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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2004
William Joseph Wunderlin, Louisville, KY (US);
Michel Dion, Montréal, CA;
Alexander Carswell Cambon, Louisville, KY (US);
Mahmoud Fariz Ismail, Coral Springs, FL (US);
Zubair Hameed, Louisville, KY (US);
Cathy Diane Emery, Louisville, KY (US);
William Joseph Wunderlin, Louisville, KY (US);
Michel Dion, Montréal, CA;
Alexander Carswell Cambon, Louisville, KY (US);
Mahmoud Fariz Ismail, Coral Springs, FL (US);
Zubair Hameed, Louisville, KY (US);
Cathy Diane Emery, Louisville, KY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
System and method for controlling an appliance for drying clothing articles is provided. The appliance has a container for receiving the clothing articles. A motor is provided for rotating the container about an axis. A heater is provided for supplying heated air to the container during a dry cycle. A sensor is provided for providing a signal indicative of moisture content of the articles. Memory is provided memory for storing historical stop time data of respective dry cycles. A noise-reduction filter is coupled to receive the signal from the moisture sensor to provide selectable filtering to that signal. A timer provides a signal indicative of elapsed time upon start of the dry cycle. A module is responsive to the historical data in the memory for determining an initial estimate of the stop time of the dry cycle to be executed. A processor allows for estimating the stop time of the dry cycle as the cycle is being executed. The estimation of the stop time is based on a respective functional relationship of the noise-reduced sensor signal, and the timer signal, relative to one or more characteristics of the articles and one or more desired values of predetermined dry-cycle parameters selectable by a respective user of the dryer. The initial estimate of the stop time is superceded by the stop time estimated by the processor as the cycle is being executed.