Patent ID: 11866872
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC D  F  H | IPC D  F  H

Claim 0:
1. A laundry treating apparatus comprising:
a drum including:
a drum body defining a space to receive laundry therein,
a front cover defining a front surface of the drum body,
a rear cover defining a rear surface of the drum body, and
a drum introduction opening defined at the front cover and configured to communicate with an inside of the drum body;

a fixing panel disposed at a position spaced apart from the rear cover;
a housing including
a housing body coupled to the fixing panel, the housing body defining an accommodation space and including an opening configured to communicate the accommodation space with an outside of the accommodation space, and
a housing cover coupled to the housing body and configured to close the opening;

an input shaft defined at the housing body, one end of the input shaft being disposed at the outside of the accommodation space and an opposite end of the input shaft being disposed in the accommodation space;
an output shaft defined at the housing cover, one end of the output shaft being coupled to the rear cover and an opposite end of the output shaft being disposed in the accommodation space;
a gear unit disposed in the accommodation space and configured to transmit a rotational motion of the input shaft to the output shaft;
a motor including:
a stator coupled to the fixing panel or the housing and configured to form a rotating magnetic field, and
a rotor configured to be rotated by the rotating magnetic field;

a coupling body coupled to the rotor to connect the input shaft to the rotor; and
a first heat dissipation part disposed at the coupling body and configured to, based on the rotor being rotated, form an airflow between the housing body and the rotor.