Patents by Inventor Shujun Tian
Shujun Tian has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11053634Abstract: A method for regulating a quantity of a condensing medium according to change in air temperature at an outlet of a barrel of the dryer comprises the following steps: Step 1, Starting drying, detecting an air temperature at the outlet of a barrel of a dryer, and determining that the air temperature at the outlet of the barrel reaches a set temperature; Step 2, calculating the time value from the start of drying to the temperature at the outlet of the barrel reaching the set temperature; Step 3, determining the supplying tempo of the condensing medium at least according to the time value calculated in step 2; and Step 4, supplying the condensing medium with the supplying tempo of the condensing medium determined in step 3.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2017Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: QINGDAO HAIER DRUM WASHING MACHINE CO., LTD.Inventors: Huacheng Song, Sheng Xu, Shujun Tian, Yonghong Xu, Lijun Zhang
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Patent number: 10662573Abstract: A vented heat pump dryer, comprising: an outer drum, an air-intake drying air duct and an air-exhaust drying air duct for allowing communicating the outer drum with outside respectively. The dryer is also provided with a heat pump system. A condenser of the heat pump system is arranged in the air-intake drying air duct, and an evaporator is arranged in the air-exhaust drying air duct. The air-exhaust drying air duct comprises at least two branches capable of being controlled to open and close. Each branch is provided with a corresponding evaporator. At different drying stage, the dryer makes exhaust air stream flow through different branches independently or at the same time, so that can adjust the working states of the heat pump reasonably and increase the drying efficiency of the dryer.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2016Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: QINGDAO HAIER DRUM WASHING MACHINE CO., LTD.Inventors: Sheng Xu, Huacheng Song, Shujun Tian, Shiqiang Shan
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Patent number: 10494757Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2015Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: QINGDAO HAIER WASHING MACHINE CO., LTD.Inventors: Sheng Xu, Huacheng Song, Shujun Tian, Shiqiang Shan
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Patent number: 10415177Abstract: The heat pump system and the electrical heating system of a clothes dryer are controlled to work cooperatively, thus allowing the clothes dryer to at least comprise a fast mode in which the electrical heating pipe of the heating system is turned on after the compressor of the heat pump system is turned on and operated stably. Air about to enter the clothes drying drum is controlled to be firstly heated by the condenser of the heat pump system and further heated by the electrical heating pipe, and then to enter the clothes drying drum, and the load of the heat pump system is reduced in an auxiliary condensing manner, when the load of the heat pump system is close to the maximum load. Therefore, simultaneous working of the electrical heating system and the heat pump system is ensured, and the clothes drying speed is improved.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: QINGDAO HAIER WASHING MACHINE CO., LTD.Inventors: Sheng Xu, Huacheng Song, Shujun Tian, Shiqiang Shan
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Publication number: 20190177906Abstract: A method for regulating a quantity of a condensing medium according to change in air temperature at an outlet of a barrel of the dryer comprises the following steps: Step 1, Starting drying, detecting an air temperature at the outlet of a barrel of a dryer, and determining that the air temperature at the outlet of the barrel reaches a set temperature; Step 2, calculating the time value from the start of drying to the temperature at the outlet of the barrel reaching the set temperature; Step 3, determining the supplying tempo of the condensing medium at least according to the time value calculated in step 2; and Step 4, supplying the condensing medium with the supplying tempo of the condensing medium determined in step 3.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2017Publication date: June 13, 2019Applicant: QINGDAO HAIER DRUM WASHING MACHINE CO., LTD.Inventors: Huacheng SONG, Sheng XU, Shujun TIAN, Yonghong XU, Lijun ZHANG
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Patent number: 10161078Abstract: The present invention relates to a control method for a laundry dryer. The laundry dryer is a heat-pump type laundry dryer and a compressor of the laundry dryer is a variable-frequency compressor. The control method includes setting a minimum running frequency of the compressor according to an amount of clothes to be dried, where the more the clothes are, the larger the set minimum running frequency is. Specifically, when laundry drying is started, the amount of the clothes being dried is detected. According to the detected information, a minimum running frequency of the compressor, corresponding to the information, is invoked, and the minimum running frequency of the compressor in the current laundry drying process is set.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2015Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignees: HAIER GROUP CORPORATION, QINGDAO HAIER WASHING MACHINE CO., LTD.Inventors: Sheng Xu, Huacheng Song, Shujun Tian, Shiqiang Shan
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Publication number: 20180282935Abstract: A portable clothes dryer and a clothes drying method thereof, wherein the portable clothes dryer comprises: a casing (1) provided with air inlets (4) and air outlets; a detachable garment model (8) made of elastic material comprising an inflatable chamber, the chamber provided with an air intake port (82) through which air from the air outlet enters into, clothes to be dried putting on the garment model (8) for drying; a heating device (7) disposed inside the casing (1) to heat air; a blower (6) configured to move heated air to the chamber of the garment model (8). The overall size of the dryer can be reduced to make it easy to carry due to the garment model with the inflatable chamber is detachable and made of elastic material; the clothes to be dried could be neatly put on the garment model so the clothes dried in this manner is wrinkle-free and can be dressed immediately, and the ironing process is saved.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2016Publication date: October 4, 2018Inventors: SHENG XU, SHUJUN TIAN, HUACHENG SONG, SHIQIANG SHAN
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Publication number: 20180274166Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2015Publication date: September 27, 2018Applicant: QINGDAO HAIER WASHING MACHINE CO., LTD.Inventors: Sheng XU, Huacheng SONG, Shujun TIAN, Shiqiang SHAN
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Publication number: 20180237980Abstract: A vented heat pump dryer, comprising: an outer drum, an air-intake drying air duct and an air-exhaust drying air duct for allowing communicating the outer drum with outside respectively. The dryer is also provided with a heat pump system. A condenser of the heat pump system is arranged in the air-intake drying air duct, and an evaporator is arranged in the air-exhaust drying air duct. The air-exhaust drying air duct comprises at least two branches capable of being controlled to open and close. Each branch is provided with a corresponding evaporator. At different drying stage, the dryer makes exhaust air stream flow through different branches independently or at the same time, so that can adjust the working states of the heat pump reasonably and increase the drying efficiency of the dryer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2016Publication date: August 23, 2018Applicant: QINGDAO HAIER DRUM WASHING MACHINE CO., LTD.Inventors: Sheng XU, Huacheng SONG, Shujun TIAN, Shiqiang SHAN
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Publication number: 20180209737Abstract: A drying machine includes a liquid accumulator, a circulating pump, a radiator tube and a heat absorber tube connected sequentially through pipelines. A radiator housing is provided outside the radiator tube. A heat absorber housing is provided outside the heat absorber tube. A condenser is arranged between the radiator housing and the heat absorber housing. The radiator housing is connected with an air inlet, and the heat absorber housing is connected with a return air inlet. Energy storage material is driven by carrier liquid to flow along the pipelines.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2016Publication date: July 26, 2018Applicant: QINGDAO HAIER WASHING MACHINE CO., LTD.Inventors: Peishi LV, Sheng XU, Huacheng SONG, Shiqiang SHAN, Shujun TIAN
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Publication number: 20180160832Abstract: A miniature hanging-type drying device includes a main body for hanging clothes, wherein the main body is provided with a cavity, the cavity is internally provided with a heating and ventilating device used for forming a drying air flow; the main body is provided with at least one carrying portion for placing clothes, the carrying portion is communicated with the cavity, and the carrying portion is provided with an air outlet through which the drying air flow can blow towards clothes. Through the above setting, high-temperature drying air flow can be formed in the drying device, and the drying air flow blows towards the clothes on the carrying portion via the air outlet, such that the drying air flow directly contacts with the clothes, and the aim of drying the clothes can be realized. The present disclosure is simple in structure, dramatic in effect and suitable for popularization and use.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2016Publication date: June 14, 2018Applicant: QINGDAO HAIER WASHING MACHINE CO., LTD.Inventors: Sheng XU, Shujun TIAN, Huacheng SONG, Shiqiang SHAN
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Publication number: 20180094377Abstract: A condensed water collecting and evaporating device for a clothes dryer, including: a water box unit configured to collect condensed water, a steam generator configured to generate steam, and a first water source pipe connected between the water box unit and the steam generator. The clothes dryer is equipped with the above condensed water collecting and evaporating device. A control method based on the above clothes dryer includes: collecting condensed water with a water box unit, turning on a first water source pipe when steam needs to be sprayed to clothes in the clothes dryer, so that condensed water flows into a steam generator from the water box unit to generate steam.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2016Publication date: April 5, 2018Inventors: Sheng Xu, Shujun TIAN, Huacheng SONG, Shiqiang SHAN
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Publication number: 20170356122Abstract: The heat pump system and the electrical heating system of a clothes dryer are controlled to work cooperatively, thus allowing the clothes dryer to at least comprise a fast mode in which the electrical heating pipe of the heating system is turned on after the compressor of the heat pump system is turned on and operated stably. Air about to enter the clothes drying drum is controlled to be firstly heated by the condenser of the heat pump system and further heated by the electrical heating pipe, and then to enter the clothes drying drum, and the load of the heat pump system is reduced in an auxiliary condensing manner, when the load of the heat pump system is close to the maximum load. Therefore, simultaneous working of the electrical heating system and the heat pump system is ensured, and the clothes drying speed is improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2015Publication date: December 14, 2017Applicant: QINGDAO HAIER WASHING MACHINE CO., LTD.Inventors: Sheng XU, Huacheng SONG, Shujun TIAN, Shiqiang SHAN
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Publication number: 20160289881Abstract: Disclosed are an impeller-type heat pump integrated washer-dryer and a drying method. The impeller-type heat pump integrated washer-dryer includes: a housing, an outer drum mounted inside the housing, an inner drum mounted in the outer drum, an impeller provided at the bottom of the inner drum, and an electric motor provided at the lower part of the outer drum for driving of the inner drum and/or the pulsator. An outer part of the outer drum is provided with an air duct and a heat pump system. The air duct communicates with sealed top and bottom ends of the outer drum. The heat pump system has an evaporator and a condenser mounted in the air duct, a throttle apparatus and a compressor. The evaporator, the compressor, the condenser and the throttle apparatus are sequentially connected in succession to form a circulating flow path enabling a medium to flow.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2013Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicants: Haier Group Corporation, Qingdao Haier Washing Machine Co., Ltd.Inventors: Huacheng SONG, Sheng XU, Shiqiang SHAN, Shujun TIAN
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Publication number: 20160040350Abstract: The present invention relates to a control method for a laundry dryer. The laundry dryer is a heat-pump type laundry dryer and a compressor of the laundry dryer is a variable-frequency compressor. The control method includes setting a minimum running frequency of the compressor according to an amount of clothes to be dried, where the more the clothes are, the larger the set minimum running frequency is. Specifically, when laundry drying is started, the amount of the clothes being dried is detected. According to the detected information, a minimum running frequency of the compressor, corresponding to the information, is invoked, and the minimum running frequency of the compressor in the current laundry drying process is set.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2015Publication date: February 11, 2016Inventors: Sheng Xu, Huacheng Song, Shujun Tian, Shiqiang Shan