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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2003
Young Hwan Park, Kwangmyong-shi, KR;
Choon Myun Chung, Kwangmyong-shi, KR;
Mu Yong Choi, Seoul, KR;
Dae Yun Park, Kwangmyong-shi, KR;
Kyung Seop Hong, Inchon-kwangyokshi, KR;
Young Hwan Park, Kwangmyong-shi, KR;
Choon Myun Chung, Kwangmyong-shi, KR;
Mu Yong Choi, Seoul, KR;
Dae Yun Park, Kwangmyong-shi, KR;
Kyung Seop Hong, Inchon-kwangyokshi, KR;
LG Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
A clothes dryer and a method for controlling its operation are disclosed, in which the clothes dryer includes a second motor being separately driven from a drum or a circulation fan to control a cooling fan for cooling a condenser. As for the second motor, a variable speed motor is used and amount of heating of a heater of the clothes dryer is variable. In the method for controlling an operation of a clothes dryer, the cooling fan is operated when a predetermined period of time passes after the cooling fan being stopped during an initial operation, or the cooling fan is operated at a regular speed when a temperature of air circulating reaches a predetermined degree after the cooling fan being operated at a low speed during the initial operation of the clothes dryer. Also, the speed of the cooling fan is varied according to amount of heating of the heater.