Manipulation Of Liquid Patents (Class 8/158)
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Patent number: 8776553Abstract: A method and apparatus according to one embodiment for determining laundry load size in an automatic clothes washer includes supplying water to predetermined water levels higher than a saturate water level and determining the amount of water supplied to reach each predetermined water level from a prior water level, and determining a load size based on the determined amount of water supplied between the current predetermined water level and the prior water level.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2013Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Jenn-Yeu Nieh, James A. Oskins
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Patent number: 8776296Abstract: A controlling method of a washing machine is disclosed. The controlling method of a washing machine includes washing laundry accommodated in a drum provided in the washing machine, primarily rinsing the washed laundry and an inside of the drum, using clean wash water, primarily dewatering the rinsed laundry and secondarily rinsing the dewatered laundry, using clean wash water.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2008Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Eun Jin Park, Deug Hee Lee
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Patent number: 8780353Abstract: The embodiments of the invention relate to a method and apparatus for determining at least one characteristic of a physical resource for use in a physical resource consuming apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2013Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Kirk M. Dunsbergen, Kaustav Ghosh, Robert J. Pinkowski
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Patent number: 8776297Abstract: A laundry treating apparatus includes a cabinet, a tub provided in the cabinet, a drum rotatably provided in the tub for receiving laundry, a gasket provided between the cabinet and the tub, a plurality of spray nozzles provided at a lower part of the gasket for spraying wash water upward into the drum, and a pump for pumping wash water to the spray nozzles.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2010Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Myong Hun Im, Soo Young Oh, Moon Hee Hong, Kyung Chul Woo, Woo Young Kim, Sang Heon Lee, Byung Keol Choi
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Patent number: 8769749Abstract: A cleaning device for cleaning a mixing vaporizer is provided. The mixing vaporizer includes a first hole that a raw material flows in therethrough, a second hole that carrier gas flows in therethrough, a mixing space that generates mixed gas by mixing the raw material and the carrier gas, a carrier gas nozzle that is connected to the second hole for supplying the carrier gas to the mixing space, and a third hole that discharges the mixed gas. The cleaning device cleans the mixing vaporizer by circulating a cleaning solution through at least one the first hole, the second hole, and the third hole.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2009Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: STS Co., Ltd.Inventor: Dong Young Ryou
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Patent number: 8719985Abstract: A control method of a washing machine, in which a hydraulic pressure of water supplied into the washing machine is estimated, enabling sensing of a laundry weight and measurement of a supply amount of the water. The control method includes calculating a first water supply time required to initially supply water to a setup water level, calculating a second water supply time required to additionally supply water according to a variation in water level due to laundry wetting after the initial supply of water, sensing a laundry weight according to a ratio of the first water supply time to the second water supply time, and measuring a flow rate of water using the amount of water supplied to the setup water level and the laundry weight data.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2009Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chang Joo Park, Soon Bae Yang, Jun Hyun Park, Jung Chul Choi
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Patent number: 8719986Abstract: Disclosed herein is a control method of a washing machine which minimizes damage to laundry to be washed. The control method includes executing a washing cycle to wash laundry to be washed by supplying wash water, dissolving detergent in wash water and washing the laundry, executing a rinsing cycle to rinse the laundry by draining wash water, spin-drying the laundry, and rinsing the laundry, and executing a spin-drying cycle to spin-dry the laundry by draining wash water and spin-drying the laundry, wherein the dissolving of the detergent is carried out at a water level lower than a predetermined reference water level.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2011Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Pyounghwan Kim, Hyungyong Kim, Seogkyu Park, Youngkee Oh, Deughee Lee, Eunjin Park, Taehyok Kwon
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Patent number: 8707742Abstract: A laundry treatment machine includes a device driving unit configured to control a lock device including a lock element, and a lead, which moves along with the lock element. If the lock element is moved to a lock position, a device controller determines whether the lead is moved from its initial position to a predetermined position and outputs a first detection signal as the result of the determination. The device controller outputs lock information if the first detection signal is received, and determines that the lid assembly and the top cover are not locked and outputs lock error information if the first detection signal is not received. Therefore, it is possible to easily determine whether laundry is stuck between the lid assembly and the top cover and whether the motor is broken by locking or unlocking the lid assembly and the top cover with the use of the lock element.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2010Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Youngjong Kim, Changwoo Son
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Patent number: 8695381Abstract: Methods and systems that detect high resonance frequencies as a laundering device (e.g., a washer or dryer) is in a spin cycle, and avoids those frequencies, as well as a band around those frequencies (e.g., 75 rpm on either side of the resonant frequency), in subsequent spin cycles, is described. Aspects of the invention also provide for detecting whether the setup of the laundering device has changed (e.g., resulting from a change in physical location or setup), and provides for the recalibration of a resonance frequency or known high vibration speed when a new setup is detected. Aspects of the invention recognize that solutions to minimize vibration are unnecessary. It is not necessary to optimize or minimize vibration in order for a laundry device to work properly, but rather it is sufficient to ensure that the laundry device does not spin the drum at a speed that causes excessive vibration.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2008Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.Inventor: Michael T. Moore
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Patent number: 8691257Abstract: A water soluble bag for containing soiled textiles, said bag having an open end, a closed end, and sides extending therebetween, said bag made of a plastic film having a thickness of at least 1.3 mils, wherein said bag dissolves in water at a temperature of 165° F. in less than about 250 seconds and does not dissolve in water at a temperature of 85° F. in 7 days, and said bag being capable of containing at least 175 lbs. of soiled textiles and having a capacity of at least 50 gallons. Also disclosed is a receptacle for collecting soiled textiles comprising a container and a water soluble bag. Also disclosed is a receptacle for collecting soiled textiles comprising a container, a sling, and a water soluble bag.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2010Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Cintas CorporationInventors: Keith Hartman, David Mesko, Tim Magee, Richard Gerlach
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Patent number: 8677538Abstract: In a household cleaning appliance configured to execute a cleaning cycle on an article, having a non-bulk dispersing system that stores a single dose of treating chemistry that the dispensing system dispenses to the treating chamber in total as part of the execution of the cleaning cycle, the method includes adding bulk dispensing functionality to the non-bulk dispensing system for operating the dispensing system as a bulk dispensing system.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2012Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Michael S. Hendrickson, Joel Adam Luckman, Colleen M. Doyle
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Patent number: 8679198Abstract: A washing machine and a method of controlling the washing machine may be provided. The washing machine may include a drum in which laundry are provided and rotated. A laundry amount may be sensed. The drum may operate at a first speed so that a part of the laundry tumbles within the drum and another part of the laundry adheres to the drum or the drum operates at a second speed so that the laundry adheres to the drum according to the sensed laundry amount. Accordingly, at a time of a dehydration cycle, stability of the washing machine and a laundry balancing can be ensured.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2009Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sun Cheol Bae, Kyung Hoon Kim, Han Su Jung, Jae Hyeok Choi, Ja In Koo
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Patent number: 8674242Abstract: A laundry weight sensing method. A motor is consecutively turned on and off plural times, the number of pulses output from a counter electromotive force detector according to counter electromotive force of the motor when the motor is finally turned off is counted, and a laundry weight is sensed using the counted number of pulses.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2011Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sung Hoon Kim, Sang Yeon Pyo, Jae Ryong Park, See Young Choi
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Patent number: 8671488Abstract: A steam control device and method of a washing machine are disclosed. The steam control method includes determining whether an instruction of course washing with steam is input; opening a water supply valve to supply water into a steam generator if the instruction of course washing is input; detecting a temperature of water supplied to the steam generator using a temperature sensor; and checking a water supply time corresponding to the detected water supply temperature and supplying water to the steam generator for the water supply time.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2010Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Daewoo Electronics CorporationInventor: Ju Dong Lee
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Patent number: 8650689Abstract: A household washing machine that includes a foam-promoting agent dispenser that adds a predetermined amount of a foam-promoting agent during a washing cycle, and a foam-inhibiting agent dispenser that adds a predetermined amount of a foam-inhibiting agent before the end of a rinsing cycle.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2008Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Thomas Koch, Ingo Schulze
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Patent number: 8646139Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, machine, and/or device adapted for washing and drying a product via a continuous forward flow of product and a reverse flow of aqueous content. Certain exemplary embodiments can provide an auger, a rotating paddle wheel, a perforated spiral drum, a perforated cylindrical drum, and/or a hydraulic ram press.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2013Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: Eastern Bioplastics, LLCInventors: Cecil E. Meyerhoeffer, Jr., Aaron Showalter
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Patent number: 8644992Abstract: The present subject matter relates to methods and apparatus for controlling operation of a washing machine motor. Different control algorithms may be used during different time periods of operation of the motor where each algorithm is configured to provide different operating characteristics of the motor based on the needs of the washing machine system. The method and apparatus both provide for changing from one motor control algorithm to another algorithm while the motor is spinning. For certain type motors, a time period may be established between operation of the motor under a first or second control algorithms where no energy is supplied to the motor but the motor is permitted to continue to spin. During this period of time for these type motors, magnetic fields in the motor are permitted to subside prior to application of the second control algorithm.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2011Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Richard Dean Suel, II
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Patent number: 8631526Abstract: Method for controlling the centrifugation process of a washing machine, wherein during a first, a second and a third laundry distribution phases (D1, D2, D3), performing a number of unbalance value measurements (M1-M7) and comprising an unbalance value of the drum of the washing machine with predetermined unbalance values. If the current unbalance values are within predetermined intervals, the washing machine performs a spin phase (S1, S2, Smax). If the values are not within the predetermined intervals, the washing machine performs a laundry redistribution phase (R1, R2), after which a further laundry distribution phase (D1, D3) may take place.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2013Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Inventors: Milan Janicek, Zuzana Vasickova, Pavel Stepan
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Patent number: 8627525Abstract: A method for controlling a spinning cycle of a washing machine, the method includes accelerating a drum up to a first speed at which the laundry items essentially lie firmly against the wall of the drum, detecting a movement of the detergent solution tub in at least one direction for at least one predetermined period during the rotation of the drum at a speed that is equal to or greater than the first speed, determining an amplitude of the movement for the recorded direction, determining further movement amplitudes for known or detected speeds during the predetermined period, determining a change in the movement amplitude over the speed, and controlling the spinning cycle as a function of the change of the movement amplitude.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2007Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventor: Rainer Jurmann
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Patent number: 8627527Abstract: A laundry treating device includes two separate laundry washing mechanisms. Methods of controlling such a laundry treating device include steps for supplying water to a first tub provided in the first laundry treating device and to a second tub provided in the second laundry treating device. The water can be supplied to the two tubs simultaneously or separately. Also, the water supply steps can be alternated. Further individual hot and cold water supply steps can include simultaneously or sequentially supplying the hot and cold water.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2013Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Dong Soo Lee, Ki Chul Woo, Na Eun Kim, Dong Won Kim, Sung Min Kim, Sung Ryong Kim
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Patent number: 8627524Abstract: Household-type front loading and water-recirculating clothes washing machine adapted to automatically measure the weight of the dry clothes loaded in the machine for washing, also on the basis of the information on the type of clothes in said washload entered from the outside (user), in which the measurement of such weight of the washload is performed by measuring the amount of water that is absorbed by the clothes in the washload when this is soaked with water to a point at which it is in a dynamic saturation, i.e. steady-state condition. Said measurement of the amount of water absorbed in the clothes is obtained by subtracting the amount of water that is present in the machine, and that does not interact with the washload, from the total amount of water let into the wash tub. The weight of the load of clothes is finally calculated by processing and interpolating the amount of absorbed water and rectifying such value with an information on the properties of the clothes in the washload.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2005Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: Electrolux Home Products Corporation N.V.Inventors: Carlo Urbanet, Silvano Cimetta, Mirko Gasparini, Marco Giovagnoni
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Patent number: 8627526Abstract: The embodiments of the invention relate to a method for determining at least one characteristic of a physical resource for use in a physical resource consuming apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2012Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Kirk M. Dunsbergen, Kaustav Ghosh, Robert J. Pinkowski
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Patent number: 8627688Abstract: There is described a control system (15) for controlling unbalance of the wash assembly (5) in a vertical-rotation-axis washing machine (1), wherein a wash assembly (5) is housed inside a casing (2), and has a wash drum (8) rotating about an axis of rotation (R) substantially parallel to a vertical reference axis (V), and an electric drive unit (12) for rotating the wash drum (8) about the relative axis of rotation (R); said control system has first computing blocks (19, 20, 21) for determining a number of operating quantities (Cm(t), J, alpha (t)) associated with rotation of the wash drum (8), and for determining, as a function of the quantities, the time pattern of the amplitude (h(t)) of vertical oscillation of the centre of mass (B) of the wash assembly (5) in a first direction substantially parallel to the vertical reference axis (V); and a second computing block (23) for determining the maximum amplitude (H) of vertical oscillation of the wash assembly (5) within a given time interval (T); the second coType: GrantFiled: November 16, 2007Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: Electrolux Home Products Corporation N.V.Inventors: Alvaro Volpato, Jose Machado, Daniel Kaminski de Souza, Marco Giovagnoni, Fabio Altinier, Stefano Galassi
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Patent number: 8621893Abstract: A washing machine having balancers and a method of controlling the same is provided. The number of rotations of a motor is maintained at a designated number before excessive vibration of a tub occurs for a designated time in order to prevent excessive vibration of the tub before balls reach a balancing position. The method includes sensing the number of rotations of a motor; determining whether or not the sensed number of rotations of the motor reaches a designated number of rotations by comparing the sensed number of rotations of the motor with the designated number of rotations; and controlling the motor such that the number of rotations of the motor is maintained at the designated number of rotations when it is determined that the sensed number of rotations of the motor reaches the designated number of rotations.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2007Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hong Seok Ko, Seung Ju Choi, Gyu Sung Na
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Patent number: 8615833Abstract: A washing machine provided with recirculation with controlled flow. It further presents a method to control the level of the washing liquid, associated to the said machine, providing economy of resources such as water and cleaning products, guaranteeing an effective washing of clothes and similar articles, still associated with a decreases foam formation and lower nose emissions during the process, thus improving the operation of the equipment. The washing machine is provided with a washing tub (2), a basket (3), a two-way pump (7), level sensor (5), pool (6), recirculation hose (9), drainage hose (8) and control circuit.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2010Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Electrolux Do Brazil S.A.Inventors: Cirilo Alex Cavalli, Johninson Imhoff, Marcelo Piekarski
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Patent number: 8615834Abstract: A method of determining the number of doses and the types of a treating chemistry available in the bulk dispensing system, and providing an indication of the determination on a user interface.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2012Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Karl D. McAllister, Michael T. Dalton
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Patent number: 8613804Abstract: Systems and methods for dry cleaning articles using siloxane solvents are provided. In the systems and methods according to the present invention, the siloxane solvent suspends impurities extracted from the articles being cleaned, and the system filters off the impurities, thereby cleaning the articles.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2012Date of Patent: December 24, 2013Assignee: Greenearth Cleaning, LLCInventors: James E. Douglas, Wolf-Dieter R Berndt
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Patent number: 8601626Abstract: A washing machine and associated washing method are provided. The method may include rotating a drum, measuring and storing a vibration level of a cabinet while increasing a rotational speed of the drum, and measuring the vibration level of the cabinet after the rotational speed of the drum reaches a target rotational speed and determining whether or not the vibration level of the cabinet is greater than a set value. The method may then include adjusting the rotational speed of the drum if the vibration level is greater than the set value so as to minimize vibration and resonance in a support surface on which the washing machine is positioned.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2010Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Deok Kyu Kim, Kyung Seop Hong, Bon Kwon Koo, Jae Chul Lee
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Patent number: 8601625Abstract: A washing machine includes a program controller for controlling a program sequence, a drum rotatably supported in a tub, a liquor drain system on a floor of the tub, a liquor drain pump, a drive motor for driving the drum, a heater, a sensor for determining an amount of liquid or of suds in the tub that sense a hydrostatic pressure, a time gradient of the hydrostatic pressure, and/or a guide value in the tub or the drum, and a switch for rotating and stopping the drum and for increasing the speed of the drum if the hydrostatic pressure is less than a predetermined value and for decreasing the speed of the drum if the hydrostatic pressure is more than another predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2008Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventor: Harald Moschütz
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Patent number: 8595954Abstract: A clothes treating apparatus includes a drum, an air suction unit forming a flow path of air introduced into the drum, an air exhaustion unit forming a flow path of air exhausted from the drum, a condenser heating air sucked into the drum through the air suction unit, an evaporator cooling air exhausted from the drum through the air exhaustion unit, a compressor compressing refrigerant introduced from the evaporator, and a variable expander expanding a refrigerant introduced from the condenser, and having a variable open degree. An operation method includes measuring a temperature of a refrigerant into the evaporator, and a temperature of a refrigerant into the compressor, and decreasing an open degree of the variable expander when a temperature difference between the two measured temperatures is less than a predetermined first value.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2011Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Hyuksoo Lee, Sungmin Ye, Byeongjo Ryoo
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Patent number: 8595875Abstract: A laundry treatment machine and a washing method therefor are provided. The laundry treatment machine may discharge fluid by driving a drainage device, while rotating a drum during a time period between a plurality of rinsing operations. The rotation speed of the drum may be controlled to be lower than a reference speed, which is the rotation speed of the drum when laundry is not uniformly distributed in the drum, and thus, eccentricity of the laundry is high.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2009Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Myong Hum Im, Byung Keol Choi, Woo Young Kim, Kyung Chul Woo, Kyeong Hwan Kim, Han Gil Park, Soo Young Oh
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Patent number: 8590083Abstract: A laundry appliance having a perforated rotatable drum for spin dehydrating a wet textile load, an electric motor for providing an accelerating force which in use causes the drum to rotate, load sensors for detecting any static dynamic imbalance in the rotation of the drum, and a controller which receives inputs from the load sensors and is programmed to, in a spin-up phase, energize said electric motor so as to evenly distribute the load within the drum and thereby minimize any static or dynamic imbalance when the drum rotates.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2007Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Appliances LimitedInventor: David Charles Rhodes
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Patent number: 8584289Abstract: A laundry treatment machine and a washing method therefor are provided. During a rinsing operation, the laundry treatment machine may rotate a drum while supplying fluid into the drum. In addition, the laundry treatment machine may control a fluid circulation device to circulate the fluid, and thus, to spray the circulated fluid into the drum during the rotation of the drum. The drum realizes at least one of first through fourth motions. The laundry treatment machine may perform various rinsing operations in consideration of the fluid level in a tub.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2009Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Myong Hum Im, Byung Keol Choi, Woo Young Kim, Kyung Chul Woo, Kyeong Hwan Kim, Han Gil Park, Soo Young Oh
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Patent number: 8578532Abstract: A laundry treating appliance and a method for operating a laundry treating appliance having a rotatable drum defining a chamber for receiving laundry. The operation of the laundry treating appliance may be based on the mechanical energy due to the falling action of the laundry.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2009Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Farhad Ashrafzadeh, Ryan R. Bellinger, Duane M. Kobos, Richard A. Sunshine
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Patent number: 8576401Abstract: The embodiments of the invention relate to a method and apparatus for determining at least one characteristic of a physical resource for use in a physical resource consuming apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2013Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Kirk M. Dunsbergen, Kaustav Ghosh, Robert J. Pinkowski
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Patent number: 8566989Abstract: A clothing treating apparatus and a method of controlling such an apparatus are provided. The clothing treating apparatus may make use of a draining function which may be automatically or manually performed after determining whether or not water received in a detachable water supply tank may be re-used or not.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2008Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Hea Kyung Yoo, Dae Yun Park, Jong Seok Kim, Dong Won Kim, Sog Kie Hong
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Patent number: 8566990Abstract: A laundry machine and a method of controlling the laundry machine are disclosed. The laundry machine includes a steam generator (300) which generates steam to supply the steam into a drum (130), a water supply line (320) which supplies water into the steam generator (300), a filter (360) installed in the water supply line (320) to filter water, a regenerating unit (382) which regenerates the filter (360), and a controller which controls operations of the steam generator (300) and the regenerating unit (382).Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2007Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sang Hun Bae, Jung Wook Moon, Chul Jin Choi, Dong Hyun Kim, Young Bok Son
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Patent number: 8562754Abstract: A dishwasher includes a tub having a door that provides access to the tub. The door has a handle which extends a top surface of the door beyond a front surface of the door. A touchscreen panel is mounted to the top surface of a door to provide a user interface. The user interface includes a carrousel of icons via which a user may select a wash cycle. The user interface further includes a programmed delay interface via which a user may specify a desired start time and/or stop time for the wash cycle. The user interface may further provide the user with usage guidance to aid the user in the usage of the dishwasher.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2008Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Christopher G. Koch, Sandra C. Steward, Daniel Szecket
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Patent number: 8551256Abstract: A washing machine and a washing control method of the same that is capable of controlling laundry to be effectively washed with bubbles depending upon load of the washing machine and types of the laundry. The washing control method includes detecting the amount of load depending upon the weight of laundry, controlling the amount of wetting water according to the detected amount of load to wet the laundry, and generating bubbles to wash the laundry.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2007Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Bo Ram Lee, Sang Yeon Pyo, Hyun Sook Kim, Sung Hoon Kim, Seong Min Oak
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Patent number: 8533881Abstract: A method for treating laundry in a laundry treating appliance including the application of a lipase solution to the laundry during a cycle of operation.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2009Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Whirpool CorporationInventors: Irene M. Brockman, Kaustav Ghosh
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Patent number: 8528139Abstract: The invention relates to a method of operating a laundry treating appliance having a rotatable drum defining a rotatable treating chamber. The operation of the laundry treating appliance may determine the presence of an over-sudsing condition to execute a biofilm treating cycle based on the presence of the over-sudsing condition determined.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2012Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventor: Anthony H. Hardaway
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Patent number: 8522579Abstract: A clothes washer is provided comprising one or more power consuming functions and a controller in signal communication with an associated utility. The controller can receive and process a signal from the associated utility indicative of current state of an associated utility. The controller operates the clothes washer in one of a plurality of operating modes, including at least a normal operating mode and an energy savings mode in response to the received signal. In the case of a water heating clothes washer containing a heater assembly, the controller is configured to change the power consuming characteristics of the heater assembly to reduce power consumption of the clothes washer in an energy savings mode.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2010Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Jerrod Aaron Kappler
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Patent number: 8510886Abstract: A method for accelerating the wetting of washing in the variable-speed drum of a drum washing machine. A quantity of fresh water is introduced according to the determined quantity of laundry. The drum is driven at intervals and in a reversing manner in successive phases for a first determined length of time at an rpm which is adapted to the washing. The drum is stopped and/or driven at an rpm adapted to the wetting of the washing for a second pre-determined length of time, such that the water is especially effectively distributed over the washing by means of ladling devices located on the drum. The required quantity of washing liquid for the following washing phase is determined once the drum is driven at intervals and in a reversing manner at an rpm adapted to the washing after the second pre-determined length of time has come to an end.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2005Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbHInventors: Ingo Schulze, Gundula Czyzewski
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Patent number: 8505139Abstract: A washer fill system and method supply a suitable minimum amount of water necessary to wash a particular load of laundry based on readings taken from a pressure sensor that measures liquid pressure in the wash tub. Pressure sensor readings are taken intermittently during the fill process to determine when a sufficient amount of free water for washing the load of clothes has accumulated in the tub. This includes pressure readings taken while pulsing the washer motor to spin the wash basket. Other pressure readings may be taken during a pause in filling to measure the water run-off from the wetted clothes above the free water line, and the release of air bubbles from a load portion below the water line. Determining the sufficiency of the amount of wash liquid in the wash tub involves implementation of an algorithm with coefficients determined through regression analyzes, and may include other factors.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2007Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.Inventors: Vicente Marconcin Vanhazebrouck, Marcos Paulo Soares Bittencourt, Marcelo Piekarski, David Irwin Ellingson, Jon Roepke
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Patent number: 8484860Abstract: Disclosed is a clothes treating apparatus, which treats clothes into a more wearable condition. A clothes treating apparatus includes a cabinet; an accommodating space defined in the cabinet to accommodate clothes, and maintained in a stationary state; an air supplying device generating dry air and supplying the dry air into the accommodating space such that the dry air is circulated in the accommodating space, wherein the air supplying device includes an inlet provided at a bottom of the accommodating space such that the air in the accommodating space flows into the air supplying device through the inlet; and a filter assembly installed in the inlet, and filtering the air passing through the inlet.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2008Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jung Wook Moon, Dae Yun Park, Sog Kie Hong, Jong Seok Kim, Seung Gyu Ryu, Hye Yong Park, Chang Gyu Choi, Dong Won Kim
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Patent number: 8468631Abstract: A method for controlling the operation of a laundry treating appliance resting on a floor and having a rotatable drum defining a treating chamber that includes creating an imbalance in the drum, rotating the drum at least one predetermined speed, determining an out of balance parameter, determining a floor parameter of the floor based on the out of balance parameter, and setting at least one operating parameter based on the floor parameter.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2010Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Farshad Farid, Dennis L. Kehl, Kenneth P. Mitera
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Patent number: 8460396Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, machine, and/or device adapted for washing and drying a product via a continuous forward flow of product and a reverse flow of aqueous content. Certain exemplary embodiments can provide an auger, a rotating paddle wheel, a spiral drum, a cylindrical drum, and/or a ram press.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2012Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Eastern Bioplastics, LLCInventors: Cecil E. Meyerhoeffer, Jr., Aaron L. Showalter
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Patent number: 8435311Abstract: A method of collecting soiled textiles to be cleaned, comprising the steps of providing a container having an open end, a closed end, and sides extending therebetween, providing a sling having an open end, a second end, and sides extending therebetween disposed in and supported by said container, providing a water soluble bag having an open end, a closed end, and sides extending therebetween and made of a plastic film having a thickness of at least 1.3 mils, wherein said bag dissolves in water at a temperature of 165° F. in less than about 250 seconds, does not dissolve in water at a temperature of 85° F. in 7 days, being capable of containing at least 175 lbs. of soiled textiles, and having a capacity of at least 50 gallons, wherein said bag is disposed in and supported by said sling, and wherein soiled textiles deposited in said container are contained in said bag.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2010Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: Cintas CorporationInventors: Keith Hartman, David Mesko, Tim Magee, Richard Gerlach
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Patent number: 8424345Abstract: There are provided a conductivity sensor of a washing water, an installation construction of the conductivity sensor, and a method for controlling the washing machine, which are capable of controlling the washing machine by calculating a hardness of a washing water from a measured conductivity of the washing water.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2003Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Yong Suck Park, Young Han Song
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Patent number: 8413279Abstract: A method for deflecting a spray of wash liquid to a desired location in either a drum or tub of a cleaning appliance along different flow paths and/or flow patterns according to the velocity of the wash liquid.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2011Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Jenn-Yeu Nieh, Matthew Craig Parsons, Jon D. Strait, Nyik Siong Wong