Dish washer and controlling method thereof
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsDaeseon Yeom, Jungchan Ryu, Junho Lee, Minho Jung
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Abstract
A dish washer includes a cabinet, a tub positioned inside the cabinet, a sump provided in a lower portion of the tub, a case brake provided on a side wall of the tub connected to the sump, and a filter device positioned below the tub inside the cabinet, to selectively filter or unfilter water received from a water supply source, and to supply the filtered water or the unfiltered water to the case brake, the water passed through the case brake is collected in the sump, the case brake is located higher than the sump to prevent a backflow of the water collected in the sump to the case brake.
Claims11
A dish washer comprising:
- a cabinet;
- a tub disposed in the cabinet;
- a sump provided in a lower portion of the tub;
- a case brake provided on a side wall of the tub;
- and
- a filter device disposed below the tub in the cabinet, to selectively filter or unfilter water received from a water supply source, the filter device including:
- a filter case which a filter is insertable or removable therefrom;
- a filtering flow path formed in the filter case to cause the water entered to the filter case to flow to the filter thereby filtering the entered water;
- and
- a bypass flow path formed in the filter case to bypass the filter thereby unfiltering the entered water,
- wherein the case brake is connected to the filter device and the sump, respectively, and is configured to guide the filtered water or the unfiltered water received from the filter device to the sump,
- the water passed through the case brake is collected in the sump, and
- the case brake is located higher than the sump to prevent a backflow of the water collected in the sump to the case brake.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.