Patent ID: 8042364

Claim:
A washing machine with a waterway system, said washing machine comprising: an outer drum; an inner drum; a water-inlet system; a water-outlet system; and a driving device along with a controller, wherein, said water-inlet system comprises: a softening-electrolysis waterway including a softening device, an electrolyzer and a plurality of pipes, a modifier-liquid measured waterway including a metering valve, a modifier-liquid supplier and a plurality of pipes, and an ion-exchange-resin regeneration waterway including a regenerated-brine device and a plurality of pipes; wherein an inlet of said water-inlet system is mounted with a four-pass water-inlet valve, one end of which is connecting to a tap water inlet, an other end of the valve having four controlled outlets connecting to each end of a first pipe, a second pipe, a third pipe, and a fourth pipe respectively, said first pipe being connected to said modifier-liquid measured waterway, said second pipe being connected to an influent groove, said third pipe being connected to said softening electrolysis waterway, and said fourth pipe being connected to said ion-exchange resin regeneration waterway and said metering valve of said modifier-liquid measured waterway being connected to the modifier-liquid supplier by a fifth pipe, an inlet of the metering valve being connected to the first pipe, two outlets of the metering valve being respectively connected to the influent groove by a sixth pipe and said water-outlet system by a seventh pipe.