Laundry machine
OwnerIg Geun Kwon, Jae Hyun Choi +1inventors
InventorsIg Geun Kwon, Jae Hyun Choi, Soo Bong Kim
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Abstract
The present invention is for enlarging the capacity for treating laundry. Especially, without largely changing an overall size of a laundry machine, the laundry treating capacity thereof is enlarged. In an embodiment of the present invention, a gap between the tub (100, 120) and a cabinet left (640) or cabinet right (630) of the cabinet may be smaller than or equal to 10 mm, or a difference between a diameter of the drum (300, 320, 340) and an inner width of the cabinet for a left-and-right direction may be smaller than or equal to 100 mm.
Claims17
A laundry machine comprising:
- a cabinet to form an exterior appearance;
- a tub to hold water therein;
- a drum rotatably placed in the tub;
- a drive assembly including a shaft connected to the drum, a bearing housing to rotatably support the shaft, and a motor to rotate the shaft;
- and
- a suspension assembly to reduce vibration of the drum;
- wherein the tub is supported more rigidly than the drum is, and wherein a gap between the tub and a cabinet left or cabinet right of the cabinet is smaller than or equal to 20 mm.
A laundry machine comprising:
- a cabinet to form an exterior appearance;
- a tub to hold water therein;
- a drum rotatably placed in the tub;
- a drive assembly including a shaft connected to the drum, a bearing housing to rotatably support the shaft, and a motor to rotate the shaft;
- and
- a suspension assembly to reduce vibration of the drum;
- wherein the tub is supported more rigidly than the drum is, and wherein a difference between a diameter of the drum and an inner width of the cabinet for a left-and-right direction is smaller than or equal to 140 mm.
A laundry machine comprising:
- a cabinet to faun an exterior appearance;
- a tub to hold water therein;
- a drum rotatably placed in the tub;
- a drive assembly including a shaft connected to the drum, a bearing housing to rotatably support the shaft, and a motor to rotate the shaft;
- and
- a suspension assembly to reduce vibration of the drum;
- wherein the tub is supported more rigidly than the drum is, a left-and-right gap between the drum and the tub with respect to a center of the drum is greater than a gap between the tub and a cabinet left or cabinet right of the cabinet, and the tub is not in contact with the cabinet left or cabinet right.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.