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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2023
E.g.o. Elektro-geraetebau Gmbh, Oberderdingen, DE;
Toni Torres, Llicà de Vall, ES;
Jordi Camps, Llicà de Vall, ES;
Pau Sala Perez, L'Escala, ES;
Alvar Villegas, Llicà de Vall, ES;
Gerard Sanchez, Llicà de Vall, ES;
E.G.O. Elektro-Geraetebau GmbH, Oberderdingen, DE;
Abstract
A washing machine comprises a rotatable drum for receiving laundry, a drive motor for the drum, a drive control for the drive motor and a washing machine control, the washing machine control being connected to the drive control. In a method of operating the washing machine for dry-spinning laundry at different and increasing speeds, wherein a certain speed is kept constant for a certain time in the manner of speed steps, the drum is at first rotated at a certain constant speed for spinning the laundry. The drive control monitors the motor current and records the variation over time of the motor current as well as an envelope curve of the motor current and an average of this envelope. The envelope of the motor current or its average is derived once after the time. As soon as the first derivative of the envelope or the average falls below a certain predetermined threshold value or becomes zero, the condition is defined that the spun laundry in the drum no longer loses any or sufficient water. Then the rotational speed of the drum is increased to a higher rotational speed, until the first derivative again falls below a certain predetermined threshold value or becomes zero.