	US 12,344,980 B2
	Method for operating an automatic washing machine, and automatic washing machine
Dirk Sieding, Lünen (DE); Rainer Bicker, Verl (DE); Magnus Kortenjann, Telgte (DE); Markus Drücker, Gütersloh (DE); Steffen Lasner, Borgholzhausen (DE); Benedikt Fechtel, Rheda-Wiedenbrück (DE); and Marcel Zielke, Ennigerloh (DE)
Assigned to MIELE & CIE. KG, Gütersloh (DE)
Appl. No. 18/025,846
Filed by Miele & Cie. KG, Gütersloh (DE)
PCT Filed Aug. 31, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/073983 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 10, 2023, PCT Pub. No. WO2022/053351, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 17, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 102020123724.3 (DE), filed on Sep. 11, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0349086 A1, Nov. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. D06F 33/32 (2020.01); D06F 39/40 (2024.01); D06F 103/06 (2020.01); D06F 103/08 (2020.01); D06F 105/40 (2020.01); D06F 105/48 (2020.01)

CPC D06F 33/32 (2020.02) [D06F 39/40 (2024.01); D06F 2103/06 (2020.02); D06F 2103/08 (2020.02); D06F 2105/40 (2020.02); D06F 2105/48 (2020.02)]

10 Claims

1. A method for operating a washing machine having a suds container for receiving water, a rib-free drum, which is rotatably mounted in the suds container, for receiving laundry, a motor for driving the drum, and an open-loop or closed-loop control device, wherein the method has a pre-ironing phase (Vb) for pre-ironing of the laundry located in the drum, during which phase steam is conducted into the drum and the drum is moved by means of the motor into a right-left pendulum motion, the pendulum rhythm of which is controlled using open-loop or closed-loop control by means of the open-loop or closed-loop control device in such a way that the drum is at least intermittently untouched by the laundry.