Electric home appliance real use state information collection and analysis apparatus
US5721693A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jan 3, 1996 |
| Grant date | Feb 24, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 3, 2016 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
- CPC primaryF25D2700/14
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
An improved electric home appliance real use state information collection and analysis apparatus capable of providing a product design reference data by collecting and analyzing user's real use state and home appliance surrounding environments, thus improving reliability of the product, which includes an electric home appliance microcomputer for controlling the entire functions of a certain electric home appliance and for detecting a real use state of a user's real electric home appliance; an UPA microcomputer for storing a user's use state data inputted from the electric home appliance microcomputer and the collected various surrounding environment data into a memory and for transmitting the data to another element; and a personal computer for receiving and analyzing the data transmitted from the UPA microcomputer via an RS-232 serial communication link, thus providing a product design reference data by collecting and analyzing user's real use state and home appliance surrounding environments, thus improving reliability of the product.
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