Global Patent Index - EP 0796942 A3

EP 0796942 A3 19980805 - Washer-dryer apparatus

Title (en)

Washer-dryer apparatus

Title (de)

Wasch- und Trocknermaschine

Title (fr)

Machine à laver et à secher

Publication

EP 0796942 A3 19980805 (EN)

Application

EP 97104723 A 19970319

Priority

JP 6309996 A 19960319

Abstract (en)

[origin: EP0796942A2] In an improved washer-dryer apparatus which performs wash, spin-dry and dry cycles in a sequential order, a microcomputer used therefor controls a motor to repeatedly rotate in forward and backward directions at short time intervals after the spin-dry cycle, thereby performing a loosening cycle once or more times in which laundry stuck to the interior peripheral wall surface of the spin basket is uniformly distributed or dispersed in the basket. This is followed by the dry cycle. Thus, the heated air is conducted all over the laundry in the spin basket, making it possible to uniformly dry the laundry and to prevent it from becoming wrinkled.

IPC 1-7

D06F 35/00

IPC 8 full level

D06F 25/00 (2006.01); D06F 33/02 (2006.01); D06F 35/00 (2006.01); D06F 58/28 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP US)

D06F 35/007 (2013.01 - EP US); D06F 25/00 (2013.01 - EP US); D06F 58/30 (2020.02 - EP US)

Citation (search report)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

DE GB IT

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 0796942 A2 19970924; EP 0796942 A3 19980805; EP 0796942 B1 20030514; DE 69721875 D1 20030618; DE 69721875 T2 20040219; JP 3464335 B2 20031110; JP H09253377 A 19970930; KR 100262896 B1 20000801; KR 970065843 A 19971013

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 97104723 A 19970319; DE 69721875 T 19970319; JP 6309996 A 19960319; KR 19970009493 A 19970317