Laundry treating appliance and method of filling a laundry treating appliance with liquid
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsBrian P. Janke, Stephen L. Keres
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Abstract
A laundry treating appliance having a tub, a drum located within the tub and at least partially defining a treating chamber in which laundry may be received for treatment according to an automatic cycle of operation and a liquid supply system for introducing liquid thereto and a method for filling the laundry treating appliance including supplying liquid, determining a load inertia value and stopping the supply of liquid based thereon.
Claims19
A method of filling a laundry treating appliance with liquid where the laundry treating appliance includes a tub, a drum located within the tub and at least partially defining a treating chamber in which laundry may be received for treatment according to an automatic cycle of operation, and a liquid supply system for introducing liquid into one of the drum and tub, the method comprising:
- supply liquid from the liquid supply system to wet a laundry load located within the drum;
- repeatedly determine, by the controller, a load inertia value while wetting the laundry load to define a set of load inertia values;
- determine, by the controller, a rate of change over time of the load inertia values;
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- stop the supply of liquid when the determined rate of change satisfies a predetermined threshold indicative of the laundry load being saturated.
The method of claim wherein the indirect measurement is a voltage value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.