A method and system for setting parameters of a treatment cycle in a household appliance is provided. First a model establishing a relationship between sets of configuration parameter values of achievable treatment performance is obtained. Then a target treatment performance for the treatment cycle is obtained. Values for a subset of a configuration parameter are fixed, the subset comprising at most all configuration parameters but a remaining configuration parameter. Then, a value for the remaining configuration parameter is determined. For this value, a difference between the target treatment performance and an achievable treatment performance predicted by the model using said value is below a predetermined threshold. Finally, the parameters of the treatment cycle, which can be setting parameters of the treatment cycle in the household appliance are output. The parameters comprise the determined value and the fixed values.

A dryer appliance includes a drum rotatably mounted within a cabinet for receiving a load of clothes during a drying cycle. A temperature sensor measures a temperature of air circulated through the drum and a controller obtains a remaining moisture content of the load of clothes from a washing machine appliance, obtains a measured air temperature using the temperature sensor, determines a restriction level of a vent based at least in part on the measured air temperature, and adjusts at least one operating parameter of the dryer appliance based at least in part on the remaining moisture content and the restriction level.

The present disclosure relates to a laundry dryer control method comprising: a sterilizing and drying step of increasing the internal temperature of a cabinet for sterilization; a steam-washing step of supplying steam into a drum, in order to sterilize the drum, after the sterilizing and drying step; and a blowing step of circulating the air inside the drum after the steam-washing step, and thus the temperature of the drum is controlled so as to be greater than or equal to a reference temperature at which sterilization is performed so that the drum is sterilized.

A drying apparatus including a drying unit and a processor configured to control an operation of the drying unit. The processor is configured to, based on a drying request being received, identify whether the drying request is an initial drying command for a material to be dried or an additional drying request for the material to be dried, and based on the drying request being identified as the additional drying command, control the drying unit to perform an additional drying operation for the material to be dried based on a drying operation method corresponding to a previous drying command for the material to be dried.

A dryer appliance may include a cabinet, a drum, a heater assembly, a temperature sensor, and a controller. The heater assembly may be in upstream fluid communication with a drying chamber. The temperature sensor may be in upstream fluid communication with the drying chamber. The controller may be in operable communication with the heater assembly and the temperature sensor. The controller may be configured to initiate a test cycle. The test cycle may include activating the heater assembly, detecting a first temperature upstream of the drum at a first moment following activating the heater assembly, detecting a second temperature upstream of the drum at a second moment following the first moment, determining a temperature delta as a difference between the second temperature and the first temperature, comparing the temperature delta to a delta threshold, and initiating an alert message based on comparing the temperature delta to the delta threshold.

A dryer includes a dehumidification filter containing a temperature responsive material with an upper critical solution temperature, a fan sending gas through the dehumidification filter, a heater heating the dehumidification filter, and a controller controlling the fan and the heater and switching an operation mode of the fan and the heater between a drying mode and a regeneration mode, wherein, in the drying mode, an object to be dried is dried with the fan sending the gas through the dehumidification filter that is heated by the heater to temperature higher than or equal to the upper critical solution temperature, and in the regeneration mode, the dehumidification filter is regenerated with the fan sending the gas through the dehumidification filter at temperature lower than the upper critical solution temperature.

A laundry appliance is configured for and/or methods of operating a laundry appliance include determining a load size of articles to be dried in the laundry appliance and determining a load type of the articles to be dried in the laundry appliance. A termination criterion for a dry operation of the laundry appliance is determined based on the load size and the load type. The laundry appliance is further configured for and/or the method further includes performing the dry operation in the laundry appliance. The dry operation is terminated when the termination criterion is reached.

The present invention relates to a flexible waterproofing/impregnation and drying de-vice and a method of drying items that have undergone a solvent-based or water-based waterproofing/impregnation process. The flexible waterproofing/impregnation and dry-ing device is configured with inlets for waterproofing/impregnation fluid for water-proofing/impregnating items and one or more heat generating units for effective drying of items, said items being for example clothes, shoes, bags, purses, blankets and garments.

The invention relates to a laundry treating appliance and method for controlling the operation of the laundry treating appliance by determining the surface area of the laundry based on image data of the laundry.

An information processing method includes: selecting M blocks as M selected blocks from among N blocks for driving at least one of an actuator or a heater included in an apparatus, in accordance with an input operation performed by an operator; generating an application by setting, in accordance with an input operation performed by the operator, a parameter for driving the actuator or the heater in each of the M selected blocks; consulting a rule defining a parameter range within which the above-described driving is not permitted, and modifying the application by changing at least one of the M selected blocks, the at least one of the M selected blocks including a parameter included in the parameter range; and outputting the modified application.