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US 12,467,192 B2Granted
Laundry treating appliance having a vapor and/or mist and/or aerosol generator
AssigneeElectrolux Appliances Aktiebolag
InventorsGiuseppe Vita, Paola Rovella, Giuseppe Rossi, Nicola Reid, Emilio Santoro, Elisabetta Bari
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Abstract
A laundry washing machine comprising: a cabinet, a washing tub housed inside the cabinet, a tubular mantle rotatably housed inside the cabinet, an electric additive treating device mounted in/on the tubular mantle and configured for treating a washing and/or rinsing additive loaded within the tubular mantle in such a way to generate within the tubular mantle a solution of washing and/or rinsing additive water.
Claims22
A laundry treating appliance comprising:
- a cabinet;
- a tubular mantle housed inside the cabinet and rotatable with respect to a rotation axis, the tubular mantle comprising a first end and an inner volume configured to receive laundry;
- a flange fixed to and rotatable with the tubular mantle, wherein the first end of the tubular mantle is at least partially closed by the flange;
- a liquid reservoir fixed to the tubular mantle or to the flange and defining an interior space configured to contain a liquid;
- an electric liquid treating device fixed to the tubular mantle or to the flange, and fluidly connected with the liquid reservoir and configured to receive and treat the liquid to thereby release, within the tubular mantle, at least one of a vapor, a mist, or an aerosol;
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- a power source configured to supply electric power to the electric liquid treating device from a non-rotating part of the laundry treating appliance, wherein the power source is selected from a group consisting of a sliding electric contact system and a wireless power transmitter unit, and wherein the wireless power transmitter unit is configured to wirelessly transmit electric power to a wireless power receiver unit rotating with the tubular mantle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.