Patents Assigned to LG Electronic Inc
  • Vacuum cleaner and control method therefor
    Patent number: 11969136
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner for performing autonomous driving may include: a main body; a driving unit; a suctioning unit; a plurality of sensors for sensing obstacles present in each direction; and a control unit for controlling the driving unit to move the main body on the basis of a preset driving pattern. The control unit uses sensors provided at the front side of the main body and a first side of the both sides of the main body so as to detect whether entry into a corner area among cleaning areas is made while driving along the preset driving pattern, and controls the driving unit such that the first side of the main body comes into contact with a first wall forming the corner area at least one time when the main body enters the corner area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Woochan Jun
  • Indoor unit for air conditioner
    Patent number: 11969682
    Abstract: Disclosed is an indoor unit for an air conditioner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sunggyu Choi, Kangyoung Kim, Eunsun Lee, Jungwon Lee, Junseok Bae, Myeonggu Kang, Giyeong Gyeong
  • Beverage maker and method for controlling beverage maker
    Patent number: 11970686
    Abstract: A beverage maker may include a fermentation tank including a space in which a beverage is made, a refrigerant cycle device to cool the fermentation tank, a temperature sensor to detect a temperature of the fermentation tank, and a controller to drive the refrigerant cycle device to decrease a temperature of the fermentation tank which accommodates a mixture including an ingredient of the beverage to a fermentation temperature while the beverage is being made, to stop driving of the refrigerant cycle device when the temperature detected by the temperature sensor reaches a first step temperature of a plurality of step temperatures set higher than the fermentation temperature, and to re-drive the refrigerant cycle device after a predetermined period of time has elapsed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngjoon Kim, Daewoong Lee, Jinpyo Hong
  • Indoor unit of an air conditioner
    Patent number: 11971178
    Abstract: An indoor unit of an air conditioner includes a cabinet assembly; a door assembly disposed at a front of the cabinet assembly to cover the front of the cabinet assembly; a fixed plate fixed to the cabinet assembly and disposed between the door assembly and the cabinet assembly; and a door assembly moving part disposed between the door assembly and the fixed plate to move the door assembly in a left-right direction with respect to the cabinet assembly. When seen from the front of the cabinet assembly, the fixed plate is fixed eccentric in a direction where the door assembly moves such that when the door assembly moves, a center line of the door assembly remains within a left-right width of the fixed plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sunggyu Choi, Kangyoung Kim, Junseok Bae, Seongkuk Mun, Heejun Cheon, Nahee Kim
  • Garment folding machine and method of controlling the same
    Patent number: 11970814
    Abstract: A garment folding machine includes: a frame unit defining an external framework of the garment folding machine, a loading unit configured to receive a garment, a folding unit configured to convey and fold the received garment, and an unloading unit configured to collect the garment from the folding unit. The folding unit comprises a plurality of folding layers that are spaced apart from each other in a vertical direction, where each of the plurality of folding layers includes a conveyor configured to convey the garment, and a conveyor motor configured to provide driving power to the conveyor. A first conveyor motor is configured to, based on the garment being positioned over two or more adjacent conveyors of the plurality of folding layers, operate at a first rotational speed that is different from a second rotational speed of a second conveyor motor disposed above the first conveyor motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kyosoon Chae, Keunjoo Kim, Sunghoon Ahn, Choongho Lim
  • Refrigerator
    Patent number: 11971204
    Abstract: The refrigerator may comprise: a first tray assembly forming a part of ice-making cells; and a second tray assembly forming the other part of the ice-making cells. In order that ice can be produced in the direction of ice-making cells formed by any One of the first and second tray assemblies to ice-making cells formed by the other tray assembly, following the start of an ice-making process, the one tray assembly comprises a first part, and the first part comprises: a first surface forming a part of the ice-making cells; and a first deformation-resistant reinforcement part extending from the first surface in the vertical direction away from a heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Donghoon Lee, Wookyong Lee, Sunggyun Son, Donghoon Lee, Seungseob Yeom, Yongjun Bae, Chongyoung Park
  • Cooking appliance
    Patent number: 11971176
    Abstract: A cooking appliance includes a housing having a cooking compartment, which is surrounded by a bottom surface, a pair of side surfaces, and a back surface of the housing, and has an upper surface and a front surface which are open. A door includes a door upper surface part which covers the upper surface of the housing and a door front surface part which is connected to a front side of the door upper surface part and covers the front surface of the housing and opens and closes the upper surface and the front surface of the housing by rotating about a rear side of the door upper surface part. A heating part is installed in at least one of the housing or the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hag Soo Kim, Sung Mun Yoon
  • Vane rotary compressor with pressure reducing member inserted into the oil supply passage
    Patent number: 11971032
    Abstract: A vane rotary compressor may include a main bearing and a sub bearing provided with a plurality of back pressure pockets each having a different pressure formed on a surface facing the cylinder, a rotational shaft radially supported by the main bearing and the sub bearing, a roller provided with a back pressure chamber that communicates with the plurality of back pressure pockets and having a plurality of vanes configured to divide a compression space into a plurality of compression chambers. At least one of the main bearing or the sub bearing is provided with an oil supply passage that communicates with a back pressure pocket having a relatively low pressure among the plurality of back pressure pockets. Accordingly, oil may be smoothly supplied to a back pressure pocket having a low pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kiyoul Noh, Seokhwan Moon, Joonhong Park
  • Drain pump driving apparatus and laundry treatment machine including the same
    Patent number: 11970807
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a drain pump driving apparatus and a laundry treatment machine including the same. A drain pump driving apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure and a laundry treatment machine including the same include: an inverter converting a direct current (DC) voltage from a converter into an alternating current (AC) voltage based on a switching operation and to output the converted AC voltage to a drain motor; and a controller to control the motor to, when a drain channel in a drain pump is clogged, be temporarily stopped in a period during which a speed of the motor increases and then to repeatedly rotate and stop in a first direction the same as a start-up direction, and to repeatedly rotate and stop in a second direction opposite to the first direction when the drain channel is clogged even after the motor repeatedly rotates and stops in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Junho Park, Kiwook Lee, Jongseok Jung
  • Method for reporting information related to reference signal measurement, and apparatus therefor
    Patent number: 11971496
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for a terminal to report information related to reference signal measurement in a wireless communication system. In particular, the disclosed method is characterized by comprising: receiving a plurality of reference signals; measuring a time of arrival (ToA) for each of the plurality of reference signals; and transmitting identification information on the reference signal having the smallest ToA among the plurality of reference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyunsu Cha, Hyunsoo Ko, Kijun Kim, Youngsub Kim, Sukhyon Yoon
  • Image decoding method for deriving weight index information for biprediction, and device for same
    Patent number: 11973938
    Abstract: According to the disclosure of the present document, when the inter-prediction type of the current block indicates biprediction, weight index information for a candidate in a merge candidate list or sub-block merge candidate list can be derived, and coding efficiency can be raised.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Naeri Park, Junghak Nam, Hyeongmoon Jang
  • Mobile robot
    Patent number: 11969125
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses that the robot cleaner includes a mop module including a left rotating plate to which a mop is attached to the bottom surface and a right rotating plate to which the mop is attached to the bottom surface; a base on which the mop module is installed; a case disposed to cover at least an upper portion and a part of a side of the base; and a plurality of push supporters supporting the case spaced apart from the base, wherein each push supporter provides the case with the elastic restoring force at least in the upper direction of the base and the outer direction of the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jaewon Jang, Youngbin Kim, Yeongjae Lee
  • Method for transmitting sounding reference signal in wireless communication system, and device therefor
    Patent number: 11973713
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present specification is a method by which a terminal transmits a sounding reference signal (SRS) in a wireless communication system, the method: receiving, from a base station, configuration information relating to an SRS transmission, wherein the configuration information includes a first parameter set relating to a first SRS transmission and a second parameter set relating to a second SRS transmission; receiving downlink control information (DCI) from the base station; and transmitting, to the base station, a first SRS and/or a second SRS on the basis of the DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seongwon Go, Jonghyun Park, Jiwon Kang
  • Operating method of terminal performing V2X communication in wireless communication system, and apparatus using method
    Patent number: 11974254
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system, a third party different from both terminals or a base station, which are parties to vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication, may be involved in resource allocation for the V2X communication. For example, a first terminal performing V2X communication with a second terminal receives recommendation information recommending a resource available for the V2X communication from a third terminal and performs the V2X communication with the second terminal by using a recommended resource determined based on the recommendation information or a resource selected by the first terminal based on the recommendation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jongyoul Lee, Hanbyul Seo, Hyukjin Chae
  • Physical training bench
    Patent number: D1024584
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Byeongwook Kim, Dongsoon Kim, Jonghak Lee, Sungkyung Kim
  • TV receiver
    Patent number: D1024990
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sangho Lee, Seala Park, Jongchul Kim
  • Refrigerator
    Patent number: D1025143
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yong Kim, Kyukwan Choi, Myungshik Kim, Joosang Kim, Minsub Kim, Sungkyong Han, Yezo Yun
  • Refrigerator
    Patent number: D1025144
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Inhwan Ryu, Inhyeuk Choi, Hongsik Kwon
  • Refrigerator
    Patent number: D1025145
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Inhwan Ryu, Inhyeuk Choi, Hongsik Kwon
  • Method for transmitting uplink signals
    Patent number: RE49956
    Abstract: A method of transmitting uplink signals is disclosed. The method includes transmitting, by a user equipment, periodic control information on a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) at a predetermined period, dropping the periodic control information and multiplexing uplink signals except the periodic control information when the user equipment is operating in subframe bundling transmission mode where the uplink signals are transmitted in a plurality of consecutive subframes, and transmitting the multiplexed uplink signals on a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Dae Won Lee, Ki Jun Kim, Joon Kui Ahn