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Patent No.:

US 12507857 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025

Filed:

Apr. 27, 2020

System for optical wash item recognition in dishwashers, method for optical wash item recognition, dishwasher with an optical wash item recognition system and method for operating such a dishwasher

Applicant:

Illinois Tool Works Inc., Glenview, IL (US);

Inventors:

Harald Disch, Elzach, DE;

Björn S. Himmelsbach, Offenburg, DE;

Sebastian Huber, Appenweier, DE;

Patrick Dufner, Offenburg, DE;

Assignee:

ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC., Glenview, IL (US);

Attorney:

THOMPSON HINE LLP

Primary Examiner:

Kaj K Olsen

Assistant Examiner:

Richard Z. Zhang

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47L 15/00 (2006.01); A47L 15/42 (2006.01); A47L 15/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A47L 15/0021 (2013.01); A47L 15/4295 (2013.01); A47L 15/46 (2013.01); A47L 15/0076 (2013.01); A47L 15/0081 (2013.01); A47L 2401/04 (2013.01); A47L 2501/30 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system for optical wash item recognition for commercial dishwashers embodied as conveyor dishwashers or as automatic programme dishwashers, in particular hood dishwashers, wherein the system includes an optical recognition system, especially a camera, for recording at least one two-dimensional image of at least some of the wash items to be treated in the dishwasher. The system also includes an analysis device for analysing at least one recorded image in such a way that individual wash items or groups of individual wash items in the recorded image are located and classified. At least one neural network is used to analyse the at least one recorded image.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Disch, Harald. (2025). System for optical wash item recognition in dishwashers, method for optical wash item recognition, dishwasher with an optical wash item recognition system and method for operating such a dishwasher (U.S. Patent No. 12507857). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12507857

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