Samsung patents dryer that adds water when clothes get too hot
Samsung describes a laundry machine that uses a heater and fan to dry clothes while monitoring the temperature of the air leaving the drum. If the air gets too hot, the machine automatically sprays a small amount of water into the drum to cool the clothes down.
In the filing’s own words
A clothes treating apparatus is provided. The clothes treating apparatus includes a housing, a tub provided inside the housing, a drum provided inside the tub and configured to accommodate laundry, a driving device configured to provide rotational force to the drum, a water supply device configured to supply water from an external water source into the tub, a hot air supply device including a heater configured to heat air and a fan configured to blow the air heated by the heater into the tub, a discharge device including a discharge flow path configured to guide moist air discharged from the tub to the outside, a plurality of temperature sensors provided on the discharge flow path of the discharge device and configured to detect a temperature, memory, including one or more storage media, storing instructions, and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the driving device, the water supply device, the hot air supply device, the plurality of temperature sensors, and the memory, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors individually or collectively, cause the clothes treating apparatus to control the driving device such that the drum rotates at a defined rotational speed, and control the water supply device to supply water into the drum, based on a temperature detected by one of the plurality of temperature sensors being equal to or higher than a defined target temperature.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A clothes treating apparatus comprising: a housing; a tub provided inside the housing; a drum provided inside the tub and configured to accommodate laundry; a driving device configured to provide rotational force to the drum; a water supply device configured to supply water from an external water source into the tub; a hot air supply device including a heater configured to heat air and a fan configured to blow the air heated by the heater into the tub; a discharge device including a discharge flow path configured to guide moist air discharged from the tub to the outside; a plurality of temperature sensors provided on the discharge flow path of the discharge device and configured to detect a temperature; memory, comprising one or more storage media, storing instructions; and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the driving device, the water supply device, the hot air supply device, the plurality of temperature sensors, and the memory, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors individually or collectively, cause the clothes treating apparatus to: control the driving device such that the drum rotates at a defined rotational speed, and control the water supply device to supply water into the drum, based on a temperature detected by one of the plurality of temperature sensors being equal to or higher than a defined target temperature.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- CLOTHES TREATING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME
- Publication number
- US20260317982A1
- Application number
- 19465328
- Filed
- Jan 30, 2026
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
D06F 33/54 Textiles & paperA62C 3/00 Human necessitiesD06F 33/62 Textiles & paperD06F 33/63 Textiles & paperD06F 33/70 Textiles & paperD06F 33/74 Textiles & paperMore from Samsung in Other
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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