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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2016
Electrolux Appliances Aktiebolag, Stockholm, SE;
Daniele Favaro, Porcia PN, IT;
Maurizio Del Pos, Porcia PN, IT;
Giorgio Carrer, Collegno TO, IT;
Enzo Brignone, Dronero CN, IT;
ELECTROLUX APPLIANCES AKTIEBOLAG, Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
A laundry washing machine having an outer casing, a washing tub, a rotatable drum, a detergent dispenser, a fresh-water supply circuit, an internal water softening device filled with a water softening agent capable of reducing the hardness degree of the fresh water directed towards the detergent dispenser or the washing tub, a regeneration-agent reservoir located/recessed inside the outer casing and structured for being manually fillable with consumable salt or other regeneration agent, a first water-supply line for channeling fresh water into said regeneration-agent reservoir so as to form brine, a brine reservoir fluidically connected to said regeneration-agent reservoir for receiving and accumulating the brine arriving from said regeneration-agent reservoir, and a detector assembly for detecting when the salinity degree of the brine stored into brine reservoir exceeds a predetermined minimum salinity value.