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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2019
Duke Manufacturing Co., St. Louis, MO (US);
Gregory Glen Stettes, St. Louis, MO (US);
Benjamin Kingbay Wann, St. Louis, MO (US);
Thomas Earl Kieffer, St. Louis, MO (US);
Madeline Elaine Marsh, St. Louis, MO (US);
Jeffrey Allen Stafford, St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
An appliance having a current sensor configured to monitor load current in the appliance associated with operation of one or more components for determining a fault condition thereof. The appliance comprises a smart controller configured to control operations of the appliance and the one or more components each configured to perform an operation of the appliance in response to the smart controller. An input/output (IO) circuit coupled to the smart controller via a local data bus is configured to receive commands from the smart controller and to control the one or more components in response thereto.