Laundry treating apparatus
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Solution Overview
Problem
Laundry treating apparatuses face challenges in maintaining cleanliness and hygiene within the detergent supply system, particularly due to detergent residue and foreign substances accumulating inside the housing, which complicates cleaning and affects user experience.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating a front shower portion in the dispenser to automatically supply water to the detergent storage, ensuring that the detergent supply casing is cleaned continuously, improving cleanliness and hygiene, and enhancing user convenience by facilitating efficient cleaning of the interior.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If detergent storage is retracted or extended in the detergent supply, then detergent feeding function is improved, but detergent residue and foreign substances accumulate in the housing space, degrading hygiene and making cleaning difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The detergent storage is extracted from the housing and made retractable, allowing it to be pulled out for detergent refilling and pushed back for automatic shower cleaning. This extraction principle enables the detergent storage to be separated from the housing during cleaning operations, facilitating hygiene maintenance while preserving the detergent feeding function.
2Ease of operation
If detergent storage is retracted or extended in the detergent supply, then detergent feeding function is improved, but cleaning of the housing space becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service cleaning through the automatic shower function that automatically cleans the housing space when the detergent storage is in the retracted position. This eliminates the need for manual cleaning intervention, making the cleaning process as easy as simply pushing the detergent storage back into place.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If water supply is added to clean the detergent supply casing, then cleanliness and hygiene are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The water supply system is designed with multi-functionality, serving both as a cleaning mechanism for the detergent supply casing and as part of the overall detergent delivery system. The shower nozzles are integrated into the existing structure, allowing the same water supply infrastructure to perform multiple functions including detergent storage cleaning and housing space sanitation.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution effectively maintains cleanliness and hygiene within the detergent supply system by ensuring continuous cleaning during use, improving user experience and the overall cleaning performance of the apparatus.
Implementation Method 1
a water supply is disposed in a dispenser that supplies water to a detergent storage and the like, and water supply includes the front shower portion. Thus, water discharged from the front shower portion may be transferred to a front end of the detergent supply casing, so that auto shower may be performed.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is a laundry treating apparatus including a detergent storage unit retractable into a cabinet through an opening, wherein detergent is stored in the detergent storage unit; a supply case disposed in the cabinet and receiving the detergent storage unit retracted through the opening; and a dispenser disposed inside the cabinet, and located above the detergent storage unit, wherein the dispenser includes a water supply portion from which water is discharged and drops downwards, wherein the water supply portion includes shower portion for supplying water to a bottom of the supply case.