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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2003
Applicants:
Douglas Allen Riddle, Louisville, KY (US);
Zubair Hameed, Louisville, KY (US);
Jeremy Michael Green, Louisville, KY (US);
Inventors:
Douglas Allen Riddle, Louisville, KY (US);
Zubair Hameed, Louisville, KY (US);
Jeremy Michael Green, Louisville, KY (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 1/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An electric clothes dryer heater system including a heater element and a controller operationally coupled to the heater is provided. The controller is configured to provide an AC sine wave to a heater element of an electric clothes dryer, stop providing at a zero crossing of the AC sine wave, monitor the AC sine wave for a subsequent zero crossing and reprovide the AC sine wave to the heater element at the subsequent zero crossing.