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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 1980
Filed:
Jun. 21, 1979
Applicant:
Inventor:
Fumio Torita, Nagoya, JP;
Assignee:
Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Kawasaki, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
68 1 / ; 134113 ;
Abstract
Provided is an automatic washing machine in which the washing, water-draining/dehydrating and rinsing steps are automatically carried out by an electronic control circuit including an electronic timer, arithmetic-operation processor and memory. The machine further includes a transparency detector for detecting at the initial stage of the washing step the transparency of water used in the washing step and supplying an output signal to the electronic timer so as to set the operating time for the washing and rinsing steps.