Patent ID: 6901777

Claim:
A washing machine, comprising: a tub having a lowest point and defining: an outflow orifice at said lowest point; and a second orifice at a point higher than said outflow orifice; a laundry drum rotatably disposed in said tub about a horizontal axis; an outflow line fluidically connected to said outflow orifice and to be connected to a suds pump; a liquid line fluidically connecting said outflow line to said second orifice; a turbidity sensor disposed at said liquid line, said turbidity sensor responding to a turbidity of liquid flowing through said liquid line; a pressure sensor, said outflow line having a pressure line connection connected to said pressure sensor and through which a pressure of liquid in said outflow line dependent on a level of liquid in said tub can be transmitted from said outflow line to said pressure sensor; and said pressure sensor responding to the liquid pressure and controlling a liquid filling level in said tub dependent upon the liquid pressure.