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US 12,270,147 B2Granted
Laundry treatment apparatus
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsSemin Jang, Jaehyung Kim
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a laundry treatment apparatus including a cabinet having an inlet, a door rotatably coupled to the cabinet so as to open and close the inlet, a door inner plate positioned at the door, a laundry hanger support provided on the door inner plate, abase plate coupled to the door inner plate, a rotating shaft provided in a width direction of the door, a roller rotating about the rotating shaft, a moving unit supporting the rotating shaft and moving the rotating shaft and the roller in a vertical direction of the door due to rotation of the roller, and a drive unit provided at the roller or the moving unit so as to rotate the roller.
Claims27
A laundry treatment apparatus comprising:
- a cabinet including an inlet defined in one side thereof;
- a first chamber positioned in the cabinet and receiving laundry therein through the inlet;
- a second chamber positioned below the first chamber and defining a space separated from the first chamber;
- a door rotatably coupled to the cabinet to open and close the inlet;
- a door inner plate positioned at a side of the door that faces the first chamber;
- a laundry hanger support provided on the door inner plate and supporting pants hung thereon;
- a base plate coupled to the door inner plate and supporting the pants hung on the laundry hanger support;
- a rotating shaft provided in a width direction of the door;
- a roller rotating about the rotating shaft and pressing the pants;
- a moving unit supporting the rotating shaft and moving in a vertical direction of the door due to rotation of the roller;
- and
- a drive unit provided at the roller to thereby rotate the roller.
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A laundry treatment apparatus comprising:
- a cabinet including an inlet defined in one side thereof;
- a first chamber positioned in the cabinet and receiving laundry therein through the inlet;
- a second chamber positioned below the first chamber and defining a space separated from the first chamber;
- a door rotatably coupled to the cabinet to open and close the inlet;
- a door inner plate positioned at a side of the door that faces the first chamber;
- a laundry hanger support provided on the door inner plate and supporting pants hung thereon;
- a base plate coupled to the door inner plate and supporting the pants hung on the laundry hanger support;
- a rotating shaft provided in a width direction of the door;
- a roller rotating about the rotating shaft and pressing the pants, a diameter of an outer circumferential surface of a region of the roller corresponding to a predetermined length in a direction of the rotating shaft being less than a diameter of two ends of the roller;
- a moving unit supporting the rotating shaft and moving in a vertical direction of the door due to rotation of the roller;
- and
- a drive unit provided at the roller or the moving unit so as to rotate the roller.
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A laundry treatment apparatus comprising:
- a cabinet including an inlet defined in one side thereof;
- a first chamber positioned in the cabinet and receiving laundry therein through the inlet;
- a second chamber positioned below the first chamber and defining a space separated from the first chamber;
- a door rotatably coupled to the cabinet to open and close the inlet;
- a door inner plate positioned at a side of the door that faces the first chamber;
- a rotating shaft provided in a width direction of the door;
- a roller rotating about the rotating shaft and pressing the pants;
- a stationary support coupled to the door inner plate and supporting the rotating shaft and the roller at a fixed position;
- a base plate coupled to the door inner plate so as to support the pants positioned between the base plate and the roller;
- and
- a drive unit provided at the roller to thereby rotate the roller.
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A laundry treatment apparatus comprising:
- a cabinet including an inlet defined in one side thereof;
- a first chamber positioned in the cabinet and receiving laundry therein through the inlet;
- a second chamber positioned below the first chamber and defining a space separated from the first chamber;
- a door rotatably coupled to the cabinet to open and close the inlet;
- a door inner plate positioned at a side of the door that faces the first chamber;
- a base plate coupled to the door inner plate so as to press the pants;
- a first shaft provided in a width direction of the door;
- a first roller rotating about the first shaft;
- a first roller support supporting the first roller in such a manner as to move the first roller in a vertical direction of the door;
- a second shaft provided in the width direction of the door;
- a second roller rotating about the second shaft by rotation of the first roller and pressing the pants in cooperation with the first roller;
- a second roller support supporting the second roller at a fixed position;
- an elastic connector disposed between the first roller support and the second roller support and connected thereto for transmission of elastic force therebetween so as to move the first roller toward the second roller.
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A laundry treatment apparatus comprising:
- a cabinet including an inlet defined in one side thereof;
- a first chamber positioned in the cabinet and receiving laundry therein through the inlet;
- a second chamber positioned below the first chamber and defining a space separated from the first chamber;
- and
- a door assembly rotatably coupled to the cabinet to open and close the inlet,
- wherein the door assembly comprises:
- a first door body having a door communication hole formed in one surface thereof, the first door body being rotatably coupled to the cabinet so as to open and close the inlet;
- a second door body rotatably coupled to the first door body so as to define a pants-pressing space separated from the first chamber in conjunction with the first door body and to open and close the door communication hole;
- a laundry hanger support positioned at one of the first door body and the second door body and in the pants-pressing space and supporting pants hung thereon;
- a base plate coupled to the one of the first door body and the second door body so as to support the pants disposed thereon;
- a rotating shaft provided in a width direction of the door assembly;
- a roller rotating about the rotating shaft and pressing the pants;
- a moving unit supporting the rotating shaft and moving the rotating shaft and the roller in a vertical direction of the door assembly due to rotation of the roller;
- and
- a drive unit provided at the roller or the moving unit so as to rotate the roller.
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A laundry treatment apparatus comprising:
- a cabinet including an inlet defined in one side thereof;
- a first chamber positioned in the cabinet and receiving laundry therein through the inlet;
- a second chamber positioned below the first chamber and defining a space separated from the first chamber;
- a door rotatably coupled to the cabinet to open and close the inlet;
- an inner chamber capable of being taken out of the first chamber through the inlet when the door is open, the inner chamber having a subsidiary entrance formed in one surface thereof and defining a reception space separated from the first chamber to receive pants therein;
- an inner door rotatably coupled to the inner chamber to open and close the subsidiary entrance;
- a laundry hanger support coupled to one of inner surfaces of the inner chamber defining the reception space and supporting the pants hung thereon;
- a base plate positioned on the one of the inner surfaces of the inner chamber so as to support the pants hung on the laundry hanger support;
- a rotating shaft provided in a width direction of the inner chamber;
- a roller rotating about the rotating shaft and pressing the pants;
- a moving unit supporting the rotating shaft and moving the rotating shaft and the roller in a vertical direction of the inner chamber due to rotation of the roller;
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- a drive unit provided at the roller or the moving unit so as to rotate the roller.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.