US 10,240,281 B2 · Clothing item separating device and clothing item processing device comprising same

Abstract

A clothes separating device and a clothes processing apparatus including the clothes separating device according to this disclosure are provided with a separator that operates to grip clothes in a washing tub and to separate, from the gripped clothes, another item of clothes entwined with the gripped clothes. In this manner, a user does not need to separate a plurality of individual items of clothes before folding the clothes. Hence, it is possible to provide the clothes separating device that contributes to reducing a burden of work related to laundry and a clothes processing apparatus including the clothes separating device.

Claims15

Dependent claims

A clothes separating device comprising:

a separator including a plurality of individual gripping units, wherein the plurality of individual gripping units are located apart from each other and are disposed above a washing tub of a washing machine, wherein each individual gripping unit operates and moves independently horizontally and vertically, such that a first gripping unit is configured to be lowered into the washing tub to grip clothes and to separate through an upward actuation movement, a particular item of clothe which is entwined among the gripped clothes.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/540,841Filed 6 Jul 2016

Priority

JP 2015-16969528 Aug 2015

Published

US 2017/0356124 A114 Dec 2017

Granted

26 Mar 2019

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification20 codes

D06F 35/00
Washing machines, apparatus, or methods not otherwise provided for
B25J 9/0087
Comprising a plurality of manipulators: dual arms
B25J 9/0096
Program-controlled manipulators: co-operating with a working support, e.g. work-table
B25J 9/023
Characterised by movement of the arms, e.g. cartesian coordinate type: cartesian coordinate type

Clothing item separating device and clothing item processing device comprising same

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Abstract

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