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Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2025

Filed:

Dec. 07, 2023
Applicant:

Haier Us Appliance Solutions, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);

Inventors:

Erick Flores Islas, Louisville, KY (US);

Jose Efren Rodriguez Munoz, Louisville, KY (US);

Assignee:

Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 33/34 (2020.01); D06F 33/36 (2020.01); D06F 37/04 (2006.01); D06F 103/04 (2020.01); D06F 105/02 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 33/34 (2020.02); D06F 33/36 (2020.02); D06F 37/04 (2013.01); D06F 2103/04 (2020.02); D06F 2105/02 (2020.02);
Abstract

A laundry treatment appliance includes a cabinet; a tub positioned within the cabinet; a drum rotatably provided within the tub; a drain pump in fluid communication with the tub, the drain pump being positioned at a bottom of the cabinet; a pressure chamber attached to and in fluid communication with the drain pump; a pressure sensor operably connected with the pressure chamber; and a controller operably connected with the pressure sensor, the controller configured to perform an operation. The operation includes receiving a laundry load within the drum; supplying a baseline volume of water to the laundry load within the drum to create a saturated laundry load; determining an actual pressure related to the saturated laundry load within the drum; and determining a load size of the laundry load based on the determined actual pressure related to the saturated laundry load.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Flores Islas, Erick. (2025). Laundry treatment appliance and method of determining laundry load weight within the same (U.S. Patent No. 12442120). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12442120

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