Clothes treatment apparatus
AssigneesLG Electronics Inc., Seoul National University R&Db Foundation
InventorsTaewoong Kong, Chaseung Jun, Sangwook Hong, Seungki Sul, Joohyun Lee, Hwigon Kim
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Abstract
Disclosed is a clothes treatment apparatus. The clothes treatment apparatus of the present disclosure may comprise: a cabinet; a drum rotatably provided in the cabinet; an induction heater which is disposed outside the drum and heats the drum; a magnet which is fixed to the drum and of which a residual magnetic flux density changes depending on temperature; and a coil fixed to the outside of the drum and disposed at a position overlapping the magnet in the longitudinal direction of the central axis of rotation of the drum.
Claims18
A clothes treatment apparatus comprising:
- a cabinet;
- a drum rotatably disposed in the cabinet and configured to accommodate an object to be treated;
- an induction heater including a heater coil, the induction heater disposed outside the drum and configured to heat the drum;
- a magnet coupled to the drum;
- a coil disposed an outside of the drum, the coil disposed at a position corresponding to the magnet in a longitudinal direction of a rotation axis of the drum so as to overlap the magnet in a radial direction of the drum based on a rotational position of the drum.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.