DISPENSING DRYER DOSING SENSING
First Claim
1. A method for controlling an operation of a clothes dryer having a treating chamber, an environmental drying sensor for sensing an environmental condition in the treating chamber and used to control the drying of the clothes, a controller operably coupled to the environmental drying sensor for controlling a drying cycle based on the sensed environmental condition, and a dispensing system for dispensing treating chemistry to the treating chamber, the method comprising:
- heating the laundry in the treating chamber to either an activation or effective temperature for the treating chemistry to be dispensed into the treating chamber;
transmitting an output from the environmental drying sensor based on the environmental condition in the treating chamber; and
upon the laundry reaching the either the activation or effective temperature, dispensing the treating chemistry from the dispensing system into the treating chamber based on the output from the environmental drying sensor.
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Abstract
A method for controlling the operation of a dryer comprising dispensing a treating chemistry from a dispensing system into a treating chamber of the dryer based on an output from the environmental drying sensor.
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22 Claims
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1. A method for controlling an operation of a clothes dryer having a treating chamber, an environmental drying sensor for sensing an environmental condition in the treating chamber and used to control the drying of the clothes, a controller operably coupled to the environmental drying sensor for controlling a drying cycle based on the sensed environmental condition, and a dispensing system for dispensing treating chemistry to the treating chamber, the method comprising:
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heating the laundry in the treating chamber to either an activation or effective temperature for the treating chemistry to be dispensed into the treating chamber; transmitting an output from the environmental drying sensor based on the environmental condition in the treating chamber; and upon the laundry reaching the either the activation or effective temperature, dispensing the treating chemistry from the dispensing system into the treating chamber based on the output from the environmental drying sensor. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A clothes dryer comprising:
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a treating chamber; a heating system for heating the laundry in the treating chamber; a dispensing system for dispensing treating chemistry to the treating chamber; at least one environmental drying sensor configured to sense an environmental condition in the treating chamber and output a signal indicative of the sensed condition; and a controller operably coupled to the environmental drying sensor, the dispensing system, and the heating system and configured to receive the output from the environmental drying sensor and to control the heating system to heat the laundry to either of an activation temperature or effective temperature and to control the dispensing of treating chemistry when a laundry temperature reaches either the activation or effective temperature. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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