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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2023
Applicant:
Lg Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B67D 1/08 (2006.01); B67D 1/00 (2006.01); G01V 8/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B67D 1/0888 (2013.01); B67D 1/0014 (2013.01); G01V 8/18 (2013.01);
Abstract
A water purifier or other liquid dispenser may sense a height of the inlet of a container accurately through an infrared transmitter and an infrared receiver that are disposed at different positions of a water discharge module moving vertically. Additionally, in the water purifier, the water discharge module may discharge purified water at a point spaced a certain distance apart from the inlet of the container, based on infrared sensing, thereby preventing the inlet of the container from contacting the lower surface of the water discharge module.