公开(公告)号：US11905644B2

公开(公告)日：2024-02-20

申请号：US18124298

申请日：2023-03-21

Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION

Inventor： Roy E. Masters

IPC: D06F58/30 ,  D06F29/00 ,  D06F58/26 ,  D06F33/32 ,  D06F34/26 ,  D06F103/08 ,  D06F103/38 ,  D06F103/12 ,  D06F58/38 ,  D06F103/34 ,  D06F103/32 ,  D06F105/56

CPC classification number: D06F58/30 ,  D06F29/005 ,  D06F33/32 ,  D06F34/26 ,  D06F58/26 ,  D06F58/38 ,  D06F2103/08 ,  D06F2103/12 ,  D06F2103/32 ,  D06F2103/34 ,  D06F2103/38 ,  D06F2105/56

Abstract: A laundry treating appliance for treating laundry according to an automatic cycle of operation includes a cabinet defining a cabinet interior. A drum is rotatable within the cabinet interior, and at least partially defines a treating chamber. The treating chamber has a treating chamber air inlet and a treating chamber air outlet. A drying air circuit is fluidly coupled to the treating chamber air inlet and to the treating chamber air outlet. The laundry treating appliance can include first and second air temperature sensors, at least a first humidity sensor, and a controller operably coupled with the sensors.

公开(公告)号：US11692301B2

公开(公告)日：2023-07-04

申请号：US17072661

申请日：2020-10-16

Applicant: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.

Inventor： Khalid Jamal Mashal ,  Nemetalla Salameh ,  Juan Manuel Huerta

IPC: D06F58/52 ,  D06F34/18 ,  D06F34/04 ,  D06F103/04 ,  D06F105/58 ,  D06F105/62 ,  D06F103/06 ,  D06F103/26 ,  D06F103/36 ,  D06F103/08

CPC classification number: D06F58/52 ,  D06F34/04 ,  D06F34/18 ,  D06F2103/04 ,  D06F2103/06 ,  D06F2103/08 ,  D06F2103/26 ,  D06F2103/36 ,  D06F2105/58 ,  D06F2105/62

Abstract: A dryer appliance includes a microphone for monitoring sound generated during operation of the dryer appliance and a controller is operably coupled to the microphone. The controller is configured for obtaining a sound signal generated during operation of the dryer appliance and converting the sound signal into a spectrogram that represents a sound frequency and a sound amplitude over time. An artificial intelligence image recognition process is used to analyze the spectrogram to identify one or more sound signatures that are associated with particular operating conditions, and operation of the dryer appliance is adjusted based at least in part on the identification of the sound signature.

公开(公告)号：US11585032B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-21

申请号：US16832027

申请日：2020-03-27

Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION

Inventor： Roy E. Masters ,  Arun Rajendran

IPC: D06F29/00 ,  D06F58/30 ,  D06F58/24 ,  D06F103/08 ,  D06F58/20

Abstract: A method of operating a laundry treating appliance having a drum, and an air conduit fluidly coupled to the drum, with a heat source associated with the air conduit, includes moving air through an air conduit to the drum; heating the moving air by operating the heat source; and introducing atomized liquid into the air conduit upstream of the heat source.

公开(公告)号：US11408116B2

公开(公告)日：2022-08-09

申请号：US16135065

申请日：2018-09-19

Applicant: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.

Inventor： David Scott Dunn ,  James Quentin Pollett

IPC: D06F58/30 ,  D06F58/24 ,  D06F58/20 ,  D06F58/38 ,  D06F103/08

Abstract: A method of operating a dryer appliance includes directing a flow of hot dry air into a chamber defined within a drum of the dryer appliance. The method also includes receiving a signal indicative of an atmospheric condition external to the dryer appliance and determining whether the indicated atmospheric condition is less than a threshold. The method may further include directing a flow of air from the chamber to an interior space when the indicated atmospheric condition external to the dryer is less than the threshold, and activating a component of an environmental control system in communication with the interior space when the indicated atmospheric condition of the ambient environment external to the dryer is less than the threshold.

公开(公告)号：US11384467B2

公开(公告)日：2022-07-12

申请号：US16318096

申请日：2017-07-11

Applicant: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA

Inventor： Arnd Kessler ,  Christian Nitsch ,  Lars Zuechner ,  Georg Wawer ,  Alexander Mueller

IPC: D06F34/18 ,  D06F93/00 ,  D06F103/02 ,  D06F103/12 ,  D06F103/64 ,  D06F105/58 ,  D06F103/08 ,  D06F103/26 ,  D06F103/38 ,  D06F103/06

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and to a textile piece device which allows storing and/or monitoring the load on a textile piece during one or more treatment cycles.

公开(公告)号：US11359330B2

公开(公告)日：2022-06-14

申请号：US17134643

申请日：2020-12-28

Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION

Inventor： Andrew Adkins ,  Alexander Halbleib

IPC: D06F58/38 ,  D06F34/30 ,  D06F58/20 ,  D06F103/08 ,  D06F103/38 ,  D06F105/28 ,  D06F105/58 ,  D06F105/62 ,  D06F34/32

Abstract: A method of controlling the clothes dryer includes offering one or more preset dryness levels that may be selected using a programmable dryness level selector to establish a drying cycle. Each of the preset dryness levels may correspond to a stored remaining moisture content. The method additionally includes sensing a remaining moisture content of a load of fabric in the clothes dryer and displaying the remaining moisture content of the load of fabric to a user. The method further includes automatically stopping the clothes dryer using a controller configured to determine when the remaining moisture content of the load of fabric reaches the selected preset dryness level. The one or more preset dryness levels may be customizable by saving a target remaining moisture content for each preset dryness level.

公开(公告)号：US20220081825A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-17

申请号：US17532063

申请日：2021-11-22

Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION

Inventor： Barbara A. BALINSKI ,  Floyd G. JACKSON ,  Karl David McALLISTER

IPC: D06F39/04 ,  D06F58/38 ,  D06F103/02 ,  D06F105/12 ,  D06F103/36 ,  D06F25/00 ,  D06F103/08 ,  D06F101/00 ,  D06F105/30 ,  D06F105/22 ,  D06F103/40 ,  D06F34/18 ,  D06F105/24 ,  D06F34/20 ,  D06F105/28

Abstract: A method of operating a laundry treating appliance for treating laundry according to a treating cycle of operation. The laundry treating appliance comprises a treating chamber for receiving the laundry that is selectively accessible through a door movable between opened and closed positions. The method comprises determining at the end of a laundry treating cycle whether the door has been opened and subsequently reclosed and reducing humidity in the treating chamber after the determination that the door has been reclosed.

公开(公告)号：US11208755B2

公开(公告)日：2021-12-28

申请号：US16845183

申请日：2020-04-10

Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION

Inventor： Barbara A. Balinski ,  Floyd G. Jackson ,  Karl David McAllister

IPC: D06F25/00 ,  D06F34/18 ,  D06F34/20 ,  D06F39/04 ,  D06F58/38 ,  D06F103/08 ,  D06F103/36 ,  D06F105/24 ,  D06F103/02 ,  D06F103/40 ,  D06F105/12 ,  D06F105/22 ,  D06F105/28 ,  D06F105/30 ,  D06F101/00

Abstract: A method of operating a laundry treating appliance for treating laundry according to a treating cycle of operation. The laundry treating appliance comprises a treating chamber for receiving the laundry that is selectively accessible through a door movable between opened and closed positions. The method comprises determining at the end of a laundry treating cycle whether the door has been opened and subsequently reclosed and reducing humidity in the treating chamber after the determination that the door has been reclosed.

公开(公告)号：US11150676B2

公开(公告)日：2021-10-19

申请号：US16562246

申请日：2019-09-05

Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.

Inventor： Hyo Sung Lee

IPC: G05D23/19 ,  G05B13/02 ,  D06F58/30 ,  H04W84/04 ,  H04L29/08 ,  F24F130/10 ,  D06F58/38 ,  D06F101/00 ,  D06F103/08

Abstract: A clothes treating apparatus which controls a temperature of clothes and an operating time by executing an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm and/or a machine learning algorithm in a 5G environment connected for Internet of Things and an operating method of the clothes treating apparatus are provided. The clothes treating apparatus includes a communicator, a controller, a memory, a storage space, a temperature sensor, a temperature adjuster, and a fan. The communicator collects weather information and operation information of at least one connected device. Further, the communicator collects activity information or biometric information of the user from a portable terminal, a wearable device, or a vehicle. A user's preferred clothing temperature is derived by using clustering, deep learning, and reinforcement learning of the collected information, and the temperature of the clothes is adjusted based on the derived target temperature.

公开(公告)号：US11008697B2

公开(公告)日：2021-05-18

申请号：US16586857

申请日：2019-09-27

Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION

Inventor： Roy E. Masters

IPC: D06F58/30 ,  D06F29/00 ,  D06F58/26 ,  D06F58/38 ,  D06F103/08 ,  D06F103/12 ,  D06F103/38

Abstract: A laundry treating appliance for treating laundry according to an automatic cycle of operation includes a cabinet defining a cabinet interior. A drum is rotatable within the cabinet interior, and at least partially defines a treating chamber. The treating chamber has a treating chamber air inlet and a treating chamber air outlet. A drying air circuit is fluidly coupled to the treating chamber air inlet and to the treating chamber air outlet. The laundry treating appliance can include first and second air temperature sensors, at least a first humidity sensor, and a controller operably coupled with the sensors.