Lg Electronics Inc.

Jongryul Kim

Geunhyung Lee

Youngsoo Kim

Jongmin Lee

Hyunwoo Cho

Woocheol Kang

Kwangsoo Jung

Jeonggeol Roh

Jongho Kim

Sungjun Kim

Jinhyouk Shin

Doohyun Kim

Dongjae Lee

Jeongwoo Kim

Minseong Kim

Myoungjong Kim

Seungyoun Kim

Jeonghoon Jeong

Hyungman Park

Soowon Park

Junho Seok

Hyunsu Nam

Seongkyu Kim

Soonjo Lee

Eonhwa Hwang

A laundry treating apparatus includes a cabinet having a bottom plate that defines a bottom surface of the cabinet, a drum rotatably disposed inside the cabinet and configured to accommodate laundry, a hot air supply disposed at the bottom plate and configured to generate hot air to be supplied into the drum, a rear plate that defines a rear surface of the cabinet and includes a duct configured to receive the hot air from the hot air supply and to guide the hot air into the drum, a driver coupled to a rear side of the rear plate and configured to provide a rotational force to the drum, and a fan duct that is coupled to a front side of the rear plate and connects the hot air supply to the duct. The fan duct is configured to transfer the hot air of the hot air supply to the duct.

Laundry treating apparatus

A laundry treatment apparatus includes a cabinet defining an external appearance of the apparatus and a base, a drum rotatably provided in the cabinet, a driver provided in the base to rotate the drum, a duct fastened to the base to form a circulation passage communicating with the drum, a heat pump having a heat exchanger provided in the circulation passage to heat air, and a discharge unit to discharge water generated by the heat exchanger. The base includes a water collection chamber that is configured to collect the water generated by the heat exchanger and has discharge surfaces having different inclined angles, thereby guiding flow of condensate water, and a discharge hole that is located adjacent to the water collection chamber and configured to communicate with the water collection chamber such that water guided by the at least one discharge surface is discharged through the discharge unit.

Laundry treatment apparatus

A defrosting device includes a heating unit filled with a working fluid and including an active heating part heated to a first temperature that can evaporate the working fluid, and a passive heating part positioned at a rear side of the active heating part and heated to a lower temperature than the first temperature. The defrosting device also includes a heat pipe disposed adjacent to an evaporator to transfer heat to the evaporator while circulating working fluid heated by the active heating part, the heat pipe including an entrance portion configured to receive working fluid evaporated by the active heating part, and a return portion connected adjacent to the passive heating part and configured to receive working fluid that has condensed after circulating through the heat pipe. Condensed working fluid received at the heating unit first passes through the passive heating part before being reheated at the active heating part.

Defrosting device and refrigerator having the same

The present disclosure relates to a laundry treatment machine. The laundry treatment machine according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a casing; a door attached to the casing; a washing tub disposed inside the casing; a heating unit; a blower for supplying to the washing tub; a temperature detector for detecting a temperature of the washing tub; a motor for rotating the washing tub; a driving unit for driving the motor; and a controller to control the blower to operate in a first drying mode, and to control the heating unit to intermittently output a first power during a first period after the operation of the blower while controlling an operating time of the heating unit to increase during the first period. Accordingly, the power consumption can be reduced while reducing the drying period in the drying mode.

Laundry treatment machine

A gas cooker may include a case, a top plate that shields an upper surface of the case and on which items to be cooked are seated, a plurality of burners provided inside of the case, an electric valve assembly that controls a gas supply to the plurality of burners, a main pipe connected to the electric valve assembly and that supplies gas, and a plurality of branched pipes, respectively, connected to the electric valve assembly and the plurality of burners. The electric valve assembly may include a main valve connected to the main pipe, a plurality of sub-valves respectively connected to the plurality of branched pipes, and a manifold that connects the main valve and the plurality of sub-valves in parallel and enables the main valve and the plurality of sub-valves to be consecutively provided and configured in a single assembly form.

Gas cooker and valve assembly for gas cooker

A burner for a gas cooker that includes a burner port defining an interior area, the burner port including an opening to the interior area; one or more tubes that are coupled to the burner port and that are configured to provide mixed gas to the interior area of the burner port; a heating element that is configured to cover the opening of the burner port and that is heated by gas-generated heat; and a shielding plate that (i) is coupled between the heating element and the burner port, (ii) is configured to cover a first portion of the opening of the burner port, and (iii) is configured to spread mixed gas that is provided from the one or more tubes into the interior area of the burner port.

Burner for gas cooker

The present disclosure relates to a clothes treating apparatus having a hot air supply device and an operating method thereof, and according to an aspect of the present disclosure, a clothes treating apparatus may include a drum configured to accommodate an object to be dried; a linear valve configured to linearly adjust the amount of supplied gas; a burner configured to burn gas supplied by the linear valve; a hot air supply device configured to supply hot air heated by the burner into the drum; a temperature sensor configured to measure the temperature of air exhausted from the drum; and a control means configured to adjust the amount of gas supplied to the burner based on a temperature measured by the temperature sensor, wherein the control means partitions a drying process into a plurality of sections based on a temperature change of the exhaust air, and varies a gas supply amount for each section.

Clothes treating apparatus with hot air supply device and an operating method thereof

A laundry treating apparatus includes a cabinet forming an external appearance of the laundry treating apparatus, an accommodation space provided in the cabinet to receive laundry, and a discharge portion configured to discharge air in the accommodation space from the cabinet. The laundry treating apparatus also includes a supply portion configured to supply air into the accommodation space, and a pressure reduction portion configured to discharge the air in the accommodation space from the accommodation space into the cabinet based on a pressure in the accommodation space becoming equal to or higher than a predetermined reference pressure.

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Seoul, South Korea

Jongryul Kim