A washing machine is provided with a water inlet, a water inlet path and a filter mounting opening. An inflowing-water filter is detachably installed in the water inlet path via the filter mounting opening. A water inlet valve comprises a valve body, a water inlet end and a water outlet end. The water inlet end comprises the water inlet provided on an end part, the water inlet path and the filter mounting opening provided on a side part of the water inlet end. Alternatively, the water inlet path is provided between the water inlet and the water inlet valve, and the inflowing-water filter is provided in the water inlet path which is arranged between the water inlet valve and the water inlet. The washing machine is provided with an inflowing-water filter which is convenient to detach and clean.

A laundry treating apparatus includes a cabinet including a rear plate that defines a rear surface of the cabinet, a drum rotatably disposed in the cabinet and configured to accommodate laundry, an air supply disposed in the cabinet and configured to dehumidify air discharged from the drum and to supply the dehumidified air to the drum, and a drain pipe configured to guide water that is condensed from the air discharged from the air by the air supply. The drain pipe passes through a first portion of the rear plate from an interior of the cabinet to an exterior of the cabinet, extends along a rear side of the rear plate at the exterior of the cabinet, and is inserted through a second portion of the rear plate from the exterior of the cabinet to the interior of the cabinet.

A laundry appliance includes a tub having a rear wall. A drum is rotationally operable within the tub. An air flow path extends through an air flow port defined within the rear wall. A lint filter is positioned within the air flow port. A fluid spray system extends through the rear wall and directs a flow of fluid over the air flow port and the lint filter in a direction generally parallel with an inside surface of the rear wall.

A method for measuring the humidity of a laundry mass contained in a laundry treatment chamber of a laundry appliance. The method includes: providing a capacitor in the laundry appliance, the capacitor having, as part of the capacitor dielectric, the laundry mass; measuring a capacitance of the capacitor by means of an electronic circuitry electrically supplied by a supply voltage and a reference voltage. Providing a capacitor comprises: providing in the laundry appliance at least one conductive plate which forms a plate of the capacitor, and exploiting, as a second plate of the capacitor, routing lines distributing inside the laundry drying appliance the reference voltage.

The souring of wet laundry in a laundry treating appliance may be retarded by sending an alert signal indicative of an ending of a cycle of operation from the laundry treating appliance to a remote electronic device. The appliance may receive an authorization signal from the electronic device indicative of an instruction to execute an anti-sour cycle. An anti-sour cycle comprising the energizing of a fan to flow air through a laundry treating chamber may be automatically initiated for the laundry treating appliance.

A drum type washing machine, including a cabinet having a vertical cross section with a quadrangular shape; a tub having one surface that faces one or more upper corners of the cabinet, and is adjacent to the cabinet; and a rotatable drum in the tub, and configured to hold or accommodate laundry, is disclosed.

A drum type washing machine, including a cabinet having a vertical cross section with a quadrangular shape; a tub having one surface that faces one or more upper corners of the cabinet, and is adjacent to the cabinet; and a rotatable drum in the tub, and configured to hold or accommodate laundry, is disclosed.

A method for washing laundry in a washing machine utilizes a washing tub external to a rotatable washing drum. The method includes: • providing a quantity of detergent; • providing a first quantity of water to form with the detergent a quantity of washing solution; • introducing the washing solution into the tub; • recirculating the washing solution inside the tub by means of recirculation means until the washing solution is absorbed by the loaded laundry inside the drum and the level of the washing solution is below the drum; • activating heating means for heating the wetted loaded laundry inside the drum; • deactivating the heating means and maintaining the heated wetted loaded laundry inside the drum for a predetermined dry maintenance time; • supplying a second quantity of water in the tub; • rotating the drum; and • rinsing the loaded laundry by means of drum rotations and by means of liquid drainage from the tub.

A drum washing machine, which decelerates rotation of a driving motor through a planetary gear mechanism and transfers the rotation to the drum, so that the drum and a rotating body with a projection rotate at different rotating speeds. The planetary gear mechanism includes a sun gear, an internal gear, a plurality of planetary gears, planetary gear carrier. The planetary gear carrier has a rear planetary carrier and a front planetary carrier, through which the planetary gears are clamped from both sides thereof, supporting shafts erected between the front and the rear planetary carrier, the planetary gears are rotatably provided on the supporting shafts. Base ends of the supporting shafts are fixed on the rear planetary carrier before the planetary gears being provided on the supporting shafts The front planetary carrier is fixed at front ends of the supporting shafts provided with the planetary gears.

A method of operating a laundry treating appliance for treating laundry according to a treating cycle of operation. The laundry treating appliance comprises a treating chamber for receiving the laundry that is selectively accessible through a door movable between opened and closed positions. The method comprises determining at the end of a laundry treating cycle whether the door has been opened and subsequently reclosed and reducing humidity in the treating chamber after the determination that the door has been reclosed.