US 12,460,345 B2
Laundry treating apparatus
Jeongryeol Choi, Seoul (KR); Junyoung Choi, Seoul (KR); Minhyoung Lee, Seoul (KR); Sunyong Kim, Seoul (KR); Hyunggyu Lim, Seoul (KR); and Junyoung Nam, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul (KR)
Filed by LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul (KR)
Filed on May 5, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/143,930.
Application 18/143,930 is a continuation of application No. 17/402,495, filed on Aug. 13, 2021, granted, now 11,680,362.
Application 17/402,495 is a continuation of application No. 15/809,106, filed on Nov. 10, 2017, granted, now 11,111,624, issued on Aug. 18, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2016-0150163 (KR), filed on Nov. 11, 2016; and application No. 10-2016-0150164 (KR), filed on Nov. 11, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2023/0272576 A1, Aug. 31, 2023
Int. Cl. D06F 73/02 (2006.01); D06F 58/10 (2006.01); D06F 71/02 (2006.01); D06F 71/40 (2006.01)
CPC D06F 73/02 (2013.01) [D06F 58/10 (2013.01); D06F 71/40 (2013.01); D06F 71/02 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A laundry treating apparatus, comprising:
a cabinet including a receiving space to receive laundry;
a door coupled to the cabinet, the door configured to open or close the receiving space;
a supply unit configured to supply at least one of air and water into the receiving space;
a laundry compress provided at an inner surface of the door, the laundry compress configured to rotate (1) around a rotation axis parallel to a width direction of the door, and (2) in a height direction of the door to compress the laundry,
wherein the laundry compress comprises:
a compression unit provided to rotate in the height direction of the door to compress the laundry,
a support unit provided to be contacted with the laundry between the compression unit and the door;
wherein the support unit comprises:
 a support body provided to be contacted with the laundry that is compressed by the compression unit,
an open space located in a center of the support body to separate the support body in the width direction of the door, and the open space is provided to avoid pressing a sewing line of the laundry.