公开(公告)号：US10227722B2

公开(公告)日：2019-03-12

申请号：US14029524

申请日：2013-09-17

Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.

Inventor： Heunggi Kim ,  Jaemun Kim ,  Chanwoo Jung ,  Kilryong Lee

IPC: D06F39/00 ,  D06F39/04 ,  D06F39/08 ,  D06F58/20 ,  D06F33/02

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.