Smart clotheshorse and method for controlling hanger in smart clotheshorse
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional clotheshorses cannot detect the dryness of clothes or lighting conditions, leading to uneven and slow drying, requiring manual adjustment to increase irradiation intensity, thereby increasing workload.
Innovation Solution
A smart clotheshorse with sliding hangers equipped with humidity and light intensity sensors, a motor-driven sliding mechanism, and a control system that automatically adjusts the hanger position based on environmental data to optimize drying.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual adjustment of clothes position is used to increase irradiation intensity, then drying speed is improved, but workload increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses humidity sensors and light intensity sensors to automatically detect the drying state and irradiation conditions, then the control device autonomously adjusts the hanger position without human intervention, making the system serve itself
Solution Approach 2:
The sensing devices continuously monitor humidity and light intensity, providing feedback to the control device which adjusts the hanger position accordingly, creating a closed-loop control system that optimizes drying speed automatically
2Device complexity
If hanger position is fixed, then device complexity is reduced, but drying uniformity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The hanger is designed to be movable along the supporting pole rather than fixed, allowing dynamic adjustment of position based on real-time sensing of humidity and light intensity conditions, enabling the system to adapt to varying drying requirements
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the positional parameter of the hanger based on sensed environmental conditions, optimizing the irradiation intensity received by the clothes at different positions to achieve uniform drying
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The smart clotheshorse automatically adjusts the hanger position to maximize drying speed, reducing manual effort and ensuring even drying of clothes.
Implementation Method 1
The first humidity sensor is configured to sense humidity of the clothes on the hanger
Implementation Method 2
The light intensity sensor is configured to sense a light intensity at a position on the first supporting pole
Implementation Method 3
The motor is configured to control rotation of the drive shaft to cause the sliding wheel to move in the first sliding groove
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure provides a smart clotheshorse and a method for controlling a hanger in a smart clotheshorse. The smart clotheshorse includes first supporting poles parallel to each other, a hanger connected between the first supporting poles and configured to be slidable along the first supporting poles, the hanger having a driving device and a control device; and a sensing device. The sensing device is configured to sense environmental information of the hanger. The environmental information includes at least one of humidity information and light intensity information. The control device is configured to control the driving device based on the environmental information. The driving device is configured to drive the hanger to slide along the first supporting poles.