Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Rie Hiramoto

Hirofumi Yoshikawa

Nobushige Arai

Toshihiro Kamii

Mugihei Ikemizu

Shinya Takagi

Hirokazu Ooe

Minoru Tadano

Kyoko Iimori

Hirokazu Ohe

Ichirou Ohshima

Ichiro Ohshima

A water feeding apparatus () has an ion eluter () and a shower emitter (). The shower emitter () receives water via a coupling pipe () from the ion eluter (), and sprays the water, in the form of a shower, onto laundry. Liquid droplets in the form of a shower are small and easy to dry, and thus produce crystals having smaller particles (with large surface areas), having more lattice defects, and easier to dissolve. With these crystals attached to the laundry, when the crystals make contact with moisture next time, the silver ion in the liquid droplets easily dissolves. Even when the laundry is made of water-repellent or hydrophobic cloth, the solution dries up on the surface of the cloth before water is repelled. Thus, even this type of laundry can benefit from the antimicrobial effect of the silver ion.

Water supply device, water supply method, and washing machine having water supply device

Provided are a method capable of imparting antistaticity to a fabric structure in a simple manner without causing any color change in the fabric structure, a fabric structure imparted with antistaticity by the method, and a washing machine that imparts antistaticity to a fabric structure according to the method. The method for imparting antistaticity to a fabric structure allows a metal or metal compound to adhere on a surface of the fabric structure by drying the fabric structure in a state where a liquid containing the metal or the metal compound exists on the surface of the fabric structure.

Method and washing machine for imparting antistaticity to fabric structure and fabric structure imparted with antistaticity

A washing machine has a partial washing apparatus, which has a supersonic resonator, which is driven by an oscillator to generate supersonic vibration and a supersonic vibration horn. A washing liquid is fed to the partial washing apparatus so as to be agitated by supersonic waves, which are then fed to an article to be washed to achieve partial washing of the article. The partial washing apparatus is detachably fitted to the washing machine proper at approximately the center of a lid of the washing machine proper. The partial washing apparatus may be used as a handy-type partial washing apparatus when held at a grip portion of the partial washing apparatus.

Washer having a partial washing apparatus, and washing apparatus

A polluted water purifier for collecting a pollutant present in polluted water by flocculating the pollutant with a flocculant has a mixer for mixing the polluted water with the flocculant F and air, an agitator for agitating the polluted water, containing the flocculant F and the air, that flows into a cylindrical agitation chamber along the inner surface thereof by making the polluted water into a spiraling stream so that the flocks formed by the flocculant F hold bubbles, and a separator and , connected to the agitator , for temporarily storing the polluted water and for separating the flocks holding the bubbles.

Sewage disposal agent, sewage purifier, washing machine with purifier, and sewage purifying method

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Yamatokoriyama, Japan

Rie Hiramoto