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Clothes dryer fire reduction system
10669668 · 2020-06-02 ·

A clothes dryer apparatus and system that reduces the buildup of electric charges within a dryer drum by introducing ions. The system monitors the voltage within the drum by taking measurements on voltage sensor assembly. The sensor assembly obtains a voltage when two areas of a fabric, or two separate items of the clothing, contact the sensor. If a threshold voltage is obtained, an ion generator introduces cations and anions into the drum of the dryer to neutralize the static charge of the clothing. The reduction of static electricity increases efficiency as the clothing items do not stick together which permits better heat flow and increases safety by reducing the amount of electrical charge within the drum.

WASHING MACHINE CAPABLE OF PERFORMING NORMAL WASHING AND INTENSE WASHING
20200165763 · 2020-05-28 ·

The present disclosure relates to a washing machine capable of performing a normal washing and an intense washing, and includes: a controller in which a plurality of entire washing split regions T obtained by partitioning an entire area of the laundry L on a certain sector basis are stored, and to which a contamination washing split region t corresponding to a contaminated site of the laundry L among the entire washing split regions T is inputted, the contamination washing split region t being subjected to an intense washing; and a washing part including at least one washing nozzle installed to inject the washing water toward each of the entire washing split regions T.

WASHING MACHINE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF
20200131682 · 2020-04-30 · ·

The washing machine includes a tub, a drum, a plurality of balancing units moving along the circumference of a front side or a rear side of the drum in order to reduce imbalance caused by concentration of laundry when the drum rotates, a vibration sensor sensing a vibration amount of the tub, and a controller moving the plurality of balancing units according to the vibration amount of the tub, measured by the vibration sensor. The controller controls a drum motor to rotate the drum at a constant rotation speed, moves the plurality of balancing units in the same rotation direction to minimize the vibration amount of the tub, measured by the vibration sensor, and thereafter moves the plurality of balancing units in different rotation directions to minimize the vibration amount of the tub, measured by the vibration sensor, thereby reducing imbalance.

TIME OPTIMIZATION IN A DEVICE UTILIZING WATER FOR A CLEANING PROCEDURE
20200129041 · 2020-04-30 ·

The present inventive concept relates to a device (500) utilizing water for a group of cleaning procedures, wherein each cleaning procedure (100) in the group of cleaning procedures comprises a plurality of cleaning phases (102, 104, 106, 108) each using cleaning phase water having a substance content with respect to a number of substances, wherein the device (500) comprises a sensor arrangement (554) configured to determine a first substance content (110) with respect to at least one of the number of substances in first cleaning phase water from a first cleaning phase (102) being part of the plurality of cleaning phases (102, 104, 106, 108); wherein the device (500) is configured to end the first cleaning phase (102) if a pre-determined condition related to the first substance content (110) and associated with the first cleaning phase (102) has been met.

LAUNDRY TREATMENT MACHINE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF
20200131683 · 2020-04-30 ·

A laundry treatment machine may include: a tub; a drum that is rotatably disposed in the tub; an actuator that provides power for rotating the drum; and a balancer device that is disposed at an end where the inlet hole of the drum is formed, and adjusts the center of gravity of the drum that is rotating. The balancer device may include: a main balancer that reduces vibration of the drum by moving in the opposite direction to eccentricity that is generated when the drum is rotated; a first sub-balancer of which an arrangement gap from the main balancer is adjusted in accordance with the degree of eccentricity of the drum; and a second sub-balancer of which an arrangement gap from the main balancer is adjusted in the opposite direction of the first sub-balancer with respect to the main balancer.

WATER-BEARING DOMESTIC APPLIANCE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A WATER-BEARING DOMESTIC APPLIANCE

A water-conducting household appliance includes a moving component, an electric motor for moving the component, a load apparatus configured to apply a resistance to counter movement of the component as a function of a position of the moving component, and a control apparatus for actuating the electric motor. The control apparatus is configured to detect a drive current drawn which is drawn by the electric motor and is a function of the resistance applied by the load apparatus and to ascertain the position of the moving component as a function of the detected drive current.

Control method of washing machine

Provided is a control method of a washing machine. The control method of the washing machine including: an unbalanced position detection for detecting an unbalanced position; a balancer selection for determining a baffle plate which requires for water injection; a first water injection for injecting adjusted water to the baffle plate farthest away from the unbalanced position by a water supply valve when water needs to be injected to at least two baffle plates; an unbalance amount detection for detecting a transition of the unbalance amount of the washing tub; and a water injection switching for switching the water injection from the water supply valve to a water supply valve when the unbalance amount detected by the unbalance amount detection has turned to an increase.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WASHING MACHINE AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREFOR
20200109506 · 2020-04-09 ·

A control method of washing machine includes: a first detection step of acquiring amount of laundry accommodated in a washing tub; a first washing step of performing washing based on a first laundry amount, when the first laundry amount acquired in the first detection step is equal to or larger than a preset first threshold value; a second detection step of, acquiring the laundry amount accommodated in the washing tub by an output of an output layer of an artificial neural network while using a current value inputted to a motor for rotating and acceleration of the washing tub as an input data of an input layer of the artificial neural network previously learned by machine learning; and a second washing step of performing washing based on a second laundry amount, when the second laundry amount acquired in the second detection step is smaller than the first threshold value.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WASHING MACHINE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME
20200109504 · 2020-04-09 ·

Disclosed is a method of controlling a washing machine, the method including determining the state of laundry received in a washing tub from output of an output layer of an artificial neural network pre-trained based on machine learning using a current value supplied to a motor configured to rotate the washing tub during accelerated rotation of the washing tub as input data of an input layer of the artificial neural network (a first sensing step), selecting one of a plurality of washing modes classified in consideration of the wear degree of laundry or washing strength based on the state of the laundry, and performing washing according to the selected washing mode (a washing cycle step).

System and method for dynamically adjusting dryer belt speed
10612850 · 2020-04-07 · ·

A dynamically adjustable textile dryer and method of controlling a conveyor belt speed of the textile dryer is provided. The speed of the belt is utilized to more quickly adjust the temperature of the drying chamber.