US 12,146,259 B2
Clothes care apparatus and control method thereof
Jong Soo Hong, Suwon-si (KR); Jun Hoe Choi, Suwon-si (KR); and Jeong Su Han, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Appl. No. 17/309,428
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
PCT Filed Nov. 18, 2019, PCT No. PCT/KR2019/015734
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 26, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/111616, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 4, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2018-0152791 (KR), filed on Nov. 30, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0034023 A1, Feb. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. D06F 58/10 (2006.01); D06F 58/20 (2006.01); D06F 58/26 (2006.01); D06F 58/30 (2020.01); D06F 58/38 (2020.01); D06F 103/04 (2020.01); D06F 103/06 (2020.01); D06F 103/34 (2020.01); D06F 105/30 (2020.01); D06F 105/56 (2020.01)
CPC D06F 58/10 (2013.01) [D06F 58/203 (2013.01); D06F 58/263 (2013.01); D06F 58/30 (2020.02); D06F 58/38 (2020.02); D06F 2103/04 (2020.02); D06F 2103/06 (2020.02); D06F 2103/34 (2020.02); D06F 2105/30 (2020.02); D06F 2105/56 (2020.02)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A clothes care apparatus comprising:
a chamber configured to accommodate clothes;
at least one hanger disposed in the chamber on which the clothes are hung;
an optical sensor including a light emitter and a light receiver;
a blowing device configured to supply wind into the chamber;
a steam generating device configured to supply steam into the chamber; and
at least one processor configured to:
control the blowing device to supply air into the chamber,
identify a texture of clothes accommodated in the chamber on the basis of an amount of change in an output value of the optical sensor measured during the supply of the wind into the chamber,
determine a control parameter of at least one of the blowing device or the steam generating device on the basis of the texture of the clothes, and
control the at least one of the blowing device or the steam generating device on the basis of the determined control parameter.