Laundry treating appliance with inlet temperature compensation
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsRyan R. Bellinger, James P. Carow, Michele A. Paustian, David M. Williams
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Abstract
A method for operating a laundry treating appliance, such as a clothes dryer, having a treating chamber, an air system for supplying and exiting air from the treating chamber, a heating element for heating the air to the treating chamber, and a controller determining an inlet temperature used as a control input for a cycle of operation.
Claims23
A method of operating a clothes dryer having a treating chamber, an air system having a supply conduit to supply air to and an exhaust conduit to exhaust air from the treating chamber, a heating element for heating the air supplied to the treating chamber, and a controller controlling the operation of the air system and the heating element to effect a drying of laundry in the treating chamber as part of implementing a cycle of operation, the method comprising:
- sensing a voltage applied to the heating element;
- providing the voltage as input to the controller;
- sensing a temperature of the supply air in the supply conduit to define an inlet temperature;
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- providing the inlet temperature to the controller;
- wherein the controller determines a compensated inlet temperature based on the inlet temperature and the heater voltage and alters the cycle of operation effecting a drying of the laundry in the treating chamber based on the compensated inlet temperature.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.