| US 7,591,154 B2 | ||
| Drum type washing machine and vapor generator thereof | ||
| Soo-Young Oh, Seoul (Korea, Republic of); Kyung-Chul Woo, Seoul (Korea, Republic of); Si-Moon Jeon, Seoul (Korea, Republic of); and Jin-Woong Kim, Gyeonggi-Do (Korea, Republic of) | ||
| Assigned to LG Electronics Inc., Seoul (Korea, Republic of) | ||
| Filed on Jan. 07, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/752,005. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 10-2003-0056225 (KR), filed on Aug. 13, 2003. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0034487 A1, Feb. 17, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. D06F 39/04 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 68—15 | 11 Claims |
| 1. A drum type washing machine comprising:
a drum rotatably installed in a cabinet;
a driving motor installed in the cabinet to rotate the drum;
a vapor generator installed in the cabinet to generate vapor;
a circulation pump installed in the cabinet to circulate wash water drained from the tub;
a diverging pipe installed at an upper side of the drum for supplying vapor generated from the vapor generator and wash water
circulated from the circulation pump to an inside of the drum;
a first connection hose to connect the vapor generator and the diverging pipe;
a drain pipe installed at a lower side of the tub to drain wash water inside of the tub; and
a second connection hose for connecting the drain pipe and the diverging pipe.
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