Clothes treatment apparatus and method for controlling same
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsByeonghwa CHO, Jaehyeok HA, Jongsoo HONG, Jeehoon KIM
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Abstract
A clothes treatment apparatus of the present invention includes a drum to accommodate a load; a contact sensor, to be provided in the drum, to detect contacts with a load; and a processor to control the rotation of the drum, acquiring a number of contacts between the load and the contact sensor per time based on the basis of electrical signals received from the contact sensor; and controlling the clothes treatment operation for a capacity of the load determined based on th number of contacts per time.
Claims15
A clothes treatment apparatus comprising:
- a drum to accommodate a load;
- a contact sensor, to be provided in the drum, configured to detect a contact with the load;
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- a processor configured to:
- obtain a number of contacts between the load and the contact sensor per time based on electrical signals received from the contact sensor while controlling a rotation of the drum in which the load is accommodated, and
- control a clothes treatment operation for a capacity of the load determined based on the number of contacts per time.
A control method of a clothes treatment apparatus, comprising:
- detecting a current flowing through a motor while a drum connected to the motor rotates,
- obtaining a weight of a load based on the detected current,
- obtaining electrical signals through a contact sensor provided in the drum based on the obtained weight of the load being identified to be equal to or less than a reference weight,
- obtaining number of contacts between the load and the contact sensor per time based on the obtained electrical signals,
- obtaining a deviation value of the number of contacts per time,
- recognizing a capacity of the load based on the obtained deviation value being within a reference deviation range, and
- controlling a clothes treatment operation based on the recognized capacity of the load.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.