Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Tadashi Inuzuka

Satoshi Maeda

Takashi Komatsu

Eiji Matsuda

Kazunori Maeda

Hiroshi Kajihara

Tsuyoshi Fukuda

Kimura Kyosuke

Kazutoshi Adachi

A drum type washing machine includes a housing; a water tub unit accommodated in the housing; a vibration damper, a lower portion thereof being fixed at a base portion of the housing; and a displacement detecting unit for detecting displacement of the water tub unit, the displacement detecting unit being disposed between the water tub unit and the base portion of the housing. The vibration damper supports the water tub unit at a position closer to a front side of the housing than the center of gravity of the water tub unit, and the displacement detecting unit is positioned closer to a rear side of the housing than the vibration damper.

Drum type washing machine

A drum type washing machine includes a housing, a rotary drum, a water tub accommodating the rotary drum therein, a door for opening and closing a housing opening for allowing laundry to be loaded into or unloaded from the rotary drum therethrough, a water tub opening communicating with the housing opening, a rotary drum opening communicating with the housing opening and the water tub opening; and an elastic connection member for connecting the housing opening and water tub opening, and having a portion that makes a pressurized contact with the door when the door is closed. A center of the housing opening is displaced upward with respect to a center of the rotary drum opening, and an angle of inclination of the housing opening with respect to a vertical plane is set to be greater than that of the rotary drum opening with respect to the vertical plane.

Drum type washing machine with angled door opening

A washing-drying machine includes an inner tub having a rotating shaft and sustained rotatably in an outer tub suspended elastically in a cabinet, where an agitator disposed rotatably on an inner bottom of the inner tub. The washing-drying machine also includes a motor for driving the inner tub or the agitator and a warm-air-circulating pass having a heat exchanger cooled by a cooling section. The washing-drying machine further includes a controller for controlling processes including washing, rinsing, dehydrating and drying. The cooling section is formed of a water-cooling-section for cooling warm-air in the heat exchanger by supplying water, and an air-cooling-section for cooling an outer wall of the heat exchanger by blowing air. As a result, high dehumidification rate by improving heat-exchange efficiency of the heat can be obtained, and clothes are hardly damaged and electric power and the amount of water consumption can be saved.

Washing-drying machine

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Hyogo, Japan

Tadashi Inuzuka