- Patent Title: Laundry machine control method for removal or reduction of creases
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Application No.: US16281883Application Date: 2019-02-21
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Publication No.: US11186939B2Publication Date: 2021-11-30
- Inventor: Heunggi Kim , Jaemun Kim , Chanwoo Jung , Kilryong Lee
- Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
- Applicant Address: KR Seoul
- Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
- Current Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Seoul
- Agency: Dentons US LLP
- Priority: KR10-2013-0015376 20130213,KR10-2013-0015377 20130213
- Main IPC: D06F39/00
- IPC: D06F39/00 ; D06F39/04 ; D06F39/08 ; D06F58/20 ; D06F33/00 ; D06F34/28

Abstract:
A laundry machine having a refreshing operation and a control method of the same are disclosed. The disclosed method comprises a steam water supply operation of supplying wash water to a tub up to a water level for generation of steam while preventing the wash water to pass through a drum, when the refreshing course is selected, a steaming operation of heating the wash water by driving a washing heater, thereby generating steam, and a refreshing operation of refreshing the laundry by alternately executing, after the steaming operation, a tumbling driving operation to tumble the laundry within the drum through rotation of the drum and a spin driving operation to rotate the laundry within the drum in close contact with an inner surface of the drum, in accordance with high-speed rotation of the drum.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190186067A1 LAUNDRY MACHINE CONTROL METHOD FOR REMOVAL OR REDUCTION OF CREASES Public/Granted day:2019-06-20
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