Patent ID: 11959222
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Field: Other consumer goods (Other fields)
Classification: CPC D | IPC D

Claim 17:
18. A clothes treatment apparatus comprising:
a cabinet defining an inlet;
a door rotatably coupled to the cabinet and configured to open and close the inlet;
a first chamber positioned inside the cabinet and configured to accommodate clothes through the inlet;
a second chamber positioned under the first chamber and being separated from the first chamber;
a hanger bar positioned in the first chamber and configured to hold the clothes accommodated in the first chamber;
a motor configured to generate torque around a direction parallel to a height direction of the door;
a vibrating body configured to, based on rotation of the motor, rotate alternately in a first rotation direction and a second rotation direction opposite to the first rotation direction;
a motion converter having (i) a first end configured to be rotated together with the vibrating body and (ii) a second end connected to the hanger bar, the motion converter configured to convert movement of the vibrating body to cause the hanger bar to reciprocate along a width direction of the door; and
at least one driver elastic member configured to, based on rotation of the vibrating body, apply elastic force,
wherein the hanger bar is configured to reciprocate with different amplitudes and periods depending on a rotation of the motor,
wherein the hanger bar is configured to reciprocate in a first mode, a second mode, and a third mode,
wherein the hanger bar is configured to, in the first mode, reciprocate at a first frequency and a first amplitude, the first frequency being smaller than a resonance frequency of the driver,
wherein the hanger bar is configured to, in the second mode, reciprocate at a second frequency and a second amplitude, the second frequency being greater than the resonance frequency,
wherein the hanger bar is configured to, in the third mode, reciprocate at a third frequency and a third amplitude, the third frequency being between the first and second frequencies, the third amplitude being determined based on the third frequency, and the third amplitude being greater than the first amplitude and the second amplitude,
wherein the hanger bar is configured to reciprocate in the third mode for at least part of a total wrinkle removal time during which wrinkles are removed from the clothes being accommodated in the first chamber.