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US 12,376,675 B2Granted
Shoe management apparatus
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsHyunsun Yoo, Jeong Guen Choi, Joohyeon Oh, Jae Myung Lim, Byoungjoon Han, Sang Yoon Lee, Hyunju Kim, Jeaseok Seong
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Abstract
A shoe management apparatus including a cabinet including an inner space for storing shoes, an exhaust port disposed at a rear surface of the inner space and discharging air into the inner space, and a front discharge port disposed at an upper surface of the cabinet and discharging air from the inner space to outside of the shoe management apparatus.
Claims20
A shoe management apparatus, comprising:
- a cabinet including an inner space for storing shoes;
- an electric compartment configured to supply air to perform at least one of sterilization, ventilation and humidity control of the inner space;
- an exhaust port disposed at a rear edge surface of the inner space and configured to discharge air into the inner space;
- a connection pipe configured to connect the electric compartment and the exhaust port to guide air supplied from the electric compartment into the exhaust port;
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- a front discharge port disposed at an upper surface of the cabinet and configured to discharge air from the inner space to outside of the shoe management apparatus,
- wherein the exhaust port includes a diffuser, the diffuser including an air inlet point in which air is configured to be drawn and an air outlet point facing the cabinet through which air is configured to be discharged into the inner space of the cabinet, and
- wherein the diffuser has a shape that expands in cross-sectional area from the air inlet point to the air outlet point, allowing air to diffuse in a side-to-side direction based on the rear edge surface of the inner space.
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