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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2013
Applicant:
Fisher & Paykel Appliances Limited, Auckland, NZ;
Inventor:
David Charles Rhodes, Auckland, NZ;
Assignee:
Fisher & Paykel Appliances Limited, Auckland, NZ;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 39/00 (2006.01); D06F 33/06 (2006.01); D06F 33/02 (2006.01); D06F 37/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 33/06 (2013.01); D06F 33/02 (2013.01); D06F 37/203 (2013.01); D06F 2204/065 (2013.01);
Abstract
A laundry appliance having a perforated rotatable drum for spin dehydrating a wet textile load, an electric motor for providing an accelerating force which in use causes the drum to rotate, load sensors for detecting any static dynamic imbalance in the rotation of the drum, and a controller which receives inputs from the load sensors and is programmed to, in a spin-up phase, energize said electric motor so as to evenly distribute the load within the drum and thereby minimize any static or dynamic imbalance when the drum rotates.