CLOTHES DRYER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME

摘要

Disclosed is a clothes dryer comprising: a drum; a heat pump cycle having a first evaporator, a compressor and a condenser; a blower fan for circulating the air; and a control unit for controlling the compressor according to the refrigerant discharge pressure of the compressor or to the refrigerant inlet pressure of the condenser. The heat pump cycle comprises: second to nth evaporators arranged, in an air duct, in series to the first evaporator; an auxiliary heat exchanger for cooling the refrigerant discharged from the condenser; and first to nth expansion valves for independently controlling the flow rates of the refrigerant flowing into the first to nth evaporators.