US 12,070,175 B2
Apparatus and method for treating shoes
Hyunsun Yoo, Seoul (KR); Jeong Guen Choi, Seoul (KR); Joohyeon Oh, Seoul (KR); Jae Myung Lim, Seoul (KR); Byoungjoon Han, Seoul (KR); Sang Yoon Lee, Seoul (KR); Hyunju Kim, Seoul (KR); and Jeaseok Seong, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul (KR)
Filed by LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul (KR)
Filed on Jun. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/356,242.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0077410 (KR), filed on Jun. 24, 2020; application No. 10-2020-0077411 (KR), filed on Jun. 24, 2020; application No. 10-2020-0077412 (KR), filed on Jun. 24, 2020; application No. 10-2020-0077413 (KR), filed on Jun. 24, 2020; application No. 10-2020-0077414 (KR), filed on Jun. 24, 2020; application No. 10-2020-0077415 (KR), filed on Jun. 24, 2020; application No. 10-2020-0077417 (KR), filed on Jun. 24, 2020; application No. 10-2020-0170566 (KR), filed on Dec. 8, 2020; and application No. 10-2021-0031057 (KR), filed on Mar. 9, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2021/0401261 A1, Dec. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. A47L 23/02 (2006.01); A47B 61/04 (2006.01); A47L 23/20 (2006.01); A61L 2/10 (2006.01)
CPC A47L 23/02 (2013.01) [A47B 61/04 (2013.01); A47L 23/20 (2013.01); A61L 2/10 (2013.01); A47L 2601/04 (2013.01); A47L 2601/10 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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13. A method of operating a shoe treating apparatus, the method comprising:
detecting whether a shoe is present in a storage space;
based on the detection of the shoe, rotating, by a processor, a rotatable duct part, which is disposed on an upper portion of the storage space, toward an interior of the detected shoe from the upper portion of the storage space; and
controlling, by the processor, treatment of the detected shoe through the rotatable duct part after the rotatable duct part is rotated toward the interior of the detected shoe.