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APPLIANCE WITH ENERGY CONSUMPTION REPORTING AND METHOD

  • US 20110153104A1
  • Filed: 10/08/2010
  • Published: 06/23/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2009
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. An appliance with an energy consumption reporting function comprising:

  • one or more power consuming functions, each of the one or more power consuming functions having one or more operating states associated with respective power consumption value;

    a controller operable to activate the one or more power consuming functions, the controller configured to determine an energy consumption amount for the appliance by accumulating the power consumption amounts for each power consuming function based on the amount of time each operating state is detected; and

    a communication interface for communicating the energy consumption amount.

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