US 11,718,950 B2
Clothes treating apparatus
Wansik Nam, Seoul (KR); Donghyun Kim, Seoul (KR); and Jinseong Lee, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to LG Electronics Inc., Seoul (KR)
Filed by LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul (KR)
Filed on Jun. 2, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/336,808.
Application 17/336,808 is a continuation of application No. 15/950,743, filed on Apr. 11, 2018, granted, now 11,053,636.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2017-0048719 (KR), filed on Apr. 14, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0285150 A1, Sep. 16, 2021
Int. Cl. D06F 73/02 (2006.01); D06F 58/10 (2006.01); D06F 39/00 (2020.01); D06F 103/18 (2020.01); D06F 105/02 (2020.01); D06F 33/74 (2020.01); D06F 33/47 (2020.01)
CPC D06F 73/02 (2013.01) [D06F 39/008 (2013.01); D06F 58/10 (2013.01); D06F 33/47 (2020.02); D06F 33/74 (2020.02); D06F 2103/18 (2020.02); D06F 2105/02 (2020.02)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A clothes treating apparatus comprising:
a case including a treatment chamber for holding clothes;
a steam unit supplying steam to the treatment chamber;
a blowing unit drawing in air from the inside of the treatment chamber;
a heat pump unit heating the air and discharging the heated air to the inside of the treatment chamber;
a storage tank storing water;
a water level sensor sensing a water level of the steam unit;
a water supply pump supplying water from the storage tank to the steam unit; and
a control unit programmed to control or drive the steam unit, the blowing unit, the heat pump unit, the water level sensor, and the water supply pump,
wherein the control unit is further programmed such that determining whether the water level sensor is erroneously processed, and supplies water to the steam unit when the water level sensor is determined as erroneously processed, and
wherein when the water level sensor is determined as erroneously processed, the control unit sets a first limitation driving time which is variable on the basis of a driving of at least one of the steam unit, the blowing unit, and the heat pump unit, and the control unit stops the water supply pump when the water supply pump is driven longer than the first limitation driving time.