Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Clothes treatment apparatus and control method therefor
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Application No.: US17170134Application Date: 2021-02-08
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Publication No.: US11421369B2Publication Date: 2022-08-23
- Inventor: Beomjun Kim , Woore Kim , Bio Park , Seulgi Park , Jaehyuk Jang , Sangwook Hong , Changoh Kim , Hyunwoo Noh
- Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
- Applicant Address: KR Seoul
- Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
- Current Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Seoul
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Priority: KR10-2016-0108328 20160825,KR10-2017-0101332 20170809,KR10-2017-0101334 20170809,KR10-2017-0101338 20170809,KR10-2017-0101340 20170809,KR10-2017-0108223 20170825
- Main IPC: D06F39/04
- IPC: D06F39/04 ; D06F58/26 ; D06F34/24 ; D06F21/04 ; D06F37/04 ; D06F58/04 ; D06F25/00 ; D06F37/26 ; D06F103/32 ; D06F105/28 ; D06F34/20 ; D06F37/42

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a clothes treatment apparatus and, more particularly, to a clothes treatment apparatus for directly heating a drum accommodating clothes. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, provided is a clothes treatment apparatus comprising: a tub; a drum, made of a metal, which accommodates clothes and is rotatably provided inside the tub; and an induction module, provided in the tub so as to have a spacing from a circumferential surface of the drum, for generating an electromagnetic field to heat the circumferential surface of the drum, wherein the induction module comprises: a coil which is formed by winding a wire such that electric current is applied thereto to generate a magnetic field; and a base housing mounted on an outer circumferential surface of the tub, wherein the base housing is provided with a coil slot for defining the shape of the coil in such a manner that the wire is mounted therein so as to have a predetermined distance between wire and wire.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210164151A1 CLOTHES TREATMENT APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR Public/Granted day:2021-06-03
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