US 2021/0277568 A1Published application

Laundry treating apparatus

AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.

InventorsYoungho JUNG, Sanghee YOO, Sangho CHO

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Abstract

Disclosed is a laundry treating apparatus. The laundry treating apparatus includes a first treating apparatus having a first front panel disposed on a front face thereof and a first drum disposed therein for accommodating laundry, and a second treating apparatus disposed beneath the first treating apparatus to support the first treating apparatus. The second treating apparatus has a second front panel disposed on a front face thereof and a second drum disposed therein for accommodating the laundry. The laundry treating apparatus further includes a control panel disposed between the first front panel and the second front panel. The control panel is signally connected to the first treating apparatus and the second treating apparatus. The control panel is inserted between the first front panel and the second front panel, and is fixed by sliding in a lateral direction.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A laundry treating system comprising:

a first treating apparatus having a first front panel and a first drum disposed inside the first treating apparatus and configured to accommodate a first laundry;
a second treating apparatus disposed beneath the first treating apparatus and supporting the first treating apparatus, the second treating apparatus having a second front panel and a second drum disposed inside the second treating apparatus and configured to accommodate a second laundry;
and
a control panel disposed between the first front panel and the second front panel, the control panel being configured to communicate with the first treating apparatus and the second treating apparatus,
wherein the control panel is positioned between the first front panel and the second front panel and extends along a first direction between opposite lateral sides of the laundry treating system, the control panel being configured to be slid in the first direction to thereby be fixed between the first front panel and the second front panel, the first direction.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/192,489Filed 4 Mar 2021
Priority: KR 10-2020-00272114 Mar 2020
Published: 9 Sep 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

D06F 34/34
Arrangements for programme selection, e.g. control panels therefor; Arrangements for indicating programme parameters, e.g. the selected…
D06F 23/02
Washing machines with receptacles, e.g. perforated, having a rotary movement, e.g. oscillatory movement, the receptacle serving both for washing…:…
D06F 29/005
Combinations of a washing machine with other separate apparatus in a common frame or the like, e.g. with rinsing apparatus: the other separate…
D06F 39/12
Details of washing machines not specific to a single type of machines covered by groups D06F9/00 - D06F27/00: casings; Tubs

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