Patent ID: 8948922
Filing Date: 2015-02-03
Classification: D06F

Abstract:
1. A method for identifying operating conditions of a domestic appliance, said method comprising the steps of: detecting a value of an ambient temperature during an initialization phase before a programming mode of an appliance begins using a sensor that, in the programming mode of the appliance, detects the temperature of an operating agent of the appliance, or a component of the appliance, or both, wherein the appliance is a kitchen appliance, a laundry appliance, and/or a cleaning appliance and the initialization phase is a period of time in which a computer program used during the programming mode is loaded; comparing the ambient temperature to at least one reference temperature, said reference temperature representing a critical value for the programming mode of the domestic appliance; and preventing the programming mode from starting until the value of the ambient temperature has attained a value that is within a predetermined range of the reference temperature value, the predetermined range being finite.