US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Aug. 4 for "Drum washing machine" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,583, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Drum washing machine" was invented by Joohang Kang (Seoul, South Korea), Youngchan Ahn (Seoul, South Korea) and Junggu Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drum washing machine includes an inner tub and a drive system coupled to the inner tub. The drive system includes a housing, a motor disposed on one side of the housing, a rotor shaft coupled to the motor and bearing-coupled to the housing, an output shaft bearing-coupled to the housing, and wherein at least part of the output shaft is disposed in the rotor shaft, a planetary gear ...