Clothes treatment apparatus, and control method for clothes treatment apparatus
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsWoonje Choe, Chungill Lee, Nagyoung Lee
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Abstract
The present application relates to a control method for a clothes treatment apparatus, comprising: a laundry amount sensing step of determining the amount of clothes stored in a drum; a setting step of setting, as a reference rotation number, the number of rotations that causes a centrifugal force of less than 1 G to the clothes according to the amount of clothes; an air supply step of supplying, by a drying unit, heated air to the drum; and a first motion execution step of rotating the drum at the reference rotation number, a first rotation number set to be higher than the reference rotation number, and a second rotation number set to be lower than the reference rotation number.
Claims14
A control method of a laundry treatment apparatus including:
- a drum configured to form a space in which clothes are stored and having an entrance formed on a front surface thereof;
- a fixing panel;
- an output shaft configured to pass through the fixing panel so as to be connected to the drum;
- an input shaft configured to be rotated by a motor and form coaxiality with the output shaft;
- a gear unit configured to connect the input shaft to the output shaft to rotate the output shaft at a rotation speed lower than a rotation speed of the input shaft;
- and a drying part configured to supply heated air or unheated air to the drum, the control method comprising:
- a laundry weight determination operation of determining the amount of clothes stored in the drum;
- a setting operation of setting a rotation speed that causes a centrifugal force of 1G or less according to the amount of clothes to a reference rotation speed;
- an air supply operation of supplying heated air to the drum by the drying part;
- and
- a first motion execution operation of rotating the drum at a reference rotation speed, a first rotation speed set to be higher than the reference rotation speed, and a second rotation speed set to be lower than the reference rotation speed,
- wherein the first motion execution operation includes:
- rotating the drum in a first direction set to any one of a clockwise direction and a counterclockwise direction at the reference rotation speed;
- rotating the drum in the first direction at the first rotation speed;
- and
- rotating the drum in the first direction at the second rotation speed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.