Patent ID: 7721462
Filing Date: 2010-05-25
Classification: D06F

Abstract:
1. A semi-drying method of a washing machine comprising: dehydrating cloth by centrifugal force by continually rotating a washing tub at an increasing dehydration speed, step-by-step, until the dehydration speed of the washing tub reaches a designated speed, said dehydration of the cloth being repeated plural times, wherein each of the repeated dehydrations of the cloth includes: pre-dehydrating the cloth by rotating the stopped washing tub at a designated dehydration speed, and main-dehydrating the cloth after the pre-dehydration of the cloth by rotating the washing tub at a dehydration speed higher than that of the pre-dehydration of the cloth; and disentangling cloth by agitatedly rotating the washing tub prior to the next dehydration of the cloth by way of the repetition of the dehydration, wherein the pre-dehydration speed of the washing tub in each of the repeated dehydration of the cloth is higher than the pre-dehydration speed of the washing tub in a preceding dehydration of the cloth.