Laundry treating apparatus
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsByeongjo RYOO, Bio PARK, Taewon CHEON
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Abstract
A laundry treating apparatus includes a cabinet, a drum, a fluid circulator, an air circulator including a humidity sensor, a driver, and a controller, where a drying operation includes an efficiency increasing process for increasing drying efficiency inside the drum, an efficiency maintaining process for maintaining the drying efficiency, and an efficiency decreasing process for reducing the drying efficiency, where the controller performs the drying operation while distinguishing the efficiency increasing process, the efficiency maintaining process, and the efficiency decreasing process from each other using a measured value of the humidity sensor.
Claims18
A laundry treating apparatus comprising:
- a cabinet;
- a drum disposed rotatably inside the cabinet, and including an electrode sensor measuring a moisture amount of laundry accommodated therein;
- a fluid circulator configured to repeat endothermic and exothermic processes as fluid circulates therethrough and including a compressor compressing the fluid;
- an air circulator including a fan configured to cause air heated through the fluid circulator to flow into the drum and a humidity sensor configured to measure a humidity of the air passing through the drum;
- a driver including a first driver configured to rotate the drum and a second driver configured to rotate the fan;
- and
- a controller configured to perform a drying operation of the laundry by independently controlling the fluid circulator, the first driver, and the second driver,
- wherein the drying operation includes an efficiency increasing process for increasing drying efficiency inside the drum, an efficiency maintaining process for maintaining the drying efficiency, and an efficiency decreasing process for reducing the drying efficiency, and
- wherein the controller is configured to:
- determine to perform each of the efficiency increasing process and the efficiency maintaining process, based on a measured value of the humidity sensor;
- and
- determine to terminate the efficiency maintaining process and proceed with the efficiency decreasing process, based on the measurement value of the electrode sensor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.