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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2013
Filed:
May. 07, 2007
Timothy Nicholas Aykroyd, Brookline, MA (US);
Colleen M. Doyle, Stevensville, MI (US);
Tremitchell Wright, Elkhart, IN (US);
Joel Adam Luckman, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Janice M. Kaeding, Lawrence, MI (US);
Michael Stephen Hendrickson, St. Joseph, MI (US);
Timothy Nicholas Aykroyd, Brookline, MA (US);
Colleen M. Doyle, Stevensville, MI (US);
Tremitchell Wright, Elkhart, IN (US);
Joel Adam Luckman, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Janice M. Kaeding, Lawrence, MI (US);
Michael Stephen Hendrickson, St. Joseph, MI (US);
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Abstract
A control for an automatic washer to operate the washer through a wash cycle determined based upon various soils and stains in the substrate load to be washed with a wash liquor in a wash zone of the washer. The control has a plurality of stain/soil type entrées, which can be at least one of selected and detected, and cleaned with a particular wash cycle. The control has dispensing control over at least one wash liquor additive. The control has a user input to permit the user to customize the operation of the control with regard to the dispensing of the various wash liquor additive and a timing mechanism. The control has operational control over the particular wash cycles using the dispensing control to dispense additives to the wash liquor at selected times during the wash cycle.