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US 12,758,082 B2Granted
Shoe care apparatus
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsJae Young Kim, Bo Hyun Nam, Seung Hyun Song
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Abstract
A shoe care apparatus includes an inner cabinet, a door, a connecting flow path, a blower unit, a dehumidifying unit, a steam generator, and a steam inlet. The steam inlet forms an entrance through which the steam flows into an accommodation space of the inner cabinet. The door is located at the front portion of the inner cabinet, and the steam inlet is located at the center of the rear side of the accommodation space.
Claims19
A shoes care device comprising:
- an inner cabinet having an accommodation space configured to accommodate shoes therein, the inner cabinet having a main opening that is open in a first direction from a rear to a front of the inner cabinet;
- a door configured to open and close the main opening;
- a connection path defining a flow path through which air in the accommodation space is introduced from the main opening thereinto and then discharged therefrom into the accommodation space;
- a blower located in the connection path, the blower being configured to move the air along the connection path;
- a dehumidifier located in the connection path, the dehumidifier being configured to dehumidify the air in the connection path;
- a steam generator configured to generate steam;
- a steam inlet in communication with the accommodation space, the steam inlet being located at a lateral center of the accommodation space and being located closer to a rear end of the accommodation space than to a longitudinal center, with respect to the first direction, on a bottom of the accommodation space or adjacent to the bottom of the accommodation space;
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- a first guide rib and a second guide rib protruding upward from a bottom surface of the accommodation space so as to support a front end or a rear end of a corresponding shoe accommodated in the accommodation space,
- wherein the first guide rib and the second guide rib are positioned on different sides of the accommodation space based on a reference plane that is a vertical plane parallel to the first direction and crossing the steam inlet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.