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Automatic clothes dryer

  • US 8,015,726 B2
  • Filed: 10/24/2005
  • Issued: 09/13/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of determining an air flow rate in an air flow system of a clothes dryer comprising a rotating drum defining a clothes drying chamber, with the air flow system supplying and exhausting air from the clothes drying chamber, and a heater to heat the air in the air flow system, the method comprising:

  • supplying air through the air flow system to define a supply air flow;

    determining a temperature of the supply air flow to define a supply air temperature;

    determining an air flow rate value indicative of the volumetric flow rate of supply air flowing through the air flow system from the supply air temperature; and

    comparing the air flow rate value to a predetermined air flow rate value to determine a condition of the air flow through the air flow system.

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