公开(公告)号：US09784496B2

公开(公告)日：2017-10-10

申请号：US14301619

申请日：2014-06-11

Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.

Inventor： Byung Ik Choi ,  Tae Gyoon Noh ,  Jun Hoe Choi ,  Ji Hoon Ha ,  Jeong Su Han ,  Jong Soo Hong ,  Hyung Min Son

IPC: F25D21/06 ,  F25D29/00 ,  F24F1/06 ,  F24F11/00 ,  F25D17/06 ,  F25D27/00 ,  F25D31/00

CPC classification number: F25D29/00 ,  F24F1/06 ,  F24F11/30 ,  F24F2110/00 ,  F24F2110/10 ,  F25D17/06 ,  F25D27/00 ,  F25D31/005

Abstract: An air conditioner includes an indoor unit, an outdoor unit including an outdoor fan, a sensor unit mounted at an upper portion of the outdoor unit to sense snow piled up on the outdoor unit, and a control unit to determine whether snow is piled up or not based on an output from the sensor unit and control an operation of the outdoor fan to remove snow when snow is piled up based on the determination. The sensor unit includes a photo sensor and a temperature sensor.

公开(公告)号：US12146259B2

公开(公告)日：2024-11-19

申请号：US17309428

申请日：2019-11-18

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Jong Soo Hong ,  Jun Hoe Choi ,  Jeong Su Han

IPC: D06F58/10 ,  D06F58/20 ,  D06F58/26 ,  D06F58/30 ,  D06F58/38 ,  D06F103/04 ,  D06F103/06 ,  D06F103/34 ,  D06F105/30 ,  D06F105/56

Abstract: A clothes care apparatus according to a disclosed embodiment includes: a chamber; an upper fan provided on an upper side of the chamber and configured to move air in a lower side direction of the chamber; a lower fan provided on a lower side of the chamber and configured to move air in an upper side direction of the chamber; a first motor configured to rotate the lower fan; a steam generating device configured to generate steam by heating water; and a controller configured to control on/off of the steam generating device and the first motor and turn on the steam generating device in a first section for supplying the generated steam into the chamber and turn on the first motor in a second section for dispersing the steam by the air moving into the chamber.