Abstract:
Disclosed is a laundry treating apparatus including a cabinet, a drum, a fluid circulator including a compressor sensor, an air circulator including a fan, a driver including a first driver and a second driver, and a controller, wherein 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, wherein the controller performs the drying operation while distinguishing the efficiency increasing process, the efficiency maintaining process, and the efficiency decreasing process from each other through a measured value of the compressor sensor.
Abstract:
Disclosed are a clothes treating apparatus and an operating method thereof. For a clothes treating apparatus comprising a drum configured to accommodate therein an object to be dried, an air suction duct configured to form a flow path of air introduced into the drum, an auxiliary fan configured to introduce air into the air suction duct, an air exhaustion duct configured to form a flow path of air exhausted from the drum, a main fan configured to exhaust air to the air exhaustion duct from the drum, a condenser disposed to heat air sucked into the drum through the air suction duct, an evaporator disposed to cool air exhausted from the drum through the air exhaustion duct, and a compressor and an expander configured to constitute a heat pump together with the condenser and the evaporator, the method includes measuring a discharge side pressure (Pd) of the compressor, and comparing the measured discharge side pressure (Pd) with a maximum allowable pressure (Pm), and determining that the auxiliary fan does not operate when the discharge side pressure (Pd) is more than the maximum allowable pressure (Pm).
Abstract:
Provided is a method of controlling a laundry treating apparatus (100), the method including an air supplying step of supplying heated air to the drum (2) through the heat exchange part (34) and a first motion executing step executed while the air supplying step is in progress, wherein the first motion executing step alternately executes a first acceleration mode of rotating the drum at an rpm inducing a centrifugal force equal to or greater than 1G along one of a clockwise direction and a counterclockwise direction and a first deceleration mode of rotating the drum at an rpm inducing a centrifugal force smaller than 1G in a direction equal to a rotational direction set for the first acceleration mode.
Abstract:
A dryer includes a drum (20) including a drum body (21), a front cover (22), a rear cover (23), and a drum inlet (221) penetrating through the front cover (22) and communicating with the inside of the drum body (21), a fixing panel (15) provided at a position apart from the rear cover (23), a motor (5) including a stator (51) fixed to the fixing panel (15) and a rotor (52) rotated by the stator (51), a hollow housing (60a, 60b) fixed to the fixing panel (15), a first shaft (63a, 63b) having one end fixed to the rotor (52) and the other end provided with a driving gear (631a, 631b) located inside the housing, a second shaft (652a, 652b) having one end provided with a driven gear (65a, 65b) located inside the housing and the other end penetrating through the fixing panel (15) and fixed to the rear cover (23), and a plurality of interlocking gears (64a, 64b) provided rotatably in the housing and transmitting a rotational force of the driving gear (631a, 631b) to the driven gear (65a, 65b).
Abstract:
A dryer includes a drum (20) including a drum body (21), a front cover (22), a rear cover (23) having an air inlet (233) formed thereon, and a drum inlet (221) communicating with the inside of the drum body (21) through the front cover (22), a fixing panel (15) apart from the rear cover (23), a motor (5) including a stator and a rotor, a supply port (158) including a plurality of supply holes in the shape of a ring on the fixing panel (15) along an outer circumferential surface of the motor (5), a ring-shaped supply duct (32) fixed to the fixing panel (15), guiding air to the supply port (158), and including an accommodator (322) for accommodating the motor (5) at the center thereof, a first cooling hole (236) on the fixing panel, a second cooling hole (237) apart from the first cooling hole (236) on the fixing panel (15), and a duct cover (36) circulating air by connecting the first cooling hole (236), the accommodator (322), and the second cooling hole (237).
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a clothes processing apparatus comprising: a drum for accommodating clothes; a circulation flow path which forms a path enabling air discharged from a frontal-side opening of the drum to undergo heat exchange and then flow into a rear-side opening of the drum; and a base cabinet which is disposed in a lower portion of the drum to provide a space in which various components are mounted, wherein the base cabinet comprises: a base flow path part which forms a part of the circulation flow path and in which an evaporator, a condenser, and a circulation fan are disposed sequentially towards a rear of the base flow path part; a drum motor mounting part which is disposed at one side in front of the base flow path part, and in which a drum motor for generating a driving force for rotating the drum is mounted; and a compressor mounting part which is disposed at one side behind the base flow path part, and in which a compressor for generating compressed air for heat exchange is mounted.
Abstract:
A clothes treating apparatus includes a drum, an air suction unit forming a flow path of air introduced into the drum, an air exhaustion unit forming a flow path of air exhausted from the drum, a condenser heating air sucked into the drum through the air suction unit, an evaporator cooling air exhausted from the drum through the air exhaustion unit, a compressor compressing refrigerant introduced from the evaporator, and a variable expander expanding a refrigerant introduced from the condenser, and having a variable open degree. An operation method includes measuring a temperature of a refrigerant into the evaporator, and a temperature of a refrigerant into the compressor, and decreasing an open degree of the variable expander when a temperature difference between the two measured temperatures is less than a predetermined first value.
Abstract:
The invention provides a clothes treating apparatus having a drying function, the clothes treating apparatus comprising: a cabinet; a drum provided within the cabinet; a heat-exchanger heat-exchanged with air exhausted from the drum; a lint filter disposed on an upstream side of the heat-exchanger with respect to flow of air exhausted from the drum to collect lint in the air, wherein the lint filter includes a frame having at least one opening, and a mesh part provided in the opening and allowing passage of air and restraining passage of lint; a spray tube for spraying water to the lint filter or to the heat exchanger such that lint collected in the lint filter is separated from the lint filter or lint collected in the heat exchanger is separated from the heat exchanger; and a lint collecting part provided below the lint filter or below the heat-exchanger to collect the separated lint, wherein the lint filter is disposed to be sloped with respect to a vertical direction of the cabinet, wherein water is sprayable to a rear surface of the lint filter, or sprayable to an upstream side end region of the heat exchanger along a flow direction of air exhausted from the drum, and wherein the lint collecting part comprises a bottom part, and a side wall part extending upward from the edges of the bottom part, wherein the bottom part is arranged for the water and the separated lint to drop thereon such that the bottom part allows passage of the water and restrains passage of the lint to collect the lint thereon.