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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2008
Applicants:
Arthur Wilson Scrivener, Louisville, KY (US);
Joshua Blake Huff, Louisville, KY (US);
Inventors:
Arthur Wilson Scrivener, Louisville, KY (US);
Joshua Blake Huff, Louisville, KY (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F25B 49/00 (2006.01); G01K 13/00 (2006.01); G05D 23/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and device for managing the operating conditions of a refrigerator unit using a single sensor are disclosed. The method includes the steps of determining a sensor temperature of a refrigerator unit, determining to which a plurality of disjoint temperatures regions the temperature lies within and setting an operating condition of each of a plurality of components of the refrigerator unit based on the determined temperature region.