Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Clothes dryer and method for controlling same
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Application No.: US15735709Application Date: 2016-05-20
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Publication No.: US10662575B2Publication Date: 2020-05-26
- Inventor: Seungphyo Ahn , Seonghwan Kim , Bio Park , Hyunwoo Noh , Hyuksoo Lee
- Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
- Applicant Address: KR Seoul
- Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
- Current Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Seoul
- Agency: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P.
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@3b9359d7 com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@32e7830e
- International Application: PCT/KR2016/005402 WO 20160520
- International Announcement: WO2016/204415 WO 20161222
- Main IPC: D06F58/24
- IPC: D06F58/24 ; D06F58/20 ; D06F58/28

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a clothes dryer, including a drum, a heat pump cycle having a first evaporator, a compressor and a condenser, and a blower for circulating air, wherein the heat pump cycle includes second to nth evaporators disposed in series with the first evaporator within an air duct; an auxiliary heat exchanger to cool refrigerant discharged from the condenser, and first to nth expansion valves to independently control flow rates of refrigerants flowing into the first to nth evaporators, wherein the dryer further includes a controller to control the compressor according to refrigerant discharge pressure of the compressor or refrigerant inlet pressure of the condenser.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180142408A1 CLOTHES DRYER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME Public/Granted day:2018-05-24
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