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Granted Patent B2
US 11,313,070 · App. 16/567,268 · Granted Apr 26, 2022

Clothes care apparatus

Inventors: Sung Ho Chang (Suwon-si, KR); Dong Wook Kim (Suwon-si, KR); Kwon Chul Yun (Suwon-si, KR); Yong Joon Jang (Suwon-si, KR)
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
D06F58/10A47B61/003D06F37/28D06F59/02D06F73/02
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Patent No.
US 11,313,070
App. No.
16/567,268
Granted
Apr 26, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed is a clothes care apparatus including a holder unit improved to support a rack. The clothes care apparatus a main body including a care compartment for accommodating clothes, a rack detachably disposed inside the care compartment, and a holder unit configured to support the rack and including a housing coupled to the care compartment and a holder rotatably provided to be received in the housing or protrude from the housing.

Claims (22)

1. A clothes care apparatus comprising:

a main body including a care compartment configured to accommodate clothes, the care compartment including a right side wall and a left side wall facing each other;

a rack detachably disposed in the care compartment and having a plurality of support grooves; and

a pair of holder units configured to support the rack, each of the pair of holder units including:

a housing body inserted in one of the right side wall and the left side wall, and

a holder installed in the housing body and configured to be rotatable from a first position where the holder is disposed in the housing body to a second position where the holder is disposed to protrude from the housing body and extend into one of the plurality of support grooves to support the rack,

wherein each of the right side wall and the left side wall includes a recessed portion in which the housing body is inserted, and

wherein the housing body includes a first fixing portion protruding from the housing body and a second fixing portion elastically disposed at the housing body such that the second fixing portion is deformed when the housing body is inserted in the recessed portion.

2. The clothes care apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the holder includes a holder body configured to support the rack and a shaft protruding from the holder body and insertable into the housing to support a rotation of the holder.

3. The clothes care apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein

the housing body includes a shaft hole provided on the housing body to receive the shaft.

4. The clothes care apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the housing body includes a separation prevention portion disposed at an edge of the housing body to prevent the housing body from being unintentionally separated from the recessed portion.

5. The clothes care apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

each of the pair of holder units further includes a locking portion configured to prevent an unintentional rotation of the holder, and

the holder further includes a locking groove configured to receive the locking portion.

6. The clothes care apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein

the holder further includes an inclined portion on which the locking groove is disposed and inclined toward the locking portion such that the locking portion is lockable in conjunction with the locking groove.

7. The clothes care apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising

a door rotatably coupled to the main body to open and close the care compartment; and

a pair of supports each of which protrudes from one of the right side wall and the left side wall to be coupled to one of the plurality of support grooves.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 10, 2020
From: CHANG, SUNG HO; KIM, DONG WOOK; YUN, KWON CHUL; JANG, YONG JOON
To: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
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Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2018-0109244 · Sep 12, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20200080250A1 · Mar 12, 2020
Cited By (1)
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