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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2020
Applicant:
Lg Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 58/24 (2006.01); D06F 58/02 (2006.01); D06F 58/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 58/02 (2013.01); D06F 58/206 (2013.01); D06F 58/24 (2013.01);
Abstract
A clothes treatment apparatus, including a drum rotatably provided within a cabinet to accommodate washing and drying objects; and a heat pump including an evaporator, a compressor, a condenser, and an expansion valve, through which refrigerant is circulated, to provide heat to air discharged from the drum and circulated to the drum, wherein the heat pump further includes an internal heat exchanger configured to exchange heat between refrigerant discharged from the condenser and refrigerant passing through the evaporator.