HOME APPLIANCE AND HOME APPLIANCE SYSTEM
First Claim
1. In a home appliance system that transmits product information to a management device via a wire/wireless communication network for fault diagnosis of a home appliance, and diagnoses a fault of the home appliance,the home appliance, comprising:
- a selection device that receives input of an external command signal for executing the fault diagnosis from the user;
a conversion device that converts product information into at least one acoustic signal;
a sound output device that outputs a sound corresponding to the acoustic signal output from the conversion device to the outside when the external command signal is input from the selection device; and
a controller that includes a storage device that stores the product information of the home appliance for the fault diagnosis, loads the product information stored in the storage device and transmits the same to the conversion device when the fault diagnosis is selected through the selection device, and controls a unit conversion time during which the conversion device outputs the product information as the acoustic signal when the acoustic signal is output to the sound output device.
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Abstract
A home appliance and a home appliance system are provided. The home appliance may convert product information into an acoustic signal and externally output the same as a sound. The home appliance system may receive the sound, convert the same into the acoustic signal, and then inversely convert the acoustic signal into the product information and read the same. Accordingly, the home appliance may externally output the acoustic signal as the sound so that the user may be easily notified of transmission. Also, the home appliance system may easily transmit the sound to a management device to read the product information because the sound may be transmitted via a communications network.
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31 Claims
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1. In a home appliance system that transmits product information to a management device via a wire/wireless communication network for fault diagnosis of a home appliance, and diagnoses a fault of the home appliance,
the home appliance, comprising: -
a selection device that receives input of an external command signal for executing the fault diagnosis from the user; a conversion device that converts product information into at least one acoustic signal; a sound output device that outputs a sound corresponding to the acoustic signal output from the conversion device to the outside when the external command signal is input from the selection device; and a controller that includes a storage device that stores the product information of the home appliance for the fault diagnosis, loads the product information stored in the storage device and transmits the same to the conversion device when the fault diagnosis is selected through the selection device, and controls a unit conversion time during which the conversion device outputs the product information as the acoustic signal when the acoustic signal is output to the sound output device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A home appliance system that transmits product information to a management device via a wire/wireless communication network for fault diagnosis of a home appliance, and diagnoses a fault of the home appliance,
wherein the home appliance comprises: -
a selection device that receives input of an external command signal for executing the fault diagnosis from the user; a conversion device that converts product information into at least one acoustic signal; a sound output device that outputs a signal sound corresponding to the acoustic signal output from the conversion device to the outside when the external command signal is input from the selection device; and a controller that includes a storage device that stores the product information of the home appliance for the fault diagnosis, loads the product information stored in the storage device and transmits the same to the conversion device when the fault diagnosis is selected through the selection device, and controls a unit conversion time during which the conversion device outputs the product information as the acoustic signal when the acoustic signal is output to the sound output device. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A home appliance system, comprising:
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a home appliance that converts product information into at least one acoustic signal containing at least one frequency and outputs a sound corresponding to the at least one acoustic signal, and that controls a unit conversion time during which a conversion device converts the product information into the at least one acoustic signal when the at least one acoustic signal converted in the conversion device is transmitted to a sound output device; and a management device that receives the output sound and inversely converts the same into the product information based on the sound.
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