Patent ID: 7020982
Filing Date: 2006-04-04
Classification: D06F

Abstract:
1. A method for controlling a clothes dryer comprising: rotating a drum and detecting a load amount detect signal corresponding to an amount of moisture contained in clothes in the drum when a clothes dry command is inputted from a command input unit of the clothes dryer; setting a heat exit temperature range of the clothes dryer to pre-set first and second temperature ranges on the basis of the load amount detect signal; first drying clothes in the drum within the pre-set first temperature range; second drying the clothes in the drum within the pre-set second temperature range; and driving a motor of the clothes dryer when the first drying and second drying are completed, until a temperature of an exit of the drum of the clothes dryer drops to below a pre-set temperature, to cool the clothes, wherein the pre-set second temperature range is lower than the pre-set first temperature range, and wherein, in the first drying of the clothes, if a level of the load amount detect signal is not greater than a preset first threshold voltage and a pre-set first dry completion period has not elapsed, the clothes in the drum are dried in the pre-set first temperature range.