TOTAL LAUNDRY TREATING SYSTEM

• US 20100236296A1
• Filed: 08/11/2008
• Published: 09/23/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/16/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Joo Yeon, Choi, Kyung Ah
• Application Number:
  US12/304,335
• Publication Number:
  US 20100236296A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 68/13.R
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 2101/20 Operation modes, e.g. delicate laundry washing programs, service modes or refreshment cycles
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 2103/02 Characteristics of laundry or load
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 2105/58 Indications or alarms to the control system or to the user
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 29/00 Combinations of a washing machine with other separate apparatus in a common frame or the like, e.g. with rinsing apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 33/32 Control of operational steps, e.g. optimisation or improvement of operational steps depending on the condition of the laundry
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 34/04 Signal transfer or data transmission arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 34/32 characterised by graphical features, e.g. touchscreens
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 95/00 Laundry systems or arrangements of apparatus or machines; Mobile laundries D06F31/00 takes precedence

Abstract

The present invention relates to a total clothes treating system, including a plurality of clothes treating apparatuses positioned adjacent to one another for treating clothes, a display unit for receiving states of the plurality of clothes treating apparatuses and data on the clothes being treated at the plurality of clothes treating apparatuses, and displaying for a user to notice, and a data exchange unit for data exchange among the clothes treating apparatuses and the display unit.

Claims

1. A total clothes treating system comprising:

a plurality of clothes treating apparatuses positioned adjacent to one another for treating clothes;

a display unit for receiving states of the plurality of clothes treating apparatuses and data on the clothes being treated at the plurality of clothes treating apparatuses, and displaying for a user to notice; and

a data exchange unit for data exchange among the clothes treating apparatuses and the display unit.

2. The total clothes treating system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the plurality of clothes treating apparatuses include a washing machine and a dryer.

3. The total clothes treating system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the plurality of clothes treating apparatuses further include a refresher.

4. The total clothes treating system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the plurality of clothes treating apparatuses further include a washing and drying machine, and a refresher.

5. The total clothes treating system as claimed in claim 4, wherein the plurality of clothes treating apparatuses further include a clothes holding unit.

6. The total clothes treating system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data exchange unit is cables connected among the plurality of clothes treating apparatuses and the display unit, or wireless communication units mounted to the plurality of clothes treating apparatuses and the display unit respectively for making wireless data exchange.

7. The total clothes treating system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display unit is an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display).

8. The total clothes treating system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display unit further includes an input unit for inputting operation orders to the plurality of clothes treating apparatuses respectively according to user'"'"'s selection.

9. The total clothes treating system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the clothes respectively held in the plurality of clothes treating apparatuses have an identification tag containing information on the clothes, and

each of the plurality of clothes treating apparatuses has an identification sensor for sensing the clothes information on the identification tag and transmitting the clothes information to the display unit.

10. The total clothes treating system as claimed in claim 9, wherein the display unit displays the clothes information sensed at the identification sensor.

11. The total clothes treating system as claimed in claim 9, wherein the display unit further includes a storage unit for storing the clothes information therein.

12. The total clothes treating system as claimed in claim 11, wherein the clothes information includes information on a clothes state, and the storage unit has information on treating methods for treating the clothes at the plurality of clothes treating apparatuses according to the clothes states respectively in advance, and

the display unit compares the clothes information from the identification sensor to the information on treating methods stored in the storage unit in advance, and displays treating methods for treating the clothes at the plurality of clothes treating apparatuses, respectively.

13. The total clothes treating system as claimed in claim 12, wherein the display unit gives orders to the clothes treating apparatuses automatically so that the clothes are treated according to the treating methods, or if the user selects the treating methods, the display unit gives orders to the clothes treating apparatuses respectively.

14. The total clothes treating system as claimed in claim 11, wherein the clothes information includes information on treating the clothes at the clothes treating apparatuses, and

the display unit receives the clothes information, stores the clothes information to the storage unit and displays the clothes information at the same time.

15. The total clothes treating system as claimed in claim 14, wherein the display unit gives orders to the clothes treating apparatuses automatically so that the clothes are treated by the treating methods respectively, or if the user selects the treating methods, the display unit gives orders to the clothes treating apparatuses, respectively.

16. The total clothes treating system as claimed in claim 11, wherein the display unit further includes a receiver for receiving information on weather from an outside of the total clothes treating system.

17. The total clothes treating system as claimed in claim 16, wherein the display unit controls the plurality of clothes treating apparatuses with reference to the weather information and the clothes information, respectively.