US 12,146,260 B2
Apparatus for controlling clothes treating apparatus, clothes treating apparatus and method for controlling clothes treating apparatus
Seonghwan Kim, Seoul (KR); Haeyoon Je, Seoul (KR); and Ingeun Ahn, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to LG Electronics Inc., Seoul (KR)
Filed by LG Electronics Inc., Seoul (KR)
Filed on Aug. 13, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/992,767.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0099755 (KR), filed on Aug. 14, 2019; and application No. 10-2020-0082304 (KR), filed on Jul. 3, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0047773 A1, Feb. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. D06F 58/20 (2006.01); D06F 34/28 (2020.01); D06F 58/24 (2006.01); D06F 58/38 (2020.01); D06F 58/45 (2020.01); D06F 103/00 (2020.01); D06F 103/32 (2020.01); D06F 105/08 (2020.01); D06F 105/26 (2020.01); D06F 105/30 (2020.01)
CPC D06F 58/206 (2013.01) [D06F 34/28 (2020.02); D06F 58/38 (2020.02); D06F 58/45 (2020.02); D06F 58/24 (2013.01); D06F 2103/00 (2020.02); D06F 2103/32 (2020.02); D06F 2105/08 (2020.02); D06F 2105/26 (2020.02); D06F 2105/30 (2020.02)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A clothes treating apparatus, comprising:
a drum located in a main body of the clothes treating apparatus;
a heat exchanger that is located at an air circulation passage connected to the drum and that includes an evaporator and a condenser, the heat exchanger being configured to exchange heat with air circulating in the air circulation passage;
a compressor configured to compress a refrigerant that is circulated through the heat exchanger and that exchanges heat with air circulating in the air circulation passage;
one or more input elements configured to receive control input for selection of an operation mode of the clothes treating apparatus; and
a control apparatus configured to control at least one of operation of the drum or operation of the compressor to perform the selected operation mode based on the control input;
wherein the control apparatus is further configured to:
based on the selected operation mode being a specific mode to control a surface temperature of the evaporator, drive the compressor, and
based on at least one of a temperature change of the evaporator or an operating state of the compressor meeting a predetermined reference condition, stop the compressor to maintain the surface temperature at or above a predetermined reference temperature.