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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2015
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Christopher L. Borlin, Saint Joseph, MI (US);
Brian P. Janke, Saint Joseph, MI (US);
Joseph M. Keres, Stevensville, MI (US);
Stephen L. Keres, Stevensville, MI (US);
Guilherme Bencke Teixeira Da Silva, Joinville, BR;
Adrian A. Rodriguez, Saint Joseph, MI (US);
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Abstract
Methods of reducing a likelihood of contact between a rotating laundry-container, such as a basket or drum, located within a tub of a laundry treating appliance where the method includes rotating the drum during a measurement period, determining a torque, speed, acceleration, and position of the drum, using a parameter estimator to estimate the position of a mass relative to an imbalance of laundry and accelerating the rotation of the drum when the mass is determined to be angularly spaced from the relative position of the imbalance of laundry.