Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids – Process – Gas or vapor contact with treated material
Patent
1998-04-15
2000-08-08
Wilson, Pamela A.
Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids
Process
Gas or vapor contact with treated material
34491, 34495, 34557, 34565, F26B 2106
Patent
active
060983108
ABSTRACT:
A system and method for predicting the dryness of clothing articles in a clothes dryer. In one embodiment, the clothes dryer uses a temperature sensor, a phase angle sensor, and a humidity sensor to generate signal representations of the temperature of the clothing articles, the motor phase angle, and the humidity of the heated air in the duct, respectively. A controller receives the signal representations and determines a feature vector. A neural network uses the feature vector to predict a percentage of moisture content and a degree of dryness of the clothing articles in the clothes dryer. In another embodiment, the clothes dryer uses a combination of sensors to predict a percentage of moisture content and a degree of dryness of the clothing articles.
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Badami Vivek Venugopal
Chbat Nicolas Wadih
Chen Yu-To
Breedlove Jill M.
General Electric Company
Goldman David C.
Wilson Pamela A.
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