Clothing treatment device and control method therefor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11767628-B2
Application number	US-202017604627-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 1, 2020
Priority date	Apr 17, 2019
Publication date	Sep 26, 2023
Grant date	Sep 26, 2023

Abstract

A clothing treatment device comprises a tag excitation apparatus, and the tag excitation apparatus is used for transmitting an excitation signal to excite an electronic tag on clothing, to generate a tag signal that can be obtained by a signal base station. The tag excitation apparatus and an NB-iot module are added on the clothing treatment device. The tag excitation apparatus is only used for transmitting the excitation signal, and a reading module is not provided. The tag signal generated by the electronic tag is obtained by the signal base station nearby, and the signal base station forwards the obtained tag signal to a corresponding clothing treatment device by means of a cellular mobile communication network.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A clothing treatment device comprising:
a tag excitation apparatus; wherein,
the tag excitation apparatus is configured to transmit an excitation signal to excite an electronic tag on clothing, and the electronic tag generates a tag signal that can be obtained by a signal base station.

2. The clothing treatment device according to claim 1 , wherein,
a communication module is provided;
the clothing treatment device is communicatively connected with the signal base station through the communication module, and receives the tag signal sent by the signal base station.

3. The clothing treatment device according to claim 1 , wherein,
a plurality of the clothing treatment devices are communicatively connected with the signal base station, and each clothing treatment device is provided with a tag excitation apparatus.

4. A control method of the clothing treatment device, and the clothing treatment device comprises a tag excitation apparatus, wherein:
the control method comprises: the tag excitation apparatus transmitting an excitation signal to excite an electronic tag on clothing, and the electronic tag generates a tag signal and send the tag signal to a signal base station.

5. The control method of the clothing treatment device according to claim 4 , wherein:
the clothing treatment device is communicatively connected with the signal base station, and the tag signal is obtained by the signal base station.

6. The control method of the clothing treatment device according to claim 5 , wherein:
the clothing treatment device comprises a cellular mobile communication module;
the clothing treatment device is connected to an established cellular mobile communication network through a cellular mobile communication network, and communicatively connected with the signal base station through the cellular mobile communication network.

7. The control method of the clothing treatment device according to claim 4 , wherein:
the tag signal has an identification code;
the clothing treatment device is connected to the signal base station to obtain the tag signal corresponding to the identification code.

8. The control method of the clothing treatment device according to claim 7 , wherein:
a plurality of clothing treatment devices are provided with the tag excitation apparatus;
the tag excitation apparatus of each clothing treatment device writes the corresponding identification code to the electronic tag;
the electronic tag generates the tag signal with identification code after inducing the excitation signal;
the clothing treatment device obtains the tag signal with the corresponding identification code from the signal base station.

9. The control method of the clothing treatment device according to claim 4 , wherein:
the tag signal includes a clothing information code;
the clothing treatment device parses the clothing information code according to a set of analysis rules to obtain the corresponding clothing information.

10. The control method of the clothing treatment device according to claim 4 , wherein:
the clothing treatment device is communicatively connected with a cloud server;
the cloud server is communicatively connected with the signal base station, after the cloud server obtains the tag signal from the signal base station, it performs analysis and processing to obtain clothing information;
the clothing treatment device connects to the cloud server to obtain the clothing information.

11. The clothing treatment device according to claim 2 , wherein,
the communication module is an NB-iot module, and the clothing treatment device is auto connected to the signal base station via the NB-iot module.

12. The clothing treatment device according to claim 2 , wherein,
a plurality of clothing treatment devices are communicatively connected with the signal base station, and each the clothing treatment device is provided with a tag excitation apparatus.

13. The control method of the clothing treatment device according to claim 5 , wherein:
the tag signal has an identification code;
the clothing treatment device is connected to the signal base station to obtain the tag signal corresponding to the identification code.

14. The control method of the clothing treatment device according to claim 6 , wherein:
the tag signal has an identification code;
the clothing treatment device is connected to the signal base station to obtain the tag signal corresponding to the identification code.

15. The control method of the clothing treatment device according to claim 9 , wherein:
the clothing treatment device determines a corresponding clothing treatment program according to parsed clothing information.

16. The control method of the clothing treatment device according to claim 5 , wherein:
the tag signal includes a clothing information code;
the clothing treatment device parses the clothing information code according to a set of analysis rules to obtain the corresponding clothing information.

17. The control method of the clothing treatment device according to claim 6 , wherein:
the tag signal includes a clothing information code;
the clothing treatment device parses the clothing information code according to a set of analysis rules to obtain the corresponding clothing information.

18. The control method of the clothing treatment device according to claim 10 , wherein:
the cloud server determines a corresponding clothing treatment program according to parsed clothing information, and the clothing treatment device is connected to the cloud server to obtain the clothing treatment program.

Assignees

• Qingdao Haier Washing Mach Co
• Haier Smart Home Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yin Junming
• Huang Zhenxing
• Xu Sheng

Classifications

• D06F34/05 Primary

  for wireless communication between components, e.g. for remote monitoring or control · CPC title

• D06F34/28

  Arrangements for program selection, e.g. control panels therefor; Arrangements for indicating program parameters, e.g. the selected program or its progress · CPC title

• G06K7/10366

  the interrogation device being adapted for miscellaneous applications · CPC title

• D06F93/005 Primary

  Marking arrangements · CPC title