Lg Electronics Inc.

Seungphyo Ahn

Hyuksoo Lee

Bio Park

Hyunwoo Noh

Hongjun Cho

Sanghun Bae

Jaehyung Kim

Seunghyun Song

Kihyuk Kim

Donghyun Kim

Jeongyun Kim

Seonghwan Kim

Eunyoung Jee

Minjung You

Sangik Lee

Hyojin Ko

Sungmin Ye

Byeongjo Ryoo

Sungho Song

Yongcheol Jin

A clothes treatment apparatus includes: a first chamber in which clothes are accommodated; a support part which is provided in the first chamber and in which the clothes are held; a driving unit for making the support part reciprocate along the width direction of the first chamber; a circulation duct for drawing air out from inside the first chamber and then resupplying the air into the first chamber; a heat exchange part for sequentially dehumidifying and heating the air that has flowed into the circulation duct; a fan provided inside the circulation duct; a moisture supply unit for supplying moisture into the first chamber; a sensing unit for measuring at least one among the concentration of dust and the concentration of odor particles contained in the air in the first chamber; and a display unit on which information is displayed.

Clothes treatment apparatus and method for controlling clothes treatment apparatus

The present invention relates to a method for controlling a clothes treatment apparatus that comprises: a first chamber in which clothes are accommodated; a support part which is provided in the first chamber and in which the clothes are held; a driving unit for making the support part reciprocate along the width direction of the first chamber; a circulation duct for drawing air out from inside the first chamber and then resupplying the air into the first chamber; a heat exchange part for sequentially dehumidifying and heating the air that has flowed into the circulation duct; a fan provided inside the circulation duct; a moisture supply unit for supplying moisture into the first chamber; a sensing unit for measuring at least one among the concentration of dust and the concentration of odor particles contained in the air in the first chamber; and a display unit on which information is displayed.

A clothes treating apparatus having a drying function includes: 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; a spray tube spraying water to the lint filter to separate lint collected in the lint filter from the lint filter; and a lint collecting part at least partially provided below the lint filter or below the heat-exchanger to collect falling lint. Lint in condensate water may be collected, and thus, generation of a bad influence when condensate water is re-used may be suppressed. Also, contact between lint in drying air and the heat-exchanger may be restrained.

Clothes treating apparatus having drying function

The present invention relates to a clothes dryer, including a drum, a heat pump cycle having a first evaporator, a compressor and a condenser, and a blower for circulating air, wherein the heat pump cycle includes second to nth evaporators disposed in series with the first evaporator within an air duct; an auxiliary heat exchanger to cool refrigerant discharged from the condenser, and first to nth expansion valves to independently control flow rates of refrigerants flowing into the first to nth evaporators, wherein the dryer further includes a controller to control the compressor according to refrigerant discharge pressure of the compressor or refrigerant inlet pressure of the condenser.

Clothes dryer and method for controlling same

A laundry treating apparatus is provided that includes a cabinet configured that defines a profile of the laundry treating apparatus, the cabinet including a laundry introduction opening formed therein, a door configured to open and close the laundry introduction opening, a hinge unit including a first pivot to rotate the door along a first rotational direction and a second pivot to rotate along a second rotational direction, which is different from the first rotational direction, and a securing member configured to secure the door to the first pivot or the second pivot, when the door is rotated.

Laundry treating apparatus

A laundry treatment apparatus may facilitate input and removal of laundry items. The laundry treatment apparatus may include a door which may selectively open and close an opening into a receiving space formed in a cabinet in which laundry items may be received for treatment. The door may serve as a laundry guide when positioned at an angle relative to the cabinet so as to guide laundry items into the receiving space, and may serve as a shelf to support laundry items thereon when positioned at another angle relative to the cabinet.

Laundry treatment apparatus

Disclosed is a clothes dryer having a heat pump, the clothes dryer capable of enhancing energy efficiency by recovering waste heat to the maximum in correspondence to a capacity of the heat pump, capable of enhancing reliability by preventing overheating of a compressor and a heat exchange means, and capable of shortening drying time. The clothes dryer includes a body, drum rotatably installed in the body, a suction duct installed at the body, and configured to suck external air and to supply the external air into the drum, an exhaustion duct configured to exhaust air having passed through the drum to outside of the body, and a heat pump having a heat exchange means for recovering waste heat by heat-exchanging air passing through the exhaustion duct, wherein part of the air exhausted via the exhaustion duct is heat-exchanged with the heat exchange means of the heat pump.

Clothes dryer

A dryer is provided. The dryer may include a second condenser integrally provided with an evaporator and employing a heat pump to maximize a condensation effect so as to enhance heat exchange efficiency, thereby enhancing dehumidifying capability. The dryer may be a circulation type heat pump dryer including a cabinet, a drum, a drying duct to circulate dry air back to the drum, an evaporator having a heat pump, a first condenser, a compressor, an expansion apparatus, and a second condenser to condense refrigerant condensed by the first condenser again so as to supercool the refrigerant during the refrigerant cycle, thereby enhancing dehumidifying capability in the evaporator.

Dryer having evaporator equipped with second condenser

An apparatus for treating clothes includes an accommodating space, an air supply unit, a duct unit, a filter unit, a substance removal unit and a collection unit that is separate from the filter unit and the substance removal unit. The accommodating space is configured to receive one or more clothing articles. The air supply unit is configured to supply air to the accommodating space. The duct unit is configured to guide discharge of air from the accommodating space. The filter unit is positioned to filter substances from air discharged from the accommodating space through the duct unit. The substance removal unit is configured to move substances remaining on a portion of the filter unit. The collection unit is configured to collect substances moved from the filter unit by the substance removal unit.

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Seoul, South Korea

Seungphyo Ahn