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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2010
Brent Alden Junge, Evansville, IN (US);
Eric Paez, Louisville, KY (US);
Joseph Thomas Waugh, Louisville, KY (US);
Kristin Marie Weirich, Louisville, KY (US);
Brent Alden Junge, Evansville, IN (US);
Eric Paez, Louisville, KY (US);
Joseph Thomas Waugh, Louisville, KY (US);
Kristin Marie Weirich, Louisville, KY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A cooling system for an appliance includes an evaporator stage, a compressor stage coupled to the evaporator stage and a condenser stage coupled to the compressor stage. The condenser stage includes a condenser and a condenser cooling fan for cooling the condenser, and a condenser loop coupled between the condenser stage and the evaporator stage. A humidity sensor is configured to detect a humidity level in an area of the cooling system and a controller is configured to cycle an operating state of the condenser cooling fan from ON to a low speed or OFF prior to an end of a cooling cycle.