Whirlpool Corporation

Whirpool Corporation

James Phillips Carow

Farhad Ashrafzadeh

Shreecharan Kanchanavally

Moeed Mukhtar

Mark Eugene Glotzbach

Sathish Andrea Sundaram

Ryan Robert Bellinger

Jason Randall Savage

Sanjida Tamanna

Jurij Paderno

Layne E Heilman

Michele A Paustian

Paolo Spranzi

Christopher A Jones

Gerald L Kretchman

Thomas Alan Latack

Victor W Cuthbert

David W Carr

Anthony Mason

Christopher J Woerdehoff

David M Williams

Andrew Charles Reck

Shawn Richard Oltz

Joshua Paul Carroll

Steven D Ficke

William Frantz

Francesco Jatta

Eric M Coates

A heater arrangement for a multi-compartment appliance comprises a first heater, a second heater, and a relay. The first heater is disposed within a first airflow path for a first dryer compartment. The second heater is disposed within a second airflow path for a second dryer compartment. The relay interconnects, via an electrical harness, the first and second heaters. The relay, responsive to a demand for heat to the first dryer compartment and the first heater having a temperature being less than a target temperature, diverts power to the first heater.

Heater and control scheme for multi-compartment dryer

A method of drying laundry in a laundry treating appliance having a treating chamber in which the laundry is received for drying comprises moving the treating chamber to redistribute the laundry, supplying air to the treating chamber to define a supply air flow, exhausting the supplied air from the treating chamber to define an exhaust air flow, actuating a heater at full output to heat the air supplied to the treating chamber, turning the heater off, and maintaining a maximum evaporation rate for a duration of time by operating the heater.

Method for drying laundry in a laundry treating appliance

A laundry treating appliance having a rotatable drum defining a laundry treating chamber, where the laundry in the laundry treating chamber may be imaged and a condition of the laundry determined based on the imaging of the laundry. A notification can be provided to a user based on the determined motion condition.

Laundry treating appliance with imaging control

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.

Laundry treating appliance with load surface area detection

Heater and control scheme for multicompartment dryer

A laundry treating appliance and method for controlling the operation of a laundry treating appliance having a rotatable drum at least partially defining a treating chamber for receiving laundry for treatment in accordance with a treating cycle of operation by determining the presence of a bulky laundry item based on image data of the laundry within the treating chamber.

Laundry treating appliance with bulky item detection

A method of drying laundry in a laundry treating appliance having a treating chamber in which the laundry is received for drying comprises moving the treating chamber to redistribute the laundry, supplying air to the treating chamber to define a supply air flow, exhausting the supplied air from the treating chamber to define an exhaust air flow, heating the air supplied to the treating chamber by actuating a heater at full output to define a first heating phase and then cycling the heater ON/OFF to define a second heating phase.

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Saint Joseph, MI, United States of America

James Phillips Carow