Patent ID: 7089769

Claim:
A direct drive washing machine, comprising: an outer tub housed inside a casing, for storing wash water therein; an inner tub rotatable inside the outer tub, for receiving laundry therein; a pulsator rotatable inside the inner tub; a driving motor installed at a lower portion of the outer tub for rotating the pulsator and the inner tub; a pulsator shaft directly connected between a rotor of the driving motor and the pulsator; a tub shaft carried rotatably on the pulsator shaft and connected to the inner tub and separated from the rotor of the driving motor; a clutch coupling having a sloping side at a lateral surface thereof, connected with an outer circumference of the tub shaft and performing a clutching operation by being combined with or separated from the rotor of the driving motor to move up or down respectively; at least one clutch lever moving the clutch coupling up or down by being tightly contacted to or separated from, respectively, the sloping side of the clutch coupling; and lever operating means for tightly contacting the clutch lever to the clutch coupling or separating the clutch lever from the clutch coupling.