Patent ID: 6374444
Filing Date: 2002-04-23
Classification: D06F

Abstract:
A method for determining a loading weight of a horizontally mounted laundry drum, which comprises:providing a laundry drum driven by an electric motor controlled by a controller, the laundry drum having an axis of rotation, the laundry drum defining a vertical plane extending through the axis of rotation; directly driving the laundry drum with the electric motor; turning the laundry drum with the electric motor from a 0Â° angular position, in which laundry is lying in a lower position in the laundry drum, through a rotational angle until reaching an angular position at which the laundry is in a raised position and at which a center of gravity of the laundry is at a lateral distance from the vertical plane; detecting the reaching of the angular position with the controller; and producing a measured value corresponding to a loading weight of the laundry from a driving current of the electric motor measured when the angular position is reached.