Laundry treatment apparatus
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsYoungjoo LEE, Sangwook HONG
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Abstract
A laundry treatment apparatus is disclosed. The laundry treatment apparatus includes a cabinet, a tub arranged in the cabinet, a drum arranged in the tub and formed of a metal material, and an induction module configured to inductively heat the drum, wherein the induction module includes a coil formed by winding a wire, and a base housing including a base body arranged on the tub, and a fixing rib arranged on the base body to fix coil, wherein the wire is drawn into the base body in one direction, wound around the fixing rib, and drawn out of the base body in the same direction.
Claims20
A laundry treatment apparatus comprising:
- a cabinet;
- a tub disposed in the cabinet;
- a drum disposed in the tub and made of a metal material;
- and
- an induction module configured to inductively heat the drum,
- wherein the induction module comprises:
- a coil comprising a wire including one or more turns, and
- a base housing comprising a base body that is disposed on the tub and a fixing rib that is disposed on the base body and configured to fix the coil to the base body, and
- wherein the wire is drawn into the base body along a first direction, wound around the fixing rib to form the coil, and drawn out of the base body along the first direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.