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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:
Nov. 04, 1980
Filed:
Mar. 16, 1979
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hideyuki Tobita, Hitachi, JP;
Toshio Mori, Katsuta, JP;
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
8159 ; 68 1 / ;
Abstract
An automatic washing machine capable of automatically carrying out a programmed sequence of a washing operation, a rinsing operation and/or a spinning or extracting operation, and a method for operating such a washing machine, in which a newly selected operation program is compared with an already selected operation program, and when the already selected operation program includes an operation included in the newly selected operation program, the operation in the already selected operation program corresponding to that in the newly selected operation program is only continuously carried out for improving the utility of the automatic washing machine.