Clothes treatment apparatus

Abstract

A clothes treatment apparatus is disclosed. The clothes treatment apparatus according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a cabinet, a tub, a drum, a driving part and a control part, wherein the control part performs: an unbalance measurement process of measuring the unbalance of clothes before a spin-drying operation; a measurement preparation process in which the maximum rotational speed of the drum corresponds to a first rotational speed and the drum is continuously rotated in one direction while water is accommodated in the tub, before the unbalance measurement process is performed; and the unbalance measurement process after the measurement preparation process, and controls the driving part such that, during the unbalance measurement process, the maximum rotational speed of the drum corresponds to a second rotational speed that is lower than the first rotational speed, and the drum is continuously rotated in either one direction or the other direction.

1 . A laundry treating apparatus comprising:
 a cabinet;   a tub provided inside the cabinet and configured to accommodate water therein;   a drum provided inside the tub and configured to accommodate laundry;   a driver provided inside the cabinet and configured to provide a rotational force to the drum; and   a controller configured to control the driver to rotate the drum and perform a spin-drying cycle of the laundry,   wherein the controller performs an imbalance measurement process to measure imbalance of the laundry before the spin-drying cycle,   the controller performs a measurement preparation process in which a maximum rotation speed of the drum corresponds to a first rotation speed and the drum is continuously rotated in one direction in a state in which water is accommodated in the tub before performing the imbalance measurement process, and   the controller performs the imbalance measurement process after the measurement preparation process and controls the driver such that the maximum rotation speed of the drum corresponds to a second rotation speed lower than the first rotation speed in the imbalance measurement process and the drum is continuously rotated in any one of the one direction and another direction.   
     
     
         2 . The laundry treating apparatus of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 a drain part connected to the tub and configured to drain water of the tub to an outside of the cabinet; and   a vibration measurer mounted in the cabinet or the tub and configured to measure an amount of vibration,   wherein, based on a measured value of the vibration measurer being equal to or less than a reference vibration value in the imbalance measurement process, the controller controls the drain part to drain all water from the tub and performs the spin-drying cycle.   
     
     
         3 . The laundry treating apparatus of  claim 2 , wherein the controller corrects the reference vibration value to be lower as a water level of the tub increases in the imbalance measurement process. 
     
     
         4 . The laundry treating apparatus of  claim 2 , wherein the controller corrects the reference vibration value to be lower as a moisture rate of the laundry inside the drum increases in the imbalance measurement process. 
     
     
         5 . The laundry treating apparatus of  claim 4 , wherein the controller performs a moisture rate determination process to measure a moisture rate of the laundry accommodated in the drum before the spin-drying cycle. 
     
     
         6 . The laundry treating apparatus of  claim 5 , further comprising:
 a water level measurer provided in the tub and configured to measure a water level of the tub,   wherein, in the moisture rate determination process, the controller determines a moisture rate of the laundry based on a measured value of the water level measurer while continuously rotating the drum in the one direction or the other direction in a state in which water is accommodated in the tub.   
     
     
         7 . The laundry treating apparatus of  claim 2 , wherein, based on a measured value of the vibration measurer exceeding the reference vibration value in the imbalance measurement process, the controller controls the driver to perform an imbalance resolving process for reducing imbalance of the laundry. 
     
     
         8 . The laundry treating apparatus of  claim 7 , wherein the controller performs the measurement preparation process and the imbalance measurement process again after performing the imbalance resolving process. 
     
     
         9 . The laundry treating apparatus of  claim 7 , wherein the imbalance resolving process includes a laundry untangling process in which the controller controls the driver such that the maximum rotation speed of the drum corresponds to a third rotation speed, a rotation angle corresponds to a first rotation angle, and a rotation direction alternates between the one direction and the other direction. 
     
     
         10 . The laundry treating apparatus of  claim 9 , wherein, in the imbalance resolving process, the controller corrects at least one of the third rotation speed or the first rotation angle to increase as a measured value of the vibration measurer increases. 
     
     
         11 . The laundry treating apparatus of  claim 9 , wherein, based on the measured value of the vibration measurer exceeding an additional vibration value higher than the reference vibration value, the controller performs a laundry arrangement process in which the maximum rotation speed and rotation angle of the drum are different from the laundry untangling process in the imbalance resolving process. 
     
     
         12 . The laundry treating apparatus of  claim 11 , wherein, in the laundry arrangement process, the controller controls the driver such that the maximum rotation speed of the drum corresponds to a fourth rotation speed lower than the third rotation speed, a rotation angle corresponds to a second rotation angle greater than the first rotation angle, and a rotation direction alternates between the one direction and the other direction. 
     
     
         13 . The laundry treating apparatus of  claim 11 , wherein, based on the measured value of the vibration measurer exceeding the reference vibration value and being equal to or less than the additional vibration value in the imbalance measurement process, the controller omits the laundry arrangement process from the imbalance resolving process and performs the laundry untangling process. 
     
     
         14 . The laundry treating apparatus of  claim 11 , wherein, based on the measured value of the vibration measurer exceeding the additional vibration value in the imbalance measurement process, the controller performs the laundry untangling process after performing the laundry arrangement process in the imbalance resolving process. 
     
     
         15 . The laundry treating apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the controller performs a washing cycle to wash the laundry by injecting detergent into the tub before the spin-drying cycle and performs a rinsing cycle to discharge detergent and contaminants to an outside of the tub by separating the detergent and the contaminants from the laundry before the spin-drying cycle after the washing cycle, and
 the controller performs the measurement preparation process and the imbalance measurement process in at least one of between the washing cycle and the rinsing cycle or between the rinsing cycle and the spin-drying cycle.   
     
     
         16 . The laundry treating apparatus of  claim 15 , further comprising:
 a drain part connected to the tub and configured to drain water of the tub to the outside of the cabinet; and   a water level measurer mounted in the tub and configured to measure a water level of the tub,   wherein the controller performs a water level preparation process to control the drain part such that a water level of the tub before the measurement preparation process is performed corresponds to a measurement water level for measuring imbalance.   
     
     
         17 . The laundry treating apparatus of  claim 16 , wherein the controller corrects the measurement water level to be higher as a weight or moisture rate of the laundry accommodated in the drum increases in the water level preparation process.