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US 12,534,844 B2Granted
Clothing treatment apparatus
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsHongjun Cho, Jongmin Lee, Ingeun Ahn, Juhan Yoon
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Abstract
A clothing treatment apparatus includes a drum body, a front cover, a rear cover, and a drum inlet port, a fixing panel spaced apart from the rear cover, a power transmission including a housing, an input shaft, an output shaft, a gear in the housing, and a motor including a stator and a rotor. The drum body, the rear cover, and the front cover are formed of a same material, and the thickness of the drum body is less than the thickness of the rear cover and the thickness of the front cover.
Claims13
A clothing treatment apparatus comprising:
- a drum comprising:
- a drum body configured to store clothing;
- a front cover defining a front surface of the drum body;
- a rear cover defining a rear surface of the drum body;
- and
- a drum inlet formed through the front cover in a penetrating manner to communicate with an interior of the drum body;
- a fixing panel arranged spaced apart from the rear cover;
- a power transmitter comprising:
- a housing fixed to the fixing panel;
- an input shaft with one end located outside of the housing and another end located inside the housing;
- an output shaft with one end formed to pass through the fixing panel and fixed to the rear cover and another end positioned inside the housing;
- and
- a gear unit disposed inside the housing to transmit rotational motion of the input shaft to the output shaft;
- a motor comprising:
- a stator fixed to the fixing panel or the housing to form a rotating magnetic field;
- and
- a rotor rotated by the rotating magnetic field, the one end of the input shaft being fixed to the rotor;
- and
- an oil leakage preventer configured to prevent lubricating oil supplied to the gear unit from being discharged from the housing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.