Patent ID: 7446500

Claim:
A method for operating a programmable washing machine comprising a laundry drum arranged rotatably inside a soap-solution container, which can be moved program-dependently with different speed profiles in both directions of rotation and comprising a real-time clock by means of which the user himself can determine the beginning or end of the washing process, and comprising an anti-crease operation incorporated after the wash and spin program sections for loosening the laundry in the drum, associated with an intermediate step in which the drum drive is driven with short and strong accelerating or braking pulses to bring about the detachment of a ring of laundry lying against the inner wall of the drum, formed during the spinning and in which the successful detachment of the laundry ring is monitored by means of comparative measurement data which are automatically determined by the program control system, wherein the subsequent anti-crease operation can be manipulated by the user.