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US 9,957,656 B2Granted
Washing machine
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsMingyu Jo, Seungchul Park, Dongwon Kim
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Abstract
A washing machine including a cabinet having a first introduction port, a tub, which is provided in the cabinet and which has a second introduction port that is concentrically positioned with respect to the first introduction port, a cabinet door attached to the cabinet to open and close the first introduction port, a tub door attached to the tub to open and close the second introduction port, and a lock-releasing unit, which is attached to the cabinet to release a locked state of the cabinet door and the tub door.
Claims16
A washing machine comprising:
- a cabinet including a first cabinet part having a first introduction port formed at a front side thereof;
- a tub provided in the cabinet, and having a second introduction port that is a concentric position with respect to the first introduction port;
- a cabinet door attached to the cabinet to rotate forward to open and close the first introduction port;
- a cabinet door lock provided on the front cabinet part to set a lock state of the cabinet door;
- a tub door attached to the tub to rotate in a direction parallel to a rotation direction of the cabinet door to open and close the second introduction port;
- a tub door lock provided at a front side of the tub to set a lock state of the tub door;
- a lock-releasing unit provided on the first cabinet part to simultaneously unlock the cabinet door lock and the tub door lock;
- a cabinet door lock releaser that is actuated by the lock-releasing unit to unlock the cabinet door lock;
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- a tub door lock releaser that is actuated by the lock-releasing unit to unlock the tub door lock.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.