JPS6427593A - Dehydrating washing machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To enable proper washing corresponding to the quantity of laundry and to attain improvement in operability by performing correcting operation, with which a preset operating state is corrected correspondingly to the quantity of laundry detected by a load detecting means during a dehydrating process, after a washing process. CONSTITUTION: In an intermediate dehydrating process after the end of washing process and before the start of rinsing process, following control is performed according to a signal from a load detector 51. Namely, a drain solenoid valve is opened for draining a detergent liquid, a driving motor is electrified at the time point when the level of water in a tub is lowered to a prescribed water level, and the high-speed rotation of the spinning tub is started. At such a time, following programs are corrected into optimum water level, intermediate dehydrating time, rinsing process time per operation and final dehydrating process time determined by the quantity of laundry detected by a microcomputer 35. In this case, the laundry is detected by measuring time T until recovering an ordinary reference voltage although a large current flows at the time of activating a motor 30.