Lg Electronics Inc.

Yeongho Jeong

Jihong Woon Lee

Kwanwoong Jeong

Minsu Lee

A laundry treating apparatus includes a cabinet, a drawer body, a tub including a tub body disposed within the drawer body to configured to receive water and a tub cover coupled to a top side of the tub body and having a tub entrance configured to receive laundry, a drum disposed within the tub body and configured to accommodate the laundry and having a drum entrance for putting the laundry by communicating with the tub entrance, a driver disposed under a bottom side of the tub body and configured to provide power for rotating the drum, a door configured to slide on a top side of the tub cover to open/close the tub entrance, and a door opening detection sensor disposed at the tub cover to detect an opening/closing of the door by contacting with the door that slides on the tub cover.

Apparatus for treating laundry

A laundry treatment apparatus includes a cabinet with an entrance, a drawer provided to be withdrawable from the cabinet through the entrance, a tub provided inside the drawer to provide a space for storing water, a height of the tub being smaller than a width of the tub, a water supply unit communicating with the tub to supply water, and a drum including a drum body rotatably provided inside the tub and a drum introduction port provided at an upper portion of the drum body and opened to allow laundry to be introduced. The tub includes a tub body, a tub cover, a tub introduction port, and an inflow portion provided at any one of the tub cover and the tub body. The inflow portion is disposed at an outer side of the drum introduction port to prevent the inflow portion from facing the drum introduction port.

Laundry treatment apparatus

Disclosed is a laundry treating apparatus including a cabinet having a front face with a drawer hole defined therein, and a rear cover for forming a rear face of the cabinet, a drawer including a drawer body, a drawer cover for forming a top face of the drawer body, and a cover through-hole defined to penetrate the drawer cover, a tub including a tub body disposed inside the drawer, a tub cover for forming a top face of the tub body, and an inlet defined to penetrate the tub cover, a drum rotatably disposed in the tub, a gasket fixed to the tub cover, a door for closing the inlet by pressing the gasket, a first guide and a second guide, a third guide for providing the path for the door to reciprocate between the first point and the second point, and a door lock.

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Seoul, South Korea

Yeongho Jeong