Dryer appliance and energy harvesting powered sensor assembly thereof

    公开(公告)号:US12286742B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-04-29

    申请号:US17464077

    申请日:2021-09-01

    Abstract: A dryer appliance and sensor assembly are provided. The sensor assembly may include a sensor housing, an appliance sensor, a wireless transmission tag, and a generator. A magnet rail is statically affixed to a cabinet. The sensor housing may extend within a drum and define a compartment proximate a space for the receipt of clothes. The generator is positioned within the compartment. The drum positions the generator in operable communication with the magnet rail. The appliance sensor may be positioned on the sensor housing. The wireless transmission tag may be positioned within the compartment. The wireless transmission tag may be in communication with the appliance sensor. The wireless tag reader may be in operable communication with the wireless transmission tag.

    Dryer appliance and method for operation

    公开(公告)号:US12270145B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-04-08

    申请号:US17571627

    申请日:2022-01-10

    Abstract: A dryer appliance, a controller, and a method for operation are provided. The controller is configured to execute steps of a method including receiving an input indicative of a drying cycle end time; determining a moisture extraction rate based at least in part on the received input indicative of drying cycle end time, the moisture extraction rate indicative of a rate at which moisture is removed from articles within a chamber of the dryer appliance; determining a rate of change of moisture extraction rate corresponding to the drying cycle end time; and adjusting a condensation rate based at least on the rate of change of moisture extraction rate and the received input indicative of the drying cycle end time.

    Laundry processing apparatus
    15.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12247340B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-03-11

    申请号:US17423725

    申请日:2019-04-05

    Abstract: A laundry processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a drum rotatably disposed in a main body, a drive motor configured to provide rotational power to the drum, a lifter mounted on an inner circumferential surface of the drum, a dryness level sensing device provided in the lifter, a wireless power receiver electrically connected to the dryness level sensing device and provided in the lifter, a wireless power transmitter disposed between the main body and the drum to correspond to the wireless power receiver, and a controller configured to receive a sensing result from the dryness level sensing device and calculate a dryness level based on the received sensing result.

    CLOTHES TREATMENT APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR CLOTHES TREATMENT APPARATUS

    公开(公告)号:US20240295067A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-05

    申请号:US18573150

    申请日:2022-06-21

    CPC classification number: D06F58/38 D06F2103/04 D06F2103/08

    Abstract: The present application relates to a control method for a clothes treatment apparatus, comprising: a laundry amount sensing step of determining the amount of clothes stored in a drum; a setting step of setting, as a reference rotation number, the number of rotations that causes a centrifugal force of less than 1 G to the clothes according to the amount of clothes; an air supply step of supplying, by a drying unit, heated air to the drum; and a first motion execution step of rotating the drum at the reference rotation number, a first rotation number set to be higher than the reference rotation number, and a second rotation number set to be lower than the reference rotation number.

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