Knob assembly for cook top
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorYeonsik HA
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Abstract
A knob assembly includes a front panel, a knob located at a front side of the front panel and configured to rotate based on operation by a user, a knob shaft that is coupled to the knob and that extends through the front panel, a supporting pipe that receives the knob shaft and that supports the knob shaft, the supporting pipe being configured to maintain a position relative to the front panel, a valve configured to control supply of gas to the appliance, a valve shaft connected to the valve and configured to control the valve to adjust a flow rate of gas based on rotation of the valve shaft, and a joint that couples the knob shaft to the valve shaft and that is configured to transfer at least one of a rotational motion or a linear motion of the knob shaft to the valve shaft.
Claims20
A knob ring assembly including a knob ring and a display device, the knob ring comprising:
- a knob ring body that has a ring shape and comprises an accommodating space for accommodating the display device, the accommodating space has an open front which opens the accommodating space frontward;
- a knob ring back plate that is mounted to a rear of the knob ring body and covers a rear of the accommodating space;
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- a display cove that covers the open front of the accommodating space and is translucent.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.