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Method and device for detecting capacity available of refrigerator

A detection method and volume technology, which is applied to measuring devices, household refrigeration devices, optical devices, etc., can solve the problems of inaccurately reflecting the actual use of refrigerator volume, inaccurate detection results, unfavorable food storage, etc., and improve the use of Experience, improve detection accuracy, and maintain the effect of storage environment

Active Publication Date: 2015-07-29
HAIER SMART HOME CO LTD
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This requires the user to operate near the refrigerator, and frequent opening and closing of the refrigerator door will adversely affect the storage of food, which brings great inconvenience to the user.
[0004] Based on the above problems, in the prior art, there are also various technical means using weight sensors to measure the weight of objects in the refrigerator, detecting the storage status of specific storage locations, and arranging cameras to obtain the usage of the refrigerator space. However, some of these solutions detect The results are inaccurate, and some can only detect special foods, which cannot accurately reflect the actual use of the refrigerator volume

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[0041] figure 1 It is a schematic diagram of a refrigerator shown in a method for detecting a used volume of a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present invention; the refrigerator may generally include: a box body and a plurality of detection assemblies 100 .

[0042] In the refrigerator in this embodiment, the box body defines a storage compartment 400, and the box body includes a horizontally arranged top wall, a bottom wall, and vertically arranged side walls. Generally speaking, the vertically arranged side walls include three vertical side walls, which are respectively used as the left side wall, the right side wall and the rear wall. The walls are all arranged vertically, and the door body is arranged opposite to the rear wall.

[0043]A plurality of detection assemblies 100 are distributed inside the storage compartment 400, and it is required that the connection line between the center points of any two detection assemblies 100 placed on the same plane i...

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The invention provides a method and a device for detecting the capacity available of a refrigerator. The method for detecting the capacity available of the refrigerator comprises the following steps of utilizing a plurality of detection assemblies arranged in a storage compartment of the refrigerator to respectively detect visible light intensity and infrared light intensity of respective positions, wherein the storage compartment is divided into a plurality of storage spaces, and each detection assembly is arranger in one storage space; confirming one detection target storage space from the plurality of storage spaces; utilizing visible light intensity detected by the detection assembly in the detection target storage space and visible light intensity and infrared light intensity detected by the detection assembly adjacent to the detection assembly in the detection target storage space in the vertical direction to calculate the used capacity of the detection target storage space. With the scheme provided by the invention, the detection of the capacity available is realized according to the difference between the projection and the reflection of the visible light and the infrared light and the influence of the size of the capacity available on the light intensity, the detection result is accurate, and the use convenience of users is improved.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the field of refrigerator control, in particular to a method and device for detecting the use volume of a refrigerator. Background technique [0002] The intelligence of refrigerators is a direction of refrigerator development, and it is also the focus of research and development of many refrigerator manufacturers. With the improvement of living standards, people's requirements for refrigerators are not only limited to the basic food storage and preservation functions, but also have higher and higher requirements for intelligent operations that can facilitate people's lives and improve the quality of life. [0003] As a household appliance for storing food, users need to know the usage of the internal space of the refrigerator to determine the storage capacity of the food. In the prior art, people usually estimate the usable volume of the refrigerator by opening the refrigerator door to observe. This requires the user to opera...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): F25D29/00G01B11/00
CPCF25D29/003G01S17/08F25D27/00F25D29/00
Inventor 李春阳朱文彬陈强王铭
Owner HAIER SMART HOME CO LTD
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