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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 11459687 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2022

Filed:

Dec. 23, 2020

Washing apparatus and method of controlling the same

Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;

Inventors:

Hyun Oh Kim, Suwon-si, KR;

Seung Hun Lee, Suwon-si, KR;

Jun Hyun Park, Osan-si, KR;

Sung Mo Lee, Gunpo-si, KR;

So Dam Han, Suwon-si, KR;

Assignee:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:

Cristi J Tate-Sims

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 34/18 (2020.01); D06F 1/04 (2006.01); D06F 29/00 (2006.01); D06F 103/04 (2020.01); D06F 103/18 (2020.01); D06F 103/46 (2020.01); D06F 105/02 (2020.01); D06F 105/58 (2020.01); D06F 105/60 (2020.01); D06F 101/00 (2020.01); D06F 33/36 (2020.01); D06F 17/10 (2006.01); D06F 23/04 (2006.01); D06F 37/38 (2006.01); D06F 37/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 34/18 (2020.02); D06F 1/04 (2013.01); D06F 17/10 (2013.01); D06F 23/04 (2013.01); D06F 29/00 (2013.01); D06F 33/36 (2020.02); D06F 37/38 (2013.01); D06F 37/40 (2013.01); D06F 2101/00 (2020.02); D06F 2103/04 (2020.02); D06F 2103/18 (2020.02); D06F 2103/46 (2020.02); D06F 2105/02 (2020.02); D06F 2105/58 (2020.02); D06F 2105/60 (2020.02);
Abstract

Provided is a washing apparatus and a method of controlling the same. The washing apparatus includes a washing tub; and a controller configured to determine whether laundry put into the washing tub is wet laundry or dry laundry, and to determine a weight of the laundry in the washing tub through a detection of wet laundry weight or a detection of dry laundry weight, based on a result of the determination. The washing apparatus includes a washing tub; and a controller configured to detect a water level of washing water in the washing tub, configured to perform at least one of detecting a weight of wet laundry weight and dry laundry according to the water level, and configured to allow washing to be performed according to at least one result of the detection of the wet laundry weight and the dry laundry weight.

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