US 12,252,836 B2
Clothes treatment apparatus
Sunghoo Park, Seoul (KR); Youngjin Doh, Seoul (KR); and Hyoungsup Park, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to LG Electronics Inc., Seoul (KR)
Filed by LG Electronics Inc., Seoul (KR)
Filed on Oct. 11, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/484,815.
Application 18/484,815 is a continuation of application No. 16/805,198, filed on Feb. 28, 2020, granted, now 12,000,079.
Application 16/805,198 is a continuation of application No. 14/972,619, filed on Dec. 17, 2015, granted, now 11,313,071, issued on Apr. 26, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2014-0184452 (KR), filed on Dec. 19, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2024/0035228 A1, Feb. 1, 2024
Int. Cl. D06F 58/20 (2006.01); D06F 34/14 (2020.01); D06F 58/10 (2006.01); D06F 58/24 (2006.01); D06F 58/34 (2020.01); D06F 73/02 (2006.01); D06F 103/18 (2020.01); D06F 103/58 (2020.01); D06F 103/62 (2020.01)
CPC D06F 58/203 (2013.01) [D06F 34/14 (2020.02); D06F 58/206 (2013.01); D06F 73/02 (2013.01); D06F 58/10 (2013.01); D06F 58/20 (2013.01); D06F 58/24 (2013.01); D06F 58/34 (2020.02); D06F 2103/18 (2020.02); D06F 2103/58 (2020.02); D06F 2103/62 (2020.02)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A clothes treatment apparatus comprising:
a cabinet;
a door disposed at a front of the cabinet and configured to open or close the cabinet;
a treatment chamber located inside the cabinet, configured to receive hung clothes, and configured to be opened or closed by the door;
a cycle chamber located below the treatment chamber inside the cabinet;
a steam unit disposed in the cycle chamber and configured to supply steam to the treatment chamber;
a heat pump unit disposed in the cycle chamber and configured to condition and circulate air in the treatment chamber;
a tank installation portion disposed forward of the cycle chamber inside the cabinet and defining an opening,
a water tank having a water-storing space configured to store water,
wherein the water tank is insertable into the tank installation portion through the opening, and the water tank is mountable separably on the tank installation portion;
wherein, based on the door being opened, at least a part of a front of the water tank is positioned at the opening, and the part of the front of the water tank is exposed,
wherein the water tank further comprises:
a bottom-forming part providing a bottom of the water-storing space; and
a protrude part protruding downwardly below the bottom-forming part and extending along a left side, a back side, and a right side of an outline of the bottom-forming part, and
wherein front ends of the protrude part are defined at a backwardly offset position from a front side of the outline of the bottom-forming part.