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US 12,516,866 B2Granted
Home appliances
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsJunghun Lee, Sungwook Kim, Namgyo Lee
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Abstract
A home appliance includes air inlets and air outlets that are defined at a machine room cover and configured to have flow rates different from each other. Accordingly, a design for the volume of air introduced into a machine room and the volume of air discharged to the outside of the machine room from the inside thereof may be facilitated.
Claims15
An appliance comprising:
- an appliance body, the appliance body having a machine room that is defined at a portion of the appliance body;
- and
- a machine room cover disposed at a surface of the machine room,
- wherein the machine room cover defines:
- a plurality of air inlets configured to introduce air into the machine room, and
- a plurality of air outlets configured to discharge air from the machine room to an outside of the machine room,
- wherein an inlet flow rate of air through each of the plurality of air inlets is different from an outlet flow rate of air through each of the plurality of air outlets,
- wherein the plurality of air inlets includes one or more holes that pass through the machine room cover and extend in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the machine room cover, and
- wherein the plurality of air outlets includes one or more slits that are curved and configured to define a flow direction of air.
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An appliance comprising:
- an appliance body, the appliance body having a machine room that is defined at a portion of the appliance body;
- and
- a machine room cover disposed at a surface of the machine room,
- wherein the machine room cover defines:
- a plurality of air inlets configured to introduce air into the machine room, and
- a plurality of air outlets configured to discharge air from the machine room to an outside of the machine room,
- wherein an inlet flow rate of air through each of the plurality of air inlets is different from an outlet flow rate of air through each of the plurality of air outlets,
- wherein each of the plurality of air inlets includes a hole that passes through the machine room cover and extends in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the machine room cover, and
- wherein a first portion of the plurality of air outlets includes one or more slits that are curved and configured to define a flow direction of air.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.