaning cavity and are signal-connected with the control device, respectively.

[0074] The cleaning device provided by the fifth aspect and the possible implementation manners of the fifth aspect has the beneficial effects of the first aspect and the possible implementation manners of the first aspect, which will not be repeated here.

[0075] The drying control method of the cleaning device and the cleaning device provided by the application can simultaneously dry the objects to be dried in the first cleaning cavity and the objects to be dried in the second cleaning cavity at least in part of the time period. Compared with the prior art, the cleaning device provided by the application integrates the two cleaning cavities for drying cleaning parts and drying clothes in one cleaning device, and makes the two cleaning cavities share the same drying device. By actively controlling the drying time of the objects to be dried in the first cleaning cavity and the objects to be dried in the second cleaning cavity to overlap, the drying function of the objects to be dried in the two cleaning cavities can be completed by one start of the drying device, the energy consumption of multiple starts of the drying device is reduced, the two cleaning cavities can share the drying resources and utilize the excess drying resources of each other, the utilization rate of the drying resources is improved, the simultaneous drying or alternating drying can be set according to different use requirements, the flexibility of the drying of the cleaning device is increased, the function implementation mode of the device is enriched, and the use experience of the user is improved. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0076] Fig. 1 is a structural schematic diagram of a cleaning device provided by an embodiment of the application;

[0077] Fig. 2 is a layout structural schematic diagram of the inside of a cleaning device provided by an embodiment of the application;

[0078] Fig. 3 is a control component structural schematic diagram of a cleaning device provided by an embodiment of the application;

[0079] Fig. 4 is a reversing valve control principle schematic diagram provided by an embodiment of the application, wherein (a) is a first outlet below which all air flows, (b) is a first outlet below which and a second outlet left which all air flows, and (c) is a second outlet left which all air flows;

[0080] Fig. 5 is another layout structural schematic diagram of the inside of a cleaning device provided by an embodiment of the application;

[0081] Fig. 6 is a control component structural schematic diagram of another cleaning device provided by an embodiment of the application. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0082] The exemplary embodiments will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. The following description is only exemplary and is not intended to limit the scope, applicability or configuration of the application. Rather, the exemplary embodiments described herein provide an example of devices and methods consistent with the present application along with the best mode for practicing the application. Various changes can be made to the application described and equivalents can be substituted without departing from the true spirit and scope of the application. In addition, many modifications can be made to adapt a particular situation to the teachings of the application without departing from the central inventive concept described herein.

[0083] The laundry drying device such as the existing washing machine or dryer needs to start the drying device in the cleaning device to dry the laundry when drying the laundry, and the drying time is usually long. The base station as the cleaning piece of the sweeping robot cleaning device needs to be dried after cleaning the cleaning piece to avoid the situation that the cleaning piece breeds bacteria in a humid environment for a long time, that is, the base station also needs to be equipped with a drying device to dry the cleaning piece. Therefore, the laundry drying device and the base station with drying function usually occupy a large amount of home space due to the problem of hardware configuration, and when the two devices perform drying work at the same time, the total energy consumption of the home device will increase sharply.

[0084] Based on the above technical problems, the application concept of the present application is to integrate the two cleaning cavities for drying laundry and drying cleaning pieces into one cleaning device, thereby reducing the occupied area of the device to the home space, reducing the number of drying devices by setting the drying device shared by the two cleaning cavities, drying or sterilizing the cleaning piece while drying the laundry, improving the energy utilization rate of the drying process, and reducing the total energy consumption of the home device by simultaneous drying, aiming to solve the above technical problems of the prior art.

[0085] The specific application scenarios of the present application are as follows:

[0086] FIG. 1 is a possible structure schematic diagram of a cleaning device provided by an embodiment of the present application; as shown in FIG. 1, the cleaning device includes a first cleaning cavity 101 and a second cleaning cavity 102 and a drying device, the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity share the drying device, the first cleaning cavity 101 is in communication with the outside atmosphere, and the second cleaning cavity 102 can be switched to be in communication with the outside atmosphere.

[0087] It should be understood that the cleaning device related to the embodiments of the present application can be any cleaning device having the functions of laundry and cleaning element drying, such as a washing machine, a dryer, a base station, etc. FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a cleaning device as an example, which comprises two laundry cavities and one cleaning element cavity, at least one of the two laundry cavities can be used for drying laundry, and the cleaning element cavity can be used for drying cleaning elements. In addition, the components related to the scheme of the present application are only exemplarily shown in FIG. 1, and the specific setting positions of the related components are not limited, and whether the cleaning device further comprises or does not comprise other components or parts is not limited, and specific components can be added or deleted according to the functions that the cleaning device can provide.

[0088] The drying device comprises a fan assembly and an air duct, the air duct has an air inlet, a first air outlet and a second air outlet, the air inlet of the air duct is connected with the output end of the fan assembly, and the first air outlet and the second air outlet of the air duct are respectively communicated with the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity.

[0089] The first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity adopt direct discharge drying or internal circulation drying; the drying device of the direct discharge drying at least comprises a fan assembly and an air duct; and the drying device of the internal circulation drying at least comprises a fan assembly, a condensing assembly and an air duct.

[0090] For example, when the laundry drying air volume requirement of the second cleaning cavity is not large, direct discharge drying can be adopted, at this time, the condensing assembly does not need to be configured, thus being beneficial to the miniaturization of the cleaning device.

[0091] FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the layout structure inside a cleaning device provided by the embodiments of the present application. When the laundry drying air volume requirement of the second cleaning cavity is not large, the drying device can be set as a direct discharge drying cavity structure, as shown in FIG. 2, the cleaning device comprises a first cleaning cavity 101, a second cleaning cavity 102 and a drying device, the drying device comprises a fan assembly 103 and an air duct 104, one end of the air duct 104 is connected with the fan assembly 103, and the other end of the air duct 104 is respectively connected with the first cleaning cavity 101 and the second cleaning cavity 102, so that the air blown by the fan assembly 103 can enter the first cleaning cavity 101 and the second cleaning cavity 102 through the air duct 104, thereby realizing the drying of the cleaning elements in the first cleaning cavity and the laundry in the second cleaning cavity.

[0092] The first cleaning cavity 101 and the second cleaning cavity 102 are arranged in an up-down manner, the drying device comprises a heating assembly 105, a fan assembly 103 and an air duct 104, the air duct 104 is provided with a reversing valve 106, the reversing valve 106 is used for controlling the air volume distribution of the first cleaning cavity 101 and the second cleaning cavity 102. The second cleaning cavity 102 is further provided with a temperature sensor for detecting the temperature change in the cavity and a humidity sensor for detecting the humidity state in the cavity, so as to provide the control device with a basis for regulation and control.

[0093] Figure 3 is a schematic diagram of a control component structure of a cleaning device according to an embodiment of the present application. When the drying device is a direct discharge type drying cavity structure, as shown in Figure 3, the cleaning device further comprises a control device, the control device 108 is respectively connected to the heating assembly 105, the fan assembly 103, and the reversing valve 106, and the control device 108 is further connected to the temperature sensor 110 and the humidity sensor 109 arranged in the second cleaning cavity, so as to realize the drying control function of the control device 108.

[0094] Figures 4(a), (b), and (c) are schematic diagrams of a reversing valve control principle according to an embodiment of the present application. As shown in Figure 4, the reversing valve is a three-way reversing valve, when the drying device is a direct discharge type drying cavity structure, the inlet of the reversing valve is connected to the air inlet of the air duct, and the two outlets of the reversing valve are respectively connected to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity.

[0095] For example, when the valve body is at the position (a) in Figure 4, the air in the air duct can be controlled to flow to the first outlet connected to the first cleaning cavity; when the valve body is at the position (b) in Figure 4, the air in the air duct can be controlled to flow to the first outlet connected to the first cleaning cavity and the second outlet connected to the second cleaning cavity; and when the valve body is at the position (c) in Figure 4, the air in the air duct can be controlled to flow to the second outlet connected to the second cleaning cavity.

[0096] Figure 5 is a schematic diagram of another layout structure inside a cleaning device according to an embodiment of the present application. When the air drying amount requirement of the second cleaning cavity is large, the drying device can be set as an internal circulation drying cavity structure, as shown in Figure 5, the internal circulation drying cavity structure is similar to the direct discharge type drying cavity structure, the difference is that a condensing assembly 107 is further arranged between the second cleaning cavity 102 and the fan assembly 105, and a reversing valve 106 is further arranged between the condensing assembly 107 and the fan assembly 105. The water vapor carried in the air is collected through the condensing effect of the condensing assembly, and the air in the second cleaning cavity is circulated to continuously carry out the water in the clothes out of the second cleaning cavity. Compared with the direct discharge type drying, this mode does not need to set a large air outlet and air inlet, and will not directly discharge a large amount of water on the clothes to the indoor air to affect the air humidity of the user.

[0097] Figure 6 is a schematic diagram of a control component structure of another cleaning device according to an embodiment of the present application. When the drying device is an internal circulation drying cavity structure, as shown in Figure 6, the cleaning device further comprises a control device, the control device 108 is respectively connected to the heating assembly 105, the fan assembly 103, and the reversing valve, and the control device 108 is further connected to the temperature sensor 110 and the humidity sensor 109 arranged in the second cleaning cavity, so as to realize the drying control function of the control device 108.

[0098] Wherein, the reversing valve is provided with two, including the first reversing valve 1061 provided at the air outlet side of the fan assembly 103 and the second reversing valve 1062 provided at the air inlet side of the fan assembly 103; the inlet of the first reversing valve 1061 is communicated with the air inlet of the air duct 104, and the two outlets of the first reversing valve 1061 are respectively switchably communicated with the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity; the inlet of the second reversing valve 1062 is switchably communicated with the outlet of the condensing assembly 107 and the external atmosphere, and the outlet of the second reversing valve 1062 is communicated with the air inlet side of the fan assembly 103.

[0099] Since the cleaning element has a small area and is in an unfolded state, the drying demand is relatively low compared with clothes, and therefore, the first cleaning cavity is more suitable for direct-vent drying.

[0100] When the second cleaning cavity is also direct-vent drying, the air outlet duct only needs to be communicated with the first cleaning cavity.

[0101] When the second cleaning cavity is internal circulation drying, since the first cleaning cavity uses the air in the second cleaning cavity during drying, in order to avoid that the air in the second cleaning cavity is insufficient and affects the drying of clothes in the second cleaning cavity, a supplementary air valve needs to be added between the condensing assembly and the fan assembly.

[0102] There is also a drying device combining direct-vent drying and internal circulation drying, for example, the first cleaning cavity adopts direct-vent drying, and the second cleaning cavity adopts internal circulation drying.

[0103] The control device and the storage assembly are both arranged inside the cleaning equipment. Alternatively, the storage assembly can be integrated with the control device, or can be two independent components from the control device.

[0104] The storage assembly is used to store data, for example, various software control programs, some modes and / or parameters of the cleaning equipment, etc. Specifically, the program can include program code, and the program code includes computer operation instructions.

[0105] The control device can include one or more circuits or chips with control functions.

[0106] The control device is used to control the drying operation of the cleaning equipment through various software control programs stored in the storage assembly.

[0107] The execution subject of the embodiments of the present application can be the control device in the cleaning equipment, or a server corresponding to the cleaning equipment. The server is located in the cloud and is connected with the cleaning equipment through a network, and is used to issue control instructions to the cleaning equipment, or to forward the control instructions sent by the user through a terminal device to the cleaning equipment, etc.

[0108] The following takes the control device in the cleaning equipment as an example, and the specific embodiments explain the technical solutions of the present application and how the technical solutions solve the above technical problems in detail. The following specific embodiments can be combined with each other, and the same or similar concepts or processes can not be described again in some embodiments.

[0109] The present application provides a control method of a cleaning equipment, comprising:

[0110] The control device controls the drying device to dry the to-be-dried objects in the first cleaning cavity and the to-be-dried objects in the second cleaning cavity at the same time at least in a part of time period.

[0111] The first cleaning cavity is used for drying at least cleaning parts of a sweeper or a scrubber, and the second cleaning cavity is used for drying at least clothes; or the first cleaning cavity is used for drying at least clothes, and the second cleaning cavity is used for drying at least cleaning parts of a sweeper or a scrubber.

[0112] In the above manner, the drying time of the to-be-dried objects in the first cleaning cavity and the to-be-dried objects in the second cleaning cavity is controlled to coincide, so that the drying function of the to-be-dried objects in the two cleaning cavities can be completed by one start of the drying device, the energy consumption of multiple starts of the drying device is reduced, and the two cleaning cavities can share the drying resources and utilize the excess drying resources of each other, so that the overall drying resource utilization rate is improved.

[0113] The possible working states of the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity at least in a part of time period include but are not limited to the following states:

[0114] State 1: The cleaning parts of a sweeper or a scrubber are being dried in the first cleaning cavity, but the second cleaning cavity is not working or is executing a non-drying clothes washing state or a clothes spinning state.

[0115] State 2: The first cleaning cavity is not working or is executing a non-drying state of washing the cleaning parts of a sweeper or a scrubber, but clothes are being dried in the second cleaning cavity.

[0116] State 3: The cleaning parts of a sweeper or a scrubber are being dried in the first cleaning cavity, and clothes are being dried in the second cleaning cavity.

[0117] State 4: The first cleaning cavity is not working or is executing a non-drying clothes washing state or a clothes spinning state, and the cleaning parts of a sweeper or a scrubber are being dried in the second cleaning cavity.

[0118] State 5: The first cleaning cavity is drying clothes, and the second cleaning cavity is not working or is executing a non-drying state of washing the cleaning parts of a sweeper or a scrubber.

[0119] State 6: The first cleaning cavity is drying clothes, and the second cleaning cavity is drying the cleaning piece of the sweeper or scrubber.

[0120] The at least partial time period includes the following cases:

[0121] Case 1: The time period for drying the first cleaning cavity is entirely contained in the time period for drying the second cleaning cavity, for example, the time period for drying the second cleaning cavity is from 9:00 to 12:00, and the time period for drying the first cleaning cavity is from 10:00 to 11:00; or the time period for drying the second cleaning cavity is from 9:00 to 12:00, and the time period for drying the first cleaning cavity is from 11:00 to 12:00.

[0122] Case 2: The time period for drying the first cleaning cavity is partially contained in the time period for drying the second cleaning cavity, that is, the time period for drying the first cleaning cavity partially overlaps with the time period for drying the second cleaning cavity. For example, the time period for drying the second cleaning cavity is from 9:00 to 12:00, and the time period for drying the first cleaning cavity is from 8:00 to 11:00; or the time period for drying the second cleaning cavity is from 8:00 to 11:00, and the time period for drying the first cleaning cavity is from 9:00 to 12:00.

[0123] Case 3: The time period for drying the second cleaning cavity is entirely contained in the time period for drying the first cleaning cavity, for example, the time period for drying the first cleaning cavity is from 9:00 to 12:00, and the time period for drying the second cleaning cavity is from 10:00 to 11:00; or the time period for drying the first cleaning cavity is from 9:00 to 12:00, and the time period for drying the second cleaning cavity is from 11:00 to 12:00.

[0124] Case 4: The time period for drying the second cleaning cavity is partially contained in the time period for drying the first cleaning cavity, that is, the time period for drying the second cleaning cavity partially overlaps with the time period for drying the first cleaning cavity. For example, the time period for drying the first cleaning cavity is from 9:00 to 12:00, and the time period for drying the second cleaning cavity is from 8:00 to 11:00; or the time period for drying the first cleaning cavity is from 8:00 to 11:00, and the time period for drying the second cleaning cavity is from 9:00 to 12:00.

[0125] The following is a specific description of the method, mainly taking the first cleaning cavity for drying the cleaning piece of the sweeper and the second cleaning cavity for drying clothes as an example. It should be understood by those skilled in the art that equivalent replacement or modification of part or all of the technical features does not change the essence of the corresponding technical solution from the scope of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application. Specifically:

[0126] At least during a part of the time period when the drying device is drying the second cleaning cavity, the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity both have a drying demand, or both need to perform a drying operation, that is, during the time period when the second cleaning cavity is being dried, the action of drying the cleaning element in the first cleaning cavity is performed.

[0127] For example, when the first cleaning cavity has a drying demand for the cleaning element and the second cleaning cavity has a drying demand for the clothes, that is, both the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity need to open the air duct connected to the drying device, the control device controls the drying device to ventilate the air duct of the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity to achieve the drying function.

[0128] Alternatively, when the first cleaning cavity has a drying demand for the cleaning element and the second cleaning cavity is being dried, that is, the drying device is in an open state at this time, the control device can control the air duct of the drying device to be changed so that the drying device not only ventilates the second cleaning cavity, but also ventilates the first cleaning cavity to achieve the drying function.

[0129] Alternatively, when the first cleaning cavity is drying the cleaning element and the second cleaning cavity has a drying demand for the clothes, the drying device is in an open state at this time, and the control device controls the air duct of the drying device to be changed so that the drying device not only ventilates the first cleaning cavity, but also ventilates the second cleaning cavity to achieve the drying function.

[0130] In the above implementation, the drying demand can be a drying instruction sent based on the start time of the drying process in the preset washing and drying process of the cleaning device, or a drying instruction input by a user. The drying instruction is used to control the drying device to perform a drying operation.

[0131] The following describes how the control device controls the drying device to dry the first cleaning cavity:

[0132] The first way: during a part of the time period when the drying device is drying the second cleaning cavity, the control device controls the drying device to continuously deliver a drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity. The position of the reversing valve shown in (b) of FIG. 4, that is, the control device controls the flapper of the reversing valve to be in a position where the air duct is connected between the two cleaning cavities, so that the drying device can ventilate the two cleaning cavities at the same time.

[0133] In this implementation, the cleaning element in the first cleaning cavity and the clothes in the second cleaning cavity share the drying function provided by the drying device within the drying time of the drying device.

[0134] For example, after the drying device is started, the fan assembly continuously sends the drying airflow to the cleaning piece in the first cleaning cavity and the clothes in the second cleaning cavity at the same time, at this time, the heating assembly can be started or not started, when the heating assembly is started, the drying airflow sent by the fan assembly is heated, so that the hot airflow capable of improving the drying efficiency is obtained, and when the heating assembly is not started, the drying airflow is a cold airflow, which can also achieve the drying effect, but the drying efficiency of the cold airflow is relatively poor compared with the hot airflow, but energy can be saved, and the clothes of non-heat-resistant material can be better dried.

[0135] In this way, the drying of the cleaning piece and the clothes can be considered at the same time after the drying device is started, when the drying device starts the hot air function and the cleaning piece is dried earlier than the clothes, the cleaning piece can be further disinfected and sterilized by the hot air, and the cleanliness of the cleaning piece is improved.

[0136] The method provided in the embodiment integrates the two cleaning cavities for drying the cleaning piece and the clothes in one cleaning equipment, and makes the two cleaning cavities share the same drying device, so that the number of drying devices is reduced, the hardware configuration cost is reduced, the miniaturization of the space design of the cleaning equipment is facilitated, the drying function of the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity can be provided by starting the drying device once, the energy loss of starting and preheating is reduced, the energy loss when the two cleaning cavities are dried at the same time is reduced, and the drying energy utilization rate is improved.

[0137] In a part of the time period during which the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity, the drying device can be controlled to continuously send the drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity according to the set flow distribution ratio, for example, the following several implementation modes provide the drying function.

[0138] Implementation mode 11: The drying device simultaneously sends the drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity according to the set first drying distribution air volume.

[0139] Among them, the first drying distribution air volume is greater for the first cleaning cavity than for the second cleaning cavity.

[0140] For example, during the process of drying the clothes in the second cleaning cavity, when the first cleaning cavity starts to dry the cleaning piece, the fan assembly of the drying device maintains the blowing state, and the control device controls the reversing valve of the air duct to switch to the first state, which can realize the function that the air volume provided for the first cleaning cavity is greater than the air volume provided for the second cleaning cavity, so that the drying device simultaneously sends the drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity according to the set first drying distribution air volume.

[0141] For another example, when the first cleaning chamber is drying the cleaning parts, when the second cleaning chamber starts to dry the clothes, the fan assembly of the drying device maintains the blowing state, and the control device controls the reversing valve of the air duct to switch to the first state. The first state can realize the function of providing the first cleaning chamber with a greater air volume than the second cleaning chamber, thereby realizing that the drying device simultaneously delivers drying airflow to the first cleaning chamber and the second cleaning chamber according to the set first drying distribution air volume.

[0142] In this way, the working state of the fan component in the drying device, or the fan component and the heating component in the drying device can be maintained. The clothes can be dried at the same time as the cleaning parts without adding a new drying device, thus avoiding the energy loss caused by the new drying device. With a single drying device, the function of simultaneously drying two cleaning chambers with different air volumes can be achieved by simply switching the reversing valve, and the method is highly flexible. The air volume for drying clothes is set to be greater than the air volume for drying the cleaning parts, which is more in line with the actual drying demand intensity of the cleaning parts and clothes. Compared with the average distribution, this method is conducive to reducing the drying time and improving the drying efficiency of clothes.

[0143] Implementation 12: The drying device delivers drying airflow to the first clean chamber and the second clean chamber simultaneously according to the set second drying distribution air volume.

[0144] The second drying distribution air volume provides a smaller air volume for the first cleaning chamber than for the second cleaning chamber.

[0145] For example, in the process of drying clothes in the second cleaning chamber, when the first cleaning chamber starts to dry the cleaning parts, the fan assembly of the drying device maintains the blowing state, and the control device controls the reversing valve of the air duct to switch to the second state. The second state can realize the function of providing the first cleaning chamber with an air volume less than the air volume provided for the second cleaning chamber. It is suitable for a small amount of clothes, such as only a small amount of thin T-shirts and cleaning parts are dried at the same time, or the clothes have a low water content, such as silk and satin clothes are dried at the same time as the cleaning parts, so that the drying device can simultaneously deliver drying airflow to the first cleaning chamber and the second cleaning chamber according to the set second drying distribution air volume.

[0146] For example, during the drying of the cleaning piece in the first cleaning cavity, the second cleaning cavity starts to dry the clothes, the fan assembly of the drying device maintains the blowing state, and the control device controls the reversing valve of the air duct to switch to the second state, which can provide less air flow to the first cleaning cavity than to the second cleaning cavity, which is suitable for the case that the amount of clothes is small, such as a small amount of thin T-shirt clothes and cleaning pieces are dried at the same time, or the water content of the clothes is small, such as silk clothes and cleaning pieces are dried at the same time, so as to realize that the drying device delivers drying air flow to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity at the same time according to the second drying distribution air flow.

[0147] In the above two modes, when the drying equipment works simultaneously by using the heating assembly and the fan assembly, that is, when the clothes are not heat-resistant, such as silk clothes and cleaning pieces are dried at the same time, most of the hot air flow needs to be diverted to the cleaning piece, which can avoid the case that the drying temperature in the second cleaning cavity is too high, and also can fully dry and sterilize the cleaning piece by using hot air without wasting heat energy.

[0148] By this mode, the air flow for drying the cleaning piece is set to be greater than the air flow for drying the clothes, so as to realize the rapid drying of the cleaning piece and balance the drying needs of the cleaning piece and the clothes, which is conducive to controlling the simultaneous drying of the clothes and the cleaning piece according to the clothes to shorten the overall drying time; similar to the above mode, this mode can maintain the working state of the fan assembly in the drying device or the fan assembly and the heating assembly in the drying device, and the simultaneous drying of the clothes and the cleaning piece can be realized without adding a new drying device to avoid energy loss caused by adding a new drying device; by using a single drying device and only by switching the reversing valve, the function of simultaneously drying two cleaning cavities with different air flows can be realized, and the method is highly flexible.

[0149] Implementation mode 13: The drying device delivers drying air flow to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity at the same time according to the third drying distribution air flow.

[0150] Among them, the third drying distribution air flow is the air flow provided to the first cleaning cavity, which is equal to the air flow provided to the second cleaning cavity.

[0151] For example, during the drying of the clothes in the second cleaning cavity, the first cleaning cavity starts to dry the cleaning piece, the fan assembly of the drying device maintains the blowing state, and the control device controls the reversing valve of the air duct to switch to the third state, which can provide the same air flow to the first cleaning cavity as to the second cleaning cavity, so as to realize that the drying device delivers drying air flow to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity at the same time according to the third drying distribution air flow.

[0152] For example, when the first cleaning cavity is drying the cleaning piece and the second cleaning cavity starts to dry the clothes, the fan assembly of the drying device maintains the blowing state, and the control device controls the reversing valve of the air duct to switch to the third state, which can realize the function of providing the first cleaning cavity with the same amount of air as the second cleaning cavity, so that the drying device can deliver the drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity according to the third drying distribution air volume.

[0153] In this way, the drying device for drying clothes can be used to quickly dry the cleaning piece, and after the cleaning piece is dried, the heat and air volume of the drying clothes can be used to continuously sterilize the cleaning piece, effectively improving the cleaning strength of the cleaning piece. Similar to the above method, this method can maintain the working state of the fan assembly in the drying device or the fan assembly and the heating assembly in the drying device. Without adding a new drying device, the drying clothes and the drying cleaning piece can be realized at the same time, avoiding the energy loss caused by adding a new drying device. By using a single drying device and only switching the reversing valve, the two cleaning cavities can be dried at the same time with different air volumes, and the method is highly flexible.

[0154] Implementation 14: The drying device starts to deliver the drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity at the same time, and ends the delivery of the drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity at the same time.

[0155] For example, when the first cleaning cavity starts to dry the cleaning piece and the second cleaning cavity also starts to dry the clothes, the control device controls the reversing valve of the air duct to switch to the first state, the second state, or the third state of the above implementation, controls the drying device to start the fan assembly, or simultaneously starts the fan assembly and the heating assembly, or starts the fan assembly first and then starts the heating assembly, so that the drying device provides cold air, hot air, or cold air first and then hot air to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity at the same time, so that the cleaning piece in the first cleaning cavity and the clothes in the second cleaning cavity are dried at the same time.

[0156] Of course, the cleaning piece in the first cleaning cavity and the clothes in the second cleaning cavity dried at the same time mentioned here means that they are processed at the same time by the same length of drying airflow, that is, the drying time is set to be the same, not that the clothes and the cleaning piece are in the state of being dried at the same time.

[0157] In this way, the drying airflow can be simultaneously delivered to the two cleaning cavities; when the heating assembly and the fan assembly are both working, the hot air can be used to dry the laundry on one side and continuously sterilize the dried cleaning parts on the other side; for laundry with harsh drying conditions, the temperature and air volume in the second cleaning cavity can be adjusted through the adjustment of the reversing valve during simultaneous drying, and the response speed of the reversing valve adjustment is faster than that of the direct adjustment of the heating assembly temperature due to the hysteresis of temperature adjustment, and the adjusted air volume and temperature are used for drying or sterilizing the cleaning parts, so that the originally wasted energy can be reused.

[0158] Implementation 15: The drying device simultaneously starts to dry the cleaning parts in the first cleaning cavity and the laundry in the second cleaning cavity, and ends the drying of the cleaning parts in the first cleaning cavity first and then ends the drying of the laundry in the second cleaning cavity.

[0159] For example, when the first cleaning cavity starts to dry the cleaning parts and the second cleaning cavity also starts to dry the laundry, the control device controls the reversing valve of the air duct to switch to the first state, or the second state, or the third state of the above-mentioned implementation, controls the drying device to start the fan assembly, or simultaneously starts the fan assembly and the heating assembly, or starts the fan assembly first and then starts the heating assembly, so that the drying device provides cold air, or hot air, or air that is first cold and then hot to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity at the same time.

[0160] After simultaneous start, the cleaning parts and the laundry are in the operation process of simultaneous drying, and since the cleaning parts usually dry faster, the drying operation can be ended first to allocate the drying resources originally allocated to the first cleaning cavity to the second cleaning cavity, thereby improving the drying speed of the second cleaning cavity and improving the overall simultaneous drying efficiency.

[0161] In this way, the simultaneous drying can be used to save energy output, and the drying resources can be tilted to the side that has not reached the drying state in the later drying stage, so that the drying resources after drying the cleaning parts are transferred to dry the laundry, improving the drying efficiency of the laundry and reducing the energy waste during invalid drying.

[0162] Implementation 16: The drying device simultaneously dries the cleaning parts in the first cleaning cavity and the laundry in the second cleaning cavity according to a drying air volume distribution ratio related to the weight or volume of the laundry.

[0163] The drying air volume distribution ratio is positively related to the weight of the laundry in the second cleaning cavity.

[0164] For example, during the process of drying the clothes in the second cleaning cavity, when the first cleaning cavity starts to dry the cleaning piece, the control device obtains the weight or volume of the clothes in the second cleaning cavity. When the weight of the clothes is greater than the first weight threshold or the volume of the clothes is greater than the first volume threshold, the fan assembly of the drying device maintains the blowing state, and the reversing valve of the air duct is switched to the fourth state. The fourth state makes 80% of the air flow to the second cleaning cavity and 20% of the air flow to the first cleaning cavity, so as to realize the deviation of more drying resources to the side of the clothes that is difficult to dry and improve the overall drying efficiency.

[0165] For example, during the process of drying the clothes in the second cleaning cavity, when the first cleaning cavity starts to dry the cleaning piece, the control device obtains the weight or volume of the clothes in the second cleaning cavity. When the weight of the clothes is greater than the first weight threshold or the volume of the clothes is greater than the first volume threshold, the fan assembly of the drying device maintains the blowing state, and the reversing valve of the air duct is switched to the fourth state. The fourth state makes 80% of the air flow to the second cleaning cavity and 20% of the air flow to the first cleaning cavity, so as to realize the deviation of more drying resources to the side of the clothes that is difficult to dry and improve the overall drying efficiency.

[0166] For example, during the process of drying the clothes in the second cleaning cavity, when the first cleaning cavity starts to dry the cleaning piece, the control device obtains the weight or volume of the clothes in the second cleaning cavity. When the weight of the clothes is greater than the first weight threshold or the volume of the clothes is greater than the first volume threshold, the fan assembly of the drying device maintains the blowing state, and the reversing valve of the air duct is switched to the fourth state. The fourth state makes 80% of the air flow to the second cleaning cavity and 20% of the air flow to the first cleaning cavity, so as to realize the deviation of more drying resources to the side of the clothes that is difficult to dry and improve the overall drying efficiency.

[0167] Optionally, in the above several air volume distribution processes of the implementation mode, the corresponding temperature range of the heating assembly can also be adjusted according to the weight or volume or material of the clothes. Generally, the heating assembly can adjust the temperature in the range of 60-80℃. When the weight of the clothes is large, the volume of the clothes is large, and the heat-resistant temperature of the material is high, the highest temperature, for example, 80℃, can be selected to dry the clothes and the cleaning piece, so as to improve the drying efficiency through heating means.

[0168] In this way, the corresponding drying air volume distribution ratio can be adjusted according to the content of the clothes, so that the air volume distribution can be more in line with the actual air volume use demand, thereby shortening the drying time when the cleaning piece and the clothes are dried at the same time and improving the overall drying efficiency of the cleaning equipment.

[0169] The second mode: during the time period when the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity, the drying device is controlled to only send drying air flow to the first cleaning cavity in at least one first time period and to only send drying air flow to the second cleaning cavity in at least one second time period; the time period includes at least one first time period and at least one second time period. As shown in Fig. 4(a) and Fig. 4(c), the position of the control device controlling the flapper of the reversing valve can periodically exchange to block any one of the air ducts to communicate with the cleaning cavity, so that the drying device can send air to the other cleaning cavity, thereby enabling the drying device to send air to the two cleaning cavities respectively in the time period.

[0170] For example, the drying air flow can be sent to the first cleaning cavity in at least one first time period and to the second cleaning cavity in at least one second time period by the following implementation modes.

[0171] Implementation mode 21: first send drying air flow to the first cleaning cavity in a first time period, then send drying air flow to the second cleaning cavity in a second time period, and repeat the above operation until the number of times of sending drying air flow to the first cleaning cavity or the number of times of sending drying air flow to the second cleaning cavity meets the set drying number.

[0172] The set drying number is the number of times of sending drying air flow to the first cleaning cavity or the number of times of sending drying air flow to the second cleaning cavity.

[0173] For example, during the process of drying the cleaning parts in the first cleaning cavity, when the second cleaning cavity starts to dry the clothes, the control device can first control the air flow to flow to the first cleaning cavity to dry the cleaning parts, and maintain this state for a first time period, then control the reversing valve to switch, so that the air flow flows to the second cleaning cavity to dry the clothes, and maintain this state for a second time period, then repeat the above switching of the reversing valve and the maintaining of the first time period and the second time period, until the number of times of repeating the switching and the maintaining of the first time period reaches the set drying number, for example, when the number of times of sending drying air flow to the first cleaning cavity is 3, after the third switching time period is met, the reversing valve switches to the other side and does not switch back to the first cleaning cavity, until the drying device completes the drying function.

[0174] By this mode, the drying operation of the clothes and the cleaning pieces is realized by the alternating cycle process. Obviously, the simultaneous in the simultaneous drying operation here is similar to the simultaneous in the above-mentioned embodiments, and not that the clothes and the cleaning pieces are in the dry state at the same time, but that the drying operation is performed within a certain time range. When the number of cycle switching is sufficient and the switching interval time is sufficient, the drying effect of the alternating cycle is similar to the effect of the simultaneous ventilation drying of the two cleaning cavities, but the alternating cycle operation can make each side of the to-be-dried object have a reaction time, so that the drying resource is fully integrated into the contact cleaning piece or clothes after entering the cleaning cavity, thereby improving the utilization rate of the drying resource. For example, the hot air can be fully absorbed by the clothes or the cleaning piece, improving the water carrying capacity, and thereby improving the drying efficiency.

[0175] Optionally, the number of times that the drying device dries the clothes in the second cleaning cavity according to the set alternating sequence is greater than or equal to the number of times that the drying device dries the cleaning piece in the first cleaning cavity according to the set alternating sequence.

[0176] For example, in the above-mentioned example of the present implementation mode, the number of times that the first cleaning cavity is set to deliver the drying gas flow is 3 times, and after 3 times, the second cleaning cavity is switched to deliver the drying gas flow. Therefore, the number of times that the second cleaning cavity is set to deliver the drying gas flow is greater than 3 times by default. When the number of times that the first cleaning cavity is set to deliver the drying gas flow and the number of times that the second cleaning cavity is set to deliver the drying gas flow are set at the same time, due to the characteristics that the clothes are easy to stack and difficult to dry, it is necessary to bias the drying resource to the clothes side as much as possible. Therefore, it is necessary to set the number of times that the second cleaning cavity is dried to be greater than or equal to the number of times that the first cleaning cavity is dried.

[0177] By this mode, the drying resource is biased to the clothes side which needs more drying resource on the basis of considering the simultaneous drying of the cleaning piece and the clothes, thereby improving the drying quality and the drying efficiency.

[0178] Implementation mode 22: first deliver the drying gas flow to the first cleaning cavity in a first time period, and then deliver the drying gas flow to the second cleaning cavity in a second time period, and cycle repeatedly until the total time length corresponding to the first time period for delivering the drying gas flow to the first cleaning cavity and the total time length corresponding to the second time period for delivering the drying gas flow to the second cleaning cavity respectively meet the set drying time length.

[0179] For example, during the process of drying the cleaning pieces in the first cleaning cavity, the second cleaning cavity starts to dry the clothes, the air volume can be first fully flowed to the first cleaning cavity to dry the cleaning pieces, and after maintaining this state for a first time period, the reversing valve is controlled to switch, so that the air volume is fully flowed to the second cleaning cavity to dry the clothes, and after maintaining this state for a second time period, the above-mentioned switching of the reversing valve and the maintaining of the first time period and the second time period are repeated until the total time length corresponding to the first time period meets the total time length of the drying air flow delivered to the first cleaning cavity, and then the switching of the reversing valve is stopped after switching to the other side until the total time length corresponding to the second time period meets the total time length of the drying air flow delivered to the second cleaning cavity.

[0180] In this way, the cycle end point is set for the alternating cycle process, the drying time length meeting the drying demand of the to-be-dried object can be set according to the material, volume and weight of the to-be-dried object, so that the drying is more in line with the actual use demand of the user, the waste of the drying resources when the cleaning pieces and the clothes continue to be in the drying environment after being dried is reduced, and the equipment use cost of the user is reduced.

[0181] Optionally, the drying time length of the drying device for drying the clothes in the second cleaning cavity is greater than or equal to the drying time length of the drying device for drying the cleaning pieces in the first cleaning cavity.

[0182] Similar to the setting effect of the drying times in the above-mentioned implementation mode, the drying time length is also prolonged according to the condition of the clothes in this implementation mode, so as to improve the drying efficiency of the clothes, and the specific implementation mode and the achieved effect can be referred to the above-mentioned implementation mode, which will not be described here.

[0183] Implementation mode 23: first delivering the drying air flow to the second cleaning cavity for a second time period, and then delivering the drying air flow to the first cleaning cavity for a first time period, and repeating the above-mentioned operations, until the number of times of delivering the drying air flow to the first cleaning cavity or the number of times of delivering the drying air flow to the second cleaning cavity meets the set drying times.

[0184] For example, during the process of drying the clothes in the second cleaning cavity, the first cleaning cavity starts to dry the cleaning pieces, the air volume can be first fully flowed to the first cleaning cavity to dry the cleaning pieces, and after maintaining this state for a first time period, the reversing valve is controlled to switch, so that the air volume is fully flowed to the second cleaning cavity to dry the clothes, and after maintaining this state for a second time period, the above-mentioned switching of the reversing valve and the maintaining of the first time period and the second time period are repeated until the number of times of switching and maintaining the first time period meets the set drying times, for example, when the third switching time length meets the set drying times, the reversing valve is switched to the other side and does not switch back to the first cleaning cavity, until the drying device completes the drying function.

[0185] Optionally, the end point of the drying function of the drying device can be when the drying number reaches the requirement, or when the total drying number reaches the preset total number requirement and the total drying time length also reaches the preset total time length requirement.

[0186] In this way, in the time period of drying the clothes, the strong wind can first quickly remove the moisture in the cleaning cavity, such as the moisture on the newly added cleaning piece, and then the remaining moisture can be dried by multiple switching of the shared drying resource. The alternating cycle process can also maintain the clothes in a dried state, thereby realizing the function of sharing the drying resource by the clothes and the cleaning piece. In the interval time of alternating switching, the contact degree of the airflow and the temperature and other drying resources with the clothes or the cleaning piece is improved, the possibility of the drying resource being directly discharged due to insufficient contact is reduced, thereby improving the utilization rate of the drying resource and reducing energy loss. The alternating number is used to limit the end point of the alternating cycle.

[0187] Implementation 24: The drying airflow is first supplied to the second cleaning cavity for a second time period, and then the drying airflow is supplied to the first cleaning cavity for a first time period, and the cycle is repeated until the total time length of supplying the drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity and the total time length of supplying the drying airflow to the second cleaning cavity respectively meet the set drying time length.

[0188] For example, during the drying of the clothes in the second cleaning cavity, when the first cleaning cavity starts to dry the cleaning piece, the air volume can first flow entirely to the second cleaning cavity to dry the clothes, and after maintaining this state for a second time period, the reversing valve is controlled to switch so that the air volume flows entirely to the first cleaning cavity to dry the cleaning piece, and after maintaining this state for a first time period, the above-mentioned switching of the reversing valve and the operation of maintaining the first time period and the second time period are repeated until the total sum of the time length corresponding to the first time period meets the total time length of supplying the drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity, and then switching to the other side to stop switching the reversing valve until the total sum of the time length corresponding to the second time period meets the total time length of supplying the drying airflow to the second cleaning cavity.

[0189] In this way, when a cleaning cavity with a drying demand is newly added, the drying function of the original cleaning cavity is first maintained, and then the drying function is alternately distributed to the newly added cleaning cavity, thereby realizing the requirement that multiple cleaning cavities are simultaneously dried within a time period. The end point of the alternating cycle is controlled by the time length, the drying time length that meets the drying demand of the to-be-dried object can be set according to the material, volume and weight of the to-be-dried object, so that the drying is more in line with the actual use demand of the user, the waste of the drying resource when the cleaning piece and the clothes are still in the drying environment after being dried is reduced, and the equipment use cost of the user is reduced.

[0190] In the above-mentioned several implementation manners, the first time period and the second time period are adjacent or not adjacent in time sequence.

[0191] For example, the first time period and the second time period can be adjacent continuous time periods, such as the first time period being from 9:00 to 10:00 and the second time period being from 10:00 to 11:00. Alternatively, the first time period and the second time period can also be non-adjacent discontinuous time periods, such as the first time period being from 9:00 to 10:00 and the second time period being from 12:00 to 14:00.

[0192] Optionally, the at least one first time period can represent one first time period, or multiple first time periods of the same length, or multiple first time periods of different lengths; similarly, the at least two second time periods can represent two second time periods, or multiple second time periods of the same length, or multiple second time periods of different lengths.

[0193] For example, when the first time period and the second time period are non-adjacent discontinuous time periods, the drying gas flow is first delivered to the first cleaning cavity in the first time period, and after the first time period has elapsed, the flow direction of the air duct is not immediately switched by the switching valve, but is instead switched at the start of the second time period, and the drying gas flow is then delivered to the second cleaning cavity until the end of the second time period, thereby achieving the function of controlling the drying device to dry the first cleaning cavity during part of the time period in which the drying device is drying the second cleaning cavity.

[0194] For example, when the first time period and the second time period are non-adjacent discontinuous time periods, the drying gas flow is first delivered to the first cleaning cavity in the first time period, and after the first time period has elapsed, the flow direction of the air duct is not immediately switched by the switching valve, but is instead switched at the start of the second time period, and the drying gas flow is then delivered to the second cleaning cavity until the end of the second time period, thereby achieving the function of controlling the drying device to dry the first cleaning cavity during part of the time period in which the drying device is drying the second cleaning cavity.

[0195] For example, when the drying device comprises a heating assembly and a fan assembly, the heating assembly heats the airflow formed by the fan assembly to improve the drying efficiency of the drying airflow. When the first time period and the second time period are discontinuous time periods that are not adjacent, the heated drying airflow is first delivered to the first cleaning cavity in the first time period, and after the first time period reaches a certain length of time, the heating function of the heating assembly is suspended, and the drying airflow is continuously delivered to the first cleaning cavity using residual heat, thereby reducing the energy consumption of the drying resource. When the starting time of the second time period is reached, the flow direction of the air duct is switched by controlling the switching valve, and the heating assembly is restarted to deliver the drying airflow to the second cleaning cavity until at least the end time of the second time period, thereby completing the function of controlling the drying device to dry the first cleaning cavity during the part of the time period in which the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity.

[0196] There is also a pre-booking condition in which the drying device delivers the drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity at the same time, and the drying airflow can be delivered in the following ways.

[0197] The first way: when the drying time of the second cleaning cavity meets the preset drying time during the part of the time period in which the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity, the drying device is controlled to suspend the delivery of the drying airflow to the second cleaning cavity.

[0198] When the suspended time of the drying device meets the preset waiting time and / or there is a to-be-dried object in the first cleaning cavity, the drying device is controlled to dry the first cleaning cavity.

[0199] The preset drying time is the remaining drying time of the clothes in the second cleaning cavity, and the remaining drying time can be used to deliver the drying airflow to the cleaning element of the first cleaning cavity before the clothes in the second cleaning cavity are dried. The preset waiting time is a tolerable waiting time, i.e., the maximum drying time that the clothes can be suspended during the drying process without affecting the drying effect of the clothes.

[0200] For example, because the drying demand of the clothes is usually greater than that of the cleaning element, the drying time of the clothes is longer. If the clothes and the cleaning element are controlled to be dried at the same time for the same length of time, the cleaning element will be in an invalid drying state for a long time, which will waste a part of the drying resource and reduce the drying efficiency of the clothes.

[0201] Therefore, the drying time of the cleaning piece can be determined according to the drying requirement of the cleaning piece. After the drying time required by the cleaning piece is determined, the drying time of the cleaning piece is converted according to the drying time of the clothes, so that the clothes and the cleaning piece are dried at the same time or the drying of the clothes is completed and the sterilization of the cleaning piece is completed at the same time. After a tolerable waiting time is added, a preset time is obtained. The preset time is consistent with the time displayed when the clothes in the second cleaning cavity are dried. Then, whether the two cleaning cavities are started to be dried at the same time is monitored at the preset time.

[0202] For example, the time for which the second cleaning cavity is scheduled to dry clothes is from 8:00 to 11:00. The drying time required by the cleaning piece is 30 minutes. The waiting time of the clothes is 10 minutes or the sterilization time of the cleaning piece. The preset time is 10:20.

[0203] When the time display panel of the cleaning device indicates that the time is 10:20, the control device monitors whether there is a cleaning piece to be dried in the first cleaning cavity. If there is, the control device controls the switching valve to switch the air duct to a state in which the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity can be dried at the same time or in an alternating cycle.

[0204] When the time display panel of the cleaning device indicates that the time is 10:20, the control device monitors whether there is a cleaning piece to be dried in the first cleaning cavity. If there is, the control device controls the switching valve to switch the air duct to a state in which the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity can be dried at the same time or in an alternating cycle.

[0205] In this way, when the user does not need to take the dried clothes in a hurry, the clothes and the cleaning piece can be controlled to be dried at the same time in a scheduled manner. The drying resource of the clothes during the drying process is borrowed to dry the cleaning piece. The starting energy loss is reduced due to the multiple starting of the drying device caused by the drying of the clothes and the cleaning piece. Since the optimal drying resource can be obtained without preheating of the heating device during the borrowing process, the drying time loss of the preheating process is reduced. Since the drying resource required by the clothes in the later stage of drying is relatively small, the drying of the cleaning piece will not have a great impact on the drying of the clothes. Therefore, the sharing of the drying resource can reduce the overall use of the drying resource by the cleaning piece and the clothes.

[0206] The second way is that when the drying time of the second cleaning cavity meets the preset drying time during the time period in which the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity, the heating assembly of the drying device is controlled to pause heating the drying air flow delivered.

[0207] When the duration of the suspension of the drying device meets a preset waiting duration, and / or there is a to-be-dried object in the first cleaning cavity, the drying device is controlled to dry the first cleaning cavity, and the heating assembly of the drying device is controlled to resume heating the conveyed drying airflow.

[0208] For example, similar to the above mode, the drying duration of the cleaning piece can be determined according to the drying requirement of the cleaning piece. After the drying duration required by the cleaning piece is determined, the preset time is obtained according to the drying time of the clothes, that is, the time displayed when the clothes and the cleaning piece are dried simultaneously, or the drying and disinfection of the cleaning piece are completed when the drying of the clothes is completed. The difference lies in that, after the preset time is reached, the heating assembly with relatively large energy consumption than the fan assembly is controlled to stop heating, so that the clothes in the second cleaning cavity can be cold-dried by using the residual heat and the air force until the cleaning piece is in the to-be-dried state within the tolerable waiting duration, and the heating assembly is restarted to realize the simultaneous drying of the clothes and the cleaning piece.

[0209] In this way, the clothes can be cold-dried by using the residual heat in the later stage of the drying of the clothes, so as to save the energy consumption during the cold drying, and when the cleaning piece also has a drying requirement, the heating assembly is restarted to improve the drying effect of the clothes and the cleaning piece, to realize the simultaneous drying of the two cleaning cavities and improve the utilization rate of the drying resources.

[0210] The third mode is that, during the drying of the second cleaning cavity by the drying device, when the humidity of the second cleaning cavity meets a preset humidity, the drying device is controlled to suspend conveying the drying airflow to the second cleaning cavity.

[0211] When the duration of the suspension of the drying device meets a preset waiting duration, and / or there is a to-be-dried object in the first cleaning cavity, the drying device is controlled to dry the first cleaning cavity.

[0212] The preset humidity is the humidity corresponding to the condition that the remaining duration of the drying of the clothes in the second cleaning cavity is greater than or equal to the duration required by the drying of the cleaning piece in the first cleaning cavity.

[0213] For example, in the later stage of drying clothes, the humidity of the clothes is relatively low, and the demand for drying resources is also relatively low. At this time, the remaining drying resources can be allocated to the first cleaning cavity by using the started drying device, so that the cleaning part of the robot cleaner can be dried by using the remaining drying resources. In order to enable the cleaning part to use the remaining drying resources, the drying time required by the cleaning part when obtaining the remaining drying resources needs to be less than the remaining drying time of the clothes. The drying humidity is negatively correlated with the drying time. The linear relationship between the remaining drying time of the clothes and the humidity of the clothes can be determined according to historical records or experimental data, so as to determine the preset humidity according to the drying time required by the cleaning part and the linear relationship, so that the cleaning part uses the remaining drying resources of the clothes at the preset humidity.

[0214] If the cleaning part is not ready to perform the drying operation at the preset humidity, the control device can control the drying device to pause drying, and wait for the cleaning part to be dried in the first cleaning cavity to be in place within a tolerable waiting time, and then restart the drying device to dry the clothes and the cleaning part at the same time. If the cleaning part to be dried is not detected to be in place after the tolerable waiting time, the drying device is restarted to dry the clothes in the second cleaning cavity, so as to avoid wrinkles or bacteria caused by long-time undried clothes, or affect the user's use.

[0215] Compared with the way of monitoring whether the clothes reach the later stage of drying by time management, this way is more in line with the actual drying demand of the clothes, reduces the waste of energy after the clothes are dried, shortens the drying time, and saves energy. By using the reservation mode to control the clothes and the cleaning part to be dried at the same time, the drying resources in the clothes drying process are used to dry the cleaning part, which reduces the energy loss caused by the start-up of the drying device when drying separately, shortens the drying time loss of the start-up preheating process, and improves the drying efficiency.

[0216] The fourth way is that when the humidity of the second cleaning cavity meets the preset humidity during the time period in which the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity, the heating assembly of the drying device pauses heating of the conveyed drying airflow.

[0217] When the duration of the pause of the drying device meets the preset waiting time, and / or there is a cleaning part to be dried in the first cleaning cavity, the drying device dries the first cleaning cavity, and the heating assembly of the drying device resumes heating of the conveyed drying airflow.

[0218] For example, similar to the above-mentioned mode, in the later stage of drying clothes, the humidity of the clothes is relatively low, and the demand for drying resources is also relatively low. At this time, the remaining drying resources can be allocated to the first cleaning cavity by using the started drying device, so that the cleaning part of the sweeping robot can be dried by using the remaining drying resources. The difference is that if the cleaning part is not ready to perform the drying operation at the preset humidity, the control device can control the heating assembly of the drying device to be closed and the fan assembly to be operated, so as to use the residual heat and air flow to cold-dry the clothes, thereby reducing the energy consumption of the heating assembly, and then start the heating assembly when the cleaning part and the clothes are dried at the same time, so as to fully utilize the air flow and heat to improve the drying efficiency.

[0219] In this way, the clothes can be cold-dried to wait for the cleaning part to enter the drying state in a reservation mode, the drying effect of the clothes is maintained, the drying energy is reduced, and the heating assembly is restored when the clothes and the cleaning part are dried at the same time, so as to fully utilize the drying resources and improve the overall drying efficiency and utilization rate of the drying resources.

[0220] The fifth mode: the control device controls the drying device to simultaneously dry the to-be-dried objects in the first cleaning cavity and the to-be-dried objects in the second cleaning cavity at least in part of the time period, and after the drying of the to-be-dried objects in the second cleaning cavity is completed, the method further comprises:

[0221] When the drying of the second cleaning cavity is completed, the control device controls to stop the delivery of the drying air flow to the second cleaning cavity and continuously deliver the drying air flow to the first cleaning cavity; or,

[0222] When the drying of the first cleaning cavity is completed, the control device controls to stop the delivery of the drying air flow to the first cleaning cavity and continuously deliver the drying air flow to the second cleaning cavity.

[0223] For example, when the drying device delivers the drying air flow to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity, when the clothes in the second cleaning cavity have been dried, for example, the drying time of the second cleaning cavity meets the preset drying time, or the humidity of the second cleaning cavity meets the preset humidity, and the like, which represent that the clothes have been dried, the control device controls to stop the delivery of the drying air flow to the second cleaning cavity and continuously deliver the drying air flow to the cleaning part in the first cleaning cavity, so as to concentrate on drying the cleaning part and improve the drying efficiency.

[0224] For another example, when the drying device delivers the drying air flow to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity, when the cleaning part in the first cleaning cavity has been dried, for example, the drying time of the first cleaning cavity meets the preset drying time, the control device controls to stop the delivery of the drying air flow to the first cleaning cavity and continuously deliver the drying air flow to the clothes in the second cleaning cavity, so as to concentrate on drying the clothes and improve the drying efficiency.

[0225] In this way, the drying resource is concentrated to the second cleaning cavity for drying after completing the drying task of any one of the two cleaning cavities, avoiding the waste of drying resource caused by continuously delivering the drying airflow to the already dried cleaning cavity, thereby improving the overall drying efficiency and drying resource utilization.

[0226] There is also a drying control method of the cleaning equipment, comprising:

[0227] At least before the drying device completes the drying of the second cleaning cavity, a pre-arranged drying time is sent to the sweeper, or the scrubber, or other terminal in communication connection with the cleaning equipment; the pre-arranged drying time is at least within a part of the time period when the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity;

[0228] When the pre-arranged drying time is reached, the drying device is controlled to dry the first cleaning cavity.

[0229] For example, since the sweeper needs to perform the drying operation only after the cleaning piece is cleaned, and the sweeper has its own cleaning task, but the cleaning piece cleaning process time of the sweeper is fixed, the clothes and the cleaning piece can be arranged together for drying through the pre-arranged way, thereby realizing the drying advantage when they are dried together. Since the pre-arranged drying time refers to the time when the drying airflow is started to be delivered to the first cleaning cavity, the sweeper, or the scrubber, or other terminal in communication connection with the cleaning equipment can receive the information that they can be dried together before the second cleaning cavity completes the drying task, and then further determine whether the cleaning piece needs to be placed in the first cleaning cavity according to the current state of the sweeper, or the scrubber, so that the cleaning piece shares the drying resource in the clothes drying process.

[0230] For example, when the clothes are placed in the second cleaning cavity to perform the pre-arranged cleaning and drying task, the user will select the cleaning and drying process of the clothes, that is, the drying time of the clothes is determined. At this time, the time for performing the cleaning piece drying can be determined according to the drying time of the clothes and the time consumed by the cleaning process of the cleaning piece, and then the time when the sweeper returns to the cleaning equipment during the cleaning task is deduced, and the pre-arranged drying time is sent to the sweeper, which determines whether to return to the first cleaning cavity of the cleaning equipment at the pre-arranged drying time based on the task situation to share the drying resource.

[0231] In this way, the pre-arrangement can be sent to the sweeper in a communication manner, realizing the linkage between the sweeper and the cleaning equipment, automatically performing the cleaning and drying of the cleaning piece, reducing the participation of the user, and improving the intelligent degree of the cleaning equipment.

[0232] In another embodiment, a drying control method of a cleaning device is provided, the cleaning device comprising a first cleaning cavity, a second cleaning cavity, a drying device, and a control device, the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity sharing the drying device;

[0233] For example, when both the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity have drying needs, and the drying needs of the second cleaning cavity have a higher priority than the drying needs of the first cleaning cavity, for example, the cleaning device is provided with an interaction module, which can obtain the type of washing operation performed by the user on the clothes, when the user performs a fast drying operation on the clothes, the clothes need to be dried in a very short time, at this time, the drying resource needs to flow to the clothes to shorten the drying time of the clothes and meet the needs of the user, therefore, the drying device first dries the clothes in the second cleaning cavity, and then dries the cleaning element in the first cleaning cavity.

[0234] In this way, the user's fast drying needs can be met, and the residual heat of drying the clothes in the second cleaning cavity and the drying device that has been started can be used to continue drying the cleaning element in the first cleaning cavity, thereby saving preheating and starting energy consumption and improving energy utilization.

[0235] For example, when both the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity have drying needs, and the clothes in the second cleaning cavity are not in urgent need of use, for example, the cleaning device is provided with an interaction module, which can obtain the time when the user takes the clothes, since the drying time of the cleaning element is relatively short and the cleaning robot can perform a cleaning task at any time, therefore, the drying device preferentially dries the cleaning element in the first cleaning cavity, and then dries the clothes in the second cleaning cavity.

[0236] In this way, the user's drying needs of the clothes can be met, and the cleaning element can be preferentially and quickly dried to meet the needs of the cleaning robot to start cleaning the environment at any time, and the drying resource after drying the cleaning element can be used to continue drying the clothes, thereby saving preheating and starting energy consumption and improving energy utilization.

[0237] It should be understood that the above method embodiments are described by taking the control device in the cleaning device as the execution subject. When the above method is implemented by taking the server of the cleaning device as the execution subject, the server sends a control instruction of the drying device to the cleaning device according to different drying needs after obtaining the drying needs of the clothes and the cleaning element, so as to control the drying device to operate in the corresponding operation mode described in the above embodiments.

[0238] The present application also provides a cleaning device, comprising: a first cleaning cavity, a second cleaning cavity, a drying device, a control device, and a storage component; the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity share the drying device;

[0239] The storage component is configured to store data.

[0240] The control device is configured to control the drying device to deliver drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity when the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity are simultaneously dried.

[0241] The control method used by the control device of the cleaning device provided in the present application refers to the specific examples of the drying control method in the above embodiments, which will not be described here again.

[0242] The units and algorithm steps of each example described in combination with the embodiments disclosed in the embodiments of the present application can be implemented in hardware or a combination of hardware and computer software. Whether a certain function is implemented in hardware or computer software driven hardware depends on the specific application and design constraints of the technical solution. Those skilled in the art can use different methods to implement the described functions for each specific application, but such implementation should not be considered beyond the scope of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application.

[0243] Those skilled in the art can understand that all or part of the steps of the above-mentioned method embodiments can be completed by program instruction related hardware. The aforementioned program can be stored in a computer readable storage medium. The program executes the steps of the above-mentioned method embodiments when executed; and the aforementioned storage medium includes ROM, RAM, magnetic disc or optical disc and various storage medium that can store program code.

[0244] It should be noted that the user information (including but not limited to user equipment information, user personal information, etc.) and data (including but not limited to data for analysis, stored data, displayed data, etc.) involved in the present application are all information and data authorized by the user or authorized by all parties, and the collection, use and processing of related data need to comply with relevant laws, regulations and standards, and provide corresponding operation portal for user to choose authorization or refusal.

[0245] Finally, it should be noted that: the above embodiments are only used to illustrate the technical solutions of the present application, and not to limit them; although the present application has been described in detail with reference to the above embodiments, those skilled in the art should understand that they can still modify the technical solutions recorded in the above embodiments, or make equivalent replacement for part or all of the technical features; and these modifications or replacements do not make the essence of the corresponding technical solutions deviate from the scope of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application.

Claims

1. A drying control method of a cleaning apparatus, characterized by, The cleaning device comprises a first cleaning cavity, a second cleaning cavity, a drying device and a control device, the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity share the drying device; The method is applied to the control device, and the method comprises: Controlling the drying device to dry the to-be-dried objects in the first cleaning cavity and the to-be-dried objects in the second cleaning cavity simultaneously at least in a part of time periods; The first cleaning cavity is used for drying at least cleaning parts of a sweeping machine or a scrubber, and the second cleaning cavity is used for drying at least clothes; or the first cleaning cavity is used for drying at least clothes, and the second cleaning cavity is used for drying at least cleaning parts of a sweeping machine or a scrubber.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein, The controlling the drying device to dry the to-be-dried objects in the first cleaning cavity and the to-be-dried objects in the second cleaning cavity simultaneously at least in a part of time periods comprises: In a part of time periods in which the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity, controlling the drying device to continuously deliver drying air flow to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity; or In a part of time periods in which the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity, controlling the drying device to deliver drying air flow to the first cleaning cavity only in at least one first time period and to deliver drying air flow to the second cleaning cavity only in at least one second time period; the part of time periods comprises the at least one first time period and the at least one second time period.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein, The controlling the drying device to continuously deliver drying air flow to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity in the part of time periods in which the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity comprises: In the part of time periods in which the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity, controlling the drying device to continuously deliver drying air flow to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity according to a set flow distribution ratio.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein, The first time period and the second time period are adjacent or not adjacent in time sequence.

5. The method according to any of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that, The controlling the drying device to dry the to-be-dried objects in the first cleaning cavity and the to-be-dried objects in the second cleaning cavity simultaneously at least in a part of time periods comprises: In the part of time periods in which the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity, when a drying time length of the second cleaning cavity meets a preset drying time length and / or a humidity of the second cleaning cavity meets a preset humidity, controlling the drying device to pause delivering drying air flow to the second cleaning cavity; When a pausing time length of the drying device meets a preset waiting time length and / or there are to-be-dried objects in the first cleaning cavity, controlling the drying device to dry the first cleaning cavity.

6. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that, The drying device comprises a fan assembly for generating drying air flow and a heating assembly for heating the drying air flow, and the controlling the drying device to dry the to-be-dried objects in the first cleaning cavity and the to-be-dried objects in the second cleaning cavity simultaneously at least in a part of time periods comprises: In the part of time periods in which the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity, when a drying time length of the second cleaning cavity meets a preset drying time length or a humidity of the second cleaning cavity meets a preset humidity, controlling the heating assembly of the drying device to pause heating the delivered drying air flow; ​ When the duration of the suspension of the drying device meets a preset waiting duration, and / or there is a to-be-dried object in the first cleaning cavity, the drying device is controlled to dry the first cleaning cavity, and the heating assembly of the drying device is controlled to resume heating the conveyed drying airflow.

7. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that, After the control of the drying device to simultaneously dry the to-be-dried object in the first cleaning cavity and the to-be-dried object in the second cleaning cavity at least in part of the time period, the method further comprises: When the drying of the second cleaning cavity is completed, the conveying of the drying airflow to the second cleaning cavity is controlled to be stopped, and the conveying of the drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity is controlled to be continuously performed; or, When the drying of the first cleaning cavity is completed, the conveying of the drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity is controlled to be stopped, and the conveying of the drying airflow to the second cleaning cavity is controlled to be continuously performed.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein, The first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity adopt direct-drying or internal-circulation drying; the drying device of the direct-drying at least comprises a fan assembly and an air duct; the drying device of the internal-circulation drying at least comprises a fan assembly, a condensation assembly and an air duct.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein, A reversing valve is arranged on the air duct, and the reversing valve is used to control the air volume distribution of the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity.

10. A drying control method of a cleaning apparatus, characterized by, The cleaning equipment comprises a first cleaning cavity, a second cleaning cavity, a drying device and a control device, and the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity share the drying device; The first cleaning cavity is used to dry at least cleaning components of a floor cleaning machine or a floor washing machine, and the second cleaning cavity is used to dry at least clothes; The method is applied to the control device, and the control device controls the drying device to simultaneously dry the to-be-dried object in the first cleaning cavity and the to-be-dried object in the second cleaning cavity at least in part of the time period, and the method comprises: Before the drying of the second cleaning cavity by the drying device is completed, a reservation drying time is sent to the floor cleaning machine, or the floor washing machine, or other terminal in communication connection with the cleaning equipment; the reservation drying time is at least in part of the time period during which the drying of the second cleaning cavity by the drying device is performed; When the reservation drying time is reached, the drying device is controlled to dry the first cleaning cavity.

11. A drying control method of a cleaning apparatus, characterized by, The cleaning equipment comprises a first cleaning cavity, a second cleaning cavity, a drying device and a control device, and the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity share the drying device; The method is applied to the control device, and the control device controls the drying device to simultaneously dry the to-be-dried object in the first cleaning cavity and the to-be-dried object in the second cleaning cavity at least in part of the time period, and the method comprises: The control of the drying device to continuously convey the drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity at least in part of the time period during which the drying of the second cleaning cavity by the drying device is performed comprises:

12. The method of claim 11, wherein, The control of the drying device to continuously convey the drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity at least in part of the time period during which the drying of the second cleaning cavity by the drying device is performed comprises: The control of the drying device to continuously convey the drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity at least in part of the time period during which the drying of the second cleaning cavity by the drying device is performed comprises:

13. The method of any of claims 11-12, wherein, The method is applied to the control device, and the control device controls the drying device to dry the to-be-dried objects in the first cleaning cavity and the to-be-dried objects in the second cleaning cavity at least in part of a time period, and the method comprises the following steps: In the part of the time period in which the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity, when the drying time of the second cleaning cavity meets a preset drying time or the humidity of the second cleaning cavity meets a preset humidity, the drying device is controlled to suspend the delivery of the drying airflow to the second cleaning cavity; When the suspension time of the drying device meets a preset waiting time or there are to-be-dried objects in the first cleaning cavity, the drying device is controlled to continuously deliver the drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity.

14. The method of any of claims 11-12, wherein, The drying device comprises a fan assembly for generating the drying airflow and a heating assembly for heating the drying airflow, and the method comprises the following steps: In the part of the time period in which the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity, when the drying time of the second cleaning cavity meets a preset drying time or the humidity of the second cleaning cavity meets a preset humidity, the heating assembly of the drying device is controlled to suspend the heating of the delivered drying airflow; When the suspension time of the drying device meets a preset waiting time or there are to-be-dried objects in the first cleaning cavity, the drying device is controlled to continuously deliver the drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity, and the heating assembly of the drying device is controlled to resume the heating of the delivered drying airflow.

15. A drying control method of a cleaning apparatus, characterized by, The cleaning equipment comprises a first cleaning cavity, a second cleaning cavity, a drying device and a control device, and the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity share the drying device; The method is applied to the control device, and the control device controls the drying device to dry the to-be-dried objects in the first cleaning cavity and the to-be-dried objects in the second cleaning cavity at least in part of a time period, and the method comprises the following steps: At least in part of the time period in which the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity, the drying device is controlled to deliver the drying airflow to only the first cleaning cavity in at least one first time period and to only the second cleaning cavity in at least one second time period; the part of the time period comprises the at least one first time period and the at least one second time period.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein, The first time period and the second time period are adjacent or not adjacent in time sequence.

17. The method of any of claims 15-16, wherein, At least in part of the time period in which the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity, the drying device is controlled to deliver the drying airflow to only the first cleaning cavity in at least one first time period and to only the second cleaning cavity in at least one second time period, and the method comprises the following steps: In the part of the time period in which the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity, when the drying time of the second cleaning cavity meets a preset drying time or the humidity of the second cleaning cavity meets a preset humidity, the drying device is controlled to suspend the delivery of the drying airflow to the second cleaning cavity; In the part of the time period in which the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity, when the drying time of the second cleaning cavity meets a preset drying time or the humidity of the second cleaning cavity meets a preset humidity, the drying device is controlled to suspend the delivery of the drying airflow to the second cleaning cavity; When the length of time that the drying device is paused meets a preset waiting length of time, and / or there is to-be-dried material in the first cleaning cavity, the drying device is controlled to only deliver drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity in at least one first time period and to only deliver drying airflow to the second cleaning cavity in at least one second time period.

18. The method of any of claims 15-16, wherein, The drying device comprises a fan assembly for generating drying airflow and a heating assembly for heating the drying airflow, and the control of the drying device to only deliver drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity in at least one first time period and to only deliver drying airflow to the second cleaning cavity in at least one second time period at least in part of the time period during which the drying device dries the second cleaning cavity comprises: When the length of time that the drying device is paused meets a preset waiting length of time, and / or there is to-be-dried material in the first cleaning cavity, the drying device is controlled to only deliver drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity in at least one first time period and to only deliver drying airflow to the second cleaning cavity in at least one second time period, and the heating assembly of the drying device is controlled to resume heating the delivered drying airflow. When the length of time that the drying device is paused meets a preset waiting length of time, and / or there is to-be-dried material in the first cleaning cavity, the drying device is controlled to only deliver drying airflow to the first cleaning cavity in at least one first time period and to only deliver drying airflow to the second cleaning cavity in at least one second time period, and the heating assembly of the drying device is controlled to resume heating the delivered drying airflow.

19. A cleaning apparatus, characterized by Comprise: a first cleaning cavity, a second cleaning cavity, a control device, and a drying device, the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity sharing the drying device; The drying device comprises a fan assembly and an air duct, the air duct having an air inlet, a first air outlet, and a second air outlet, the air inlet of the air duct being connected to the output end of the fan assembly, the first air outlet being in communication with the first cleaning cavity, and the second air outlet being in communication with the second cleaning cavity, and the control device being configured to control the drying device to simultaneously dry to-be-dried material in the first cleaning cavity and to-be-dried material in the second cleaning cavity at least in part of the time period; The first cleaning cavity is at least used for drying cleaning components of a sweeper or a scrubber, and the second cleaning cavity is at least used for drying clothes; or the first cleaning cavity is at least used for drying clothes, and the second cleaning cavity is at least used for drying cleaning components of a sweeper or a scrubber.

20. The cleaning apparatus of claim 19, wherein, The drying device further comprises a reversing valve arranged in the air duct, the reversing valve comprising one inlet and two outlets; The inlet of the reversing valve is in communication with the air inlet of the air duct, and the two outlets of the reversing valve are switchably in communication with the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity, respectively.

21. The cleaning apparatus of claim 19, wherein, The drying device further comprises a condensing assembly and a reversing valve, the reversing valve comprising a first reversing valve arranged on the air outlet side of the fan assembly and a second reversing valve arranged on the air inlet side of the fan assembly, the first reversing valve comprising one inlet and two outlets, and the second reversing valve comprising two inlets and one outlet; The inlet of the first reversing valve is in communication with the air inlet of the air duct, and the two outlets of the first reversing valve are switchably in communication with the first cleaning cavity and the second cleaning cavity; Two inlets of the second reversing valve are switchably communicated with an outlet of the condensing assembly and the atmosphere, and an outlet of the second reversing valve is communicated with an air inlet side of the fan assembly.

22. The cleaning apparatus of claim 20 or 21, wherein, The drying device further comprises a heating assembly for heating the airflow, and the heating assembly is arranged in the air duct between the fan assembly and the reversing valve.

23. The cleaning apparatus of claim 22, wherein, The drying device further comprises a temperature sensor and a humidity sensor, and the temperature sensor and the humidity sensor are arranged inside the second cleaning cavity.

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