Whirlpool Corporation

David John Kmet

Richard A McCoy

Matthew Peter Ebrom

Christopher J Woerdehoff

Joshua Paul Carroll

Ryan Robert Bellinger

David M Williams

Andrew Charles Reck

Peter Richmond

Patrick J Glotzbach

Daniel M Putnam

Andrew D Whipple

Michele A Paustian

Jason P Kachorek

Robert J Feldbruegge

Timothy M Knezic

James Frederick Swanson

Scott D Parde

Joseph M Shaw

Jason W Parker

An apparatus and method for controlling a drying cycle of a laundry treating appliance by monitoring a temperature of the exhaust air flow.

Method to control a drying cycle of a laundry treating appliance

A network control system for an appliance has a software operating layer that is responsive to a plurality of appliance function calls. A physical user interface on the appliance is capable of generating directly some of the appliance function calls. A virtual user interface connected remotely over the network is also configured to invoke some of the appliance function calls. But the virtual user interface can further invoke one or more of the function calls that the physical user interface cannot generate directly.

Software architecture system and method for operating an appliance exposing key press functionality to a network

A method of operating a clothes dryer having a treating chamber for receiving a laundry load, an air system for supplying and exhausting air from the treating chamber, a heating element for heating the air supplied to the treating chamber, and a controller implementing a cycle of operation, wherein the controller estimates a cycle time of a drying cycle of operation.

Laundry treating appliance with controlled cycle time

A method of controlling the operation of a clothes dryer with a moisture sensor having a conductivity circuit with spaced contacts.

Method and apparatus for moisture sensor noise immunity

A method of determining a voltage and phase across an electric heating element in a laundry treating appliance, such as a clothes dryer.

Laundry treating appliance with voltage detection

A network system comprising a system of devices having a plurality of nodes defining a communications network. At least one identifier from a pre-determined group of identifiers is associated with each of the nodes and identifies the functionalities that are applicable to that node or device associated with that node. In one embodiment, at least one of the nodes can transmit the at least one identifier by a message sent over the communications network for receipt by at least one of the nodes to thereby publish the functionalities over the communications network.

Software architecture system and method for communication with, and management of, components within an appliance utilizing functionality identifiers

A household appliance functions according to multiple operating cycles, wherein each operating cycle comprises at least one step characterized by a parameter having a factory-set default value. A user can access a controller of the household appliance through a user interface to simultaneously set new default values for a parameter common to at least two of the multiple operating cycles.

Household appliance with user selected default settings

A data acquisition method comprising looking into a memory heap of event structures having condition parameters of at least one of memory pointers, event operators, and arguments; identifying event conditions that evaluate as true by evaluating the condition parameters for the even structures; and generating a notification message when a true condition is found.

Data acquisition method with event notification for an appliance

A system comprising a memory heap generated dynamically by useful software and a data acquisition engine. The memory heap comprises a plurality of event structures, each including at least one each of pointers into memory external to the event structure, event operators, and arguments. The data acquisition engine is configured to look into the memory heap, evaluate event conditions as true or false based on the at least one each of the pointers, operators, and arguments, and generate a notification message when a true condition is found.

Event notification system for an appliance

A method of drying clothes in a clothes dryer comprising a clothes chamber for receiving clothes, an air supply system for directing air through the clothes chamber, and a heater for heating the air supplied by the air supply system. The method comprises cycling the heater between an ON state by energizing the heater until a heater trip condition is met and an OFF state by deenergizing the heater until a heater reset condition is met, determining a heater off time by determining the time between the heater trip condition and the heater reset condition, and determining a drying time based on the heater off time.

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Paw Paw, MI, United States of America

David John Kmet