Patent ID: 11293129

Abstract:
A washing machine of the present disclosure includes a drive shaft rotating a pulsator, a dehydration shaft connected to a washing tub, a magnetic core surround a periphery of a solenoid, an armature lifted by an attraction force between the armature and the magnetic corea lever having a support point of which a position is fixed with respect to the dehydration shaft and an operation end located at a point spaced by a predetermined distance from the support point, a clutching coupler shaft-coupling the drive shaft and the dehydration shaft to each other at a lowered position, and shaft-decoupling the drive shaft and the dehydration shaft from each other at a lifted position, an elastic member pressing the clutching coupler downward, a guide groove guiding a relative movement of the operating end with respect to the clutching coupler, and a lowering restriction section disposed in the guide groove.