Laundry treatment device
AssigneeBSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbH
InventorsRainer Dudzik, Rainer Jurmann, Thomas Kaltofen, Martin Schaller
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Abstract
A laundry treatment device includes a housing, a container suspended in the housing in an oscillating manner, and a detecting unit for detecting one of the position and the arrangement of the container in the housing. The detecting unit includes a magnetic field-generator that generates a magnetic field; and a magnetic field detector for detecting a magnetic flux density of the magnet field and for determining a direction of field lines of the magnet field.
Claims27
A laundry treatment device, comprising:
- a housing;
- a container suspended in the housing in an oscillating manner;
- and
- a detecting unit to detect one of the position and the arrangement of the container in the housing, the detecting unit comprising:
- a magnetic field-generator structured to generate a magnetic field;
- and
- a magnetic field detector to determine a magnetic flux density of the magnet field and a direction of field lines of the magnet field,
- wherein the detecting unit is configured to determine spatial coordinates associated with the position and the arrangement of the container based on the determined magnetic flux density and the determined direction of the field lines, and
- wherein a memory unit stores algorithms and/or conversion factors, and a processor is configured to calculate the spatial coordinates as a function of the determined magnetic flux density and the determined direction of field lines in accordance with the stored algorithms and/or conversion factors.
A laundry treatment device, comprising:
- a housing;
- a container in the housing;
- and
- a detecting unit to detect the position and the arrangement of the container relative the housing during a washing procedure, the detecting unit comprising:
- a magnetic field-generator structured to generate a magnetic field and which projects from one of the container and the housing;
- and
- a magnetic field detector to detect a magnetic flux density of the magnetic field and a direction of field lines of the magnetic field,
- and which projects from the other one of the container and the housing;
- and
- stop elements that project beyond the magnetic field detector on one of the container and the fixed component opposite of the container to prevent contact between the magnetic field detector and one of the container and the housing during the washing procedure.
A laundry treatment device, comprising:
- a support structure;
- a container connected to the support structure;
- and
- a detecting unit, the detecting unit comprising:
- a magnetic field-generator structured to generate a magnetic field, and which projects from one of the container and support structure;
- and
- a magnetic field detector to determine a magnetic flux density of the magnetic field and a direction of field lines of the magnetic field, the magnetic field detector being configured to convert the determined magnetic flux density and the determined direction of field lines into electrical signals, the magnetic field detector projecting from the other one of the container and the support structure;
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- a control device configured to determine spatial coordinates associated with a position and an arrangement of the container based on the determined magnetic flux density and the determined direction of the field lines.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.