Drum washing machine
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorKouji Hisano
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Abstract
A drum washing machine includes an outer cabinet, a water tub disposed in the outer cabinet, a generally drum-shaped rotating tub rotatably mounted in the water tub, and an elastic support mechanism mounted inside the outer cabinet for elastically supporting the rotating tub. The elastic support mechanism includes an oil damper further including a cylinder and a predetermined amount of damping oil contained in the cylinder, and a coil spring having two ends and mounted outside the cylinder so that a central axis of the coil spring substantially corresponds with a central axis of the cylinder.
Claims10
A drum washing machine comprising an outer cabinet, a water tub disposed in the outer cabinet, a generally drum-shaped rotating tub rotatably mounted in the water tub, and an elastic support mechanism provided inside the outer cabinet for elastically supporting the rotating tub, characterized in that the elastic support mechanism includes an oil damper further including a cylinder and a predetermined amount of damping oil contained in the cylinder, and a coil spring having two ends and mounted outside the cylinder so that the coil spring is substantially concentric with the cylinder.
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