Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
068018000 | With solvent recovery | 24 |
20120180534 | CONTROL METHOD OF A LAUNDRY MACHINE - A laundry machine and a control method thereof are provided in which laundering ability may be improved while also improving efficiency and noise/vibration. The laundry machine employs a plurality of drum motions by varying drum rotational speed, drum rotational direction, and drum starting and stopping point, to provide different motion of laundry items in the drum. | 07-19-2012 |
20130213098 | Washing Machine of Water Storage Type - A washing machine comprises a laundry basket, a water inlet, water storage means, a connection pipe assembly, a pipe control valve, a reclaiming pipe, a three-way control valve, and a controller. The water storage means is capable of storing fresh water from the water inlet and storing at least a final batch of rinse water from the laundry basket. The connection pipe assembly is connected between the water storage means and the laundry basket. The pipes of the connection pipe assembly have a large diameter or are installed with pumps to increase the flow rate of the water entering the laundry basket. The reclaiming pipe is connected between the water storage means and the three-way control valve at an outlet of the laundry basket for transferring the final rinse water from the laundry basket to the water storage means. In operation, the washing machine can save time, power, and water. | 08-22-2013 |
20090049872 | DRY-CLEANING MACHINE - A vaporized solvent emitted from the laundry in the drum during the drying process is condensed within an air passage. From this passage a liquid mixture (solvent and water) is guided to a first liquid storage tank | 02-26-2009 |
20080196452 | Laundry Machine and Lint Filter Thereof - A lint filter of a laundry machine is provided. In the lint filter, a case is provided, a front filter is installed in the case and the front filler includes a hook formed at at least one side, and a rear filter is mounted on a back of the front filter. | 08-21-2008 |
20080216522 | FOREIGN MATERIALS FILTERING APPARATUS AND WASHING MACHINE HAVING THE SAME - In a foreign materials filtering apparatus and a washing machine having the same, owing to a detachable mounting structure between a handle and a front filter and between a rear filter and the front filter, foreign materials collected in a foreign materials filtering space can be easily cleaned. Accordingly, can be solved the conventional problem that a net filter has to be kept inside out at the time of a cleaning process, resulting in causing a user's hands to become dirty. Also, can be solved the conventional problem that there is a difficulty in removing foreign materials from the net filter due to a fibrous characteristic of the net filter. | 09-11-2008 |
20100050701 | MACHINE FOR DRY-CLEANING ARTICLES - The machine ( | 03-04-2010 |
20120125056 | Washing Machine With Recirculation Circuit - A washing machine ( | 05-24-2012 |
20120186306 | WASHING MACHINE AND PUMP FILTER THEREOF - A washing machine includes a tub, a pump case including an inflow chamber into which wash water in the tub flows, a circulation pump chamber provided at one side of the inflow chamber to supply wash water to the tub, and a drain pump chamber provided at the other side of the inflow chamber to discharge the wash water to the outside, and a pump filter installed in the inflow chamber to filter out foreign substances from the wash water. The pump filter includes a first filter part passing wash water flowing into the circulation pump chamber and a second filter part passing wash water flowing into the drain pump chamber, and the first filter part includes a blocking wall preventing the wash water from rectilinearly flowing into the circulation pump chamber and guiding detouring of the wash water. | 07-26-2012 |
20130036776 | WASHING MACHINE - A washing machine includes a cabinet forming an external appearance of the washing machine, a rotary tub disposed to rotate around a driving shaft vertically provided inside the cabinet and including a sidewall, which extends with inclination to have a diameter increasing from a lower side to an upper side of the washing machine, and at least one protrusion part, which protrudes from the sidewall with inclination to have a diameter increasing from an upper side to a lower side of the sidewall. A guide water filter is mounted on at least one protrusion part inside the rotary tub and provided at a rear surface thereof with a drain passage to discharge the washing water discharged from the balance ring to outside. A base is installed at the lower side of the rotary tub and includes a guide part and a support plate. | 02-14-2013 |
20130276484 | PUMP ASSEMBLY FOR A WASHING MACHINE APPLIANCE - A pump assembly for a washing machine appliance is provided. The pump assembly includes a casing that receives a filter. The filter includes a labyrinth filter portion and a mesh filter portion. A drain pump is in fluid communication with the labyrinth filter portion, and a recirculation pump is in fluid communication with the mesh filter portion. Related washing machine appliances are also provided. | 10-24-2013 |
20130319056 | WASHING MACHINE - Provided is a washing machine. The washing machine includes a tub, a drum, a pulsator, a water stream generation unit, a filter cap, and a check valve. The tub contains washing water. The drum is rotatably disposed in the tub and receiving laundry. The pulsator is rotatably disposed inside the drum and has a spouting outlet. The water stream generation unit is disposed under the pulsator and forms a water stream spouted through the spouting outlet by circulating washing water contained between the tub and the drum. The filter cap collects foreign substances floating in washing water spouted through the spouting outlet. The check valve opens the spouting outlet by the water stream formed by the water stream generation unit. | 12-05-2013 |
20130340487 | Drum Type Laundry Machine - Disclosed is a drum type laundry machine, including a casing, a control panel, an outer drum, an inner drum, a water inlet system, a water drainage system, a driving system, washing balls, a storage chamber disposed on the bottom of the outer drum, a circulation piping system connecting the storage chamber with the inner drum, and an outlet of the circulation pipe system leading to the inner drum and provided on an annular opening of the inner drum. The washing procedure of the laundry process described herein also includes a washing step while the washing balls circulate in the inner and outer drum, and a collecting step of the washing balls. The drum type laundry machine of the present invention can save water and electricity and can reduce pollution. | 12-26-2013 |
20140026624 | WASHING APPARATUS - The present invention relates to a washing apparatus comprising a cabinet; a tub which is provided inside the cabinet, for storing washing water; a drum which is rotatably provided inside the tub with a vertical shaft at the center and a filtering portion for filtering water which circulates from the tub to the drum. | 01-30-2014 |
20140041419 | HIGH ENERGY EFFICIENCY WASHING SYSTEM - A washing machine containing a tub and basket placed within the tub, a basket bottom, a driving shaft coupled to the basket, a motor coupled to the driving shaft, a propeller located within the bottom and impelled by an end of the driving shaft, the propeller containing a scrubber, a center and a support, the scrubbers have a transversal section made from at least three arch circumference sections; a lower face of the propeller has a fin, which along with the bottom, functions as a centrifugal pump creating a current or washing liquor flow which is led through the water tower. In a preferred embodiment, the driving shaft has a solar gear coupled thereto which rotates a satellite gear and over the upper face of the support and between the scrubbers a mini-propeller is provided, the satellite gear is coupled to an axis that rotates the mini-propeller. | 02-13-2014 |
20140060122 | Laundry Machine - A laundry machine, particularly of the front loading type, is proposed. The laundry machine includes a cabinet with a front panel having a laundry loading/unloading opening, and a door for closing the laundry loading/unloading opening. A washing tub is accommodated within the cabinet and has an opening corresponding to the laundry loading/unloading opening. A drum is rotatably arranged within the washing tub in such a way that a frontal rim of the drum faces the laundry loading/unloading opening, and a bellows connecting a rim of the laundry loading/unloading opening to the opening of the washing tub. The bellows includes a first and a second lip protruding towards the rotation axis of the drum. The first lip is closer to the front panel than the second lip and is adapted to hinder the passage of foreign bodies from the drum to the washing tub through a gap between the drum and the washing tub. The second lip is adapted to hinder the passage through the gap of foreign bodies possibly trespassing said first lip. The frontal rim of the drum is located between the first and the second lips. The first lip includes a first lip end having a distance from the rotation axis greater than the distance of the frontal rim of the drum from the rotation axis, so that the first lip end is close to, but spaced apart from the frontal rim. | 03-06-2014 |
20140083145 | Washing Machine - A washing machine includes a tub ( | 03-27-2014 |
20140102154 | FILTER DEVICE FOR WASHING MACHINE - A filter device for a washing machine includes a circulation flow path frame on an inner wall of a washing tub, having a first overflow path between the circulation flow path frame and the inner wall of the washing tub; and a filter unit in the circulation flow frame, having a second overflow path between the filter unit and the circulation flow path frame to communicate with the first overflow path. Wash water entering the first overflow path is discharged into the washing tub through a discharge port of the first overflow path and a discharge port of the second overflow path, and the discharge port of the second overflow path is under the discharge port of the first overflow path. | 04-17-2014 |
20140238089 | DRAIN PUMP AND WASHING MACHINE HAVING THE SAME - A washing machine includes: a cabinet; a tub; a pump case provided so as to drain washing water; a pump filter that filters foreign substances in washing water and is able to be detached from the pump case; and a pump filter head that is combined with one side of the pump filter and causes the pump filter to rotate, wherein the pump filter head includes: a first head having a first state in which the first head is engaged with one side of the pump case and is combined with the pump case and a second state in which the first head is released from the pump case; and a second head that is positioned at front of the first head and is rotatable separately from the first head in the first state. A user can recognize whether the pump filter is fully fastened to the pump case. | 08-28-2014 |
20150013397 | WASHING MACHINE - A washing machine including a filter device, a support, or an auxiliary damper, using pressure of water supplied thereto. The washing machine includes a casing, a reservoir installed inside the casing, a water supply tube connected to an upper portion of the reservoir such that wash water is supplied through the water supply tube, a drainage tube connected to a lower portion of the reservoir such that wash water is discharged through the drainage tube, and a filter device which allows wash water to be moved and eliminates foreign substances from the wash water at one side of the reservoir using pressure of the wash water supplied through the water supply tube. It may be possible to eliminate foreign substances from laundry using pressure of water supplied according to progress of operation of the washing machine without provision of additional power. | 01-15-2015 |
20150337471 | Up-Inclined Coveyor-Driving Fabric Dyeing Machine - An up-inclined conveyor-driving fabric dyeing machine includes a machine body that is arranged in a front-high-and-rear-low up-inclined configuration. A liquid storage tank is mounted to a bottom of a rear end of the machine body to receive dye liquid falling down from a rear end of a dyeing tube. Thus, the amount of the dye liquid used can be greatly reduced. Further, with such an up-inclined configuration of the dyeing machine, the dyeing tube can be arranged in a horizontal or slightly inclined manner to reduce the heights of a fabric guide roller and the conveyor and thus reduce the distance between the fabric guide roller and the conveyor device, thereby reducing the stretching force and tensile force applied to the fabric during the dyeing process. | 11-26-2015 |
20150361607 | Structure Of Conveyor Driving Fabric Dyeing Machine - The present invention provides an improved structure of a conveyor driving fabric dyeing machine. A liquid storage tank is provided in the interior of the machine body, at a rear end or a front end thereof, to be concealed inside the machine body or exposed outside the machine body in order to receive dye liquid falling back from a rear end of a dyeing tube to thereby greatly reduce the amount of the dye liquid used. Further, a heat exchanger or a filter may be additionally and individually arranged inside the liquid storage tank, or alternatively, a heat exchanger and a filter are simultaneously arranged in the liquid storage tank to proceed with heat exchange with the dye liquid thereby simplifying the structure of the dyeing machine. | 12-17-2015 |
20160115636 | LAUNDRY TREATING APPARATUS - A laundry treating apparatus is provided that may include a laundry accommodation device that provides a space in which laundry is accommodated; a circulation passage provided outside of the laundry accommodation device, and providing a space in which air circulates to an inside of the laundry accommodation device; a heat exchanger provided in the circulation passage; a filter device provided in the circulation passage, that filters foreign materials introduced to the heat exchanger; and a washer provided between the heat exchanger and the filter device, that sprays washing water to each of the heat exchanger and the filter device. | 04-28-2016 |
20170233938 | WASHING MACHINE | 08-17-2017 |
20150040620 | WASHING MACHINE - A washing machine of the present invention includes: an inner tub receiving laundry; a pulsator rotatably disposed in the inner tub; and guides disposed on the pulsator and guiding washing water, which is turned circumferentially in the inner tub, to the rotational center axis of the inner tub by hitting against the washing water. | 02-12-2015 |
068018000 | Using condenser | 1 |
20120180534 | CONTROL METHOD OF A LAUNDRY MACHINE - A laundry machine and a control method thereof are provided in which laundering ability may be improved while also improving efficiency and noise/vibration. The laundry machine employs a plurality of drum motions by varying drum rotational speed, drum rotational direction, and drum starting and stopping point, to provide different motion of laundry items in the drum. | 07-19-2012 |
20130213098 | Washing Machine of Water Storage Type - A washing machine comprises a laundry basket, a water inlet, water storage means, a connection pipe assembly, a pipe control valve, a reclaiming pipe, a three-way control valve, and a controller. The water storage means is capable of storing fresh water from the water inlet and storing at least a final batch of rinse water from the laundry basket. The connection pipe assembly is connected between the water storage means and the laundry basket. The pipes of the connection pipe assembly have a large diameter or are installed with pumps to increase the flow rate of the water entering the laundry basket. The reclaiming pipe is connected between the water storage means and the three-way control valve at an outlet of the laundry basket for transferring the final rinse water from the laundry basket to the water storage means. In operation, the washing machine can save time, power, and water. | 08-22-2013 |
20090049872 | DRY-CLEANING MACHINE - A vaporized solvent emitted from the laundry in the drum during the drying process is condensed within an air passage. From this passage a liquid mixture (solvent and water) is guided to a first liquid storage tank | 02-26-2009 |
20080196452 | Laundry Machine and Lint Filter Thereof - A lint filter of a laundry machine is provided. In the lint filter, a case is provided, a front filter is installed in the case and the front filler includes a hook formed at at least one side, and a rear filter is mounted on a back of the front filter. | 08-21-2008 |
20080216522 | FOREIGN MATERIALS FILTERING APPARATUS AND WASHING MACHINE HAVING THE SAME - In a foreign materials filtering apparatus and a washing machine having the same, owing to a detachable mounting structure between a handle and a front filter and between a rear filter and the front filter, foreign materials collected in a foreign materials filtering space can be easily cleaned. Accordingly, can be solved the conventional problem that a net filter has to be kept inside out at the time of a cleaning process, resulting in causing a user's hands to become dirty. Also, can be solved the conventional problem that there is a difficulty in removing foreign materials from the net filter due to a fibrous characteristic of the net filter. | 09-11-2008 |
20100050701 | MACHINE FOR DRY-CLEANING ARTICLES - The machine ( | 03-04-2010 |
20120125056 | Washing Machine With Recirculation Circuit - A washing machine ( | 05-24-2012 |
20120186306 | WASHING MACHINE AND PUMP FILTER THEREOF - A washing machine includes a tub, a pump case including an inflow chamber into which wash water in the tub flows, a circulation pump chamber provided at one side of the inflow chamber to supply wash water to the tub, and a drain pump chamber provided at the other side of the inflow chamber to discharge the wash water to the outside, and a pump filter installed in the inflow chamber to filter out foreign substances from the wash water. The pump filter includes a first filter part passing wash water flowing into the circulation pump chamber and a second filter part passing wash water flowing into the drain pump chamber, and the first filter part includes a blocking wall preventing the wash water from rectilinearly flowing into the circulation pump chamber and guiding detouring of the wash water. | 07-26-2012 |
20130036776 | WASHING MACHINE - A washing machine includes a cabinet forming an external appearance of the washing machine, a rotary tub disposed to rotate around a driving shaft vertically provided inside the cabinet and including a sidewall, which extends with inclination to have a diameter increasing from a lower side to an upper side of the washing machine, and at least one protrusion part, which protrudes from the sidewall with inclination to have a diameter increasing from an upper side to a lower side of the sidewall. A guide water filter is mounted on at least one protrusion part inside the rotary tub and provided at a rear surface thereof with a drain passage to discharge the washing water discharged from the balance ring to outside. A base is installed at the lower side of the rotary tub and includes a guide part and a support plate. | 02-14-2013 |
20130276484 | PUMP ASSEMBLY FOR A WASHING MACHINE APPLIANCE - A pump assembly for a washing machine appliance is provided. The pump assembly includes a casing that receives a filter. The filter includes a labyrinth filter portion and a mesh filter portion. A drain pump is in fluid communication with the labyrinth filter portion, and a recirculation pump is in fluid communication with the mesh filter portion. Related washing machine appliances are also provided. | 10-24-2013 |
20130319056 | WASHING MACHINE - Provided is a washing machine. The washing machine includes a tub, a drum, a pulsator, a water stream generation unit, a filter cap, and a check valve. The tub contains washing water. The drum is rotatably disposed in the tub and receiving laundry. The pulsator is rotatably disposed inside the drum and has a spouting outlet. The water stream generation unit is disposed under the pulsator and forms a water stream spouted through the spouting outlet by circulating washing water contained between the tub and the drum. The filter cap collects foreign substances floating in washing water spouted through the spouting outlet. The check valve opens the spouting outlet by the water stream formed by the water stream generation unit. | 12-05-2013 |
20130340487 | Drum Type Laundry Machine - Disclosed is a drum type laundry machine, including a casing, a control panel, an outer drum, an inner drum, a water inlet system, a water drainage system, a driving system, washing balls, a storage chamber disposed on the bottom of the outer drum, a circulation piping system connecting the storage chamber with the inner drum, and an outlet of the circulation pipe system leading to the inner drum and provided on an annular opening of the inner drum. The washing procedure of the laundry process described herein also includes a washing step while the washing balls circulate in the inner and outer drum, and a collecting step of the washing balls. The drum type laundry machine of the present invention can save water and electricity and can reduce pollution. | 12-26-2013 |
20140026624 | WASHING APPARATUS - The present invention relates to a washing apparatus comprising a cabinet; a tub which is provided inside the cabinet, for storing washing water; a drum which is rotatably provided inside the tub with a vertical shaft at the center and a filtering portion for filtering water which circulates from the tub to the drum. | 01-30-2014 |
20140041419 | HIGH ENERGY EFFICIENCY WASHING SYSTEM - A washing machine containing a tub and basket placed within the tub, a basket bottom, a driving shaft coupled to the basket, a motor coupled to the driving shaft, a propeller located within the bottom and impelled by an end of the driving shaft, the propeller containing a scrubber, a center and a support, the scrubbers have a transversal section made from at least three arch circumference sections; a lower face of the propeller has a fin, which along with the bottom, functions as a centrifugal pump creating a current or washing liquor flow which is led through the water tower. In a preferred embodiment, the driving shaft has a solar gear coupled thereto which rotates a satellite gear and over the upper face of the support and between the scrubbers a mini-propeller is provided, the satellite gear is coupled to an axis that rotates the mini-propeller. | 02-13-2014 |
20140060122 | Laundry Machine - A laundry machine, particularly of the front loading type, is proposed. The laundry machine includes a cabinet with a front panel having a laundry loading/unloading opening, and a door for closing the laundry loading/unloading opening. A washing tub is accommodated within the cabinet and has an opening corresponding to the laundry loading/unloading opening. A drum is rotatably arranged within the washing tub in such a way that a frontal rim of the drum faces the laundry loading/unloading opening, and a bellows connecting a rim of the laundry loading/unloading opening to the opening of the washing tub. The bellows includes a first and a second lip protruding towards the rotation axis of the drum. The first lip is closer to the front panel than the second lip and is adapted to hinder the passage of foreign bodies from the drum to the washing tub through a gap between the drum and the washing tub. The second lip is adapted to hinder the passage through the gap of foreign bodies possibly trespassing said first lip. The frontal rim of the drum is located between the first and the second lips. The first lip includes a first lip end having a distance from the rotation axis greater than the distance of the frontal rim of the drum from the rotation axis, so that the first lip end is close to, but spaced apart from the frontal rim. | 03-06-2014 |
20140083145 | Washing Machine - A washing machine includes a tub ( | 03-27-2014 |
20140102154 | FILTER DEVICE FOR WASHING MACHINE - A filter device for a washing machine includes a circulation flow path frame on an inner wall of a washing tub, having a first overflow path between the circulation flow path frame and the inner wall of the washing tub; and a filter unit in the circulation flow frame, having a second overflow path between the filter unit and the circulation flow path frame to communicate with the first overflow path. Wash water entering the first overflow path is discharged into the washing tub through a discharge port of the first overflow path and a discharge port of the second overflow path, and the discharge port of the second overflow path is under the discharge port of the first overflow path. | 04-17-2014 |
20140238089 | DRAIN PUMP AND WASHING MACHINE HAVING THE SAME - A washing machine includes: a cabinet; a tub; a pump case provided so as to drain washing water; a pump filter that filters foreign substances in washing water and is able to be detached from the pump case; and a pump filter head that is combined with one side of the pump filter and causes the pump filter to rotate, wherein the pump filter head includes: a first head having a first state in which the first head is engaged with one side of the pump case and is combined with the pump case and a second state in which the first head is released from the pump case; and a second head that is positioned at front of the first head and is rotatable separately from the first head in the first state. A user can recognize whether the pump filter is fully fastened to the pump case. | 08-28-2014 |
20150013397 | WASHING MACHINE - A washing machine including a filter device, a support, or an auxiliary damper, using pressure of water supplied thereto. The washing machine includes a casing, a reservoir installed inside the casing, a water supply tube connected to an upper portion of the reservoir such that wash water is supplied through the water supply tube, a drainage tube connected to a lower portion of the reservoir such that wash water is discharged through the drainage tube, and a filter device which allows wash water to be moved and eliminates foreign substances from the wash water at one side of the reservoir using pressure of the wash water supplied through the water supply tube. It may be possible to eliminate foreign substances from laundry using pressure of water supplied according to progress of operation of the washing machine without provision of additional power. | 01-15-2015 |
20150337471 | Up-Inclined Coveyor-Driving Fabric Dyeing Machine - An up-inclined conveyor-driving fabric dyeing machine includes a machine body that is arranged in a front-high-and-rear-low up-inclined configuration. A liquid storage tank is mounted to a bottom of a rear end of the machine body to receive dye liquid falling down from a rear end of a dyeing tube. Thus, the amount of the dye liquid used can be greatly reduced. Further, with such an up-inclined configuration of the dyeing machine, the dyeing tube can be arranged in a horizontal or slightly inclined manner to reduce the heights of a fabric guide roller and the conveyor and thus reduce the distance between the fabric guide roller and the conveyor device, thereby reducing the stretching force and tensile force applied to the fabric during the dyeing process. | 11-26-2015 |
20150361607 | Structure Of Conveyor Driving Fabric Dyeing Machine - The present invention provides an improved structure of a conveyor driving fabric dyeing machine. A liquid storage tank is provided in the interior of the machine body, at a rear end or a front end thereof, to be concealed inside the machine body or exposed outside the machine body in order to receive dye liquid falling back from a rear end of a dyeing tube to thereby greatly reduce the amount of the dye liquid used. Further, a heat exchanger or a filter may be additionally and individually arranged inside the liquid storage tank, or alternatively, a heat exchanger and a filter are simultaneously arranged in the liquid storage tank to proceed with heat exchange with the dye liquid thereby simplifying the structure of the dyeing machine. | 12-17-2015 |
20160115636 | LAUNDRY TREATING APPARATUS - A laundry treating apparatus is provided that may include a laundry accommodation device that provides a space in which laundry is accommodated; a circulation passage provided outside of the laundry accommodation device, and providing a space in which air circulates to an inside of the laundry accommodation device; a heat exchanger provided in the circulation passage; a filter device provided in the circulation passage, that filters foreign materials introduced to the heat exchanger; and a washer provided between the heat exchanger and the filter device, that sprays washing water to each of the heat exchanger and the filter device. | 04-28-2016 |
20170233938 | WASHING MACHINE | 08-17-2017 |
20150040620 | WASHING MACHINE - A washing machine of the present invention includes: an inner tub receiving laundry; a pulsator rotatably disposed in the inner tub; and guides disposed on the pulsator and guiding washing water, which is turned circumferentially in the inner tub, to the rotational center axis of the inner tub by hitting against the washing water. | 02-12-2015 |
068018000 | Using filter | 21 |
20120180534 | CONTROL METHOD OF A LAUNDRY MACHINE - A laundry machine and a control method thereof are provided in which laundering ability may be improved while also improving efficiency and noise/vibration. The laundry machine employs a plurality of drum motions by varying drum rotational speed, drum rotational direction, and drum starting and stopping point, to provide different motion of laundry items in the drum. | 07-19-2012 |
20130213098 | Washing Machine of Water Storage Type - A washing machine comprises a laundry basket, a water inlet, water storage means, a connection pipe assembly, a pipe control valve, a reclaiming pipe, a three-way control valve, and a controller. The water storage means is capable of storing fresh water from the water inlet and storing at least a final batch of rinse water from the laundry basket. The connection pipe assembly is connected between the water storage means and the laundry basket. The pipes of the connection pipe assembly have a large diameter or are installed with pumps to increase the flow rate of the water entering the laundry basket. The reclaiming pipe is connected between the water storage means and the three-way control valve at an outlet of the laundry basket for transferring the final rinse water from the laundry basket to the water storage means. In operation, the washing machine can save time, power, and water. | 08-22-2013 |
20090049872 | DRY-CLEANING MACHINE - A vaporized solvent emitted from the laundry in the drum during the drying process is condensed within an air passage. From this passage a liquid mixture (solvent and water) is guided to a first liquid storage tank | 02-26-2009 |
20080196452 | Laundry Machine and Lint Filter Thereof - A lint filter of a laundry machine is provided. In the lint filter, a case is provided, a front filter is installed in the case and the front filler includes a hook formed at at least one side, and a rear filter is mounted on a back of the front filter. | 08-21-2008 |
20080216522 | FOREIGN MATERIALS FILTERING APPARATUS AND WASHING MACHINE HAVING THE SAME - In a foreign materials filtering apparatus and a washing machine having the same, owing to a detachable mounting structure between a handle and a front filter and between a rear filter and the front filter, foreign materials collected in a foreign materials filtering space can be easily cleaned. Accordingly, can be solved the conventional problem that a net filter has to be kept inside out at the time of a cleaning process, resulting in causing a user's hands to become dirty. Also, can be solved the conventional problem that there is a difficulty in removing foreign materials from the net filter due to a fibrous characteristic of the net filter. | 09-11-2008 |
20100050701 | MACHINE FOR DRY-CLEANING ARTICLES - The machine ( | 03-04-2010 |
20120125056 | Washing Machine With Recirculation Circuit - A washing machine ( | 05-24-2012 |
20120186306 | WASHING MACHINE AND PUMP FILTER THEREOF - A washing machine includes a tub, a pump case including an inflow chamber into which wash water in the tub flows, a circulation pump chamber provided at one side of the inflow chamber to supply wash water to the tub, and a drain pump chamber provided at the other side of the inflow chamber to discharge the wash water to the outside, and a pump filter installed in the inflow chamber to filter out foreign substances from the wash water. The pump filter includes a first filter part passing wash water flowing into the circulation pump chamber and a second filter part passing wash water flowing into the drain pump chamber, and the first filter part includes a blocking wall preventing the wash water from rectilinearly flowing into the circulation pump chamber and guiding detouring of the wash water. | 07-26-2012 |
20130036776 | WASHING MACHINE - A washing machine includes a cabinet forming an external appearance of the washing machine, a rotary tub disposed to rotate around a driving shaft vertically provided inside the cabinet and including a sidewall, which extends with inclination to have a diameter increasing from a lower side to an upper side of the washing machine, and at least one protrusion part, which protrudes from the sidewall with inclination to have a diameter increasing from an upper side to a lower side of the sidewall. A guide water filter is mounted on at least one protrusion part inside the rotary tub and provided at a rear surface thereof with a drain passage to discharge the washing water discharged from the balance ring to outside. A base is installed at the lower side of the rotary tub and includes a guide part and a support plate. | 02-14-2013 |
20130276484 | PUMP ASSEMBLY FOR A WASHING MACHINE APPLIANCE - A pump assembly for a washing machine appliance is provided. The pump assembly includes a casing that receives a filter. The filter includes a labyrinth filter portion and a mesh filter portion. A drain pump is in fluid communication with the labyrinth filter portion, and a recirculation pump is in fluid communication with the mesh filter portion. Related washing machine appliances are also provided. | 10-24-2013 |
20130319056 | WASHING MACHINE - Provided is a washing machine. The washing machine includes a tub, a drum, a pulsator, a water stream generation unit, a filter cap, and a check valve. The tub contains washing water. The drum is rotatably disposed in the tub and receiving laundry. The pulsator is rotatably disposed inside the drum and has a spouting outlet. The water stream generation unit is disposed under the pulsator and forms a water stream spouted through the spouting outlet by circulating washing water contained between the tub and the drum. The filter cap collects foreign substances floating in washing water spouted through the spouting outlet. The check valve opens the spouting outlet by the water stream formed by the water stream generation unit. | 12-05-2013 |
20130340487 | Drum Type Laundry Machine - Disclosed is a drum type laundry machine, including a casing, a control panel, an outer drum, an inner drum, a water inlet system, a water drainage system, a driving system, washing balls, a storage chamber disposed on the bottom of the outer drum, a circulation piping system connecting the storage chamber with the inner drum, and an outlet of the circulation pipe system leading to the inner drum and provided on an annular opening of the inner drum. The washing procedure of the laundry process described herein also includes a washing step while the washing balls circulate in the inner and outer drum, and a collecting step of the washing balls. The drum type laundry machine of the present invention can save water and electricity and can reduce pollution. | 12-26-2013 |
20140026624 | WASHING APPARATUS - The present invention relates to a washing apparatus comprising a cabinet; a tub which is provided inside the cabinet, for storing washing water; a drum which is rotatably provided inside the tub with a vertical shaft at the center and a filtering portion for filtering water which circulates from the tub to the drum. | 01-30-2014 |
20140041419 | HIGH ENERGY EFFICIENCY WASHING SYSTEM - A washing machine containing a tub and basket placed within the tub, a basket bottom, a driving shaft coupled to the basket, a motor coupled to the driving shaft, a propeller located within the bottom and impelled by an end of the driving shaft, the propeller containing a scrubber, a center and a support, the scrubbers have a transversal section made from at least three arch circumference sections; a lower face of the propeller has a fin, which along with the bottom, functions as a centrifugal pump creating a current or washing liquor flow which is led through the water tower. In a preferred embodiment, the driving shaft has a solar gear coupled thereto which rotates a satellite gear and over the upper face of the support and between the scrubbers a mini-propeller is provided, the satellite gear is coupled to an axis that rotates the mini-propeller. | 02-13-2014 |
20140060122 | Laundry Machine - A laundry machine, particularly of the front loading type, is proposed. The laundry machine includes a cabinet with a front panel having a laundry loading/unloading opening, and a door for closing the laundry loading/unloading opening. A washing tub is accommodated within the cabinet and has an opening corresponding to the laundry loading/unloading opening. A drum is rotatably arranged within the washing tub in such a way that a frontal rim of the drum faces the laundry loading/unloading opening, and a bellows connecting a rim of the laundry loading/unloading opening to the opening of the washing tub. The bellows includes a first and a second lip protruding towards the rotation axis of the drum. The first lip is closer to the front panel than the second lip and is adapted to hinder the passage of foreign bodies from the drum to the washing tub through a gap between the drum and the washing tub. The second lip is adapted to hinder the passage through the gap of foreign bodies possibly trespassing said first lip. The frontal rim of the drum is located between the first and the second lips. The first lip includes a first lip end having a distance from the rotation axis greater than the distance of the frontal rim of the drum from the rotation axis, so that the first lip end is close to, but spaced apart from the frontal rim. | 03-06-2014 |
20140083145 | Washing Machine - A washing machine includes a tub ( | 03-27-2014 |
20140102154 | FILTER DEVICE FOR WASHING MACHINE - A filter device for a washing machine includes a circulation flow path frame on an inner wall of a washing tub, having a first overflow path between the circulation flow path frame and the inner wall of the washing tub; and a filter unit in the circulation flow frame, having a second overflow path between the filter unit and the circulation flow path frame to communicate with the first overflow path. Wash water entering the first overflow path is discharged into the washing tub through a discharge port of the first overflow path and a discharge port of the second overflow path, and the discharge port of the second overflow path is under the discharge port of the first overflow path. | 04-17-2014 |
20140238089 | DRAIN PUMP AND WASHING MACHINE HAVING THE SAME - A washing machine includes: a cabinet; a tub; a pump case provided so as to drain washing water; a pump filter that filters foreign substances in washing water and is able to be detached from the pump case; and a pump filter head that is combined with one side of the pump filter and causes the pump filter to rotate, wherein the pump filter head includes: a first head having a first state in which the first head is engaged with one side of the pump case and is combined with the pump case and a second state in which the first head is released from the pump case; and a second head that is positioned at front of the first head and is rotatable separately from the first head in the first state. A user can recognize whether the pump filter is fully fastened to the pump case. | 08-28-2014 |
20150013397 | WASHING MACHINE - A washing machine including a filter device, a support, or an auxiliary damper, using pressure of water supplied thereto. The washing machine includes a casing, a reservoir installed inside the casing, a water supply tube connected to an upper portion of the reservoir such that wash water is supplied through the water supply tube, a drainage tube connected to a lower portion of the reservoir such that wash water is discharged through the drainage tube, and a filter device which allows wash water to be moved and eliminates foreign substances from the wash water at one side of the reservoir using pressure of the wash water supplied through the water supply tube. It may be possible to eliminate foreign substances from laundry using pressure of water supplied according to progress of operation of the washing machine without provision of additional power. | 01-15-2015 |
20150337471 | Up-Inclined Coveyor-Driving Fabric Dyeing Machine - An up-inclined conveyor-driving fabric dyeing machine includes a machine body that is arranged in a front-high-and-rear-low up-inclined configuration. A liquid storage tank is mounted to a bottom of a rear end of the machine body to receive dye liquid falling down from a rear end of a dyeing tube. Thus, the amount of the dye liquid used can be greatly reduced. Further, with such an up-inclined configuration of the dyeing machine, the dyeing tube can be arranged in a horizontal or slightly inclined manner to reduce the heights of a fabric guide roller and the conveyor and thus reduce the distance between the fabric guide roller and the conveyor device, thereby reducing the stretching force and tensile force applied to the fabric during the dyeing process. | 11-26-2015 |
20150361607 | Structure Of Conveyor Driving Fabric Dyeing Machine - The present invention provides an improved structure of a conveyor driving fabric dyeing machine. A liquid storage tank is provided in the interior of the machine body, at a rear end or a front end thereof, to be concealed inside the machine body or exposed outside the machine body in order to receive dye liquid falling back from a rear end of a dyeing tube to thereby greatly reduce the amount of the dye liquid used. Further, a heat exchanger or a filter may be additionally and individually arranged inside the liquid storage tank, or alternatively, a heat exchanger and a filter are simultaneously arranged in the liquid storage tank to proceed with heat exchange with the dye liquid thereby simplifying the structure of the dyeing machine. | 12-17-2015 |
20160115636 | LAUNDRY TREATING APPARATUS - A laundry treating apparatus is provided that may include a laundry accommodation device that provides a space in which laundry is accommodated; a circulation passage provided outside of the laundry accommodation device, and providing a space in which air circulates to an inside of the laundry accommodation device; a heat exchanger provided in the circulation passage; a filter device provided in the circulation passage, that filters foreign materials introduced to the heat exchanger; and a washer provided between the heat exchanger and the filter device, that sprays washing water to each of the heat exchanger and the filter device. | 04-28-2016 |
20170233938 | WASHING MACHINE | 08-17-2017 |
20150040620 | WASHING MACHINE - A washing machine of the present invention includes: an inner tub receiving laundry; a pulsator rotatably disposed in the inner tub; and guides disposed on the pulsator and guiding washing water, which is turned circumferentially in the inner tub, to the rotational center axis of the inner tub by hitting against the washing water. | 02-12-2015 |
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20120180534 | CONTROL METHOD OF A LAUNDRY MACHINE - A laundry machine and a control method thereof are provided in which laundering ability may be improved while also improving efficiency and noise/vibration. The laundry machine employs a plurality of drum motions by varying drum rotational speed, drum rotational direction, and drum starting and stopping point, to provide different motion of laundry items in the drum. | 07-19-2012 |
20130213098 | Washing Machine of Water Storage Type - A washing machine comprises a laundry basket, a water inlet, water storage means, a connection pipe assembly, a pipe control valve, a reclaiming pipe, a three-way control valve, and a controller. The water storage means is capable of storing fresh water from the water inlet and storing at least a final batch of rinse water from the laundry basket. The connection pipe assembly is connected between the water storage means and the laundry basket. The pipes of the connection pipe assembly have a large diameter or are installed with pumps to increase the flow rate of the water entering the laundry basket. The reclaiming pipe is connected between the water storage means and the three-way control valve at an outlet of the laundry basket for transferring the final rinse water from the laundry basket to the water storage means. In operation, the washing machine can save time, power, and water. | 08-22-2013 |
20090049872 | DRY-CLEANING MACHINE - A vaporized solvent emitted from the laundry in the drum during the drying process is condensed within an air passage. From this passage a liquid mixture (solvent and water) is guided to a first liquid storage tank | 02-26-2009 |
20080196452 | Laundry Machine and Lint Filter Thereof - A lint filter of a laundry machine is provided. In the lint filter, a case is provided, a front filter is installed in the case and the front filler includes a hook formed at at least one side, and a rear filter is mounted on a back of the front filter. | 08-21-2008 |
20080216522 | FOREIGN MATERIALS FILTERING APPARATUS AND WASHING MACHINE HAVING THE SAME - In a foreign materials filtering apparatus and a washing machine having the same, owing to a detachable mounting structure between a handle and a front filter and between a rear filter and the front filter, foreign materials collected in a foreign materials filtering space can be easily cleaned. Accordingly, can be solved the conventional problem that a net filter has to be kept inside out at the time of a cleaning process, resulting in causing a user's hands to become dirty. Also, can be solved the conventional problem that there is a difficulty in removing foreign materials from the net filter due to a fibrous characteristic of the net filter. | 09-11-2008 |
20100050701 | MACHINE FOR DRY-CLEANING ARTICLES - The machine ( | 03-04-2010 |
20120125056 | Washing Machine With Recirculation Circuit - A washing machine ( | 05-24-2012 |
20120186306 | WASHING MACHINE AND PUMP FILTER THEREOF - A washing machine includes a tub, a pump case including an inflow chamber into which wash water in the tub flows, a circulation pump chamber provided at one side of the inflow chamber to supply wash water to the tub, and a drain pump chamber provided at the other side of the inflow chamber to discharge the wash water to the outside, and a pump filter installed in the inflow chamber to filter out foreign substances from the wash water. The pump filter includes a first filter part passing wash water flowing into the circulation pump chamber and a second filter part passing wash water flowing into the drain pump chamber, and the first filter part includes a blocking wall preventing the wash water from rectilinearly flowing into the circulation pump chamber and guiding detouring of the wash water. | 07-26-2012 |
20130036776 | WASHING MACHINE - A washing machine includes a cabinet forming an external appearance of the washing machine, a rotary tub disposed to rotate around a driving shaft vertically provided inside the cabinet and including a sidewall, which extends with inclination to have a diameter increasing from a lower side to an upper side of the washing machine, and at least one protrusion part, which protrudes from the sidewall with inclination to have a diameter increasing from an upper side to a lower side of the sidewall. A guide water filter is mounted on at least one protrusion part inside the rotary tub and provided at a rear surface thereof with a drain passage to discharge the washing water discharged from the balance ring to outside. A base is installed at the lower side of the rotary tub and includes a guide part and a support plate. | 02-14-2013 |
20130276484 | PUMP ASSEMBLY FOR A WASHING MACHINE APPLIANCE - A pump assembly for a washing machine appliance is provided. The pump assembly includes a casing that receives a filter. The filter includes a labyrinth filter portion and a mesh filter portion. A drain pump is in fluid communication with the labyrinth filter portion, and a recirculation pump is in fluid communication with the mesh filter portion. Related washing machine appliances are also provided. | 10-24-2013 |
20130319056 | WASHING MACHINE - Provided is a washing machine. The washing machine includes a tub, a drum, a pulsator, a water stream generation unit, a filter cap, and a check valve. The tub contains washing water. The drum is rotatably disposed in the tub and receiving laundry. The pulsator is rotatably disposed inside the drum and has a spouting outlet. The water stream generation unit is disposed under the pulsator and forms a water stream spouted through the spouting outlet by circulating washing water contained between the tub and the drum. The filter cap collects foreign substances floating in washing water spouted through the spouting outlet. The check valve opens the spouting outlet by the water stream formed by the water stream generation unit. | 12-05-2013 |
20130340487 | Drum Type Laundry Machine - Disclosed is a drum type laundry machine, including a casing, a control panel, an outer drum, an inner drum, a water inlet system, a water drainage system, a driving system, washing balls, a storage chamber disposed on the bottom of the outer drum, a circulation piping system connecting the storage chamber with the inner drum, and an outlet of the circulation pipe system leading to the inner drum and provided on an annular opening of the inner drum. The washing procedure of the laundry process described herein also includes a washing step while the washing balls circulate in the inner and outer drum, and a collecting step of the washing balls. The drum type laundry machine of the present invention can save water and electricity and can reduce pollution. | 12-26-2013 |
20140026624 | WASHING APPARATUS - The present invention relates to a washing apparatus comprising a cabinet; a tub which is provided inside the cabinet, for storing washing water; a drum which is rotatably provided inside the tub with a vertical shaft at the center and a filtering portion for filtering water which circulates from the tub to the drum. | 01-30-2014 |
20140041419 | HIGH ENERGY EFFICIENCY WASHING SYSTEM - A washing machine containing a tub and basket placed within the tub, a basket bottom, a driving shaft coupled to the basket, a motor coupled to the driving shaft, a propeller located within the bottom and impelled by an end of the driving shaft, the propeller containing a scrubber, a center and a support, the scrubbers have a transversal section made from at least three arch circumference sections; a lower face of the propeller has a fin, which along with the bottom, functions as a centrifugal pump creating a current or washing liquor flow which is led through the water tower. In a preferred embodiment, the driving shaft has a solar gear coupled thereto which rotates a satellite gear and over the upper face of the support and between the scrubbers a mini-propeller is provided, the satellite gear is coupled to an axis that rotates the mini-propeller. | 02-13-2014 |
20140060122 | Laundry Machine - A laundry machine, particularly of the front loading type, is proposed. The laundry machine includes a cabinet with a front panel having a laundry loading/unloading opening, and a door for closing the laundry loading/unloading opening. A washing tub is accommodated within the cabinet and has an opening corresponding to the laundry loading/unloading opening. A drum is rotatably arranged within the washing tub in such a way that a frontal rim of the drum faces the laundry loading/unloading opening, and a bellows connecting a rim of the laundry loading/unloading opening to the opening of the washing tub. The bellows includes a first and a second lip protruding towards the rotation axis of the drum. The first lip is closer to the front panel than the second lip and is adapted to hinder the passage of foreign bodies from the drum to the washing tub through a gap between the drum and the washing tub. The second lip is adapted to hinder the passage through the gap of foreign bodies possibly trespassing said first lip. The frontal rim of the drum is located between the first and the second lips. The first lip includes a first lip end having a distance from the rotation axis greater than the distance of the frontal rim of the drum from the rotation axis, so that the first lip end is close to, but spaced apart from the frontal rim. | 03-06-2014 |
20140083145 | Washing Machine - A washing machine includes a tub ( | 03-27-2014 |
20140102154 | FILTER DEVICE FOR WASHING MACHINE - A filter device for a washing machine includes a circulation flow path frame on an inner wall of a washing tub, having a first overflow path between the circulation flow path frame and the inner wall of the washing tub; and a filter unit in the circulation flow frame, having a second overflow path between the filter unit and the circulation flow path frame to communicate with the first overflow path. Wash water entering the first overflow path is discharged into the washing tub through a discharge port of the first overflow path and a discharge port of the second overflow path, and the discharge port of the second overflow path is under the discharge port of the first overflow path. | 04-17-2014 |
20140238089 | DRAIN PUMP AND WASHING MACHINE HAVING THE SAME - A washing machine includes: a cabinet; a tub; a pump case provided so as to drain washing water; a pump filter that filters foreign substances in washing water and is able to be detached from the pump case; and a pump filter head that is combined with one side of the pump filter and causes the pump filter to rotate, wherein the pump filter head includes: a first head having a first state in which the first head is engaged with one side of the pump case and is combined with the pump case and a second state in which the first head is released from the pump case; and a second head that is positioned at front of the first head and is rotatable separately from the first head in the first state. A user can recognize whether the pump filter is fully fastened to the pump case. | 08-28-2014 |
20150013397 | WASHING MACHINE - A washing machine including a filter device, a support, or an auxiliary damper, using pressure of water supplied thereto. The washing machine includes a casing, a reservoir installed inside the casing, a water supply tube connected to an upper portion of the reservoir such that wash water is supplied through the water supply tube, a drainage tube connected to a lower portion of the reservoir such that wash water is discharged through the drainage tube, and a filter device which allows wash water to be moved and eliminates foreign substances from the wash water at one side of the reservoir using pressure of the wash water supplied through the water supply tube. It may be possible to eliminate foreign substances from laundry using pressure of water supplied according to progress of operation of the washing machine without provision of additional power. | 01-15-2015 |
20150337471 | Up-Inclined Coveyor-Driving Fabric Dyeing Machine - An up-inclined conveyor-driving fabric dyeing machine includes a machine body that is arranged in a front-high-and-rear-low up-inclined configuration. A liquid storage tank is mounted to a bottom of a rear end of the machine body to receive dye liquid falling down from a rear end of a dyeing tube. Thus, the amount of the dye liquid used can be greatly reduced. Further, with such an up-inclined configuration of the dyeing machine, the dyeing tube can be arranged in a horizontal or slightly inclined manner to reduce the heights of a fabric guide roller and the conveyor and thus reduce the distance between the fabric guide roller and the conveyor device, thereby reducing the stretching force and tensile force applied to the fabric during the dyeing process. | 11-26-2015 |
20150361607 | Structure Of Conveyor Driving Fabric Dyeing Machine - The present invention provides an improved structure of a conveyor driving fabric dyeing machine. A liquid storage tank is provided in the interior of the machine body, at a rear end or a front end thereof, to be concealed inside the machine body or exposed outside the machine body in order to receive dye liquid falling back from a rear end of a dyeing tube to thereby greatly reduce the amount of the dye liquid used. Further, a heat exchanger or a filter may be additionally and individually arranged inside the liquid storage tank, or alternatively, a heat exchanger and a filter are simultaneously arranged in the liquid storage tank to proceed with heat exchange with the dye liquid thereby simplifying the structure of the dyeing machine. | 12-17-2015 |
20160115636 | LAUNDRY TREATING APPARATUS - A laundry treating apparatus is provided that may include a laundry accommodation device that provides a space in which laundry is accommodated; a circulation passage provided outside of the laundry accommodation device, and providing a space in which air circulates to an inside of the laundry accommodation device; a heat exchanger provided in the circulation passage; a filter device provided in the circulation passage, that filters foreign materials introduced to the heat exchanger; and a washer provided between the heat exchanger and the filter device, that sprays washing water to each of the heat exchanger and the filter device. | 04-28-2016 |
20170233938 | WASHING MACHINE | 08-17-2017 |
20150040620 | WASHING MACHINE - A washing machine of the present invention includes: an inner tub receiving laundry; a pulsator rotatably disposed in the inner tub; and guides disposed on the pulsator and guiding washing water, which is turned circumferentially in the inner tub, to the rotational center axis of the inner tub by hitting against the washing water. | 02-12-2015 |