Patents by Inventor Jongryong KIM

Jongryong KIM has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12247339
    Abstract: A method controls a garment processing device and includes rotating a drum inside a tub at a first rate, measuring a degree of imbalance of laundry while rotating the drum at the first rate, increasing the rate of rotation to a second rate based on a first measurement being less than or equal to a first reference value, rotating the drum at a second rate, measuring the degree of imbalance while rotating the drum at the second rate, stopping rotation of the drum based on a second measurement being less than or equal to a second reference value, accelerating the drum to a third rate higher than the second rate, thereby removing water from the garments, and stopping rotation of the drum based on the degree of imbalance of the drum becoming larger than an imbalance reference value that is set based on the second measured value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seungjoon Kim, Jongryong Kim, Jekwang Choi, Seungchul Park
  • Patent number: 11674251
    Abstract: A control method of a laundry treating apparatus includes rotating a drum at a reference rotational speed that is lower or higher than a resonance rotational speed of the laundry treating apparatus; measuring the maximum displacements of tub front and rear surfaces and a phase difference between the maximum displacements during the rotation of the drum at the reference rotational speed; determining a front unbalance (UB) mass located in a drum front area, a rear UB mass located in a drum rear area, and an angle between the UB masses based on the maximum displacements and the phase difference; and accelerating a drum rotational speed to a target rotational speed that is higher than the reference rotational speed and the resonance rotational speed, when the front and rear UB masses are in a preset allowable mass range and an angle between the UB masses is in an allowable angle range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seungjoon Kim, Sungmin Kim, Jongryong Kim, Seungchul Park
  • Publication number: 20230035888
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for controlling a garment processing device, the method comprising: a foreign-material separating step of rotating a drum rotatably provided inside a tub that stores water such that friction occurs between garments inside the drum and the water; a drain step of discharging the water inside the tub to the outside of the tub; a first maintenance step of maintaining the rate of rotation of the drum, after same has reached a preconfigured first rate, at the first rate; a first measurement step of measuring the degree of imbalance occurring in the drum while the drum rotates at the first rate; a second maintenance step of increasing the rate of rotation of the drum to a predetermined second rate, if a first measured value measured in the first measurement step is equal to/below a preconfigured first reference value, and then maintaining same at the second rate; a second measurement step of measuring the degree of imbalance occurring in the drum while the drum rotates at t
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Seungjoon KIM, Jongryong KIM, Jekwang CHOI, Seungchul PARK
  • Publication number: 20210002805
    Abstract: A control method of a laundry treating apparatus includes rotating a drum at a reference rotational speed that is lower or higher than a resonance rotational speed of the laundry treating apparatus; measuring the maximum displacements of tub front and rear surfaces and a phase difference between the maximum displacements during the rotation of the drum at the reference rotational speed; determining a front unbalance (UB) mass located in a drum front area, a rear UB mass located in a drum rear area, and an angle between the UB masses based on the maximum displacements and the phase difference; and accelerating a drum rotational speed to a target rotational speed that is higher than the reference rotational speed and the resonance rotational speed, when the front and rear UB masses are in a preset allowable mass range and an angle between the UB masses is in an allowable angle range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Seungjoon KIM, Sungmin KIM, Jongryong KIM, Seungchul PARK
  • Patent number: 10023987
    Abstract: A laundry treatment apparatus including a rotatable drum in which laundry is stored, at least three balancers mounted to the drum so as to be spaced apart from one another by the same angle around a rotation center of the drum. Liquid is introduced into and discharged from the balancers via a feeder supplying the liquid and a flow path structure mounted to the drum to guide liquid supplied from the feeder to the balancer located in a direction for removal of unbalance of the drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Keunjoo Kim, Seungchul Park, Jongryong Kim
  • Publication number: 20140223969
    Abstract: A laundry treatment apparatus including a rotatable drum in which laundry is stored, at least three balancers mounted to the drum so as to be spaced apart from one another by the same angle around a rotation center of the drum. Liquid is introduced into and discharged from the balancers via a feeder supplying the liquid and a flow path structure mounted to the drum to guide liquid supplied from the feeder to the balancer located in a direction for removal of unbalance of the drum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Keunjoo KIM, Seungchul PARK, Jongryong KIM