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Patent No.:

US 10240281 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2019

Filed:

Jul. 06, 2016

Clothing item separating device and clothing item processing device comprising same

Applicant:

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;

Inventors:

Yuji Ozeki, Shiga, JP;

Shinji Suematsu, Shiga, JP;

Hiroshi Kohso, Osaka, JP;

Hiroshi Horibata, Shiga, JP;

Junichi Nawama, Hyogo, JP;

Masahiro Kawai, Shiga, JP;

Yasunori Matsunari, Shiga, JP;

Masataka Kitajima, Osaka, JP;

Assignee:

PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., Osaka, JP;

Attorney:

Brinks Gilson & Lione

Primary Examiner:

Levon J Shahinian

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/16 (2006.01); B25J 11/00 (2006.01); D06F 25/00 (2006.01); D06F 33/02 (2006.01); D06F 37/22 (2006.01); D06F 37/28 (2006.01); D06F 37/30 (2006.01); D06F 39/00 (2006.01); D06F 39/02 (2006.01); D06F 39/08 (2006.01); D06F 39/14 (2006.01); D06F 89/02 (2006.01); D06F 95/00 (2006.01); D06F 35/00 (2006.01); B25J 9/00 (2006.01); B25J 9/02 (2006.01); B25J 13/08 (2006.01); B25J 19/02 (2006.01); D06F 93/00 (2006.01); D06F 29/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 95/00 (2013.01); B25J 9/0087 (2013.01); B25J 9/0096 (2013.01); B25J 9/023 (2013.01); B25J 13/085 (2013.01); B25J 19/023 (2013.01); D06F 25/00 (2013.01); D06F 33/02 (2013.01); D06F 35/00 (2013.01); D06F 37/22 (2013.01); D06F 37/28 (2013.01); D06F 37/304 (2013.01); D06F 39/005 (2013.01); D06F 39/02 (2013.01); D06F 39/088 (2013.01); D06F 39/14 (2013.01); D06F 89/023 (2013.01); D06F 93/00 (2013.01); B25J 9/1697 (2013.01); B25J 11/008 (2013.01); D06F 29/00 (2013.01); D06F 2232/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

A clothes separating device and a clothes processing apparatus including the clothes separating device according to this disclosure are provided with a separator that operates to grip clothes in a washing tub and to separate, from the gripped clothes, another item of clothes entwined with the gripped clothes. In this manner, a user does not need to separate a plurality of individual items of clothes before folding the clothes. Hence, it is possible to provide the clothes separating device that contributes to reducing a burden of work related to laundry and a clothes processing apparatus including the clothes separating device.

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