Controller for washing machine with alternately reversing drive motor

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5211037
SERIAL NO

07566739

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A controller for a washing machine with an alternately reversing drive motor wherein an electromechanical timer interfaces in conventional manner to electrical devices, and also switches line voltage to predetermined ones of a plurality of control lines to provide an encoded signal corresponding to the selected agitator stroke profile. The line voltage on the control lines is shifted to a DC voltage level compatible with a microprocessor that decodes the encoded signal, and then provides high rate control signals that gate high power solid state switches that switch line voltage to the respective stator windings of a permanent split capacitor motor. In such manner, the motor is driven in alternately reversing directions and, by way of a speed reducer, drives the agitator of the washing machine according to the selected stroke profile.

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  • ALLIANCE LAUNDRY SYSTEMS LLC;SWITCHCRAFT, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Adamski, Joseph R Sudbury, MA 40 1139
Ferguson, Christopher Framingham, MA 38 415
Petty, J Scott Hanover, MA 13 321
Quandt, William J Ripon, WI 6 177

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