Clothing treatment apparatus
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsSuncheol Bae, Kyunghoon Kim, Younghan Cho, Inwoo Han
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a laundry treatment apparatus, which senses laundry weight through operation of a driving unit and, if the driving portion does not operate due to an overload and the like, pauses the sensing of the laundry weight until the overload is removed, and can display a temporary laundry weight value on the outside thereof.
Claims20
A laundry treating apparatus comprising:
- a cabinet that defines an opening at a front side thereof;
- a door coupled to the cabinet and configured to open and close the opening;
- a locker configured to lock the door to the cabinet and to unlock the door from the cabinet;
- a drum disposed inside the cabinet and configured to accommodate laundry;
- a motor connected to the drum to rotate the drum;
- a display portion disposed on the cabinet to display information;
- and
- a power portion disposed on the cabinet to receive a command to supply power,
- wherein the motor is configured to rotate the drum while the door is unlocked,
- wherein the display portion is configured to display weight information of the laundry after the drum starts rotating, and
- wherein the display portion is configured to display reference information based on a rotation of the drum not being controlled while the door is unlocked.
A method for controlling a laundry treating apparatus, the laundry treating apparatus including a cabinet that defines an opening at a front side thereof, a door coupled to the cabinet and configured to open and close the opening, a locker configured to lock the door to the cabinet and to unlock the door from the cabinet, a drum disposed inside the cabinet and configured to accommodate laundry, a motor connected to the drum to rotate the drum, a display configured to display information, and a controller, the method comprising:
- receiving a power command for supplying power to the controller;
- controlling the motor to rotate the drum while the door is unlocked;
- controlling the display to output weight information of the laundry that is obtained by rotating the drum while the door is unlocked;
- and
- based on failing to obtain the weight information by rotating the drum while the door is unlocked, controlling the display to output reference information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.