Method of controlling automatic door opening/closing apparatus for a washing machine
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorSsi Chol Choi
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Abstract
There is disclosed a method of controlling an automatic door opening/closing apparatus for a washing machine that includes the steps of determining whether or not there is an error in an automatic door opening or closing operation carried out in response to a command to open or close the washing machine's door; determining if the erroneous operation has been repeated more than a predetermined number of times according to consecutive incoming commands to open or close the door; and when erroneous operation has repeated more than the predetermined number of times, ignoring a subsequent command to open or close the door.
Claims9
A method of controlling an automatic door opening/closing apparatus for a washing machine door, the method comprising the steps of:
- determining whether or not there is an error in an automatic door opening or closing operation which operation is carried out in response to a command to open or close the washing machine door;
- determining if the erroneous operation is repeated more than a predetermined number of times according to consecutive incoming commands to open or close the washing machine door;
- and
- in the event that the erroneous operation is repeated more than the predetermined number of times, ignoring a subsequent command to open or close the washing machine door.
A method for controlling the operation of an automatic door mechanism in a washing machine, said method comprising the steps of:
- sensing a command to automatically open or close a washing machine door;
- sensing whether a failure occurs in opening or closing the door in response to the command to automatically open or close the door;
- incrementing a counter indicating the failure;
- determining whether the counter is equal to a predetermined number;
- and
- failing to engage the automatic door mechanism in response to a subsequent a command to automatically open or close the door if the counter exceeds the predetermined number.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.