Whirlpool Corporation

David M Williams

Ryan Robert Bellinger

David John Kmet

Christopher J Woerdehoff

Richard A McCoy

Michele A Paustian

James Phillips Carow

Jason P Kachorek

Grant J Devilbiss

Jason W Parker

Scott D Parde

Joseph M Shaw

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 message architecture is provided for use in a communications network for an appliance having at least one component and further enabled to communicate information about the at least one component. The message architecture includes first and second identifiers where the first identifier identifies the form of the second identifier and the second identifier identifies at least one component in the appliance.

Message architecture for an appliance communications network

An appliance has at least two components and an internal communications network. A first component is in communication with the network and the second component is not. But the first component is configured to communicate service information related to the second component over the internal communications network. The service information will include one or more identifiers.

Communication of service information by appliance components

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 for operating a laundry treating appliance, such as a clothes dryer, having a treating chamber, an air system for supplying and exiting air from the treating chamber, a heating element for heating the air to the treating chamber, and a controller determining an inlet temperature used as a control input for a cycle of operation.

Laundry treating appliance with inlet temperature compensation

A method for determining an empty load in a clothes dryer having a drying chamber with an air inlet, an air outlet and operable according to a predetermined cycle of operation.

Method to detect an empty load in a clothes dryer

A method for determining an end of cycle in a clothes dryer having a drying chamber with an air inlet, an air outlet and operable according to a predetermined cycle of operation.

Method to detect an end of cycle in a clothes dryer

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

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Saint Joseph, MI, United States of America

David M Williams