US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Jan. 13 for "Drive system of a washing machine" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,968, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Drive system of a 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 drive system of a washing machine includes a housing, a motor, a rotor shaft coupled to the motor and the housing, an output shaft having a part within the rotor shaft and coupled to the housing, a planetary gear set coupled to the rotor shaft and the output shaft, and an actuator configured to move the planetary gear set in a vertical direction. When the planetary g...