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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 28, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Do Weon Kim, Seoul, KR;
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon, KR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
68 233 ; 68 232 ; 210144 ; 7457 / ; 7457 / ;
Abstract
A washing machine includes a spin basket rotatable about a vertical axis and having a dynamic balancer mounted thereon. The balancer includes coaxial annular passageways arranged horizontally next to one another. Each passageway contains oil and a group of freely movable balls. The heights of the passageways increase in a radially outward direction, and the sizes and weights of the groups of balls increase in a radially outward direction.