Patent ID: 7647794

Claim:
A laundry machine comprising: a control assembly; a course selector allowing a user to select a course that uses steam from a plurality of courses; a steam generator to generate steam; a water control device to control water entering the steam generator; a steam adjuster, disposed on the control assembly separate from the course selector, the steam adjuster configured to adjust steam in the selected course by sending a signal that indicates that steam is to be adjusted from a predetermined amount of steam to be generated for the selected course, the adjusted amount of steam associated with an amount of steam desired by the user in the selected course; and a controller configured to control the steam generator to generate the steam in the selected course that is different from the predetermined amount of steam for the selected course based on the signal sent from the steam adjuster, and the controller further configured to control the water control device such that the water control device allows water to flow to the steam generator while the steam generator generates steam.