US 12,252,830 B2
Laundry processing machine, and method of starting a laundry processing machine
Silvana Johansson, Ljungby (SE); Neal Milch, Woodmere, NY (US); and Marius Stücheli, Ljungby (SE)
Assigned to ELECTROLUX PROFESSIONAL AB (PUBL), Stockholm (SE)
Appl. No. 17/602,900
Filed by ELECTROLUX PROFESSIONAL AB (PUBL), Stockholm (SE)
PCT Filed Apr. 16, 2020, PCT No. PCT/SE2020/050393
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 11, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/214082, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 22, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 1900064-5 (SE), filed on Apr. 16, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0195649 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. D06F 33/32 (2020.01); D06F 34/18 (2020.01); D06F 34/28 (2020.01); D06F 103/04 (2020.01); D06F 105/50 (2020.01); D06F 105/60 (2020.01)
CPC D06F 33/32 (2020.02) [D06F 34/18 (2020.02); D06F 34/28 (2020.02); D06F 2103/04 (2020.02); D06F 2105/50 (2020.02); D06F 2105/60 (2020.02)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A laundry processing machine, comprising:
a rotatable drum (30);
a load sensing arrangement (46) configured to detect an amount of laundry (48) in the drum (30) and, based on a detected amount of laundry (48), generate a load signal; and
a controller (18, 66) configured to:
based on the load signal, set a resource threshold (R1, R2, R3, R4) for starting a laundry processing program,
receive a resource signal indicating an amount of resources provided by a user of the laundry processing machine (10, 96, 98, 99), and
based on the resource signal indicating that a sufficient amount of resources has been provided, allowing the laundry processing program to start,
wherein the resource threshold (R1, R2, R3, R4) comprises a fixed portion (R4), which is independent of the load signal, plus a variable portion (R3, R2, R1), which is dependent on the load signal.