BATHROOM BASE CABINET UNIT HAVING DRYING FUNCTION AND FOOT HOLDING FUNCTION

• US 20180070722A1
• Filed: 09/08/2017
• Published: 03/15/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: YANG, Inhyung, PARK, Daeyun
• Granted Patent: US 10,582,770 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2210/16 Sliding drawers being part of the furniture base
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2220/03 Combined cabinets and wash basins
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2220/05 Furniture provided with a ladder
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 83/00 Combinations comprising two or more pieces of furniture of different kinds
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 88/457 operated by electrically-powered actuation means
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 10/48 Drying by means of hot air hair-drying devices A45D20/00; curative hot-air baths A61H33/06; electric heating elements H05B
• CPC Class Codes: E03C 1/32 Holders or supports for basins
• CPC Class Codes: F26B 21/001 Drying-air generating units, e.g. movable, independent of drying enclosure

Abstract

A bathroom base cabinet may include a blower device and a footstool for a drying function and a foot holding function. The bathroom base cabinet may perform a function of drying a bathroom floor by blowing wind in a direction of a floor surface of the bathroom, and a function of drying the body of a user by blowing wind in a direction of an upper surface of the footstool.

Claims

1. A bathroom base cabinet comprising:

a base cabinet body to provide a supporting structure;

a footstool to be insertable into a lower part of the base cabinet body, and the footstool to be withdrawable from the lower part of the base cabinet body; and

a blower device attached to the footstool to move air with respect to the footstool.

2. The bathroom base cabinet of claim 1, wherein:

the footstool includes a front surface outlet and an upper surface outlet, wherein the front surface outlet is provided at a front surface of the footstool, and an upper surface outlet is provided at an upper surface of the footstool,

wherein when the footstool is inserted into the base cabinet body, the upper surface of the footstool is not exposed to outside of the cabinet body and air is to be blown through the front surface outlet; and

when the footstool is at least partially withdrawn from the base cabinet body, the upper surface of the footstool is exposed to outside of the cabinet body and air is to be blown through the upper surface outlet.

3. The bathroom base cabinet of claim 2, wherein the blower device includes:

a driving motor to provide power;

a front surface blower fan coupled to the driving motor and configured to blow air through the front surface outlet;

an upper surface blower fan coupled to the driving motor and configured to blow air through the upper surface outlet; and

a power switching device configured to selectively deliver the power to the front surface blower fan or the upper surface blower fan.

4. The bathroom base cabinet of claim 3, wherein:

the driving motor is to rotate in a forward direction or a reverse direction; and

the power switching device includes a first one-way clutch bearing configured to control the power to be delivered to the front surface blower fan and a second one-way clutch bearing configured to control the power to be delivered to the upper surface blower fan.

5. The bathroom base cabinet of claim 1, further comprising an insertion and withdrawal driving device configured to control the footstool to insert the footstool into the base cabinet body and to control the footstool to withdraw the footstool from the base cabinet body.

6. The bathroom base cabinet of claim 1, wherein an upper surface of the footstool is provided in a stair shape having a step.

7. The bathroom base cabinet of claim 1, further comprising an auxiliary top plate to be insertable into the base cabinet body and to be withdrawable from the base cabinet body, wherein the auxiliary top plate to be provided on the footstool when the auxiliary top plate is withdrawn from the cabinet body.

8. The bathroom base cabinet of claim 1, comprising a washbasin provided on an upper part of the base cabinet body.

9. The bathroom base cabinet of claim 1, wherein the blower device includes a heater configured to heat air.

10. A base cabinet comprising:

a base cabinet body having a storage area, wherein the base cabinet body includes a door to open and close the storage area;

a blower device at the base cabinet body; and

a footstool configured to be insertable into a lower part of the base cabinet body, and to be withdrawable from the lower part of the base cabinet body.

11. The base cabinet of claim 10, wherein the footstool includes:

a front surface outlet provided at a front surface of the footstool;

an upper surface outlet provided at an upper surface of the footstool; and

a flow path guide configured to selectively guide air from the blower device to the front surface outlet or the upper surface outlet.

12. The base cabinet of claim 11, wherein the flow path guide guides the air to the upper surface outlet when the footstool is at least partially withdrawn from the base cabinet body.

13. The base cabinet of claim 10, further comprising an insertion and withdrawal driving device configured to control the footstool to insert the footstool into the base cabinet body and to control the footstool to withdraw the footstool from the base cabinet body.

14. The base cabinet of claim 10, wherein an upper surface of the footstool is provided in a stair shape having a step.

15. The base cabinet of claim 10, further comprising an auxiliary top plate to be insertable into the base cabinet body and to be withdrawable from the base cabinet body, wherein the auxiliary top plate to be provided on the footstool when the auxiliary top plate is withdrawn from the base cabinet body.

16. The base cabinet of claim 10, comprising a washbasin provided at an upper part of the base cabinet body.

17. The base cabinet of claim 10, wherein the blower device includes a heater configured to heat air.

18. A bathroom base cabinet comprising:

a base cabinet body to provide a storage area, the cabinet body having a door to open and close the storage area;

a washbasin provided on the base cabinet body;

a blower device to move air; and

a footstool to move between a first position and a second position, the footstool including first openings at a first surface and second openings at a second surface, wherein the first position is the footstool provided under the base cabinet body, and the second position is the first and second openings being at least partially exposed to outside of the base cabinet body.

19. The bathroom base cabinet of claim 18, wherein the blower device is coupled to the footstool to move with respect to the footstool.

20. The bathroom base cabinet of claim 18, comprising a driving device to move the footstool with respect to the base cabinet body.