Operating a domestic steam-treatment appliance, and domestic steam-treatment appliance
AssigneeBSH Hausgeräte GmbH
InventorsDieter Lego, Martin Nagel, Gilles Patrick Tiodong Nongni, Benjamin Wagner
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Abstract
In a method for operating a household steam treatment appliance which includes an evaporator with a heatable water holding chamber and a fill level sensor with at least two measurement electrodes, which are disposed over one another at a distance from each other in the heatable water holding chamber, a water detection measured value provided for indicating wetting of the at least two measurement electrodes with water introduced into the water holding chamber is adapted in an adaptation process to an electrical conductivity of the water in the water holding chamber.
Claims15
A method for operating a household steam treatment appliance including an evaporator with a heatable water holding chamber and a fill level sensor with at least two measurement electrodes, which are disposed over one another at a distance from each other in the heatable water holding chamber, said method comprising:
- adapting in an adaptation process a water detection measured value provided for indicating wetting of the at least two measurement electrodes with water introduced into the water holding chamber to an electrical conductivity of the water in the water holding chamber, wherein the adaptation process comprises the steps of:
- (a) setting the water detection measured value at a predetermined minimum value,
- (b) filling the water holding chamber with water, until a minimum value is reached or exceeded,
- (c) heating the water in the water holding chamber to a boiling point;
- (d) determining by the fill level sensor a measured value corresponding to a current flowing between the at least two measurement electrodes, and
- (e) adapting the water detection measured value using the measured value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.