US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Dec. 23 for "Drive system of a washing machine and a washing machine with the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,804, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Drive system of a washing machine and a washing machine with the same" was invented by Joohang Kang (Seoul, South Korea), Youngchan Ahn (Seoul, South Korea), Junggu Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Yongsik Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive system of a washing machine includes a rotor shaft and an output shaft; an n:1 stage positioned on the rotor shaft; a 1:1 stage positioned behind the n:1 stage, coupled to the rotor shaft and integrally rotating with the rotor shaft; a planetary gear set including a ring gear shaft surroundi...