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US 9,316,440 B2Granted
Laundry treatment apparatus
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsJeongyun Kim, Sangik Lee
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Abstract
A laundry treatment apparatus includes a drum rotatably supported within a cabinet and configured to receive laundry therein, a connection duct into which air inside the drum is discharged, and a discharge duct that extends in a longitudinal direction of the drum and that is connected to the connection duct. The laundry treatment apparatus also includes a filter assembly including a filter unit located in the discharge duct to filter air and an impurity remover unit configured to remove and compress impurities remaining on the filter unit.
Claims31
A laundry treatment apparatus comprising:
- a cabinet defining an external appearance of the laundry treatment apparatus;
- a drum rotatably supported within the cabinet and configured to receive laundry therein;
- a connection duct into which air inside the drum is discharged;
- a discharge duct that extends in a longitudinal direction of the drum and that is connected to the connection duct;
- a filter assembly including:
- a filter unit located in the discharge duct and configured to filter air, and
- an impurity remover unit configured to remove impurities remaining on the filter unit and compress impurities removed from the filter unit;
- and
- a drive unit configured to reciprocate the impurity remover unit along the filter unit,
- wherein the filter unit is extended in the longitudinal direction of the drum.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.