Lg Electronics Inc.

Hyundai Motor Company

Kia Motors Corporation

Hyunwoo Noh

Sangwook Hong

Woore Kim

Changoh Kim

Beomjun Kim

Jaehyuk Jang

Bio Park

Seulgi Park

Jongmin Lee

Hongjun Cho

Seungphyo Ahn

Jae Hyuk Jang

Sangik Lee

Donghyun Kim

Jeongyun Kim

Hyojun Kim

Hyuksoo Lee

Yongju Lee

Taewoong Kim

Woo Re Kim

Youngjong Kim

Taehee Lee

Sanghun Bae

Seonghwan Kim

Han Hee Park

Jinwoo Bae

Yeonju Lee

Jiwan Cha

Taeil Yoo

Yongcheol Jin

JaeHyeon Lee

Seongmin Kim

A laundry treating apparatus includes a drum for accommodating laundry therein. The drum may be directly coupled to a free end of a rotation shaft extending from a driver for providing power to rotate the drum.

Laundry treating apparatus

A laundry treating apparatus is configured to reduce a volume independently occupied by a driver that rotates a drum for accommodating laundry therein, and a volume of a space defined between a rear surface of the drum and a cabinet rear panel.

A clothes treatment apparatus directly heats a drum accommodating clothes. The clothes treatment apparatus includes: 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. The induction module includes: 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.

Clothes treatment apparatus and control method therefor

A clothing treatment apparatus includes a cabinet having an inlet; a door provided in the cabinet to open and close the inlet; a drum rotatably disposed inside the cabinet, and having an elongated cylindrical shape; a tubular extension part extending from the inlet of the cabinet toward the drum; a first duct provided outside the drum; an induction heater which includes a coil, is provided inside the first duct, and heats the drum; a first fan supplying outside air to the inside of the first duct; and a second duct having an inlet connected to the first duct, extending from the first duct along a radially inward direction of the drum, and having an outlet connected to an outer circumferential surface of the extension part. The outlet of the second duct may have a smaller area than the area of the inlet.

Clothing treatment apparatus

A laundry treatment apparatus includes a drum, a stator and a rotor configured to rotate the drum, a fixing panel that is spaced apart from the rear cover, that supports the stator, and that defines a panel exhaust port and a supply port, the supply port including a plurality of through-holes that pass through the fixing panel and surround the stator, and a duct body fixed to the fixing panel and configured to guide the air discharged from the panel exhaust port to the supply port. The plurality of through-holes include (i) first through-holes defined above a horizontal line passing through a center of the rotor and (ii) second through-holes defined below the horizontal line, where a number of the first through-holes is greater than a number of the second through-holes, or a total area of the first through-holes is greater than a total area of the second through-holes.

Laundry treatment apparatus

Disclosed is a laundry treatment apparatus configured to condense moisture by supplying cooling water to the interior of a tub containing laundry therein. The laundry treatment apparatus includes a tub, a drum rotatably provided in the tub, a cooling water port provided at the inner rear surface of the tub so as to be adjacent to the inner side surface of the tub in order to supply cooling water along the inner side surface of the tub, and a guide rib formed so as to protrude from the inner side surface of the tub in a radially inward direction of the tub and to extend from the cooling water port toward the front side of the tub in order to disperse the cooling water supplied from the cooling water port on the inner surface of the tub. The apparatus is capable of reducing energy consumption and improving drying performance.

Laundry treatment apparatus and method of controlling the same

Disclosed herein is a laundry machine. More particularly, a laundry machine for generating steam by an induction heater and a control method thereof are disclosed. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, provided is a method of controlling a laundry machine including a tub, a drum rotatably arranged in the tub to accommodate an object and provided with a through hole on an outer circumferential surface thereof, and an induction heater provided to the tub, and configured to perform a steam operation. The steam operation may include heating a heating surface of the drum facing the induction heater by driving the induction heater, spraying, through a spray nozzle, water toward the heating surface heated in the heating operation, and rotating the drum such that the steam is introduced into the drum through the through hole in a space between the tub and the drum.

Laundry machine having induction heater and control method thereof

Disclosed is a laundry treatment apparatus including a drum formed of a metal material and provided to accommodate laundry therein, an induction module spaced apart from a circumferential surface of the drum and provided to heat the circumferential surface of the drum via a magnetic field that is generated when current is applied to a coil, and a lifter formed of a metal material and provided in the drum to move the laundry inside the drum when the drum rotates. The lifter is provided so as to be recessed in a direction in which a distance between the induction module and the lifter, which face each other, increases.

Disclosed are an object treating apparatus, and more particularly, an object treating apparatus for heating a drum using an induction heater and a control method thereof. The object treating apparatus includes a tub; a drum rotatably disposed within the tub and accommodating an object therein; an induction heater disposed on the tub and configured to heat an outer circumferential face of the drum contacting the heater; a motor to rotate the drum; and a processor configured to control an operation of the induction heater to dry the object, wherein the processor is configured to: control revolution per minute (RPM) of the drum to perform at least two drum motions having at least two different target RPMs respectively when drying the object.

Laundry treating apparatus having induction heater and control method thereof

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.

The present disclosure relates to a laundry processing apparatus and, particularly, to a laundry processing apparatus which improves the condensation performance by increasing a contact time and area of cooling water and humid air in a tub. An embodiment of the present disclosure can provide a laundry processing apparatus comprising: a tub in which wash water is stored; a nozzle installed on the upper side of a side part of the tub so as to allow moisture contained in the air staying in the tub to condense, and supplying cooling water; and a guide installed on a rear side surface of the tub to be disposed below the nozzle, and allowing the cooling water supplied from the nozzle to be dispersed in multiple directions and flow downward.

Disclosed are an object treating apparatus, and more particularly, an object treating apparatus for heating a drum using an induction heater and a control method thereof. The object treating apparatus includes a tub; a drum rotatably disposed within the tub and accommodating an object therein; an induction heater disposed on the tub and configured to heat an outer circumferential face of the drum contacting the heater; a motor to rotate the drum; and a processor configured to control an operation of the induction heater to dry the object, wherein the processor is configured to control revolution per minute (RPM) of the drum to perform, during drying: a conductive accelerating motion having a target RPM in which the object rotates integrally with the drum while the object is in close contact with an inner circumferential face of the drum; and a rearrangement motion having a target RPM lower than the target RPM of the conductive accelerating motion.

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