Clothes treatment apparatus
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsGeonhui Jo, Byeongwoo Kim, Doyun Lee, Kwangmin Chun, Jonghun Sung, Youngchul Jo
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a clothes treatment apparatus according to an embodiment including a cabinet, a tub disposed in the cabinet, and a detergent supply device configured to supply detergent into the tub, wherein the detergent supply device includes a housing, a detergent container provided in the housing to accommodate detergent, a water supply guide configured to guide water from a water supply source to the inside of the housing, and a partition configured to cover a portion of the detergent container to prevent water supplied into the housing by the water supply guide from flowing to an upper side of the detergent container.
Claims13
A clothes treatment apparatus, comprising:
- a cabinet;
- a tub in the cabinet;
- and
- a detergent supply device configured to supply detergent into the tub;
- wherein the detergent supply device includes:
- a housing,
- a detergent container in the housing and configured to accommodate the detergent,
- a detergent pump configured to intake the detergent accommodated in the detergent container and discharge the intaken detergent into the housing,
- a pipe through which the detergent moves from the detergent container to the detergent pump when being intaken by the detergent pump,
- a valve configured to open and close the pipe,
- a water supply guide configured to guide water from a water supply source into the housing, and
- a flow guide inside the housing, below the water supply guide, and forming a guide channel configured to guide the water supplied into the housing by the water supply guide downward to a lower portion of the housing to be mixed with the detergent discharged by the detergent pump into the housing, and to prevent the water from flowing upward to an upper side of the detergent container,
- wherein the valve is partially disposed in the guide channel with an upper end of the valve being higher than a lower end of the flow guide such that the water being guided by the guide channel washes an outer wall of the valve.
A clothes treatment apparatus, comprising:
- a cabinet;
- a tub in the cabinet;
- and
- a detergent supply device configured to supply detergent into the tub;
- wherein the detergent supply device comprises:
- a housing,
- a container in the housing and configured to accommodate the detergent,
- a detergent container cover covering an upper portion of the container, a detergent pump to which the container is dockable, the detergent pump configured to intake the detergent from the container and discharge the intaken detergent into the housing based on the container being docked to the detergent pump,
- a pipe through which the detergent moves from the container to the detergent pump when being intaken by the detergent pump,
- a valve configured to open and close the pipe,
- a water supply guide configured to guide water from a water supply source into the housing, and
- a flow guide inside the housing, below the water supply guide, extending downward from an upper end of the housing, and forming a guide channel configured to guide the water supplied into the housing by the water supply guide downward to a lower portion of the housing to be mixed with the detergent discharged by the detergent pump into the housing, and to prevent the water from flowing into the detergent container cover,
- wherein the valve is partially disposed in the guide channel with an upper end of the valve being higher than a lower end of the flow guide such that the water being guided by the guide channel washes an outer wall of the valve.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.