Whirlpool Corporation

Karl David McAllister

Andrew Leitert

Michael T Dalton

Barbara A Balinski

Floyd G Jackson

Tremitchell L Wright

Daniel C Conrad

Kaustav Ghosh

Fredrick E Chernetski

Joel Adam Luckman

Sarah E Ihne

Donald E Erickson

Nicholas E Leep

Daniel Polonsky

Janice M Kaeding

James Andrew Oskins

Michael J Bauman

Yingqin Yuan

David P Goshgarian

Ryan James Van Zoest

Jason Lawrence Barr

Alexander V Minkin

Matthew J Quock

Jamal O Wilson

Amberdeep S Aurora

Amy L Rapson

Brenner Martin Sharp

Jon D Strait

Eric Kenneth Farrington

Hirak Chanda

Brooke Lindsay-Steel Lau

Robert J Pinkowski

Colleen Marie Doyle

Bruce C Beihoff

Dennis L Kehl

Kurt A Estes

Sathish Andrea Sundaram

Donald Mark Tomasi

Kristina K Underly

Thomas Alan Latack

Mark Bradley Kovich

Timothy Nicholas Aykroyd

Robert J Rolek

Vicki Lyn Wyatt

Vicki Lyn Wyatt-Smith

Ali R Buendia

Prithi Rao

Gary J Irving

Thomas E Kubash

Christopher C Deboer

Ld Metcalfe

Cinnamon S Brown-Green

Holli Krumbein

Kenyata Joi Maki

Barbara A Balinksi

A method of operating a laundry treating appliance for treating laundry according to a treating cycle of operation. The laundry treating appliance comprises a treating chamber for receiving the laundry that is selectively accessible through a door movable between opened and closed positions. The method comprises determining at the end of a laundry treating cycle whether the door has been opened and subsequently reclosed and reducing humidity in the treating chamber after the determination that the door has been reclosed.

Controlled moisture removal in a laundry treating appliance

A method of operating a laundry treating appliance having a tub, a rotatable drum at least partially defining a treating chamber, and a treating chemistry dispenser comprising multiple treating chemistry cups configured to dispense treating chemistry to the treating chamber. The method comprises performing a first wash cycle and dispensing a first dose of treating chemistry from one of the treating chemistry cups, receiving at a controller a user selection of an activation of a performance enhancement selector, and upon activation of the performance enhancement selector, activating a second wash cycle comprising dispensing a second dose of treating chemistry from another of treating chemistry cups.

Fabric cleaning appliance with performance enhancement selector

A laundry treating appliance having a treating chamber and a bulk dispenser and a user interface configured to provide an indication to the user related to the bulk chemistry dispenser and a controller coupled with the user interface and the bulk treating chemistry dispenser and configured to execute an operating cycle including controlling the treating chemistry meter to dispense the predetermined amount of treating chemistry and determine a number of doses of treating chemistry available in the bulk treating chemistry dispenser and method of determining the number of doses and the types of a treating chemistry available in the bulk dispensing system, and providing an indication of the determination on a user interface.

Laundry treating apparatus and method of indicating operational information for a bulk dispensing system

A laundry treating appliance having a rotatable basket that defines a treating chamber, a tub for mounting the rotatable basket, a drive assembly mounted to the tub for rotating the basket and a drive motor mounted to the tub for driving the drive assembly. The tub has a lower region comprising a central cavity and a second cavity. The drive assembly is nested in the central cavity and the drive motor is nested in the second cavity for reducing the vertical stack of tub and the motor.

Extended tub for a laundry treating appliance

Method of determining a laundry load size in a laundry treating appliance comprising a rotatable drum at least partially defining a treating chamber for receiving laundry for treatment in accordance with a treating cycle of operation, an imaging device, and a controller having a processor, the method includes generating an image, detecting markings in the generated image, and determining, by the controller, a load size based thereon.

Method of determining a load size in a laundry treating appliance

A method of operating and a laundry treating appliance, including a rotatable drum at least partially defining a treating chamber into which laundry may be placed for treatment according to a cycle of operation, a processor programmed to at least as the laundry is being placed in the treating chamber, at least one of measure, sense, analytically determine, estimate, or receive as an input used to determined a load size. A laundry fill indicator indicates information related to the determined load size.

Method for real time determination during loading of volumetric load size in a laundry treating appliance

A laundry treating appliance having a trating chamber and a bulk dispenser and a user interface configured to provide an indication to the user related to the bulk chemistry dispenser and a controller coupled with the user interface and the bulk treating chemistry dispenser and configured to execute an operating cycle including controlling the treating chemistry meter to dispense the predetermined amount of treating chemistry and determine a number of doses of treating chemistry available in the bulk treating chemistry dispenser and method of determining the number of doses and the types of a treating chemistry available in the bulk dispensing system, and providing an indication of the determination on a user interface.

The laundry treating device has a user interface configured to receive a user selection of a preprogrammed wash cycle. A treating chemistry dispenser has multiple treating chemistry cups configured to dispense treating chemistry to the treating chamber during the selected washing cycle. A controller configured to activate dispensing from each of the treating chemistry cups at preprogrammed times during the wash cycle. A performance enhancement selector configured to receive a user selection such that activation of the performance enhancement selector causes the controller to dispense one of the treating chemistry cups at a different time than the preprogrammed time during the wash cycle.

Laundry treating appliance and indicating operational information for a bulk dispensing system

A method of operating and a laundry treating appliance, including a rotatable drum at least partially defining a treating chamber into which laundry may be placed for treatment according to a cycle of operation, a processor programmed to at least as the laundry is being placed in the treating chamber, at least one of measure, sense, analytically determine, estimate, or receive as an input a first load size of the laundry in the treating chamber to define a determined first load size and select at least one of a color or an intensity corresponding to the determined first load size to define a first light setting.

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Stevensville, MI, United States of America

Karl David McAllister