EP0224145B1 - Machine à laver automatique à tambour rotatif - Google Patents

Machine à laver automatique à tambour rotatif Download PDF

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EP0224145B1
EP0224145B1 EP86115827A EP86115827A EP0224145B1 EP 0224145 B1 EP0224145 B1 EP 0224145B1 EP 86115827 A EP86115827 A EP 86115827A EP 86115827 A EP86115827 A EP 86115827A EP 0224145 B1 EP0224145 B1 EP 0224145B1
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Francesco Nodassi
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Industrie Zanussi SpA
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
    • D06F37/00—Details specific to washing machines covered by groups D06F21/00 - D06F25/00
    • D06F37/30—Driving arrangements 
    • D06F37/304—Arrangements or adaptations of electric motors

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  • the present invention relates to a program operated washing machine according to the precharacterizing clause of claim 1.
  • a washing machine of this general type is known from EP-A1-0090716.
  • EP-A1-0090716 describes a washing machine which includes a control circuit to compare a signal related to the nominal speed of the drum with a tachygraph signal which indicates the actual speed of the drum. A difference in the signals due to slowing of the drum by an overload is converted to a phase angle differential which upon reaching a certain value operates upon a switch circuit to stop the motor.
  • GB-A-656 439 describes a laundry washing machine in which the dry spinning cycle following a washing cycle is interrupted after a predetermined time interval before it has reached its full operating speed. After this interruption of the dry spinning cycle, the drain pump is kept operative to draw suds from the space between the spin basket and the tub. Only for the next dry spinning cycle may the spinning speed obtain its full value.
  • the washing machine comprises as an essential component an electric motor 3, for example of the universal type, for rotating the laundering drum (not shown) of the machine.
  • Motor 3 is energized through a normally closed controlled breaker switch 4 from the two output terminals 5 and 6 of a control unit 7.
  • the latter is adapted to control the speed of motor 3, for example by varying the phase or frequency of the voltage appearing at output terminals 5 and 6, in response to a first control signal applied to a first input terminal 8 by a program unit 9 of the machine, and to a second control signal applied to a second input terminal 10.
  • Control unit 7 has two additional terminals 11 and 12 connected to the electric supply mains, and is of a substantially conventional type comprising for instance an integrated circuit TDA 1085 supplied by Motorola Inc..
  • Program unit 9 is similarly of a conventional type, and the controlled breaker switch 4 may for instance be of the TRIAC type.
  • a device preferably a tachymetric generator 13, adapted to generate at an output terminal 14 a DC or AC voltage in proportion to the rotational speed of the motor.
  • Output terminal 14 is connected to input terminal 10 of control unit 7, and in addition to the inverting input of a comparator 15 (for instance an operational amplifyer) the non-inverting input of which has a reference voltage V applied thereto.
  • the output terminal of comparator 15 is connected to the control input terminal of breaker switch 4 for causing the latter to open in the per se known manner when the voltage at output terminal 14 of tachymetric generator 13 is higher than the reference voltage V.
  • the reference voltage is calculated so as to represent a predetermined rotational speed of motor 3 and thus, taking into consideration the transmission ratio, a predetermined spin-drying speed of the drum of the machine.
  • control unit 7 In accordance with the program stored in program unit 9, control unit 7 generates at its output terminals 5 and 6 a voltage of a phase or frequency causing motor 3 to rotate at a speed corresponding to a rotational speed of the washing drum of for example 50 rpm, with the conventional inversions of the sense of rotation of the drum and intervening rest periods, the tub of the machine containing a laundering liquid during this period.
  • the drum of the washing machine rotates at the laundering speed in one direction for a period t0 - t1, and after a rest period t1-t2, in the opposite sense for a period t2-t3.
  • control unit 7 energizes motor 3 to operate at the spin-drying speed for a preselected duration t4-t7.
  • Rotation of the drum is thus started at t4 with a relatively low acceleration for uniform distribution of the laundry within the drum.
  • the spin-drying phase proper is initiated at t5 with a sudden increase of the speed of the drum so as to attain a predetermined rotational speed n2 of for instance 400 rpm at t6 (after about two min.).
  • n2 for instance 400 rpm at t6
  • the tachymetric generator 13 generates at its output terminal 14 a voltage identical to reference voltage V.
  • comparator 15 generates an output control signal adapted not only to terminate the spin-drying phase by the action of control unit 7 in a per se known manner, but also to cause breaker switch 4 to open immediately.
  • motor 3 is thus abruptly deenergized, so that its rotational speed drops to approximately zero at t7.
  • the laundering cycle then proceeds in the previously described manner, with further phases of rotation of the drum at the speed n1, interrupted by rest periods. It is also possible to provide further periodically recurring spin-drying cycles as described with referecne to the period t4-t7.
  • the automatic washing machine according to the invention may of course undergo numerous modifications without thereby leaving the scope of the invention.
  • comparator 5 and/or controlled breaker switch 4 may thus be of a different type; in addition, the periods of rotation and the rest periods of the drum during a laundering cycle may be variously modified, it being also possible to provide any number of periodic spin-drying phases analogous to the period t4-t7.
  • a further modification may consist in the provision that the output of comparator 15 may be applied to a corresponding input of control unit 7, as will be readily evident to one skilled in the art. In this case the operation of breaker switch 4 is directly controlled by control unit 7.
  • control means 13, 14, 15 and breaker switch 4 may finally be employed for limiting the maximum rotational speed of the drum during the final spin-drying cycle when there is no detergent in the laundering tub.

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Claims (3)

  1. Machine à laver le linge à commande par programmateur, comprenant une cuve avec un tambour tournant, un moteur électrique (3) pour entraîner le tambour, des moyens de détection (13) pour détecter la vitesse de rotation réelle, et des moyens de commande (4,7,15) pour entraîner le moteur (3) à des valeurs de vitesse pouvant être sélectionnées, à savoir une vitesse de lavage normale à utiliser pendant les cycles de lavage du linge et une vitesse d'essorage élevée à utiliser pendant les cycles d'essorage, caractérisée en ce que la machine effectue au moins un cycle d'essorage entre deux phases de lavage successives dans un cycle de lavage, en ce que le cycle d'essorage a une durée prédéterminée, et en ce que les moyens de détection et de commande (4,13,14,15) sont adaptés pour désexciter le moteur (3) pour la durée restante du cycle d'essorage lorsqu'il est détecté une vitesse de rotation à l'intérieur du cycle d'essorage qui est supérieure à une valeur de vitesse prédéterminée (n2).
  2. Machine à laver le linge selon la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce que le moteur (3) est raccordé à une alimentation en puissance de commande (5,6) par l'intermédiaire d'un interrupteur commandé normalement fermé (4), qui est en outre relié aux moyens de commande (15) pour être ouvert lorsque la valeur de vitesse prédéterminée (n2) est détectée par les moyens de détection (13).
  3. Machine à laver le linge selon la revendication 1 ou la revendication 2, caractérisée en ce que les moyens de détection comprennent une génératrice tachymétrique (13) entraînée par le moteur (3), laquelle produit un signal de commande proportionnel à la vitesse de rotation du moteur (3), et dont la sortie commande un interrupteur (4).
EP86115827A 1985-11-27 1986-11-14 Machine à laver automatique à tambour rotatif Expired EP0224145B1 (fr)

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AT86115827T ATE72844T1 (de) 1985-11-27 1986-11-14 Automatische waschmaschine mit drehender trommel.

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IT45750/85A IT1202242B (it) 1985-11-27 1985-11-27 Lavatrice automatica a tamburo rotante
IT4575085 1985-11-27

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EP0224145A3 EP0224145A3 (en) 1988-03-02
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GB656439A (en) * 1948-01-13 1951-08-22 British Thomson Houston Co Ltd Improvements in and relating to methods of operating spinner type washing machines to prevent suds lock
DE1585731B2 (de) * 1967-02-22 1972-05-31 Holzer, Walter, 7758 Meersburg Programmwahleinrichtung fuer automatische waschmaschinen
DE3362234D1 (en) * 1982-03-26 1986-04-03 Esswein Sa Clothes washer with a reduced-power motor for driving the drum
IT1174953B (it) * 1983-12-06 1987-07-01 Zanussi A Spa Industrie Macchina lavabiancheria

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IT1202242B (it) 1989-02-02
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