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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2016
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 39/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 39/14 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a washing machine having an elastic member for providing resilient power to the door in a direction in which the door is opened and a damping member arranged to damp pivoting of the door or an inner door. The washing machine has a structure to smoothly open/shut the door and inner door combined together, and if supplementary washing is required, to smoothly open/shut only the inner door.