Clothes treating apparatus
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorHongki Choi
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a clothes treating apparatus, including a communication unit to transmit or receive information related to a usage history of the clothes treating apparatus, a memory to store the information related to the usage history, an air supply device to heat air supplied into an accommodation space of the clothes treating apparatus, and a controller to extract a use time zone of the clothes treating apparatus based on the information related to the usage history, drive the air supply device in a preset pattern within the extracted use time zone, and stop an operation of the clothes treating apparatus at a time zone except for the extracted use time zone.
Claims11
A clothes treating apparatus, comprising:
- a communication unit to transmit or receive information about the clothes treating apparatus;
- a memory to store the information;
- an air supply device to heat and supply air into an accommodation space of the clothes treating apparatus;
- a hanger provided within the accommodation space, the hanger configured to have clothes caught thereon;
- a sensing unit to sense information related to the clothes caught on the hanger;
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- a controller to:
- extract a use time zone and a non-use time zone of the clothes treating apparatus based on the information,
- drive the air supply device in a preset pattern within the use time zone, and
- stop an operation of the clothes treating apparatus within the non-use time zone,
- wherein the controller detects at least one of:
- a time point at which clothes are introduced into the accommodation space,
- a time point at which clothes are taken out of the accommodation space, and
- a time point at which a door installed on the clothes treating apparatus is opened and closed, based on information sensed by the sensing unit,
- wherein the information is related to usage history of the clothes treating apparatus, and
- wherein the hanger includes a motor configured to provide a predetermined motion to the clothes caught on the hanger.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.