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US 12,668,906 B2Granted
Hardware detection and cycle behavior modification in laundry appliance applications
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsAndrew Adkins, Gregory R. Fulmer, Eric W. Merrow, Thomas D. Spicer
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Abstract
Hardware detection in a laundry treatment appliance is provided. Data is received from the sensor providing data in relation to presence or absence of a removable agitator within the laundry treatment appliance. A configuration of the removable agitator with respect to the laundry treatment appliance is identified based on the data from the sensor, the configuration indicating at least the presence or absence of the removable agitator. Settings of the laundry treatment appliance are updated in accordance with the identified configuration of the laundry treatment appliance.
Claims20
A method for hardware detection in a laundry treatment appliance, comprising:
- receiving, from a sensor, data in relation to presence or absence of a removable agitator within the laundry treatment appliance;
- maintaining, in a memory, parameters for one or more cycles of operation of the laundry treatment appliance;
- identifying a configuration of the removable agitator with respect to the laundry treatment appliance based on the data from the sensor, the configuration indicating at least the presence or absence of the removable agitator and, if present, a type of the removable agitator;
- updating settings of the laundry treatment appliance in accordance with the identified configuration of the laundry treatment appliance, including retrieving, from the memory, parameters for a cycle of operation of the one or more cycles of operation, and altering one or more aspects of the parameters based on the identified configuration, the aspects including one or more of cycle time or agitation speed;
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- performing the cycle of operation using the updated settings.
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A method for hardware detection in a laundry treatment appliance, comprising:
- receiving, from a sensor, data in relation to presence or absence of a removable agitator within the laundry treatment appliance and regarding aspects of operation of the laundry treatment appliance;
- maintaining, in a memory, parameters for one or more cycles of operation of the laundry treatment appliance;
- identifying a configuration of the removable agitator with respect to the laundry treatment appliance based on the data from the sensor, the configuration indicating at least the presence or absence of the removable agitator and, if present, a type of the removable agitator;
- updating settings of the laundry treatment appliance in accordance with the identified configuration of the laundry treatment appliance, including retrieving, from the memory, parameters for a cycle of operation of the one or more cycles of operation, and altering one or more aspects of the parameters based on the identified configuration, the aspects including one or more of cycle time or agitation speed;
- performing the cycle of operation using the updated settings;
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- monitoring aspects of the operation of the laundry treatment appliance when performing the cycle using the data from the sensor.
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A method for hardware detection in a laundry treatment appliance, comprising:
- receiving, from a sensor, data in relation to presence or absence of removable agitators within the laundry treatment appliance;
- maintaining, in a memory, parameters for one or more cycles of operation of the laundry treatment appliance;
- identifying a first configuration indicating presence of a first type of removable agitator based on the data from the sensor;
- updating settings of the laundry treatment appliance to first updated settings in accordance with the identified first configuration of the laundry treatment appliance, including retrieving, from the memory, parameters for a cycle of operation of the one or more cycles of operation, and altering one or more aspects of the parameters based on the identified first configuration, the aspects including one or more of cycle time or agitation speed;
- performing the cycle of operation using the first updated settings;
- identifying a second configuration indicating presence of a second type of removable agitator based on the data from the sensor;
- updating the settings of the laundry treatment appliance to second updated settings in accordance with the identified second configuration of the laundry treatment appliance, including retrieving, from the memory, second parameters for a second cycle of operation of the one or more cycles of operation, and altering one or more aspects of the second parameters based on the identified second configuration, the aspects including one or more of cycle time or agitation speed;
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- performing the second cycle of operation using the second updated settings.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.