Patents Assigned to Electronics, Inc.
  • Patent number: 10686923
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes: a case unit including a plurality of case parts; a waterproof member that waterproofs the plurality of case parts; an inner space formed by the plurality of case parts and the waterproof member; a sound output unit in the inner space; an electronic component in the inner space; at least one processor controlling the sound output unit; a resonance space in the inner space that resonates sound from the sound output unit; and a sound hole at one side of the case unit that outputs a first sound. A sound pressure level of a second sound output by vibration of the case unit due to the first sound is higher than that of the first sound in a low-frequency range, and when the case unit is on a mounting surface, a third sound is generated by the mounting surface due to vibration of the second sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Taehwan Jeon, Donghan Kang, Joontae Kim, Janghwan Shim, Byungkil Choi
  • Patent number: 10682035
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cleaner. In one aspect, the cleaner includes a nozzle assembly; a cleaner body connected to the nozzle assembly; and a water tank to which a cloth is attached, wherein the water tank is coupled to the nozzle assembly and is configured to supply water to the cloth. The water tank comprises: a water storage unit to store water and having a water inlet; a water flow adjuster configured to close or open the water inlet and to adjust a water flow amount from the water storage unit to the cloth when closing the water inlet; and a stopper formed on the water storage unit to limit a rotation of the water flow adjuster, wherein the water flow adjuster has a receiving groove to receive the stopper therein, wherein the receiving groove includes a delimitation portion to limit a rotation of the water flow adjuster in a first direction and having a tilted surface to allow the stopper to be exited out of the receiving groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Heonpyeong Ji, Youngho Kim, Myungsig Yoo
  • Patent number: 10682988
    Abstract: A washing device for a vehicle accessory that includes a washer housing with a ring portion and a fluid source attachment. The ring portion has a main opening for receiving a portion of the vehicle accessory, an attachment side configured for mounting the washer housing, a washing side configured to frame the vehicle accessory, and a transition portion between the ring portion and the fluid source attachment. A nozzle end of the fluid source attachment has at least one fluid channel defined by a nozzle protrusion on the nozzle end. The fluid channel is configured to discharge the fluid to the washing side for cleaning the vehicle accessory by creating a plurality of fluid flow pathways of the fluid between the nozzle end and the transition portion, wherein the plurality fluid flow pathways interact with one another to form at least one vortex in the flow of the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Methode Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Vladimir Karasik
  • Patent number: 10684064
    Abstract: Provided is a refrigerator and control method for refrigerator and method for opening a refrigerator door. While a user is holding an object in both hands, a door may be automatically and additionally opened using another part of a body other than hands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Minsub Kim, Hongsik Kwon, Dongjeong Kim, Jungjae Lee, Jaehoon Shin
  • Patent number: 10683989
    Abstract: A refrigerator apparatus includes a case opening passing through an inner case; and an lighting device in the opening, wherein the device includes: a lamp case having a cavity defined therein; a light-emitting unit accommodated in the cavity, wherein the light-emitting unit is disposed more outwardly than the case opening, wherein the light-emitting unit irradiates light toward an inner surface of the cavity; a cover coupled with the lamp case to cover the case opening, wherein light from the light-emitting unit is reflected from the cavity through the cover toward the refrigerator interior space; and a reflection portion formed on the cover, wherein the reflection portion is configured to allow light from the light-emission unit directed toward the case opening to be redirected toward the inner surface of the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Changbong Choi, Hyesun Jung
  • Patent number: 10684062
    Abstract: A refrigerator is disclosed. The refrigerator includes a cabinet provided with a storage compartment, an inner case to define an appearance of the storage compartment, a first door (20) pivotally mounted to the cabinet, to open or close one side of the storage compartment, and a second door (40) pivotally mounted to the cabinet, to open or close the other side of the storage compartment. The second door (40) is provided with a pillar (100) rotatable to come into contact with the first door (20). The pillar (100) is spaced apart from a top wall of the inner case and a bottom wall of the inner case, to be prevented from coming into contact with the inner case when the second door (40) is maintained to seal the storage compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Minsub Kim, Hangbok Lee, Jungkyu Son, Eugene Suh
  • Patent number: 10682029
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner that includes: a cleaner body; a wheel; a dust container; a cover member that is configured to (i) rotate, about an axis that is outside of a plane of the cover member, between a first position and a second position and (ii) cover, based on the cover member being located at the first position or the second position, the first opening of the cleaner body and a portion of the dust container; a cover member coupling portion that couples the cover member to the cleaner body and that is configured to rotate about the second axis with the cover member; a suction nozzle that is coupled to the dust container and that is configured to guide dust into the dust container; and a display that is coupled to the cover member and that is configured to display operating information of the vacuum cleaner is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jungkyu Son, Bohyun Nam, Jaeyong Park, Sehwan Bae, Jonghyun Seo, Jinwoo Lee
  • Patent number: 10687292
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for receiving a synchronization signal block by a UE in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method includes receiving at least one SSB mapped to a plurality of symbols, wherein two regions for candidate SSBs in which the at least one SSB can be received are allocated in a specific time duration including the plurality of symbols, and a time between the two regions, a time before the two regions and a time after the two regions are identical in the specific time duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Youngsub Kim, Hyunsoo Ko, Kijun Kim, Sukhyon Yoon, Eunsun Kim, Haewook Park
  • Patent number: 10687202
    Abstract: Provided are a method, for configuring a bearer for transmission of user data in user plane-based cellular Internet of Things (CIoT) by a base station in a wireless communication system, and a device for supporting same. The base station can: receive a tracking area update (TAU) request message from a terminal; transmit to a mobility management entity (MME) a UE context resume request message comprising the TAU request message; receive from the MME a UE context resume failure message comprising a cause value; and determine whether or not a temporarily stopped UE context is to be remained on the basis of the cause value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Daewook Byun, Taehun Kim, Jian Xu, Jinsook Ryu, Seokjung Kim
  • Patent number: 10684620
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vehicle control device provided in a vehicle and a method of controlling the vehicle. A vehicle control device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a sensing unit configured to sense a driver's state, and a processor configured to decide a first time required for a vehicle currently traveling in an autonomous driving mode to reach a point where the vehicle is to be switched to a manual driving mode, and decide a second time required for the driver to be ready to perform manual driving based on the driver's state, wherein the processor outputs notification information such that the second time is shortened when the second time is longer than the first time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Minjae Park, Jiyeong Park, Hyunsun Lyu
  • Patent number: 10686410
    Abstract: A rail balancing circuit is described herein for use with a power supply, the RBC comprising: a circuit adapted to respond to over-voltage and under-voltage conditions in the power supply that comprises a positive rail voltage source and a negative rail voltage source, such that any deviation from a balanced condition between the positive rail voltage source and the negative rail voltage source is substantially instantaneously corrected to bring both the positive and negative rail voltage sources back to the balanced condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Buono
  • Patent number: 10687322
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of this invention, a method of receiving a downlink signal by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes receiving a first control resource set (CORESET) configuration including information regarding a frequency resource of a first CORESET, and receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) signal by bundling a plurality of resource element groups (REGs) on the first CORESET, wherein the information regarding the frequency resource of the first CORESET may be a bitmap, and wherein the bitmap may allocate the frequency resource of the first CORESET in units of 6-RB such that a residual resource that does not belong to any REG bundle is not present in the first CORESET after every 2, 3, or 6 REGs are bundled into 1 REG bundle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Inkwon Seo
  • Patent number: 10686943
    Abstract: Described herein is a retrofit digital speaker system comprising two or more retrofitted speaker enclosures, each of the two or more retrofitted speaker enclosures (enclosures) comprising: at least one speaker; and an analog-and-digital interface adapted to receive digitally encoded audio signals, electrical power, and digital command signals, and wherein the digitally encoded audio signals, electrical power, and digital command signals are transmitted over existing two wire analog audio cables, and further wherein the two or more retrofitted speaker enclosures are wired in a daisy chain fashion, via the existing two wire analog audio cables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark LaBosco, Alexander Marra
  • Patent number: 10687131
    Abstract: Disclosed is a sound output device including: an elevation member having a magnetic force generating part that generates a magnetic field to cause a flying body to levitate; a transmission member moving the elevation member in an upward-downward direction while rotating along a circumference of the elevation member; and a support member rotatably supporting the transmission member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Youngsang Baek
  • Patent number: 10683601
    Abstract: A laundry treatment apparatus that includes a cabinet having an opening; a drawer dischargeable from the cabinet through the opening; a receiving unit provided in the drawer for receiving water and laundry; a drain pump for discharging water from the receiving unit; a drain channel extending through a reference point set to be higher than a highest level of water that can be stored in the receiving unit, the drain channel being located outside the cabinet; and a connection channel located in the cabinet for connecting the drain pump and the drain channel to each other, wherein at least a portion of the drain pump is located lower than a bottom surface of the receiving unit is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jihong Lee, Kijung Sung, Seungwook Jung
  • Patent number: 10684066
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes a cabinet, a partition wall partitioning the cabinet, an accommodating unit defining an accommodating space and an opening, where the accommodating space is recessed downward from a horizontal top surface of the partition wall, and the opening is located at an upper portion of the accommodating unit and configured to introduce food therethrough, an accommodating unit door located at the upper portion of the accommodating unit and configured to open and close the opening by moving in a direction parallel to the horizontal top surface, a roller located below the accommodating unit door, where the roller supports the accommodating unit door and allows the accommodating unit door to slidingly move with respect to the partition wall, and an upper rib provided at each of left and right portions of the accommodating unit door and configured to restrict splaying of the accommodating unit door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Daekil Kang
  • Patent number: 10687239
    Abstract: A method is provided for operating by a user equipment (UE) connected with a master base station (BS) and a secondary BS in a wireless communication system. The UE configures a first cell supporting a contention based random access and a second cell other than the first cell. The first cell and the second cell are associated with the secondary BS. The UE determines whether a radio link problem is occurred on the first cell or the second cell. The UE indicates the radio link problem to an upper layer only if the radio link problem occurs on the first cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sunyoung Lee, Seungjune Yi, Sungjun Park
  • Patent number: 10684021
    Abstract: A knob assembly includes a front panel, a knob located at a front side of the front panel and configured to rotate based on operation by a user, a knob shaft that is coupled to the knob and that extends through the front panel, a supporting pipe that receives the knob shaft and that supports the knob shaft, the supporting pipe being configured to maintain a position relative to the front panel, a valve configured to control supply of gas to the appliance, a valve shaft connected to the valve and configured to control the valve to adjust a flow rate of gas based on rotation of the valve shaft, and a joint that couples the knob shaft to the valve shaft and that is configured to transfer at least one of a rotational motion or a linear motion of the knob shaft to the valve shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Yeonsik Ha
  • Patent number: D887379
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyunbyung Cha, Seokkyu Kang, Seonkyu Kim, Yunjoo Kim, Jongho Kim, Minjae Lee
  • Patent number: D887380
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Minjae Lee, Seokkyu Kang, Seonkyu Kim, Yunjoo Kim, Jongho Kim, Hyunbyung Cha