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US 2026/0297830 A1Published application
Clothes treating apparatus and control method of clothes treating apparatus
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorSuncheol BAE
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a cloths treating apparatus, wherein, when a person or animal steps into a drum, a drive unit is controlled to rotate the drum when a power supply unit is turned on or a sensing unit senses opening and closing of a door, and then stop the drum, and a display part unit indicates an abnormal state after the drum stops.
Claims11
A laundry treating apparatus comprising:
- a cabinet having an opening at a front side;
- a door coupled to the cabinet to open and close the opening;
- a sensor configured to sense whether the door closes the opening;
- a locker arranged to lock the door to the cabinet;
- a drum accommodated inside the cabinet to accommodate laundry;
- a driver connected to the drum to rotate the drum;
- and
- a control panel comprising:
- a power part configured to receive an input of a power command to supply power;
- a display part configured to display weight information about the laundry and an abnormal condition indicating that an animal or a person is placed inside the drum;
- and
- an execution part configured to receive an input of an execution command to execute a course for treating the laundry,
- wherein:
- the driver is configured to rotate the drum with the door unlocked by the locker when the power part receives the input of the power command;
- the display part is configured to display the weight information after the drum starts to rotate;
- and
- the execution part is configured to receive the input of the execution command while the display part displays the weight information after the drum starts to rotate,
- wherein, based on that the person or the animal is placed inside the drum, the driver is configured to rotate the drum and then stop the drum when the power part receives the input of the command or when the sensor senses the door opened and closed,
- wherein the display part is configured to display the abnormal condition after the drum stops.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.