Home appliance with ambience detector and ambience dependent operation

• Main Authors: LAMPE, HANSJOERG, FORST, KLAUS MARTIN, STEINER, WINFRIED, STAHLMANN, ROLF, FUEGLEIN, STEFAN
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 13.02.2008
• Subjects: COFFEE MILLS; CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; CONTROLLING; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; FURNITURE; HUMAN NECESSITIES; LAUNDERING; LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILEARTICLES; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS ORELEMENTS; PHYSICS; REGULATING; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL; TEXTILES; TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE

The invention relates to a home appliance, in particular a dishwasher (2), a dryer or a washing machine, comprising a control unit (4, 12) adapted to control at least one program sequence of the home appliance (2); and at least one ambient condition sensor (14, 16, 18) adapted to detect an ambient condition and to supply an ambient sensor signal to the control unit (4, 12); wherein the control unit (4, 12) is adapted to modify at least one of the program sequences in dependency of the ambient sensor signal. The invention further relates to a method of operating a home appliance, in particular a dishwasher (2), a dryer, a washing machine or a home appliance, comprising detecting at least one ambient condition using at least one ambient condition sensor (14, 16, 18) modifying at least one program sequence parameter in dependency of the at least one detected ambient sensor signal.