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US 2017/0248926 A1Published application
Home appliance and method of operating a home appliance
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsDARRYL C. BODINE, DONALD E. ERICKSON, MICHELLE K. FLACHS, TERRY K. LITAKER, CHRIS W. PARASKEVOPOULOS, SCOTT ALBRIGHT, ROBERT BLAKE
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Abstract
A home appliance for treating an article according to an automatic cycle of operation, includes a treating chamber having an open face, a door for closing the open face of the treating chamber, two or more sensors on a housing of the home appliance, an actuator operably coupled with the door to move the door from a closed position of the door to an opened position of the door, and a controller.
Claims16
A home appliance for treating an article according to an automatic cycle of operation, comprising:
- a treating chamber having an open face;
- a door for slidably closing the open face of the treating chamber in a vertical direction;
- two or more sensors vertically arranged on a housing of the home appliance, at least a first of the two or more sensors disposed vertically above or vertically below a second of the two or more sensors;
- an actuator operably coupled with the door to vertically move the door from a closed position of the door to an opened position of the door;
- and
- a controller for controlling operation of the home appliance and wherein the controller is configured to:
- receive a first signal from the first of the two or more sensors;
- receive a subsequent signal from the second of the two or more sensors;
- determine that a predetermined gesture in a vertical direction has been made by a user based on the received signals;
- and
- actuate the actuator to slide the door vertically.
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