Clothes treatment apparatus and a method for controlling a clothes treatment apparatus
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsHeakyung Yoo, Cheolsoo Ko, Youngsuk Kim
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Abstract
A clothes treatment apparatus and a method for controlling a clothes treatment apparatus are provided. The method may include feeding heated hot air to clothes or other items received in a drum, and dehydrating the clothes or other items by performing a first rotation cycle for rotating the drum at a first RPM for a predetermined period of time. The first RPM may be a RPM that allows a centrifugal force applied to the clothes or other items during rotation of the drum to exceed gravity.
Claims14
A method for controlling a clothes treatment apparatus including a preceding drying cycle and a following drying cycle, which comes after the receding drying cycle, the method comprising:
- performing the preceding drying cycle having a dehydration cycle for removing moisture contained in the clothes, wherein the dehydration cycle includes:
- feeding hot air to the clothes received in a drum;
- and
- dehydrating the clothes by performing a first rotation cycle including rotating the drum at a first RPM for a first predetermined period of time, wherein the first RPM is an RPM that allows a centrifugal force applied to the clothes during rotation of the drum to exceed gravity;
- and
- performing the following drying cycle which dries new clothes and includes:
- measuring an interior temperature of a tub;
- performing thermal balancing by turning off a drying heater and turning on a blower fan to feed unheated air into a drum it the interior temperature of the tub is greater than or equal to a preset reference temperature;
- and
- performing a general drying cycle if the interior temperature of the tub is less than the preset reference temperature.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.