US 7,093,374 B2 · Clothes dryer and method of controlling the same

Abstract

A clothes dryer and a method of controlling the clothes dryer. The method detects conditions of clothes using a sensor, and performs at least one of: a complex drying function to perform a drying operation, a deodorizing operation, and a wrinkle removing operation; a wrinkle removing function to perform the wrinkle removing operation and the drying operation; and a drying function to perform the drying operation, according to the detected conditions of the clothes. Accordingly, the clothes dryer is capable of not only drying the clothes, but also deodorizing the clothes and removing wrinkles. Additionally, the clothes dryer is capable of detecting conditions of clothes accommodated in a chamber, and drying and deodorizing the clothes as occasion demands, thus maintaining the clothes for a long period.

Claims13

Dependent claims

A clothes drying apparatus comprising:

a chamber to accommodate an article of clothing;
a humidifier to selectively supply moisture to the chamber and the article of clothing;
a heater to selectively supply heat to the chamber and the article of clothing;
an ozonizer to selectively supply ozone to the chamber and the article of clothing when an automatically detected odor level of the article of clothing exceeds a reference odor value;
an ozone disposer to selectively remove ozone from air drawn from the chamber;
a blower, communicating with the chamber to circulate an atmosphere of the chamber;
and
a controller to control the humidifier, the heater, the ozonizer, the ozone disposer, and the blower for selectively deodorizing, drying and removing wrinkles from the article of clothing.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

10/790,781Filed 3 Mar 2004

Priority

KR 10-2003-004965921 Jul 2003

Published

US 2005/0016012 A127 Jan 2005

Granted

22 Aug 2006

Term ends

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Classification14 codes

D06F 58/10
Domestic laundry dryers: drying cabinets or drying chambers having heating or ventilating means
D06F 73/02
Apparatus for smoothing or removing creases from garments or other textile articles by formers, cores, stretchers, or internal frames, with the…:…
D06F 58/38
Control of operational steps, e.g. for optimisation or improvement of operational steps depending on the condition of the laundry: of drying, e.g.…
D06F 2101/20
User input for the control of domestic laundry washing machines, washer-dryers or laundry dryers: operation modes, e.g. delicate laundry washing…

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Abstract

Claims13