Patent ID: 9284675
Filing Date: 2016-03-15
CPC Classification: D06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for washing laundry in a washing machine, wherein the washing machine includes a tub and a drum positioned in the tub, the method comprising: indicating a start of a rinse in a progress display; supplying wash water and detergent to the tub and drum, thereby wetting the laundry located in the drum; sensing a level of the wash water in the tub; rotating the drum thereby causing the laundry to be lifted within and to fall towards the bottom of the drum as the drum rotates; balancing the laundry by repeatedly accelerating and decelerating the drum while the supplied wash water is contained in the tub without draining the supplied wash water from the tub and the drum after the supplying the wash water; draining the wash water contained in the tub from the tub when the level of the wash water in the tub exceeds an allowable value; indicating a start of a spin cycle in a progress display; and accelerating the drum to dehydrate the laundry with draining the wash water from the tub and drum, wherein when the level of the wash water in the tub does not exceed the allowable value, accelerating the drum to dehydrate the laundry right after the balancing the laundry and the indicating the start of the spin cycle with skipping the draining step.