APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A DEWATERING PROCESS

摘要

Dewatering process in the operation of a totally automated washing machine, centrifuqal dewaterer and the like is controlled by monitoring the dewatering rate to determine whether the initial instability period due to motor vibrations, etc. has past. The time to terminate the process is computed on the basis of timer reading at the end of such instability period and this information is kept and utilized later even if the operation is interrupted and restarted during a process so as to prevent errors in estimating the time to terminate the dewaterinq process.