Clothes treating apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11242647-B2
Application number	US-201815982889-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 17, 2018
Priority date	May 18, 2017
Publication date	Feb 8, 2022
Grant date	Feb 8, 2022

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a clothes treating apparatus having a movable nozzle for spraying air jets to the garment hung on one or more hangers. The clothes treating apparatus includes a main body having a garment container, a door hinged with the main body to be rotated in front of the garment container and having a display on the front side of the door, a nozzle unit having a nozzle configured to spray air to a garment contained in the garment container, a nozzle transportation unit configured to reciprocate the nozzle unit, and a hose supplying air from a fan located on the bottom of the main body to the nozzle unit, wherein a direction of transportation of the nozzle unit intersects the direction of gravity.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A clothes treating apparatus comprising:
a main body including an inner case forming a garment container and an outer case forming an exterior of the clothes treating apparatus, the garment container comprising a top plate, a bottom plate, a first side wall, a second side wall, and a rear wall connected between the first side wall and the second side wall;
a door hinged with the main body, configured to be rotated in front of the garment container and including a display on a front side of the door;
a nozzle unit including a nozzle configured to spray air to a garment contained in the garment container;
a nozzle transportation unit mounted to the top plate of the garment container and configured to reciprocate the nozzle unit;
a fan disposed between the inner case and the outer case;
a hose configured to supply air from the fan to the nozzle unit;
a pipe connected between the nozzle unit and the hose; and
a bar configured to receive a hanger, a first end of the bar mounted to the first side wall and a second end of the bar mounted to the second side wall,
wherein the nozzle unit is disposed higher than the bar and reciprocates along a length of the bar so that the nozzle blows air toward the bottom plate,
wherein the pipe is coupled to one end of the nozzle unit through an opening of the rear wall.

2. The clothes treating apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the door comprises a camera on a rear side configured to capture an inside of the garment container.

3. The clothes treating apparatus of claim 1 , wherein:
the main body comprises an inner case and an outer case, and
the nozzle transportation unit is located between the inner case and the outer case.

4. The clothes treating apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the nozzle transportation unit comprises:
a pulley configured to be rotated by power of a motor;
a belt configured to be moved by contacting the pulley;
a moving block configured to be moved on a rail by the belt; and
a bracket configured to couple the nozzle unit to the moving block.

5. The clothes treating apparatus of claim 4 , further comprising stoppers located at both ends of the rail configured to limit movement of the moving block.

6. The clothes treating apparatus of claim 4 , wherein a portion of the bracket is coupled to the nozzle unit by penetrating the inner case of the main body from outside of the inner case.

7. The clothes treating apparatus of claim 1 , wherein:
the nozzle unit includes:
an open structure at one end configured to receive the air from the hose, and
a closed structure at another end, and

a plurality of nozzles may be formed on a bottom of the nozzle unit.

8. The clothes treating apparatus of claim 1 , wherein:
a bottom of the nozzle unit is slanted at a first set angle from a direction of gravity, and
the first set angle is an acute angle.

9. The clothes treating apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the nozzle is arranged in one of a single array or multiple arrays on the bottom of the nozzle unit slanted at the first set angle.

10. The clothes treating apparatus of claim 8 , wherein:
the nozzle is configured to spray air while being slanted at a second set angle from the direction of gravity, and
the second set angle is an acute angle.

11. The clothes treating apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the first set angle is the same as or different from the second set angle.

12. The clothes treating apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the bar includes a plurality of grooves formed thereon to seat the hanger.

13. A clothes treating apparatus comprising:
a main body including a garment container containing a garment hung on a hanger, the garment container comprising a top inner surface, a bottom inner surface, and both side inner surfaces;
a door hinged with the main body, configured to be rotated in front of the garment container and including a touch screen on a front side of the door;
a bar disposed across both side inner surfaces and configured to receive the hanger;
a nozzle unit disposed higher than the bar and including a nozzle configured to spray air to the garment hung on the hanger;
a nozzle transportation unit mounted to the top inner surface of the garment container and configured to reciprocate the nozzle unit along the bar;
a fan connected to a hose that is configured to supply the air to the nozzle unit and located on a bottom of the main body; and
a controller configured to:
control the touch screen, the nozzle transportation unit, and the fan,
use the nozzle transportation unit to reciprocate the nozzle unit to intersect with a direction of gravity in response to a user input received through the touch screen, and
control the air supplied from the fan to be sprayed to the garment container through the nozzle of the nozzle unit coupled to the nozzle transportation unit.

14. The clothes treating apparatus of claim 13 , further comprising a camera located on a rear side of the door,
wherein the controller is configured to use the camera to change a distance of movement of the nozzle unit coupled to the nozzle transportation unit based on a number of garments contained in the garment container.

15. The clothes treating apparatus of claim 14 , wherein the controller is configured to use the camera to change a set speed of the nozzle unit coupled to the nozzle transportation unit based on the number of garments contained in the garment container.

16. The clothes treating apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the controller is configured to change a number of rotations of the fan that supplies the air, in response to the user input.

17. The clothes treating apparatus of claim 13 , wherein the controller is configured to use a camera to change a set speed of the nozzle unit coupled to the nozzle transportation unit based on a number of garments contained in the garment container.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kim Young Mi
• Hwang Kyung Ho
• Lee Jea Won
• Lee Jong Ho
• Cho Hwang Mook

Classifications

• H04N23/57

  Mechanical or electrical details of cameras or camera modules specially adapted for being embedded in other devices · CPC title

• D06F34/32

  characterised by graphical features, e.g. touchscreens · CPC title

• D06F58/203

  Laundry conditioning arrangements · CPC title

• D06B23/04

  Carriers or supports for textile materials to be treated · CPC title

• D06B1/02

  by spraying or projecting (D06B1/08 takes precedence) · CPC title