Method for controlling expansion valve of frequency conversion heat pump clothes dryer

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10494757-B2
Application number	US-201515550203-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 3, 2015
Priority date	Feb 11, 2015
Publication date	Dec 3, 2019
Grant date	Dec 3, 2019

Abstract

A method for controlling an expansion valve of a frequency conversion heat pump clothes dryer. The open degree of the valve is adjusted through parameters such as the operation time/power/current at a frequency of the frequency conversion compressor; a reference value of the operation time/power/current at a certain frequency is set, and compared with an actual value of the operation time/power/current at the certain frequency of the compressor; if the actual value of the operation time is less than the set reference value or the actual value of the power/current is greater than the reference value, the open degree of the expansion value is increased; and if the actual value of the operation time is greater than the set reference value or the actual value of the power/current is less than the set reference value, the open degree of the expansion valve is decreased.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for controlling an expansion valve of a frequency conversion heat pump clothes dryer, a frequency conversion compressor of the clothes dryer comprising a frequency ascending stage, a frequency retaining stage, and a frequency descending stage, the method comprising:
adjusting an open degree of the expansion valve through one of parameters selected from a group comprising an operation time at a certain frequency, power, current and an operation frequency of the frequency conversion compressor;
wherein the clothes dryer includes a first drying mode and a second drying mode, an operation time of the frequency conversion compressor in a high-frequency band in the first drying mode is longer than the operation time of the frequency conversion compressor in the high-frequency band in the second drying mode, and the open degree of the expansion valve in the first drying mode when it enters in the frequency descending stage is larger than the open degree of the expansion valve in the second drying mode when it enters in the frequency descending stage.

2. The method for controlling the expansion valve of the frequency conversion heat pump clothes dryer according to claim 1 , wherein: in a same clothes drying mode, a reference value of the operation time at the certain frequency or power or current is set, and an actual value of the operation time at the frequency or power or current of the compressor and the set reference value are compared;
if the actual value of the operation time at the frequency is less than the set reference value or the actual value of the power or current is greater than the set reference value, the open degree of the expansion value is turned up;
and if the actual value of the operation time at the frequency is greater than the set reference value or the actual value of the power or current is less than the set reference value, the open degree of the expansion valve is turned down.

3. The method for controlling the expansion valve of the frequency conversion heat pump clothes dryer according to claim 2 , wherein: in the frequency descending stage, the operation frequency of the frequency conversion compressor gradually decreases from a set target frequency in stages, and the open degree of the expansion valve is correspondingly turned up in stages.

4. The method for controlling the expansion valve of the frequency conversion heat pump clothes dryer according to claim 2 , wherein if a target operation time or power or current at the same frequency is great, the open degree of the expansion value is large.

5. The method for controlling the expansion valve of the frequency conversion heat pump clothes dryer according to claim 2 , wherein: when the clothes dryer starts operating, the expansion valve is adjusted to a fully closed state and then opened to a first open degree and then the compressor is started;
after the compressor finishes frequency ascending, the expansion valve is opened to a second open degree and the compressor enters in the frequency retaining stage.

6. The method for controlling the expansion valve of the frequency conversion heat pump clothes dryer according to claim 2 , wherein: the clothes dryer further comprises a third drying mode, the operation time of the compressor in the high-frequency band in the third drying mode is shorter than the operation time of the frequency conversion compressor in the high-frequency band in the second drying mode,
and the open degree of the expansion valve in the third drying mode when it enters in the frequency descending stage is smaller than the open degree of the expansion valve in the second drying mode when it enters in the frequency descending stage.

7. The method for controlling the expansion valve of the frequency conversion heat pump clothes dryer according to claim 1 , wherein: in the frequency descending stage, the operation frequency of the frequency conversion compressor gradually decreases from a set target frequency in stages, and the open degree of the expansion valve is correspondingly turned up in stages.

8. The method for controlling the expansion valve of the frequency conversion heat pump clothes dryer according to claim 7 , wherein if a target operation time or power or current at the same frequency is great, the open degree of the expansion value is large.

9. The method for controlling the expansion valve of the frequency conversion heat pump clothes dryer according to claim 7 , wherein: when the clothes dryer starts operating, the expansion valve is adjusted to a fully closed state and then opened to a first open degree and then the compressor is started;
after the compressor finishes frequency ascending, the expansion valve is opened to a second open degree and the compressor enters in the frequency retaining stage.

10. The method for controlling the expansion valve of the frequency conversion heat pump clothes dryer according to claim 7 , wherein: the clothes dryer further comprises a third drying mode, the operation time of the compressor in the high-frequency band in the third drying mode is shorter than the operation time of the frequency conversion compressor in the high-frequency band in the second drying mode,
and the open degree of the expansion valve in the third drying mode when it enters in the frequency descending stage is smaller than the open degree of the expansion valve in the second drying mode when it enters in the frequency descending stage.

11. The method for controlling the expansion valve of the frequency conversion heat pump clothes dryer according to claim 1 , wherein if a target operation time or power or current at the same frequency increases, the open degree of the expansion value increases.

12. The method for controlling the expansion valve of the frequency conversion heat pump clothes dryer according to claim 11 , wherein: in the frequency descending stage, when a detected temperature rises to T 11 ° C. in the first drying mode, the operation frequency of the frequency conversion compressor decreases from a target frequency f n Hz to f 1 Hz and the open degree of the expansion valve is adjusted to a pulse open degree k 11 from k 1n ;
when the detected temperature rises to T 21 ° C. in the second drying mode, the operation frequency of the frequency conversion compressor decreases from the target frequency f n Hz to f 1 Hz and the open degree of the expansion valve is adjusted to the pulse open degree k 21 from k 2n ; wherein, T 11 >T 21 , k 1n >k 2n , k 11 >k 21 .

13. The method for controlling the expansion valve of the frequency conversion heat pump clothes dryer according to claim 1 , wherein: when the clothes dryer starts operating, the expansion valve is adjusted to a fully closed state and then opened to a first open degree and then the compressor is started;
after the compressor finishes frequency ascending, the expansion valve is opened to a second open degree and the compressor enters in the frequency retaining stage.

14. The method for controlling the expansion valve of the frequency conversion heat pump clothes dryer according to claim 1 , wherein: the clothes dryer further comprises a third drying mode, the operation time of the compressor in the high-frequency band in the third drying mode is shorter than the operation time of the frequency conversion compressor in the high-frequency band in the second drying mode,
and the open degree of the expansion valve in the third drying mode when it enters in the frequency descending stage is smaller than the open degree of the expansion valve in the second drying mode when it enters in the frequency descending stage.

Assignees

• Qingdao Haier Washing Mach Co

Inventors

• Xu Sheng
• Song Huacheng
• Tian Shujun
• Shan Shiqiang

Classifications

• D06F2105/26

  Heat pumps · CPC title

• D06F2103/50

  related to heat pumps, e.g. pressure or flow rate · CPC title

• D06F2058/2854

  Textiles & Paper · mapped topic

• D06F58/206 Primary

  Heat pump arrangements · CPC title

• D06F58/28 Primary

  Textiles & Paper · mapped topic