公开(公告)号：US07543453B2

公开(公告)日：2009-06-09

申请号：US11298789

申请日：2005-12-09

申请人： Patrick J. Boarman ,  Justin A. Woehler

发明人： Patrick J. Boarman ,  Justin A. Woehler

IPC分类号： B67D5/62

CPC分类号： F25D23/126 ,  F25C2400/10 ,  F25C2400/14 ,  F25C2600/04 ,  F25C2700/04 ,  F25D29/00 ,  F25D2400/06 ,  F25D2400/361 ,  F25D2500/04 ,  F25D2600/02 ,  G01F13/006 ,  G01F23/2961 ,  G01F25/0007 ,  G01F25/0092

摘要： A refrigerator with a water dispenser for dispensing water from a source of water through a user accessible water outlet. The water dispenser can include a water valve, a dispensing actuator, and a water dispensing control connected to the water valve and to the dispensing actuator to control operation of the water valve. The water dispenser can include a microcontroller including a user operable calibration routine to determine a calibrated flow rate based on the time to dispense a standard quantity of water, and a non-volatile storage to store the calibrated flow rate. The microcontroller can store the most recent calibrated flow rate in the non-volatile storage. The water dispenser control can include a measured fill mode of operation. The microcontroller can be arranged to calculate a measured fill time to dispense a user selected amount of water based on the calibrated flow rate.

摘要翻译： 带有饮水机的冰箱，用于通过用户可通过的出水口从水源分配水。 饮水机可以包括水阀，分配致动器和连接到水阀和分配致动器以控制水阀的操作的水分配控制器。 饮水机可以包括微控制器，其包括用户可操作的校准程序，以基于分配标准水量的时间来确定校准流量，以及存储校准流量的非易失性存储器。 微控制器可将最新的校准流速存储在非易失性存储器中。 饮水机控制可以包括测量的填充操作模式。 微控制器可以被布置为基于校准的流量来计算测量的填充时间以分配用户选择的水量。