Laundry treating appliance and method of operation
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsRichard L. Hammond, David Adrian Moelker, Luke John Paul
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Abstract
A laundry treating appliance for treating laundry items according to a cycle of operation includes a chassis defining an interior. A rotatable treating chamber is located within the interior. An antenna is configured to receive RFID data from RFID tags on the laundry items and outputs a signal indicative of the RFID data. A controller receives the signal from the antenna and is configured to process the signal and to suggest, alter, or implement the cycle of operation based on the signal.
Claims10
A method of operating a laundry treating appliance for treating laundry items according to a cycle of operation, the method comprising:
- rotating a rotatable treating chamber containing laundry items having RFID tags;
- receiving, by an antenna, RFID data from the RFID tags on the laundry items;
- processing, by a controller communicably coupled with the antenna, the RFID data to distinguish between RFID tags that are moving and RFID tags that are stationary;
- ignoring RFID data from the stationary RFID tags;
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- suggesting, altering, or implementing the cycle of operation based on the RFID data from the moving RFID tags.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.