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Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017

Filed:

Dec. 22, 2014
Applicant:

Lg Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;

Inventors:

Hyuksoo Lee, Seoul, KR;

Sungmin Ye, Seoul, KR;

Seonghwan Kim, Seoul, KR;

Assignee:

LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 58/24 (2006.01); D06F 58/28 (2006.01); D06F 58/20 (2006.01); D06F 58/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 58/206 (2013.01); D06F 58/28 (2013.01); D06F 58/02 (2013.01); D06F 2058/287 (2013.01); D06F 2058/2858 (2013.01); D06F 2058/2864 (2013.01);
Abstract

A clothes treating apparatus including a drum, an air suction duct forming a flow path of air introduced into the drum, an auxiliary fan introducing air into the air suction duct, an air exhaustion duct forming a flow path of air exhausted from the drum, a main fan exhausting air to the air exhaustion duct from the drum, a condenser heating air sucked into the drum through the air suction duct, an evaporator cooling air exhausted from the drum through the air exhaustion duct, and a compressor and an expander forming a heat pump together with the condenser and the evaporator. The method includes measuring a discharge side pressure of the compressor, and comparing the measured discharge side pressure with a maximum allowable pressure, and determining that the auxiliary fan does not operate when the discharge side pressure is more than the maximum allowable pressure.


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