CONTROL APPARATUS FOR AN ELECTRICAL LOAD
First Claim
1. A control apparatus for controlling the power of an electrical consumer, in particular an electrical domestic appliance or an assembly of an electrical domestic appliance, having at least one sensor and a processing means for comparing a parameter detected by the sensor with a predetermined value and for influencing the power of the consumer based on the result of this comparison, wherein the at least one sensor is a voltage sensor for detecting a network voltage, characterized in that the processing means is set up to identify recurring patterns in the time sequence of the network voltage, to forecast a future comparison result based on an identified pattern and, if the forecast comparison result indicates that first conditions for lowering the power are present (S12), to ascertain at a current time point (S14) that first conditions for increasing the power (S15) are present.
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Abstract
A control apparatus for controlling the power of an electrical load, in particular of an electrical domestic appliance or an assembly of an electrical domestic appliance, comprises at least one sensor for detecting a parameter of an electrical supply voltage, and a processing means for comparing a parameter which is detected by the sensor with a prespecified value, and for influencing the power of the load on the basis of the result of the comparison.
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- 1. A control apparatus for controlling the power of an electrical consumer, in particular an electrical domestic appliance or an assembly of an electrical domestic appliance, having at least one sensor and a processing means for comparing a parameter detected by the sensor with a predetermined value and for influencing the power of the consumer based on the result of this comparison, wherein the at least one sensor is a voltage sensor for detecting a network voltage, characterized in that the processing means is set up to identify recurring patterns in the time sequence of the network voltage, to forecast a future comparison result based on an identified pattern and, if the forecast comparison result indicates that first conditions for lowering the power are present (S12), to ascertain at a current time point (S14) that first conditions for increasing the power (S15) are present.
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