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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2006
Andrea Donadon, Porcia, IT;
Silvano Cimetta, Treviso, IT;
Marco Giovagnoni, Udine, IT;
Fabio Altinier, Porcia, IT;
Mirko Gasparini, Spilimbergo, IT;
Andrea Donadon, Porcia, IT;
Silvano Cimetta, Treviso, IT;
Marco Giovagnoni, Udine, IT;
Fabio Altinier, Porcia, IT;
Mirko Gasparini, Spilimbergo, IT;
Electrolux Home Products Corporation N.V., Zaventem, BE;
Abstract
Household-type front loading and water-recirculating clothes washing machine adapted to automatically measure the nature of the dry clothes loaded in the machine for washing, in which the measurement of such weight of the washload is performed by measuring the amount of water that is absorbed by the clothes in the washload when this is soaked with water to a point at which it is in a dynamic saturation, i.e. steady-state condition. Said measurement of the amount of water absorbed in the clothes is obtained by subtracting the amount of water that is present in the machine, and that does not interact with the washload, from the total amount of water let into the wash tub. The nature of the load of clothes is finally calculated by processing and interpolating the amount of water that is released by said load with respect to the water previously absorbed, and comparing said data with corresponding data relevant to reference textiles, whose nature is known.