Water supply control for a steam generator of a fabric treatment appliance using a temperature sensor
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsNYIK SIONG WONG, RAVEENDRAN VAIDHYANATHAN, DENGMING PENG
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Abstract
A fabric treatment appliance comprises a steam generator having a chamber configured to hold water; a supply conduit configured to transport water to the steam generator chamber; a temperature sensor configured to sense a temperature representative of the steam generator chamber at a predetermined water level in the steam generator chamber; and a controller coupled to the temperature sensor and configured to control flow of water through the supply conduit based on the sensed temperature to control the level of water in the steam generator chamber. The disclosure provides methods of water supply control that can employ the temperature sensor.
Claims10
A method of operating a fabric treatment appliance comprising a fabric treatment chamber and a steam generator for supplying steam to the fabric treatment chamber and having a housing defining a chamber configured to hold water, the method comprising:
- determining a temperature representative of the steam generator chamber corresponding to a predetermined water level in the steam generator chamber;
- supplying water to the steam generator based on the determined temperature;
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- generating steam in the steam generator from the supplied water.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.