Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Hyemin Cha

Hyojeong Lee

Jaeryong Park

Yeonju Lee

Changbae Yeom

Kyusik Kim

Mikyoung Kim

Hankyu Choi

Dockjo Yang

Kisu Lee

Myungwon Jeon

A dryer includes a cabinet, a drum disposed inside the cabinet to accommodate an object to be dried, a first opening disposed on a front side of the cabinet to enable the object to be dried to be placed into the drum, a heat exchanger disposed inside the cabinet to exchange heat with air, a second opening disposed on the front side of the cabinet, and a dehumidification unit. The dehumidification unit is configured to supply outside air to the heat exchanger and air supplied to the heat exchanger is circulated from the heat exchanger into the drum and discharged from the drum to the dehumidification unit. The air discharged from the drum to the dehumidification unit is then discharged outside of the cabinet by the dehumidification unit.

Dryer

A dryer includes a main body having an opening for an object to be dried to be entered therethrough, a drum arranged inside the main body for accommodating the object entered through the opening, a door opening or closing the opening, an input device configured to receive an input to perform a dehumidification mode, and output a control signal corresponding to the received input, a heat exchanger heating air supplied to the drum, a fan forming a flow of air along a fluid path connected to the drum through the heat exchanger from outside of the main body, and a controller configured to control the fan to introduce air from the outside of the main body to flow along the fluid path in response to the control signal received from the input device.

Dryer and method for controlling the same

A washing machine includes a communication interface for wireless communication with a dryer; a user interface configured to receive a user's control input related to the dryer, and to output information related to the dryer; and at least one processor configured to determine whether a front surface of the dryer faces in a same direction as a front surface of the washing machine, and when it is determined that the front surface of the dryer faces in the same direction as the front surface of the washing machine, receive the user's control input related to the dryer through the user interface and transmit, to the dryer, a control command corresponding to the user's control input related to the dryer through the communication interface.

Washing machine for controlling dryer, and dryer controlling method performed by washing machine

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Hyemin Cha