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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2024

Filed:

Jun. 12, 2020
Applicant:

Electrolux Appliances Aktiebolag, Stockholm, SE;

Inventor:

Antonio Chiriatti, Schorndorf, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 37/22 (2006.01); D06F 23/02 (2006.01); D06F 33/48 (2020.01); D06F 33/76 (2020.01); D06F 34/10 (2020.01); D06F 34/16 (2020.01); D06F 37/24 (2006.01); D06F 103/24 (2020.01); D06F 103/26 (2020.01); H01F 38/14 (2006.01); H02J 50/10 (2016.01); H02J 50/40 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 37/22 (2013.01); D06F 23/02 (2013.01); D06F 33/48 (2020.02); D06F 33/76 (2020.02); D06F 34/10 (2020.02); D06F 34/16 (2020.02); D06F 37/24 (2013.01); D06F 2103/24 (2020.02); D06F 2103/26 (2020.02); H01F 38/14 (2013.01); H02J 50/10 (2016.02); H02J 50/40 (2016.02);
Abstract

A laundry treating appliance having a tub, rotatable drum, at least one transmitter coil, at least one ring shaped housing on the drum perimeter and having an annular channel therein and at least one balancing unit disposed in the channel. The balancing unit has a receiver coil configured to receive wireless power from the transmitter coil and an actuator powered by the receiver coil, a sensing element to detect a position of the balancing unit in the housing, a balancing control unit configured to control the positioning of the balancing unit by driving the transmitter coil to send power to the receiver coil to operate the actuator on a friction force element to change the friction between the housing and the balancing unit.


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