Disclosed herein is a washing machine including: a main body having a laundry inlet in the front portion; a tub disposed in the inside of the main body, and configured to store water; a drum rotatably disposed in the inside of the tub; a pulsator disposed in the inside of the drum, and configured to be rotatable relative to the drum; a motor configured to provide a driving force to the pulsator; and a controller configured to control a current flowing to the motor on the basis of revolution per minute (rpm) of the pulsator rotating by a movement of laundry contained in the drum, and to start controlling the motor on the basis of rpm of the drum.

A drum washing machine includes a tub and a drum rotatably supported in the tub and implements a control method that allows the tub to be easily cleaned. The method of controlling the washing machine includes supplying washing water during a first water supplying step to the interior of the tub while the drum is rotating at a water-supplying RPM; and executing a first wash step following completion of the first water supply step by accelerating the rotation of the drum from the water-supplying RPM to a first-wash RPM so that a circulatory flow is created in which the washing water falls from the top of opposite ends of the tub while circulating along the inner circumferential surface of the tub due to the rotational power of the drum.

A washing machine, a method and computer readable recording medium. The washing machine includes a washing spindle and a spin-drying spindle, a coupling that is movable to be engaged with a rotation preventing unit of the washing machine so that power of the driving motor is transferred to the washing spindle but not to the spin-drying spindle, and is movable to a position in which the coupling is not engaged with the rotation preventing unit so that power of the driving motor is transferred to both the washing spindle and the spin-drying spindle, and a control device configured to, in a washing mode of the washing machine, bring the coupling into contact with the rotation preventing unit, cause the coupling to rotate in first and second directions so that the coupling is engaged with the rotation preventing unit, and determine an engagement state by test-operating the driving motor.

A washing machine includes a motor for generating power and a clutch assembly that receives the power from the motor and drives a drum and a pulsator. The clutch assembly includes a driving shaft that receives the power from the motor and rotates, a pulsator drive portion selectively receiving the power from the driving shaft to rotate the pulsator, and a drum driving portion selectively receiving the power from the driving shaft to rotate the drum, The clutch assembly is provided to selectively drive a driving portion of at least one of the drum driving portion and the pulsator drive portion. With this configuration, the washing machine capable of running various modes of a washing mode and dehydration mode is implemented.

A laundry treating apparatus includes an accommodating body, a dry chamber that is mounted in the accommodating body and spaced apart from the accommodating body by a preset distance, a rack provided in the dry chamber and configured to receive objects to be dried, an air inlet hole defined at a rear surface of the accommodating body, an air supply unit configured to supply heated air through the air inlet hole toward a space defined between the accommodating body and the dry chamber, and an air supply hole defined at a chamber front and allowing flow of air from the accommodating body to the dry chamber through the air supply hole.

The present disclosure provides a smart household equipment controlling method and apparatus, an apparatus and a non-volatile computer storage medium. In embodiments of the present disclosure, input information input by the user based on a natural dialog mode interface is obtained, then the control instruction of the smart household equipment is obtained according to the input information, so that the control instruction can be sent to the smart household equipment such that the smart household equipment executes an operation according to the control instruction. Since the natural dialog mode interface is used as an interaction mode with the user, it is unnecessary to display all operable controls of the smart household equipment provided by the application on the screen of the terminal. Therefore, this can avoid the problem in the prior art about increase of data interaction between the application and the processing engine used by the application due to a limited display area of the terminal, and thereby reduce the processing burden of the processing engine.

A washing machine is provided. The washing machine adopts an induction motor to achieve efficient operation as that achieved by using a frequency converter. The washing machine includes: an input shaft configured to supply rotation power to a rotation part that rotates washings; an induction motor, configured to rotate in a forward direction and a backward direction and served as a power source of the rotation part; a transmission-arranged between an output shaft of the induction motor and the input shaft of the rotation part. The transmission is configured to change speed of the induction motor by decreasing a reduction ratio along with startup of the induction motor.

A method is provided for treating laundry in a laundry washing machine (220). The washing machine includes: a rotatable perforated washing drum (248) provided with holes and adapted to receive laundry; a washing tub (228) external to said washing drum (248); a water supply circuit (296) including at least one supply valve (302, 308) to supply fresh water into the washing tub (228); a detergent supplier (300) to supply detergent into the washing tub (228); and a rinse additive supplier (306) to supply at least one rinse additive into the washing tub (248). The method includes at least one washing phase during which the laundry is washed with introduction of water and the detergent into the washing tub (228) and tumbled by rotation of the washing drum (248); at least one successive draining phase for draining liquid from the washing tub and following the draining phase at least one rinsing step in which the laundry is soaked with water; and a final rinsing step in which the laundry is treated by means of the rinse additive. An additive supply step is also included, wherein water is introduced into the tub together with the additive. Before the additive supply step (44), in a saturation step (32), the laundry is provided with a saturation amount of water for saturating said laundry.

A laundry treating appliance for treating laundry according to an automatic cycle of operation, comprising a basket defining a treating chamber for receiving laundry to be washed. The basket has multiple perforations through which liquid may pass. A blade can be rotated about the exterior of the basket creating a suction force acting on the perforations to draw liquid from the treating chamber through the perforations.

A laundry washing machine and method utilize a fluid property sensor to sense a fluid property of a fluid during a wash cycle to sense the level of detergent remaining in a load and control a rinse operation performed thereafter based upon the sensed fluid property. In some instances, the fluid property may be sensed while the load is being spun at a rate sufficient to cause fluid to be released from the load such that the sensed fluid property is based at least in part on fluid that was previously absorbed into the load. In addition, in some instances, the fluid property may be sensed during a spin phase of a wash cycle to selectively cause a wash cycle to selectively revert to an additional rinse phase when required, or otherwise proceed directly to the remainder of the spin phase to complete the wash cycle.