Drum washing machine
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsJung Hee LEE, Jeong Hoon KANG, Min Sung KIM, Dong Ha JUNG, Kwan Woo HONG
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a drum washing machine having an improved motor mount structure. The drum washing machine includes a tub having a coupling part; a drum rotatably installed in the tub; a motor bracket installed at the coupling part; and an elastic member having a cylindrical shape and disposed between the motor bracket and the tub, wherein the elastic member comprises a rib protruding in a radial direction from the inner circumferential surface of the elastic member, and the rib has the longest protrusion at a longitudinal center of the elastic member.
Claims12
A drum washing machine comprising:
- a tub having a coupling part;
- a drum rotatably installed in the tub;
- a motor bracket installed at the coupling part;
- and
- an elastic member having a cylindrical shape and disposed between the motor bracket and the tub,
- wherein the elastic member comprises a rib protruding in a radial direction from the inner circumferential surface of the elastic member, and the rib has a protruding length that is largest at a longitudinal center of the elastic member.
A drum washing machine includes:
- a tub;
- a motor bracket configured to fix a motor to the tub;
- and
- an elastic member provided between the tub and the motor bracket,
- wherein the elastic member has a diameter of at least a portion of the inner circumferential surface of the elastic member that is decreases from opposite ends toward a center of the elastic member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.