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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2019
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Inventor:
Seung-Hoon Kim, Suwon-si, KR;
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 39/04 (2006.01); D06F 34/22 (2020.01); D06F 34/28 (2020.01); D06F 33/00 (2020.01); D06F 103/16 (2020.01); D06F 103/46 (2020.01); D06F 101/00 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 39/04 (2013.01); D06F 33/00 (2013.01); D06F 34/22 (2020.02); D06F 34/28 (2020.02); D06F 2101/00 (2020.02); D06F 2103/16 (2020.02); D06F 2103/46 (2020.02);
Abstract
A washing machine including a tub configured to store water; a drum configured to be rotatable in the tub; a motor configured to rotate the drum; heaters configured to heat the water stored in the tub and including a main heater and the sub heater; and a controller configured to control the heaters to stop driving of the sub heater when the current value of the motor exceeds a predetermined reference current value during driving of the motor and the heaters.