Water supply control for a steam generator of a fabric treatment appliance

A fabric treatment appliance comprises at least one of a tub (14) and drum (16) defining a fabric treatment chamber, a steam generator (60) having a steam generation chamber (74) and configured to supply steam to the fabric treatment chamber, and a conduit fluidly coupling a water supply to the stea...

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Hauptverfasser: RAVEENDRAN, VAIDHYANATHAN, NYIK, SIONG WONG, DENGMING, PENG
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Sprache:eng ; fre ; ger
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Zusammenfassung:A fabric treatment appliance comprises at least one of a tub (14) and drum (16) defining a fabric treatment chamber, a steam generator (60) having a steam generation chamber (74) and configured to supply steam to the fabric treatment chamber, and a conduit fluidly coupling a water supply to the steam generation chamber. The fabric treatment appliance can also include a flow controller (64) and/or a flow meter (96) fluidly coupled to the conduit to facilitate controlling the supply of water to the steam generation chamber. The disclosure provides methods of water supply control that can employ the flow controller and/or the flow meter.