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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 1988
Filed:
Dec. 15, 1986
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
According to this invention, a drying machine includes detection electrodes arranged to face the interior of a drum constituting a drying chamber and to be capable of contacting clothes in the drum, a volume (weight)-of-clothes detecting circuit for detecting the volume of clothes based on a contact interval of the clothes to the detection electrodes upon rotation of the drum, an operation time display circuit for calculating an operation time based on the weight of clothes detected by the volume-of-clothes detecting circuit and causing a display to display it as an estimated time, a degree-of-dryness detecting circuit for detecting a degree of dryness based on the resistance of the clothes contacting the detection electrodes, a volume-of-dryness setting circuit, operable by a user, for selectively setting a plurality of target degrees of dryness, a remaining operation time determination circuit for determining a remaining operation time based on the degree of dryness detected by the degree-of-dryness detecting circuit and the target degree of dryness set by the degree-of-dryness setting circuit, a subtraction display circuit having a timepiece function for causing the display to display the remaining operation time determined by the remaining operation time determination circuit instead of the estimated time while sequentially decrementing it, and an operation control circuit for completing a drying operation after the remaining operation time determined by the remaining operation time determination circuit has elapsed.