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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2022
Lg Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
LG Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
The present application relates to a clothes treatment apparatus comprising: a cabinet made of a conductive material provided with a mounting panel in which a panel inlet and a button mounting part are formed; a drum rotatably provided in the cabinet to accommodate clothes and having a drum inlet communicating with the panel inlet; buttons made of a non-conductive material coupled to the button mounting part and exposed to the outside of the cabinet; a button touch film fixed to a surface facing the direction in which the drum is positioned among the buttons to detect whether a user's body is in contact with the buttons; and a first circuit board positioned inside the cabinet and provided to receive a signal sensed by the button touch film.