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Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2026

Filed:

Apr. 11, 2023
Applicants:

Foshan Midea Chungho Water Purification Equipment Co., Ltd., Foshan, CN;

Midea Group Co., Ltd., Foshan, CN;

Inventors:

Zhipeng Hao, Foshan, CN;

Chenghuan Hu, Foshan, CN;

Pu Qing, Foshan, CN;

Bo Zhang, Foshan, CN;

Ziming Gong, Foshan, CN;

Rensheng Huang, Foshan, CN;

Yuedong Zheng, Foshan, CN;

Yumin Liao, Foshan, CN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/18 (2006.01); C02F 1/42 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/1853 (2013.01); C02F 1/42 (2013.01); C02F 2209/055 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and an apparatus for determining hardness of raw water of a water softening device. The method includes: obtaining a correspondence between a geographical area and the hardness of raw water; and determining target hardness of raw water of the water softening device based on a target geographical area where the water softening device is located and the correspondence; the correspondence is obtained by detecting hardness of raw water of respective geographical areas and associating each of the respective geographical areas with a detection result of the hardness of raw water corresponding to each of the respective geographical areas.


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