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US 11,686,041 B2Granted
Appliance with reliable information of a drying cycle
AssigneeElectrolux Appliances Aktiebolag
InventorsFederico Del Maschio, Giorgio Pattarello
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Abstract
An appliance having a drying chamber for performing a drying cycle, a capacitive sensing arrangement within the drying chamber and configured to generate an electric signal indicative of a degree of humidity of a load contained in the drying chamber, and a control unit arranged for carrying out at least one among: estimating a mass of the load; estimating a residual humidity of the load; estimating a residual time to the end of the drying cycle, and detecting an end of the drying cycle according to the electric signal.
Claims3
An appliance comprising:
- a drying chamber for performing a drying cycle,
- a capacitive sensing arrangement located within the drying chamber and configured to generate an electric signal indicative of a degree of humidity of a load contained in the drying chamber, and
- a control unit configured to receive the electric signal, and according to the electric signal to, estimate a mass of the load,
- wherein the capacitive sensing arrangement comprises at least one electrically conductive pad on an operating support, each electrically conductive pad being adapted to operate as a respective plate of a capacitor.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.