Washing machine
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsJaehyun Choi, Yohwan Kang, Hyunjae Lee
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Abstract
A washing machine includes a casing, a tub, a drum, a pump for circulating water from the tub, a gasket connecting an entry hole of the casing to an entrance hole of the tub and including nozzles for spraying water to the drum, and outlet ports for supplying water to the nozzles. The nozzles are arranged at an inner surface of the gasket at both lateral sides of the gasket in a vertical direction. The gasket includes port receiving pipes that receive the outlet ports, respectively, that are arranged in the vertical direction at an outer surface of the gasket, and that extend parallel to each other.
Claims20
A washing machine comprising:
- a casing that defines an entry hole at a front surface of the casing;
- a tub disposed in the casing and configured to receive wash water, the tub defining a tub opening at a front surface of the tub;
- a drum rotatably disposed in the tub;
- a gasket comprising:
- a gasket body that defines a passage connecting the entry hole to the tub opening, wherein the gasket body includes a first area and a second area that correspond to bilateral areas of the gasket body, and
- a plurality of port receiving pipes that protrude from an outer circumferential surface of the gasket body, the plurality of port receiving pipes including (i) a first port receiving pipe disposed vertically above a horizontal line passing through a center of the gasket body and (ii) a second port receiving pipe disposed vertically below the horizontal line;
- a plurality of nozzles that are disposed at an inner circumference of the gasket body, the plurality of nozzles including a first nozzle and a second nozzle that are arranged in a vertical direction at the first area of the gasket body and that are in fluid communication with the first port receiving pipe and the second port receiving pipe, respectively;
- a pump configured to circulate wash water discharged from the tub;
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- a distribution pipe configured to receive wash water discharged from the pump and to supply received wash water to the first nozzle and the second nozzle, the distribution pipe including a first outlet port and a second outlet port that are inserted into the first port receiving pipe and the second port receiving pipe, respectively,
- wherein a length of the second port receiving pipe is less than a length of the first port receiving pipe.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.