Patents by Inventor Kwanwoong JEONG

Kwanwoong JEONG 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).

  • Publication number: 20240133102
    Abstract: A laundry treating apparatus includes a cabinet; a drawer including a first through-hole at a top face of the drawer; a tub disposed in the drawer, the tub including a laundry inlet communicating with the drawer first through-hole; a drum rotatably disposed in the tub; a door for opening and closing the drawer first through-hole or the laundry inlet; a housing; a lever having a fixed end pivotably coupled in the housing, and a free end configured to move up and down in the housing; a magnetic field generator disposed at one of the free end of the lever or the drawer; a magnetic field sensor disposed at another of the free end of the lever or the drawer; a slide in the housing; an actuating body disposed at the lever and protruding toward the slide; and an inclined body disposed at the slide and corresponding to the actuating body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2024
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jihong LEE, Kwanwoong JEONG
  • Patent number: 11879197
    Abstract: The present application proposes a laundry treating apparatus comprising: a cabinet; a drawer; a drum; a laundry inlet; a housing; a lever body; a body pressing portion; a magnetic field generator; a magnetic field sensor; a contact body; a slide wherein when an object contacts the contact body, the slide moves the free end of the lever body so that a distance between the magnetic field generator and the magnetic field sensor is equal to or smaller than a reference distance; and a door pivotably mounted on the top face of the drawer or a top face of the tub, wherein when the door pivots in a direction of opening the laundry inlet while the drawer is inserted into the cabinet, the door presses the body pressing portion such that a distance between the magnetic field generator and the magnetic field sensor is larger than the reference distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jihong Lee, Kwanwoong Jeong
  • Patent number: 11866875
    Abstract: A laundry treating apparatus includes a housing, a tub, and a top cover. The tub is provided in the housing, and the top cover is provided above the housing. The top cover receives water and detergents and supply the water and detergents to the tub. The top cover is provided in two configurations so that the degree of freedom of manufacturing may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jihong Lee, Kwanwoong Jeong, Minsu Lee
  • Patent number: 11661696
    Abstract: Disclosed is a laundry treating apparatus including a cabinet having a front face with a drawer hole defined therein, and a rear cover for forming a rear face of the cabinet, a drawer including a drawer body, a drawer cover, and a cover through-hole defined to penetrate the drawer cover, a tub including a tub body, a tub cover for forming a top face of the tub body, and an inlet defined to penetrate the tub cover, a drum rotatably disposed in the tub, wherein the drum accommodates laundry, a door for closing the inlet, and a door guide for providing a path for the door to reciprocate between a first point where the inlet is closed and a second point where the inlet is opened in a space defined between the tub cover and the drawer cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jihong Lee, Kwanwoong Jeong
  • Patent number: 11555267
    Abstract: Disclosed is a laundry treating apparatus including a cabinet having a front face with a drawer hole defined therein, and a rear cover for forming a rear face of the cabinet, a drawer including a drawer body, a drawer cover for forming a top face of the drawer body, and a cover through-hole defined to penetrate the drawer cover, a tub including a tub body disposed inside the drawer, a tub cover for forming a top face of the tub body, and an inlet defined to penetrate the tub cover, a drum rotatably disposed in the tub, a gasket fixed to the tub cover, a door for closing the inlet by pressing the gasket, a first guide and a second guide, a third guide for providing the path for the door to reciprocate between the first point and the second point, and a door lock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jihong Lee, Kwanwoong Jeong, Yeongho Jeong
  • Patent number: 11434599
    Abstract: A drawer guide includes a fixed body; an operation body withdrawable from the fixed body; a base; and a base slit. The base slit includes a linear portion; and a curved portion extending from a front end of the linear portion. The drawer guide includes first and second slides movably coupled to the base; a slide slit penetrating the second slide; a first transfer unit having one end movably coupled to the base slit and the other end inserted in the slide slit; a second transfer unit detachably coupled to the first transfer unit. The second transfer unit moves the first transfer unit to the curved portion from the linear portion when the operation body is moved in the withdrawing direction and vice-versa. The drawer guide includes a spring connecting the base and the first slide; and an attractive power supply unit that supplies a power to the second slide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jihong Lee, Kwanwoong Jeong
  • Publication number: 20220120013
    Abstract: A laundry treating apparatus includes a housing, a tub, and a top cover. The tub is provided in the housing, and the top cover is provided above the housing. The top cover receives water and detergents and supply the water and detergents to the tub. The top cover is provided in two configurations so that the degree of freedom of manufacturing may be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Jihong LEE, Kwanwoong JEONG, Minsu LEE
  • Publication number: 20220120023
    Abstract: A laundry treating apparatus includes a cabinet, a drawer body, a tub including a tub body disposed within the drawer body to configured to receive water and a tub cover coupled to a top side of the tub body and having a tub entrance configured to receive laundry, a drum disposed within the tub body and configured to accommodate the laundry and having a drum entrance for putting the laundry by communicating with the tub entrance, a driver disposed under a bottom side of the tub body and configured to provide power for rotating the drum, a door configured to slide on a top side of the tub cover to open/close the tub entrance, and a door opening detection sensor disposed at the tub cover to detect an opening/closing of the door by contacting with the door that slides on the tub cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Jihong LEE, Kwanwoong JEONG, Yeongho JEONG
  • Publication number: 20220120010
    Abstract: A laundry treatment apparatus includes a drum having an entrance formed in a top side to put laundry therethrough, a balancer provided to the drum to resolve unbalancing of the drum may include a recess part configured to reduce a top side of a space for storing liquid in the balancer. Accordingly, the center of gravity of the balancer can be lowered and a laundry receiving space can be increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Jihong LEE, Kwanwoong JEONG, Jihun PARK
  • Publication number: 20220120022
    Abstract: Disclosed is a laundry treating apparatus including a cabinet having a front face with a drawer hole defined therein, and a rear cover for forming a rear face of the cabinet, a drawer including a drawer body, a drawer cover, and a cover through-hole defined to penetrate the drawer cover, a tub including a tub body, a tub cover for forming a top face of the tub body, and an inlet defined to penetrate the tub cover, a drum rotatably disposed in the tub, wherein the drum accommodates laundry, a door for closing the inlet, and a door guide for providing a path for the door to reciprocate between a first point where the inlet is closed and a second point where the inlet is opened in a space defined between the tub cover and the drawer cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Jihong LEE, Kwanwoong JEONG
  • Publication number: 20220120008
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a laundry treatment apparatus including a cabinet including an upper cover, a first side cover and a second side cover, a cover through hole formed through the upper cover, and an outlet formed in a front surface of the cabinet, a drawer including a drawer body, and a drawer panel fixed to the drawer body, a tub arranged in the drawer body, a drum rotatably arranged inside the tub, an operation part having one end rotatably fixed to the first side cover and a free end, a contact portion exposed to an outside of the cabinet and configured to move toward an inside of the cabinet and toward the cover through hole, a converter configured to move the free end, and a position sensor configured to sense a position of the free end when the outlet is closed to sense closure of the outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Jihong LEE, Kwanwoong JEONG
  • Publication number: 20220120012
    Abstract: Disclosed is a laundry treating apparatus including a cabinet having a front face with a drawer hole defined therein, and a rear cover for forming a rear face of the cabinet, a drawer including a drawer body, a drawer cover for forming a top face of the drawer body, and a cover through-hole defined to penetrate the drawer cover, a tub including a tub body disposed inside the drawer, a tub cover for forming a top face of the tub body, and an inlet defined to penetrate the tub cover, a drum rotatably disposed in the tub, a gasket fixed to the tub cover, a door for closing the inlet by pressing the gasket, a first guide and a second guide, a third guide for providing the path for the door to reciprocate between the first point and the second point, and a doorlock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Jihong LEE, Kwanwoong JEONG, Yeongho JEONG
  • Publication number: 20220120020
    Abstract: Disclosed is a laundry treating apparatus including a cabinet, a drawer including a drawer body, a drawer cover, a first detergent flow channel, and a first detergent supply hole defined to penetrate the drawer cover, a tub including a tub body disposed inside the drawer, a tub cover for forming a top face of the tub body, and an exhaust hole penetrating the tub cover, a drum rotatably disposed in the tub, a discharge flow channel, a dispenser including a flow channel body fixed to the drawer, a first water supply flow channel defined in the flow channel body, an exhaust flow channel defined in the flow channel body, a flow channel cover, and a cover through-hole connected to the exhaust flow channel, a first connection pipe, a first flow channel water supply pipe, and a tub exhaust pipe for connecting the exhaust flow channel with the exhaust hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Jihong LEE, Kwanwoong JEONG
  • Publication number: 20220120019
    Abstract: Disclosed is a laundry treating apparatus including a cabinet having a front face with a drawer hole defined therein, and a rear cover for forming a rear face of the cabinet, a drawer extendable from the cabinet through the drawer hole, a tub disposed inside the drawer, a drum rotatably disposed in the tub, a water supply including a connection flow channel disposed between the rear cover and the body rear face, and a water supply flow channel for connecting the connection flow channel with the tub, a drainage having a drain flow channel for guiding the water stored in the tub to the outside of the cabinet, and a pump for flowing the water inside the tub to the drain flow channel, a first support rotatably fixed to the drawer, and a second support rotatably fixed to the cabinet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Jihong LEE, Kwanwoong JEONG
  • Publication number: 20220064840
    Abstract: The present application proposes a laundry treating apparatus comprising: a cabinet; a drawer; a drum; a laundry inlet; a housing; a lever body; a body pressing portion; a magnetic field generator; a magnetic field sensor; a contact body; a slide wherein when an object contacts the contact body, the slide moves the free end of the lever body so that a distance between the magnetic field generator and the magnetic field sensor is equal to or smaller than a reference distance; and a door pivotably mounted on the top face of the drawer or a top face of the tub, wherein when the door pivots in a direction of opening the laundry inlet while the drawer is inserted into the cabinet, the door presses the body pressing portion such that a distance between the magnetic field generator and the magnetic field sensor is larger than the reference distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jihong LEE, Kwanwoong JEONG
  • Publication number: 20220049412
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a laundry treatment apparatus including a cabinet having an entrance, a drawer comprising a drying chamber, a bottom surface, a front surface extending upward from the bottom surface, a rear surface to face the front surface, and first and second side surfaces to connect the front and rear surfaces. The laundry apparatus includes a first rack disposed in the drying chamber, the first rack comprising a first vent portion allowing a space above and below the first rack to communicate with each other, a second rack disposed in the drying chamber and positioned between the first rack and the bottom surface, the second rack comprising a second vent portion, a supply port formed through the rear surface, an air supply unit located outside the drying chamber, and a guide in the supply port to guide air to at least one of the spaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kyoungmin CHOI, Kwanwoong JEONG
  • Publication number: 20220034017
    Abstract: A laundry treating apparatus comprises: a cabinet having a top face for supporting an object thereon and a front face having a front opening communicating an interior of the cabinet with an outside; a drawer extendable from the cabinet through the front opening; a tub disposed inside the drawer and having a water storage space; a drum rotatably disposed in the tub to receive laundry; a laundry inlet in a top face of the tub to receive laundry; a lever having a fixed end pivotably coupled to the cabinet and a free end positioned between a top face of the cabinet and a top face of the drawer; a magnetic field generator fixed to one of the free end of the lever and the drawer; and a magnetic field sensor disposed on the other of the free end of the lever and the drawer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jihong LEE, Kwanwoong JEONG
  • Publication number: 20210381148
    Abstract: A laundry treating apparatus includes a cabinet with an outlet, a drawer drawn out from the outlet, and a tub inside the drawer, providing a space for storing water and having an inlet on its upper surface. A drum rotatably mounted inside the tub includes an inlet on an upper surface for receiving laundry inside of the drum. A cabinet includes a first frame made at least in part from metal and including a first outlet, a second frame made at least in part from metal, spaced apart from the first frame along a moving direction of the drawer, and including a second outlet, a base panel made of a nonmetal lighter than metal, fixed to the first and second frames, and forming a bottom surface of the cabinet, and a metal cover fixed to the first and second frames and forming an upper surface and both sides of the cabinet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kyoungmin CHOI, Jihong Lee, Kwanwoong JEONG
  • Patent number: 11186942
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a laundry treatment apparatus including a cabinet having an entrance, a drawer comprising a drying chamber, a bottom surface, a front surface extending upward from the bottom surface, a rear surface to face the front surface, and first and second side surfaces to connect the front and rear surfaces. The laundry apparatus includes a first rack disposed in the drying chamber, the first rack comprising a first vent portion allowing a space above and below the first rack to communicate with each other, a second rack disposed in the drying chamber and positioned between the first rack and the bottom surface, the second rack comprising a second vent portion, a supply port formed through the rear surface, an air supply unit located outside the drying chamber, and a guide in the supply port to guide air to at least one of the spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kyoungmin Choi, Kwanwoong Jeong
  • Patent number: 11131052
    Abstract: A laundry treatment apparatus includes, a tub body configured to store water, a tub cover configured to define an upper surface of the tub body, an introduction aperture defined through the tub cover, a supply aperture provided in the tub cover, and configured to enable supply of water into the tub body, a drum that is rotatably provided in the tub body, and that is configured to receive laundry, the drum including an opening in communication with the introduction aperture, a door configured to open and close the introduction aperture, and an ejection unit configured to eject water introduced into the supply aperture to the drum, the ejection unit being configured to eject water in at least two different directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kwanwoong Jeong, Yanghwan No, Chanho Lee, Jihong Lee