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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2018
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Seung Eun Chung, Yongin-si, KR;
Da Eun Kim, Seoul, KR;
Jin Han Kim, Suwon-si, KR;
Yong Soon Park, Seoul, KR;
Sung Chan Yun, Suwon-si, KR;
Dong Woo Lee, Yongin-si, KR;
Seok-Mo Chang, Incheon, KR;
Hee-Soo Jeong, Suwon-si, KR;
Jin Young Choi, Seongnam-si, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
Provided are a dryer and method for controlling the same, which may appropriately and efficiently dry objects thrown into a receiving space by using high frequency electric fields and heated air. In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure a dryer includes a main body, a drum rotationally placed inside the main body, a driver provides rotational force to the drum, an electrode part produces an electric field inside the drum, a power supplier supplies power to the electrode part, an air heater heats air, a blower supplies heated air into the drum and a controller controls the power supplier to block power supplied to the electrode part depending on a dried state of an object contained in the drum, controls the driver to rotate the drum, and controls the air heater and the blower to supply heated air into the drum.