Laundry treating apparatus

A laundry treating apparatus comprising:

• a cabinet having a front face with a front opening;
• a drawer retractable from the cabinet through the front opening of the cabinet, wherein a drawer first through-hole is defined at a top face of the drawer;
• a tub disposed in the drawer, wherein a laundry inlet communicating with the drawer first through-hole is defined at a top face of the tub;
• a drum rotatably disposed in the tub;
• a door disposed at the top face of the drawer or the top face of the tub for opening and closing the drawer first through-hole or the laundry inlet;
• a housing including a base facing the top face of the drawer;
• a lever having a fixed end pivotably coupled in the housing, and a free end configured to move up and down in the housing;
• a magnetic field generator disposed at one of the free end of the lever or the drawer;
• a magnetic field sensor disposed at another of the free end of the lever or the drawer which does not include the magnetic field generator;
• a slide disposed in the housing and configured to move back and forth along with a longitudinal direction of the lever;
• an actuating body disposed at the lever and protruding toward the slide;
• and
• an inclined body disposed at the slide and corresponding to the actuating body,
• wherein, when the slide moves back and forth, the inclined body is configured to contact the actuating body and the actuating body is configured to move up and down, and
• wherein the free end of the lever is configured to move up and down in accordance with the actuating body's up and down movement.