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US 5,241,845 AGranted
Neurocontrol for washing machines
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsOsamu Ishibashi, Hirokazu Hasegawa
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Abstract
A fully automatic washing machine includes a detector for detecting a cloth volume, cloth type, soil degree and soil type in regard to clothes contained in a wash tub. A control device calculates a wash water stream in a wash step and a period of the wash step in the washing operation by a neurocontrol in which data of the cloth volume, the cloth type, soil degree and soil type are supplied to a neural network as input data. The neurocontrol is compensated for in accordance with the turbidity of a wash liquid detected at the time of completion of the wash step.
Claims10
A washing machine comprising:
- a) a sensor means for sensing states of clothes to be washed or the like, the states of clothing including a cloth condition including a cloth volume and a soil condition including a soil degree;
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- b) control means including a neural network to which data from the sensor means is input so that a wash period of a wash step of the washing operation is determined under a neurocontrol and the wash step is executed, the control means being provided with a function of causing the neural network to execute relearning so that contents of the wash step to be executed are compensated for in accordance with a degree of cleaning of the clothes at the time of completion of the wash step.
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