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US 2020/0048816 A1Published application
Laundry treating apparatus
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsBeomjun KIM, Sangwook HONG, Woore KIM, Hongjun CHO
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a laundry care apparatus in which an induction module heats the drum uniformly using a magnetic field to dry laundry or heat wash-water, and center and front and rear regions of the drum are uniformly heated.
Claims20
A laundry treating apparatus comprising:
- a cabinet;
- a drum made of a metal material and disposed in the cabinet, the drum being configured to receive laundry therein;
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- an induction module spaced apart from an outer circumferential surface of the drum by a predetermined distance, the induction module comprising a coil made of a wire having a plurality of turns, and being configured to heat the drum by induction based on a magnetic field generated by current applied to the coil,
- wherein the induction module comprises a base housing that has a rectangular shape and that is configured to accommodate the coil, the base housing having straight sections and corner sections,
- wherein the base housing comprises ribs that protrude upward from a bottom surface of the base housing and that define a slot disposed between the ribs and configured to accommodate the coil therein, and
- wherein the ribs are configured to be fused to each other along a thermal-fusing line that is defined in each of the corner sections and that extends across each of the corner sections.
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A laundry treating apparatus comprising:
- a cabinet;
- a drum made of a metal material and disposed in the cabinet, the drum being configured to receive laundry therein;
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- an induction module spaced apart from an outer circumferential surface of the drum by a predetermined distance, the induction module comprising a coil made of a wire having a plurality of turns, and being configured to heat the drum by induction based on a magnetic field generated by current applied to the coil,
- wherein the induction module comprises:
- a base housing that has a rectangular shape and that is configured to accommodate the coil, the base housing having straight sections and corner sections, and
- a permanent magnet disposed vertically above the coil,
- wherein the base housing further comprises ribs that protrude upward from a bottom surface of the base housing and that define a slot configured to accommodate the coil therein, and
- wherein a lateral thickness of each of the ribs disposed at each of the corner sections is equal to a distance between adjacent portions of the wire disposed in adjacent corner sections among the corner sections.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.