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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2011
Jae Kyum Kim, Kyongsangnam-do, KR;
Ho Cheol Kwon, Kyongsangnam-do, KR;
Jong a Park, Kyongsangnam-do, KR;
Kang MO Choi, Kyongsangnam-do, KR;
Jae Kyum Kim, Kyongsangnam-do, KR;
Ho Cheol Kwon, Kyongsangnam-do, KR;
Jong A Park, Kyongsangnam-do, KR;
Kang Mo Choi, Kyongsangnam-do, KR;
LG Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
The washing machine includes a tub mounted in a cabinet, a drum mounted in the tub, a shaft that transmits a driving force from a motor to the drum, front and rear bearings mounted on an outer circumference of opposite end portions of the shaft, a bearing housing built in a central portion of a rear wall of the tub to support the front bearing, a rotor coupled to the rear end portion of the shaft, a stator fixed to the tub rear wall inward of the rotor, and a connector of the rotor that serration coupled to the outer circumference of the shaft in front of the rear bearing so as to transmit rotating power from the rotor to the shaft. A bearing bracket may be fixed to the rear wall of the tub so as to cover an outside of the rotor and support the rear bearing.