Diagnostic method and apparatus for a domestic appliance
CA 2120276 A1 · Owner: Whirlpool Corporation · Inventors: Glotzbach, Patrick J.; Holling, Ronald W.; Huener, Jerome D.
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The present invention is a cooking appliance or an electronic control for a cooking appliance and method of controlling the same. A remote control unit having a built-in temperature sensor, positional switch and low-battery detection circuit is in two-way intermittent wireless communication with the appliance control unit of the present invention. The appliance control unit includes a switch means for controlling the heating elements of the cooking appliance wherein the switch means for each heating element includes two power switches connected in series and coupled with a redundancy detection circuit for the detection of a failure of one of the two power switches. Two-way communication …
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- Filed March 30, 1994. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended March 30, 2014.
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