The present application encompasses methods and apparatus for heating a load such as clothes immersed in a medium such as water during a heating period. A method embodiment of the present invention comprises heating the load and medium within an enclosure by subjecting said load and medium to heated air originated from a conventional energy source; and applying heat to said load and medium within the enclosure via an AC electrical field, embodied as a capacitor, originated from an RF power source.

The present disclosure relates to a dryer. A dryer according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a drum, at least one lifter formed to protrude from an inner peripheral surface of the drum, an anode disposed in the lifter to output a RF signal, and a RF output device configured to output the RF signal. Therefore, it is possible to uniformly dry laundry in the drum.

The invention provides a cleaning apparatus which includes a tub which has a first circumscribing wall and a pair of opposed sidewalls positioned on a rotational axis, an enclosure defined within the first wall and the sidewalls, a drum positioned inside the enclosure, and which includes a second circumscribing wall, a pair of opposed end walls positioned on the rotational axis, a cavity defined within the second wall and the end walls, into which an item to be cleaned is placed, and a drive means which is connected to the drum to provide rotational movement to the drum about the axis, characterized in that the cleaning apparatus includes a plurality of microwave generators, each of which is adapted to direct microwaves into the cavity.

A method and device of controlling a moving hanger based on a movement of clothing are disclosed. A method of controlling a clothing styler includes determining a second moving pattern based on a dust amount in a processing chamber and movement information of clothes collected while a moving hanger operates in a first moving pattern, and controlling the moving hanger based on the determined second moving pattern. The controlling method can be associated with an artificial intelligence module, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a robot, an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, devices related to 5G services, and the like.