Patent ID: 8734640

Claim:
A water purifying apparatus, comprising: a filtering unit; a water tank unit comprising a cold water tank for storing cold water and a hot water tank for storing hot water; a discharging unit for discharging out the purified water stored in the water tank unit; a state detecting unit for detecting an operation state of at least one of the filtering unit, the water tank unit, and the discharging unit; a controller for comparing the information detected by the state detecting unit with a preset reference, thereby judging an abnormal state of the water purifying apparatus; and a state displaying unit for displaying the abnormal state information to outside, wherein the state displaying unit comprises: a first display part including a plurality of flash portions independently turned on or off; and a second display part including a plurality of flash portions independently turned on or off, wherein the flash portions of the first and second display parts are disposed in a vertical direction, wherein the first display part is configured such that the number of the flash portions that are turned on changes according to temperature of hot water stored in the hot water tank.