Patent ID: 7748067
Filing Date: 2010-07-06
Classification: D06F

Abstract:
1. A method of minimizing an unbalanced load of laundry within a clothes laundering machine before a high-speed spinning phase, the clothes laundering machine comprising a drum in which clothing is to be laundered and being adapted to initiate a drum speed acceleration, a drum speed deceleration, and a combination of a drum speed acceleration and a drum speed deceleration in response to detecting a distribution condition within the drum, the method comprising: rotating the drum of the clothes laundering machine at a suitable rotational speed (ω determining that the distribution condition exists within the drum when at least one of the following conditions is satisfied: in response to said determining, initiating a distribution control phase to establish: responsive to said determining that the distribution condition exists, calculating a difference between the unbalance mass (m) and the maximum allowable mass value (S); and if the difference is less than a predetermined limit that is established as a function of the elevation torque (T