Clothes treating apparatus and method for controlling the same
OwnerSog Kie HONG, Jong Seok Kiminventors
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Abstract
A clothes treating apparatus and a method for controlling the same can prevent a safety incident caused by steam and hot air and improve the safety of the clothes treating apparatus by preventing the door from being opened and closed randomly in the steam step and the dry step.
Claims20
A clothes treating apparatus, comprising:
- a casing having a clothes treating space and a doorway, through which clothes are put into and taken out of the clothes treatment space—;
- a clothes treatment device that treats clothes disposed within the clothes treatment space;
- a door that opens and closes the doorway;
- an opening and closing detection sensor that detects the opening and closing of the door;
- and
- a controller that stops a certain operation of the clothes treatment device when the opening of the door is detected by the opening and closing detection sensor.
A clothes treating apparatus, comprising:
- a casing having a clothes treatment space and a doorway, through which clothes are put into and taken out of the clothes treatment space;
- a clothes treatment device that treats clothes disposed within the clothes treatment space;
- a door that opens and closes the doorway;
- a locking device that locks the door to the casing;
- and
- a controller that locks the door to the casing using the locking device during a certain operation of the clothes treatment device.
A method for controlling a clothes treating apparatus, the clothes treating apparatus comprising a casing having a clothes treatment space and a doorway, through which clothes are put into and taken out of the clothes treatment space and a door that opens and closes the doorway, the method comprising:
- treating clothes disposed in the clothes treatment space by operating a clothes treatment device;
- and
- locking the door using a locking device during the clothes treating step.
A method for controlling a clothes treating apparatus, the clothes treating apparatus comprising a casing having a clothes treatment space and a doorway, through which clothes are put into and taken out of the clothes treatment space and a door that opens and closes the doorway, the method comprising:
- treating clothes disposed in the clothes treatment space by operating a clothes treatment device;
- and
- stopping a certain operation of the clothes treatment device by a controller if an opening and closing detection sensor detects that the door is opened during the clothes treating step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.