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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2007
Young Jin Doh, Changwon-si, KR;
Young Jin Doh, Changwon-si, KR;
LG Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a dryer which can sense a laundry amount and a dryness, and a method for controlling the same. The dryer includes a drum () for holding a drying object, a heater () for supplying hot air to an inside of the drum (), a sensing unit () for providing a pulse signal depending an contact to the drying object in the drum (), a microcomputer () for determining a load and dryness of the drying object with reference to the pulse signal from the sensing unit () to control a general drying course. According to this by providing a new system of sensing means in which the load and the dryness can be determined, not by using a direct contact system with the electrode sensor, but by using a number of contact to the laundry, the present invention permits to provide more accurate and safer system.