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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 1993
Filed:
Aug. 15, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Tetsukazu Tanaka, Nagoya, JP;
Masahiro Imai, Seto, JP;
Hiroshi Ikeda, Seto, JP;
Yosiyuki Makino, Nagoya, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kanagawa, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
68 1206 ; 68 1214 ;
Abstract
A dehydrator includes a dehydration basket for containing clothes to be dehydrated, a variable speed motor such as a dc brushless motor for driving the dehydration basket so that the basket is rotated for dehydrating the clothes, and a microcomputer-based control device controlling rotational speed of the motor so that the rotational speed of the motor is increased stepwise when a dehydration operation is initiated.