Method of determining fabric type of a laundry load in a laundry treating appliance
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsHirak Chanda, Kaustav Ghosh, Andrew J. Leitert, Karl David McAllister, Amy L. Rapson, Jon D. Strait, Yingqin Yuan
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Abstract
A method of determining a fabric type for a laundry load can include comparing the density of the laundry load in a first wetted state, which may be a dry state or a partially saturated state, to the density of the laundry load in a second wetted state, which may be a partially saturated, fully saturated, or beyond fully saturated state, and determining a fabric type based on the comparison.
Claims20
A method of determining a fabric type for a laundry load located within a treating chamber defined by a rotatable drum of a laundry treating appliance configured to treat the laundry according to an automatic cycle of operation, the method comprising:
- determining a density of the laundry load in a first wetted state to define a first density;
- determining a density of the laundry load in a second wetted state to define a second density;
- comparing the first density and the second density;
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- determining a fabric type based on the comparison.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.