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Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 29, 2016
Applicant:

Lg Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;

Inventors:

Mingyu Jo, Seoul, KR;

Hyoungmin Sim, Seoul, KR;

Seungjoon Kim, Seoul, KR;

Seungchul Park, Seoul, KR;

Assignee:

LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 37/24 (2006.01); D06F 37/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 37/245 (2013.01); D06F 37/203 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed herein is a laundry treatment apparatus including balancers. The laundry treatment apparatus includes a cabinetwith a laundry feeding hole formed therein, a tubprovided within the cabinet and for holding washing water, a druminstalled within the tub for holding laundry, a driving unit to rotate the drum, a plurality of balancerseach having an internal space formed in the balancer in which water is received, the plurality of balancers spaced apart from each other on the circumference of the drum, and an inflow channel deviceto selectively guide water from the outside of the drum to the internal spaces of the plurality of balancers when the drum is rotated.


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