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US 2012/0246835 A1Published application
Method and apparatus for forming a counterbalance to an imbalance in a laundry treating appliance
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsFARHAD ASHRAFZADEH, BRIAN P. JANKE, PETER J. RICHMOND, MARCELO CAMPOS SILVA, RODRIGO STANZIOLA TEIXEIRA
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for detecting an imbalance in the laundry load within the treating chamber and forming a counterbalance to the imbalance.
Claims23
A method for operating a laundry treating appliance having a rotating treating chamber for receiving a laundry load formed of multiple articles for treatment, a motor rotating the treating chamber, and a controller operably coupled to the motor to control the rotation of the treating chamber according to a cycle of operation, the method comprising:
- a) rotating the treating chamber at a first rotational speed;
- b) determining a presence of an imbalance in the laundry load;
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- c) forming a counterbalance to the imbalance with a subset of the multiple articles forming the laundry load.
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A laundry treating appliance, comprising:
- a rotatable treating chamber for receiving a laundry load comprising multiple items for treatment;
- a motor operably coupled to the rotatable treating chamber to drivingly rotate the treating chamber;
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- a controller operably coupled to the motor and having an counterbalance formation program in a form of a plurality of executable instructions stored in a memory of the controller to determine a presence of an imbalance in the laundry load, and form a counterbalance to the imbalance with a subset of the multiple articles forming the laundry load.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.