Dishwasher
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsKitae Park, Junho Lee, Kyungup Lim, Minho Jung
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Abstract
A dishwasher including: a cleaning chamber; a water tank which stores water in order to supply water to the cleaning chamber; a water softener which is connected to the water tank and to which a filter is mountable; and a regenerator which is connected to the water softener in order to regenerate the filter while the filter is mounted to the water softener, wherein the water tank comprises a softened water chamber that is supplied with water that has been softened in the water softener and stores same, and a recycled water chamber which receives softened water from the softened water chamber and is connected to the regenerator in order to supply water to the regenerator.
Claims13
A dishwasher comprising:
- a water softener to which a filter is mountable;
- a regenerator;
- and a water tank including:
- a soft water chamber configured to receive water softened by the water softener as soft water, and to store the received soft water, a regeneration water chamber configured to receive soft water stored in the soft water chamber from the soft water chamber, store the soft water received from the soft water chamber, and supply soft water stored in the regeneration water chamber to the regenerator to regenerate the filter while the filter is mounted to the water softener, and a communication flow path formed in a middle of the water tank and configured to allow soft water to flow from the soft water chamber to the regeneration water chamber after the soft water chamber is filled.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.