Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids – Process – Gas or vapor contact with treated material
Patent
1998-11-18
2000-09-26
Gravini, Stephen
Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids
Process
Gas or vapor contact with treated material
34499, 34535, 34562, F26B 300
Patent
active
061228400
ABSTRACT:
A clothes dryer includes a control system for determining the drying time for a partial load in a clothes dryer. The system includes a humidity sensor, a signal processor, and a fuzzy logic control system. The humidity sensor generates a humidity signal representative of the humidity of air flowing through the trap duct. The humidity sensor transmits the humidity signal to the signal processor, and the signal processor determines a drying span utilizing the humidity signal. The fuzzy logic control system then utilizes the drying span to estimate the clothes load.
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Badami Vivek Venugopal
Chbat Nicolas Wadih
General Electric Company
Gravini Stephen
Ingraham Donald S.
Mattera Michelle A.
Stoner Douglas E.
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