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US 10,865,513 B2Granted
Washing machine and home appliance
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsJae Sin Kim, Wan Gi Park, Kab Jin Jun, Jung Hwan Kim, Dong Ik Lee, Ji Hoon Choi
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Abstract
Disclosed is a washing machine and a home appliance including a plurality of doors, a damper configured to buffer pivoting of the plurality of doors, and a structure by which each of the plurality of doors smoothly opened/shut.
Claims17
A home appliance comprising:
- a main body with an opening;
- an outer door pivotally arranged in the main body;
- an inner door pivotally arranged between the opening and the outer door;
- and
- a damper including a moving member, wherein
- the inner door is configured to pivot alone, from an open position of the inner door, over an angular distance, without causing the moving member to move, and thereafter pivot past the angular distance to cause the moving member to be pressed and thereby move as much as a first displacement to dampen a pivoting speed of the inner door, and
- the outer door is configured to pivot together with the inner door, from an open position of the outer door, over an angular distance, without causing the moving member to move, and thereafter pivot past the angular distance to cause the moving member to be pressed and thereby move as much as a second displacement, which is greater than the first displacement, to dampen a pivoting speed of the outer door.
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A home appliance comprising:
- a main body with an opening;
- an outer door pivotally arranged in the main body;
- an inner door pivotally arranged between the opening and the outer door;
- and
- a damper including a cylinder and a piston that moves in the cylinder, wherein
- the inner door is configured to pivot alone, from an open position of the inner door, over an angular distance, without pushing the piston, and thereafter pivot past the angular distance to push the piston to move in the cylinder by as much as a first displacement to dampen a pivoting speed of the inner door, and
- the outer door is configured to pivot together with the inner door, from an open position of the outer door, over an angular distance, without pushing the piston, and thereafter pivot past the angular distance to push the piston to move in the cylinder by as much as a second displacement, which is greater than the first displacement, to dampen a pivoting speed of the outer door.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.