Patent ID: 11885065
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Field: Other consumer goods (Other fields)
Classification: CPC D  H  Y | IPC D  H

Claim 16:
17. A method for controlling a clothing treatment apparatus, the clothing treatment apparatus including a main body, a drum rotatably disposed inside the main body and configured to accommodate an object to be dried, a heat pump configured to compress refrigerant by a compressor and to circulate the refrigerant through a condenser to thereby remove moisture in heated air discharged from the drum and circulate dehumidified air to the drum, a blower fan configured to generate a flow of the heated air or the dehumidified air, a first motor configured to rotate the drum, a second motor configured to rotate the blower fan, a third motor configured to drive the compressor, a converter configured to convert input power received from an external power source and to output the converted input power to at least one of the first motor, the second motor, or the third motor, and a controller configured to control the converter and the compressor, the method comprising:
driving the compressor at a first time point, and
driving the converter at a second time point subsequent to the first time point.