Laundry handling apparatus and control method therefor
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsSungcheol Bae, Jinseong Hwang
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a laundry handling apparatus and a control method therefor, the laundry handling apparatus being provided with multiple laundry units performing laundry independently of each other. If a first laundry unit and a second laundry unit simultaneously perform laundry and if laundry is not collected after any one laundry unit has completed laundering, the laundry handling apparatus operates with added laundry time according to the laundry time of the other laundry unit, thereby preventing the laundry from creasing and being damaged, and changes the laundry time such that the first and second laundry units finish laundering at the same time, thereby having the effect of facilitating laundry collection.
Claims12
A laundry handling apparatus comprising:
- a first laundry unit having a first tub and configured to perform a first laundry operation;
- a second laundry unit having a second tub and configured to perform a second laundry operation;
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- a first controller configured to control the first laundry unit,
- a second controller configured to control the second laundry unit,
- wherein, when the first laundry operation and the second laundry operation are simultaneously performed, the first controller compares a first laundry time for the first laundry operation with a second laundry time for the second laundry operation, performs the first laundry operation such that the first laundry operation and the second laundry operation are finished simultaneously when a time difference between the first laundry time and the second laundry time is equal to or less than a set time, and performs the first laundry operation without changing the first laundry time when the time difference between the first laundry time and the second laundry time exceeds the set time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.