Patents Assigned to LG Electronics Inc.
  • Patent number: 11976411
    Abstract: A laundry processing apparatus includes a filter assembly that is detachably supported by a filter holder positioned between a processing module and a guide duct, and an inner filter and an outer filter that are overlappingly assembled with each other, and removes debris contained in circulated air and then supplies the circulated air into the guide duct. The filter holder is assembled with a sealing member, and the sealing member is provided to cover at least a part of an outer surface of the outer filter to seal a gap between the outer filter and the filter holder, and a part of the sealing member protrudes toward the inner filter to seal a gap between the inner filter and the outer filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyun Su Nam, Jun Seok Lee, In Baeg Jang
  • Patent number: 11976666
    Abstract: A fan motor includes: a housing, a rotation shaft oriented across an inner center of the housing, an impeller located at a first side of the rotation shaft, a rotor connected to the rotation shaft and spaced apart from the impeller in an axial direction, a stator that surrounds the rotor, a first bearing located at a first end of the rotation shaft, a second bearing that is located at a second end of the rotation shaft and that is configured to rotatably support the rotation shaft, and a first bearing housing that accommodates and supports the first bearing, that is fixed inside the housing, and that is configured to guide a flow of air introduced into the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sunggi Kim, Byungjik Kim, Eunji Hwang, Jisu Hwang
  • Patent number: 11976410
    Abstract: A clothes treatment apparatus includes a cabinet, a door, and a steam unit. The clothes treatment apparatus further includes a heat pump unit that is located in the cycle chamber and that is configured to circulate and condition air in the treatment chamber. The clothes treatment apparatus further includes a water supply tank that is installed in the tank installation space, that is connected to the steam unit, and that is configured to supply water to the steam unit. The clothes treatment apparatus further includes a drainage tank that is separably installed in the tank installation space, that is configured to store condensed water generated in at least one of the treatment chamber or the heat pump unit. The clothes treatment apparatus further includes a water supply level sensor. The clothes treatment apparatus further includes a drainage level sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sunghoo Park, Youngjin Doh, Hyoungsup Park
  • Patent number: 11976865
    Abstract: A refrigerator with an ice-making apparatus, the ice-making apparatus including: an ice tray in which ice is made; a water supply device which supplies water to the ice tray from an upper side of the ice tray; a drive unit which is coupled with the ice tray and rotates the ice tray so as to separate ice made in the ice tray; and an ice-fullness detecting lever which is coupled with the drive unit below the ice tray and is rotated in the same direction as that of the ice tray to detect ice-fullness of the ice bank, in which a tray rotation shaft for rotation of the ice tray and a lever rotation shaft for rotation of the ice-fullness detecting lever are provided is the same surface of the drive unit, and in which the lever rotation shaft is positioned below the tray rotation shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Jongho Yun
  • Patent number: 11976650
    Abstract: A compressor and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The compressor includes a piston having formed therein a suction space, in which refrigerant gas is sucked; and a cylinder in which a piston is accommodated, the cylinder defining a compression space that is configured, based on the piston reciprocating in an axial direction, to compress the refrigerant gas therein. A plurality of grooves having a partial spherical shape and having a diameter of 10 micrometers is formed in an outer circumferential surface of the piston or an inner circumferential surface of the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Wooju Jeon, Youngpil Kim, Kyungmin Lee, Sangik Son
  • Patent number: 11976405
    Abstract: A laundry treating apparatus includes a main body provided with a front cover having a laundry inlet port and a door rotatably installed on the front cover to open and close the laundry inlet port. The door includes an outer frame disposed toward an outside of the main body, a front glass provided on a front surface of the outer frame, an inner frame disposed toward an inside of the main body and coupled to a rear surface of the outer frame, and a handle that is recessed radially inward from side surfaces of the outer frame and the inner frame to form a space for putting fingers. As the front cover has a curved shape, an installation area of the handle may be efficiently acquired even when an installation space of the handle is small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hosung Jang, Yohwan Kang, Donghwa Lee
  • Patent number: 11976644
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a compressor including a case, a compression unit provided inside the case, and a driving unit, wherein the compression unit includes a cylinder having a compression space, a piston reciprocating inside the cylinder, a discharge cover covering the compression space, a first plenum disposed inside the discharge cover and having a discharge space and a coupling space, a second plenum disposed inside the discharge cover and defining a movement channel through which refrigerant moves, a rib disposed in the movement channel, and a communicating portion through which the discharge space and the movement channel communicate with each other, wherein the refrigerant discharged from the compression space moves along the discharge space, the communicating portion, and the movement channel, whereby pulsation caused by the discharge of the refrigerant can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hyeongjun Lim, Kwangwook Kim
  • Patent number: 11976408
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a clothing treatment device. The clothing treatment device comprises a cabinet having an open part provided at the front thereof: a door assembly for opening and closing the open part; a first clothing treatment room, which is provided inside the cabinet so as to provide a space for accommodating clothing therein, and communicates with the outside of the cabinet through the open part; and a machinery room for circulating steam or air in the first clothing treatment room, wherein the door assembly comprises; an assembly housing which opens and closes the opened front surface of the cabinet and which has a space of a second clothing treatment room therein; and an assembly door for opening and closing, at the front of the cabinet, the second clothing treatment room formed in the assembly housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kihyuk Kim, Jaeil Bae, Wookjun Chung, Jaehyung Kim, Semin Jang
  • Patent number: 11977384
    Abstract: A control system for controlling a plurality of robots using artificial intelligence includes a communication unit configured to receive user information of each of a plurality of unit zones in which the plurality of robots is disposed, and a processor configured to calculate a plurality of densities respectively corresponding to the plurality of unit zones based on the user information of each unit zone, calculate average densities of a plurality of group zones using the plurality of calculated densities, determine respective priorities of the plurality of group zones based on the calculated average densities, and control movement of one or more of the plurality of robots based on the determined priorities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jonghoon Chae, Taehyun Kim
  • Patent number: 11976412
    Abstract: A clothes treatment apparatus includes a first chamber for accommodating clothes, a second chamber under the first chamber, a blowing fan for suctioning air from the first chamber, a heat pump for compressing a refrigerant for heat exchange with the air suctioned by the blowing fan and discharging the heat-exchanged air to the first chamber, a steamer for generating and supplying steam, a water supply tank for supplying water to the steamer, a water drain tank for storing condensed water generated in the first chamber and the heat pump, a hanger bar positioned in the first chamber and configured to hold the clothes in the first chamber. The apparatus further includes a motor, a vibrating body for vibrating alternately in opposite rotation directions, and a motion converter for rotating together with the vibrating body and converting the vibration of the vibrating body to allow the hanger bar to reciprocate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Semin Jang, Minji Kim, Jaehyung Kim, Joosik Jung
  • Patent number: 11976875
    Abstract: A refrigerator has a shelf seating protrusion and a separate shelf seating member. The shelf seating protrusion is not formed at an approximate mid-point, height wise, of a storage space defined by an inner casing. The shelf seating member may be coupled to the inner casing to support a shelf assembly. An arrangement of the shelf seating protrusions and the shelf seating member is configured to reduce deformation and cracking of the inner casing due to thermal impact in a manufacturing process or when items are stored on the shelf assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jun Yeong Kim, Hyung Kyu Park, Jae Seok Jang
  • Patent number: 11979515
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mobile terminal comprising a lighting device and a control method thereof. The mobile terminal according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a lighting device comprising a pattern light source for irradiating light of a predetermined pattern; a camera; and a control unit for photographing a 3D image by using the lighting device and the camera, wherein the pattern light source comprises a plurality of light-emitting elements, the plurality of light emitting elements are grouped into a plurality of groups, and the control unit turns on the plurality of groups sequentially and controls the pattern light source so that light emission times of at least some of the plurality of groups are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Ayoung Cho, Jinwon Kang, Hangtae Kim, Yunsup Shin
  • Patent number: 11979607
    Abstract: A method for processing point cloud data may encode point cloud data including geometry information and attribute information and transmit a bitstream including the encoded point cloud data. The method for processing point cloud data may receive a bitstream including the point cloud data including geometry information and attribute information and decode the received point cloud data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyunmook Oh, Sejin Oh
  • Patent number: 11978342
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, a method for transmitting a safety message, by a UE, in a wireless communication system supporting sidelink, and an apparatus therefor are disclosed. The method for transmitting a safety message, by a UE, in a wireless communication system supporting sidelink comprises the steps of: receiving, from an adjacent UE, a sidelink signal including mobility information on the adjacent UE; calculating a collision risk range for the adjacent UE on the basis of the mobility information on the adjacent UE; and determining whether to transmit a safety message on the basis of the collision risk range to which an estimated threshold value has been applied, wherein the estimated threshold value is determined on the basis of a received decentralized environmental notification message (DENM).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Minsung Kwak, Seungryul Yang
  • Patent number: 11978344
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, disclosed are a method for transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), a message in a wireless communication system supporting a sidelink, and an apparatus therefor. A method for transmitting, by a first UE, a message in a wireless communication system supporting a sidelink, and an apparatus therefor are disclosed, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining state information including geographic location information; receiving a first message from a second UE; and determining whether to stop transmission of a second message, on the basis of the state information and whether the first message includes information on a geographic area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Minsung Kwak, Seungryul Yang
  • Patent number: 11979609
    Abstract: The present disclosure, in a method of decoding a video signal, provides a method including checking whether a transform skip is applied to a current block; acquiring a transform index indicating transform types applied to a horizontal direction and a vertical direction of the current block from among a plurality of predefined transform types from the video signal when the transform skip is not applied to the current block; and performing an inverse primary transform on the current block using the transform types indicated by the transform index, wherein the transform types applied to the horizontal direction and the vertical direction of the current block are determined from among transform types defined according to an intra prediction mode of the current block based on the transform index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seunghwan Kim, Medhi Salehifar, Moonmo Koo, Jaehyun Lim
  • Patent number: D1025826
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jinhee Park, Kyukwan Choi, Jinwon Kang
  • Patent number: D1025937
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sangho Lee, Seala Park, Jongchul Kim
  • Patent number: D1025983
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sharim Choe, Daihyung Ryu, Hyeongyeol Kim
  • Patent number: D1026034
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sangjun Koo, Yongdeok Lee, Yeonjoo Joo