US 12,006,614 B2
Clothes care apparatus
Hyeon Joo Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Jin Young Choi, Suwon-si (KR); Eung Ryeol Seo, Suwon-si (KR); Sang Jin Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Kyoung-Woong Noh, Suwon-si (KR); and Dong Bum Lee, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Appl. No. 17/250,862
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
PCT Filed Sep. 10, 2019, PCT No. PCT/KR2019/011699
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 12, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/055090, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 19, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2018-0109193 (KR), filed on Sep. 12, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0042230 A1, Feb. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. D06F 34/08 (2020.01); D06F 58/10 (2006.01); D06F 58/20 (2006.01); D06F 73/02 (2006.01); H05K 7/20 (2006.01); H05K 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC D06F 34/08 (2020.02) [D06F 58/10 (2013.01); D06F 58/20 (2013.01); D06F 73/02 (2013.01); H05K 7/2039 (2013.01); H05K 5/0091 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A clothes care apparatus comprising:
a printed circuit board (PCB) assembly;
a PCB housing having an accommodation space for accommodating the PCB assembly, the PCB housing including a sidewall that forms the accommodation space;
a protective body filled into the accommodation space to cover the PCB assembly;
a housing cover to which the PCB housing is coupled; and
a machine room cover coupled to the housing cover to accommodate the PCB assembly in a space formed between the housing cover and the machine room cover, the machine room cover including an air inlet,
wherein the sidewall includes an upper sidewall disposed at an upper side of the PCB housing and a guide wall disposed at a lower side of the PCB housing, and
wherein the guide wall includes a guide groove configured to discharge the protective body downward of the PCB housing when the protective body is melted.