REFRESH WASHING MACHINE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20120160269A1
• Filed: 12/27/2011
• Published: 06/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Pyo, Sang Yeon, Kim, Ki Soo, Hyun, Sang Min
• Application Number:
  US13/337,907
• Publication Number:
  US 20120160269A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 134/18
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 2103/00 Parameters monitored or detected for the control of domestic laundry washing machines, washer-dryers or laundry dryers
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 2105/00 Systems or parameters controlled or affected by the control systems of washing machines, washer-dryers or laundry dryers
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 2105/18 Pressure
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 2105/32 Air flow control means
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 2105/38 Conditioning or finishing, e.g. control of perfume injection
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 58/10 Drying cabinets or drying chambers having heating or ventilating means
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 58/203 Laundry conditioning arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 58/44 of conditioning or finishing, e.g. for smoothing or removing creases
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 73/02 having one or more treatment chambers

Abstract

A refresh washing machine including a plurality of spray nozzles to spray air into a clothes receiving compartment of a cabinet, a plurality of opening and closing valves to open and close the spray nozzles, and a controller to open at least one of the opening and closing valves and close the other opening and closing valves so that air is sequentially sprayed from the spray nozzles.

Claims

1. A refresh washing machine comprising:

a cabinet having a clothes receiving compartment;

a plurality of spray nozzles to spray air into the clothes receiving compartment of the cabinet;

a plurality of opening and closing valves to open and close the spray nozzles; and

a controller to open at least one of the opening and closing valves and close the other opening and closing valves so that air is sequentially sprayed from the spray nozzles.

2. The refresh washing machine according to claim 1, further comprising an exhaust port through which air is discharged from the clothes receiving compartment of the cabinet,

wherein the spray nozzles sequentially spray air from the spray nozzle most distant from the exhaust port to the spray nozzle closest to the exhaust port.

3. The refresh washing machine according to claim 2, wherein the spray nozzles sequentially spray air from the uppermost spray nozzle to the lowermost spray nozzle in a case in which the exhaust port is located at a lower side of the cabinet.

4. The refresh washing machine according to claim 3, wherein the spray nozzles are inclined downward.

5. The refresh washing machine according to claim 2, wherein the spray nozzles sequentially spray air from the lowermost spray nozzle to the uppermost spray nozzle in a case in which the exhaust port is located at an upper side of the cabinet.

6. The refresh washing machine according to claim 5, wherein the spray nozzles are inclined upward.

7. The refresh washing machine according to claim 2, further comprising a dust sensor to sense dust passing through the exhaust port,

wherein the controller adjusts spray pressure or spray frequency of air sprayed from the spray nozzles into the clothes receiving compartment based on information from the dust sensor.

8. The refresh washing machine according to claim 2, further comprising a dust tank connected to the exhaust port to store dust.

9. The refresh washing machine according to claim 8, further comprising an air pump connected to the dust tank to suction air.

10. The refresh washing machine according to claim 1, further comprising a spray duct connected to the nozzles and an air pump connected to the spray duct.

11. The refresh washing machine according to claim 1, further comprising a steam supply unit to supply steam into the clothes receiving compartment of the cabinet.

12. A refresh washing machine comprising:

a cabinet having a clothes receiving compartment; and

at least one nozzle exposed in the clothes receiving compartment of the cabinet, wherein the at least one nozzle comprises

a spray nozzle to spray air into the clothes receiving compartment of the cabinet; and

an exhaust nozzle to discharge air from the clothes receiving compartment of the cabinet.

13. The refresh washing machine according to claim 12, further comprising an opening and closing valve to open and close the spray nozzle.

14. The refresh washing machine according to claim 12, wherein the at least one nozzle comprises a plurality of nozzles.

15. The refresh washing machine according to claim 12, further comprising a spray duct connected to the spray nozzle and an air pump connected to the spray duct.

16. The refresh washing machine according to claim 12, further comprising an exhaust duct connected to the exhaust nozzle and a dust tank connected to the exhaust duct.

17. The refresh washing machine according to claim 12, wherein the exhaust nozzle surrounds an outer circumference of the spray nozzle.

18. A control method of a refresh washing machine comprising:

a plurality of spray nozzles to spray air into a clothes receiving compartment; and

a plurality of opening and closing valves to open and close the spray nozzles, the control method comprising;

controlling the opening and closing valves so that air is sequentially sprayed from the spray nozzles.

19. The control method according to claim 18, wherein the refresh washing machine further comprises an exhaust port through which air is discharged from the clothes receiving compartment;

and a dust sensor to sense dust passing through the exhaust port, and

the control method further comprises adjusting spray pressure or spray frequency of air sprayed into the clothes receiving compartment based on information from the dust sensor.

20. The control method according to claim 19, further comprising increasing the air spray pressure or the air spray frequency when a dust measurement value measured by the dust sensor exceeds a reference value.

21. The control method according to claim 19, further comprising decreasing the air spray pressure or the air spray frequency when a dust measurement value measured by the dust sensor is less than a reference value.

22. The control method according to claim 18, wherein the refresh washing machine further comprises an exhaust port through which air is discharged from the clothes receiving compartment, and

the control method further comprises controlling the spray nozzles to sequentially spray air from the spray nozzle most distant from the exhaust port to the spray nozzle closest to the exhaust port.