Patent ID: 8495778
Filing Date: 2013-07-30
Classification: D06F,Y02B

Abstract:
1. A washing control method of a washing machine to perform washing laundry using bubbles, the method comprising: wetting the laundry by supplying wash water in a rotary drum having a plurality of holes of the washing machine with the wash water while concurrently operating the rotary drum at an RPM and operation rate set depending upon an amount of laundry for a predetermined period of time; after the laundry has been wetted, supplying wash water containing detergent into a space between a lower portion of the rotary drum and a lower inner surface of a water tub; heating the wash water containing detergent; generating bubbles into the space between the lower portion of the rotary drum and the lower inner surface of the water tub from a lower portion of the water tub by controlling a bubble generating device positioned at the lower portion of the water tub; supplying the bubbles generated between the rotary drum and the water tub into the laundry through the holes of the rotary drum: and washing laundry with the supplied bubbles, wherein wetting the laundry comprises supplying the wash water to a space between a lower portion of the rotary drum and a lower inner surface of a water tub, so that the level of wash water does not reach to a lower outer surface of the rotary drum.