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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2012
Jenn-yeu Nieh, Saint Joseph, MI (US);
Bennett James Cook, Watervliet, MI (US);
James Andrew Oskins, Saint Joseph, MI (US);
Jenn-Yeu Nieh, Saint Joseph, MI (US);
Bennett James Cook, Watervliet, MI (US);
James Andrew Oskins, Saint Joseph, MI (US);
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Abstract
A method for determining the laundry load size according to one embodiment of the invention in an automatic clothes washer comprising supplying water to a reference water level to define a first amount of water, supplying water from the reference water level to a second water level above the reference water level and sufficient to submerge the laundry load to define a second amount of water, and determining a load size for the laundry load based on the second amount of water such that errors associated with the first amount of water are not considered in the load size determination based on the second amount of water.