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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2004
Soo-young OH, Seoul, KR;
Kyung-chul Woo, Seoul, KR;
Jin-woong Kim, Gwangmyeong, KR;
Si-moon Jeon, Seoul, KR;
Soo-Young Oh, Seoul, KR;
Kyung-Chul Woo, Seoul, KR;
Jin-Woong Kim, Gwangmyeong, KR;
Si-Moon Jeon, Seoul, KR;
LG Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
Disclosed are a washing method of a washing machine capable of preventing a phenomenon that remaining detergent is collected into a space where a heater is positioned or a specific space during a washing operation of laundry, capable of minimizing a generation of washing water unnecessarily supplied to the washing machine, and capable of fast heating corresponding laundry before a washing operation for an efficient washing operation, and an apparatus thereof. To this end, the method comprises the steps of: generating steam by heating washing water supplied into a washing machine; injecting the generated steam into laundry inside of a drum of the washing machine; and rotating the drum after injecting the steam into the laundry and thereby washing the laundry.