EP 1154064 A2 20011114 - Method for limiting the imbalance of a washing unit of a clothes washer
Title (en)
Method for limiting the imbalance of a washing unit of a clothes washer
Title (de)
Verfahren zum Begrenzen der Unwucht in einer Wäschewaschmaschine
Title (fr)
Procédé pour limiter le balourd dans une machine à laver le linge
Publication
Application
Priority
DE 10022609 A 20000509
Abstract (en)
The invention concerns a device to limit the imbalance of a washing unit of a clothes washer that has a laundry drum rotatably mounted in a tub and is suspended in the machine housing to allow oscillation with springs, weights providing inertia, vibration dampers and the drive motor, whereby several sensors distributed on the perimeter of a tub detect the deflections due to imbalance in the spin cycle, and undertake related countermeasures to limit the arising paths and forces. The washing unit is prevented from overloading due to imbalances in the spin cycle independent of the load in the laundry drum as follows: The sensors are perpendicular and/or parallel to the rotary axis of the laundry drum, and they detect the displacements as well as the phase shifts between the displacements, and control and/or regulating parameters are fed to the spin cycle depending on the detected displacements and phase shifts as well as the speed of the laundry drum and the drive motor.
IPC 1-7
IPC 8 full level
D06F 33/48 (2020.01); D06F 37/20 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP US)
D06F 33/48 (2020.02 - EP US); D06F 2103/26 (2020.02 - EP US)
Designated contracting state (EPC)
DE ES FR GB IT SE
DOCDB simple family (publication)
EP 1154064 A2 20011114; EP 1154064 A3 20021023; EP 1154064 B1 20050427; EP 1154064 B2 20100609; DE 10022609 A1 20011129; DE 10022609 C2 20031113; DE 60110306 D1 20050602; DE 60110306 T2 20060209; ES 2240260 T3 20051016; ES 2240260 T5 20100715
DOCDB simple family (application)
EP 01104871 A 20010228; DE 10022609 A 20000509; DE 60110306 T 20010228; ES 01104871 T 20010228