Patent ID: 7765715

Claim:
A drying apparatus for drying laundry inside a drum thereof, comprising: a control panel for selecting a drying cycle setting; a storage for storing a moisture output quantity according to the selected drying cycle setting; a moisture sensor for sensing a moisture level in the laundry inside the drum; and a controller for calculating a termination point of drying operation based on the moisture level sensed by the moisture sensor and the moisture output quantity stored in the storage during an initial drying operation according to the drying cycle, and implementing drying until the calculated termination point of drying operation, wherein the controller calculates an elapsed time that the moisture level of sensed laundry takes to reach a set value according to the moisture output Quantity stored in the storage from the drying cycle; then calculates the termination point of drying operation according to the calculated elapsed time and the selected drying cycle, and wherein the elapsed time is a time that the stored output Quantity takes to reach a minimum sensed value during a drying of a small load.