Patent ID: 9250016
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: D06F,F26B,G01V,H01H

Claim Text:
1. A clothes treating apparatus comprising: a drum defining a cavity that receives clothes to be dried; a cabinet that houses the drum and that defines an opening to enable loading of clothes into the drum and unloading of clothes from the drum; a filter assembly configured to filter foreign materials included in air discharged from the drum; a filter guide that defines a conduit that receives at least a portion of the filter assembly; a filter cover mounted at the filter guide and configured to open and close the conduit defined by the filter guide based on insertion of the filter assembly into the filter guide and removal of the filter assembly from the filter guide; and a filter insertion detecting device configured to detect insertion of the filter assembly into the filter guide, the filter insertion detecting device comprising an electrode sensor configured to move in response to insertion of the filter assembly into the filter guide and generate a contact signal based on movement that occurs in response to insertion of the filter assembly into the filter guide, wherein the electrode sensor comprises: