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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2017
Applicant:
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Inventors:
Colleen M. Doyle, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Michael S. Hendrickson, Owasso, MI (US);
Joel A. Luckman, Stevensville, MI (US);
Assignee:
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 39/02 (2006.01); D06F 33/02 (2006.01); D06F 35/00 (2006.01); D06F 39/00 (2006.01); D06F 37/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 39/022 (2013.01); D06F 33/02 (2013.01); D06F 35/005 (2013.01); D06F 37/12 (2013.01); D06F 39/005 (2013.01); D06F 39/02 (2013.01); D06F 39/026 (2013.01); D06F 39/028 (2013.01); D06F 2202/02 (2013.01); D06F 2204/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
In a household cleaning appliance configured to execute a cleaning cycle on an article, having a non-bulk dispensing system that stores a single dose of treating chemistry that the dispensing system dispenses to the treating chamber in total as part of the execution of the cleaning cycle, the method includes adding bulk dispensing functionality to the non-bulk dispensing system for operating the dispensing system as a bulk dispensing system.