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US 2017/0256942 A1Published application
Appliance control unit with arranged control switches
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsAli Sarikhani, Maciej Tubielewicz
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AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsAli Sarikhani, Maciej Tubielewicz
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An appliance for treating at least one item according to a cycle of operation and configured to receive power from a power source having an AC voltage line and a neutral line includes a treating chamber for receiving the item and a central control unit to control independent electrical loads associated with the cycle of operation. The central control unit includes a plurality of parallel controlled master switches in the AC voltage line and a plurality of parallel controlled slave switches in the neutral line. The master and slave switches define a number of independent loads equal to the number of the master switches multiplied by the number of the slave switches.
An appliance for treating at least one item according to a cycle of operation and configured to receive power from a power source having an AC voltage line and a neutral line, the household appliance comprising:
A control unit for an appliance that requires independent electrical loads associated with a cycle of operation, comprising:
A method of determining a number of switches needed to control a cycle of operation in an appliance configured to receive power from a power source having an AC voltage line and a neutral line, the method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.