Method for determining the amount of lanudry in a laundry handling machine

US5507055A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Bosch-Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH

Inventors

• Peter Blauert · Berlin, DE
• Frank Böldt · Brieselang, DE
• Martina Wöbkemeier · Berlin, DE
• Paul T. Pilgram · Hersbruck, DE
• Ulrich Rehfuess · Hersbruck, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 26, 1994
• Grant date: Apr 16, 1996
• Expiry date: Oct 26, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02B40/00
• WIPO field: Other consumer goods
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A method for determining an amount of laundry in an at least approximately horizontally supported drum for laundry being driven by a universal drive motor at a washing and drying rpm is performed on the basis of observations of parameters of an operation in a laundry handling machine. A drive moment at the drum drive motor is determined during a drum startup phase, for operating the drum at a controlled handling rpm at which the laundry is not held against a wall of the drum by centrifugal force.