Laundry appliance with capacitive laundry drying degree sensing function

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PATENT NO 11248334
APP PUB NO 20200256006A1
SERIAL NO

16860488

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A method for measuring the humidity of a laundry mass contained in a laundry treatment chamber of a laundry appliance. The method includes: providing a capacitor in the laundry appliance, the capacitor having, as part of the capacitor dielectric, the laundry mass; measuring a capacitance of the capacitor by means of an electronic circuitry electrically supplied by a supply voltage and a reference voltage. Providing a capacitor comprises: providing in the laundry appliance at least one conductive plate which forms a plate of the capacitor, and exploiting, as a second plate of the capacitor, routing lines distributing inside the laundry drying appliance the reference voltage.

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ELECTROLUX APPLIANCES AKTIEBOLAGS T GORANSGATAN 143 STOCKHOLM S-105 45

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Romeo, Vincenzo Porcia, IT 3 12
Vitali, Fabio Porcia, IT 4 11

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