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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7975400 | Device for determining the conductance of laundry, dryers and method for preventing deposits on electrodes A device for determining the conductance of laundry in a drier. The device comprises at least two electrodes (2) and means for dissipating heat from at least one part of at least one of said electrodes (2). The invention further relates to a drier comp... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7971371 | Apparatus and method for controlling a clothes dryer A clothes dryer has a degree of dryness control system that is responsive to moisture level of clothing articles tumbling in a drum and a target moisture value to control the drying cycle of the clothes dryer. The clothes dryer has a load size parameter producing mo... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7345491 | Clothes dryer moisture sensing circuit A moisture sensing circuit for a clothes dryer in which clothes tumble during drying has a pair of spaced apart electrode sensors for sensing the electrical resistance of the clothes when the clothes contact the electrodes. The circuit has an active filter for suppr... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7322160 | Monitoring system for induction sealer An induction foil cap sealer system includes a monitoring system that comprises a plurality of sensors disposed throughout the sealer system, each sensor monitoring a respective condition related to the sealing operation. A controller is configured to receive from t... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7257905 | Laundry appliance A laundry drying machine includes a cabinet and a laundry holding drum rotatably supported within the cabinet for rotation. The drum includes a wall that is circumferential relative to the rotation and a drum hatch that is a section of the wall. The drum forms an en... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7176415 | Heating method for a band-shaped body and heating apparatus for a band-shaped body A heating method and apparatus for a band-shaped body transported in a constant conveying direction in a heating zone so as to heat the band-shaped body is provided. The method includes detecting whether a portion of the band-shaped body at which width and/or thickn... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7093374 | Clothes dryer and method of controlling the same A clothes dryer and a method of controlling the clothes dryer. The method detects conditions of clothes using a sensor, and performs at least one of: a complex drying function to perform a drying operation, a deodorizing operation, and a wrinkle removing operation; ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7085686 | Method and system for canceling noise and compressing data from a motor phase angle sensor A method and system for canceling noise and compressing data from a motor phase angle sensor. In this invention, phase angle data is sampled at a first sampling rate to generate a sampled phase angle. The sampled phase angle signal is sub-sampled at a second samplin... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7077004 | Method and device for measuring humidity A method and a device for measuring humidity may be suitable for determining the relative humidity in the high-humidity range. The device includes a sensor device, as well as a circuit connected to the same. The sensor device includes a capacitive humidity-sensor el... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7020982 | Method for controlling clothes dryer A method for controlling a clothes dryer is disclosed to precisely dry clothes on the basis of a load amount according to moisture contained in clothes in the clothes dry and a temperature change according to proceeding drying of clothes. The method includes: detect... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7013578 | System and method for controlling a dryer appliance System and method for controlling an appliance for drying clothing articles is provided. The appliance has a container for receiving the clothing articles. A motor is provided for rotating the container about an axis. A heater is provided for supplying heated air to... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6964117 | Method and apparatus for adjusting a moisture profile in a web An apparatus for drying a travelling wet fibrous web is provided which comprises a rotating air-permeable drum. The drum is at least partially surrounded by a hood which has an interior space for receiving a flow of air and directing the flow of air through a permea... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6941678 | Sensor assembly for automatic dryer A sensor assembly is provided for an automatic drying machine having a rotatable drum containing a load of wet clothes to be dried wherein at least one sensing element is disposed on a surface of an elongated sensor body and is exposed to inside of the drum so as to... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6941680 | Cost-efficient clothes dryer A clothes dryer that is operatively attached to a heating system is illustrated. The clothes dryer receives heated fluid when the dryer is turned on. The dryer has a radiator that receives the heated fluid from the circulating fluid flow system. The fluid-filled rad... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6931759 | Apparatus for sensing dryness degree in exhaust type clothes dryer and control method using same An apparatus for sensing a dryness degree in an exhaust type clothes dryer and a control method using the same, includes an electrode sensor for sensing a clothes drying state based on the humidity of the clothes in the drum, and a thermistor for sensing the tempera... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931760 | Dryer control method and apparatus using the same A dryer control method provides for selection among a plurality of dryness levels so that the user may select a desired degree of dryness for any given type of laundry. The method includes steps of selecting one among a plurality of dryness levels; driving a drying ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6907680 | Method for drying laundry and machine implementing such a method Method for drying laundry and a machine able to implement such a method, which provides for the use of only one electric resistance for heating the air utilized for drying purposes. According to the invention, during the starting phase of the drying process, ... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6898868 | Wrapping irregularly shaped objects in production line A hood-shaped foil covering an object is heat-shrunk around the object by displacing the object covered by the foil along a generally straight path in a transport direction past a stationary heater which is directed at an acute angle to the direction. The position o... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6848194 | Apparatus for monitoring a semiconductor wafer during a spin drying operation An apparatus for spin drying a semiconductor wafer includes a hollow core spindle and a chuck assembly having grippers for supporting a wafer at an edge thereof. A sleeve is disposed in the central opening of the spindle and a manifold is disposed in the upper end o... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6807750 | Apparatus for and method of controlling seed cotton drying in a cotton gin An apparatus and method for controlling the removal of moisture from seed cotton in a cotton gin. The moisture level and rate of seed cotton entering a seed cotton dryer stage of a cotton gin are measured, and, based on those measurements and the desired moisture le... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6772534 | Apparatus and method for moisture control An apparatus for removing moisture from air which includes a moist air inlet area, a dry air outlet area, a regeneration air inlet area, a regeneration air outlet area and a desiccant medium. A drying fan is provided for drawing the moist air through the moist air i... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6581299 | Method for extracting natural juice of ligneous plant material, device for carrying out said method and use of said method in the production of dried ligneous plants material The invention relates to a method for extracting the natural juice of ligneous plant material, a device for carrying out said method and the use of said method in the production of dried ligneous plant material. The method for extracting the natural juice... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6493963 | Method and apparatus for dryness detection in a clothes dryer A method of programming and controlling an automatic cycle of a clothes dryer provides that, after positioning of a selection dial, a motor associated with the selection dial is rapidly moved to a predetermined location at a constant speed, while the time... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6256903 | Coating dryer system The present invention relates to heating systems for drying wet coatings such as printing inks, paint, sealants, etc. applied to a substrate. In particular, the invention relates to a drying system in which a blower having an inlet directs a current of he... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6079121 | Humidity-modulated dual-setpoint temperature controller A humidity-modulated dual-setpoint temperature controller is disclosed in which the two setpoints of the temperature controller are adjusted as a function of measured humidity. Parameters other than humidity could also be used to adjust the dual setpoints... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6067845 | Method of determining a moisture content of textile goods in a laundry drier The electrical conductivity of laundry in a laundry drum is measured and the moisture content is determined from the measured quantity. A polarization voltage, which corrupts the measurement result, is formed at the electrodes. In order to compensate for ... | 05/30/2000 |
| 5992049 | Grain moisture regulating system A grain moisture regulating system includes a grain bin with a perforated grain supporting floor and a fan for blowing outside ambient air into the grain bin through the grain mass set thereupon, and through an air outlet at the top of the grain bin. A hu... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5953833 | Coating dryer system A dryer system for drying a coating applied to a substrate includes a thermally conductive roll having a length and a peripheral surface for supporting the substrate and a plurality of energy emitters disposed within the conductive roll along the length o... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5940986 | Heat staked moisture sensor electrodes An exhaust vent cover assembly and method of manufacture. The vent cover assembly includes a vent cover and a pair of heat stacked moisture sensor electrodes. The vent cover includes a perforated first portion defining a first plane and a solid second por... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5899005 | System and method for predicting the dryness of clothing articles The present invention discloses a system and method for predicting the dryness of clothing articles in a clothes dryer 10. In one embodiment of this invention, the clothes dryer 10 uses a temperature sensor 52, a phase angle sensor 54, and a humidity sens... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5836087 | Footwear dryer support rod A footwear dryer support rod that includes an interconnectable rod assembly including a fixed length rod section, a circuit housing rod section, and a spring loaded telescoping rod section; an alarm circuit housed within the circuit housing rod section in... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5802736 | Automated fabrication of corrugated paper products moisture removal Method and equipment for the manufacture of corrugated paper products includes separate heaters for preparing liner and medium components. Data regarding these components is collected and an optimum conditioning for the components is determined. High volt... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5737852 | Dryness control for clothes dryer A dryness control circuit for a household clothes dryer including a power supply circuit and a moisture sensing circuit. The power supply circuit converts high voltage AC power into low voltage, DC power. The low voltage, DC power is supplied to the moist... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5661227 | Moisture sensor for microwave clothes dryer Microwave clothes dryer with a moisture sensor having an array of short coaxial cables extending through an electrically conductive base plate which is grounded to the shielding structure of the dryer. The ends of the cables are flush with one side of the... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5625962 | Method for measuring the moisture content of a web of goods on a through-flow dryer and device for working the method The position of the exhaust air flap of a through-flow dryer, for example, a screen drum dryer, is adjusted to determine the moisture content of the exhaust air. This is advantageously accomplished as a function of the desired drying temperature of the go... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5456025 | Apparatus for determining the humidity of exhaust air exiting a yankee dryer hood An adiabatic saturator receives a sample of exhaust air exiting a yankee dryer hood to determine the humidity of the exhaust air. The humidity is determined by temperature readings of the exhaust air, saturated air exiting the interior of a saturator cell... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5416727 | Mobile process monitor system for kilns An industrial mobile process monitoring system is described which provides a way by which a measurable atmospheric condition, such as temperature, can be measured in real time at a plurality of different locations in a structure such as a kiln, and the in... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5319864 | Printed circuit board carried inside a cam-operated timer A dryness sensing printed circuit board carried inside a cam-operated timer housing is accomplished by bonding a printed circuit board inside a timer housing cover plate. Electrical connections between the printed circuit board and timer components are pr... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5189812 | Moisture sensor for a continuous flow dryer The grain moisture sensor of the present invention includes a plurality of conductors for communicating a variable voltage between two points. The conductors are mounted on the continuous flow dryer wall between the exterior and interior walls, in the hea... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5165180 | On-line drying control method for powdered or granular materials and a system to execute the method An on-line drying control method for powdered or granular materials and a related system to execute the method. A fixed amount of materials stored and dried in a drying means such as a hopper dryer is sampled, transported into a moisture measuring/operati... | 11/24/1992 |
