Abstract: A liquid supply apparatus includes a reservoir for storing a liquid therein, a supply path for supplying the liquid from the reservoir to a liquid consuming apparatus, a pump for feeding the liquid from the reservoir to the supply path, and a controller for outputting a driving signal to the pump to control the supply of the liquid. The controller acquires a target feed volume of the liquid from the pump to gradually change a feed volume of the liquid from the pump from a current feed volume to the target feed volume, based on a request signal from the liquid consuming apparatus serving as a destination to which the liquid is supplied. This suppresses an abrupt change in pressure in the liquid consuming apparatus serving as the destination to which the liquid is supplied.

Abstract: A liquid supply apparatus includes a reservoir for storing a liquid therein, a supply path for supplying the liquid from the reservoir to a liquid consuming apparatus, a pump for feeding the liquid from the reservoir to the supply path, and a controller for outputting a driving signal to the pump to control the supply of the liquid. The controller acquires a target feed volume of the liquid from the pump to gradually change a feed volume of the liquid from the pump from a current feed volume to the target feed volume, based on a request signal from the liquid consuming apparatus serving as a destination to which the liquid is supplied. This suppresses an abrupt change in pressure in the liquid consuming apparatus serving as the destination to which the liquid is supplied.

Abstract: In a drum-type washing machine according to the present invention, a drum 5 is inclined so that the opening 5a of the drum 5 is angled slightly upward. In the extracting process, a balancing operation is performed where the drum 5 is rotated at a speed lower than a speed where the centrifugal force and the gravitational force acting on the laundry are balanced, whereby the laundry in the drum 5 is moved toward the rear end and gathered there. Thus, even when there is an eccentric load due to an uneven distribution of the laundry around the rotation axis, it is highly probable that the position of the eccentric load along the axial direction is in the rear end of the drum 5. In this state, since the distance between the eccentric load and a bearing member 10 for supporting the drum 5 by a cantilevered structure is small, the shaking movement of the drum 5 is relatively small, and the load working on the bearing member 10 is also small.

Abstract: In a drum-type washing machine according to the present invention, a drum 5 is inclined so that the opening 5a of the drum 5 is angled slightly upward. In the extracting process, a balancing operation is performed where the drum 5 is rotated at a speed lower than a speed where the centrifugal force and the gravitational force acting on the laundry are balanced, whereby the laundry in the drum 5 is moved toward the rear end and gathered there. Thus, even when there is an eccentric load due to an uneven distribution of the laundry around the rotation axis, it is highly probable that the position of the eccentric load along the axial direction is in the rear end of the drum 5. In this state, since the distance between the eccentric load and a bearing member 10 for supporting the drum 5 by a cantilevered structure is small, the shakingmovement of the drum 5 is relatively small, and the load working on the bearing member 10 is also small.