Abstract: A damper includes: a cylinder having a receiving space with a predetermined depth in a longitudinal direction on one side thereof; a rod inserted to be movable relatively in a longitudinal direction in the receiving space of the cylinder; a friction surface formed at one side of the cylinder and the rod; a friction member positioned at the cylinder or the rod and rubbing on the friction surface; a thermally deformable member being deformed according to a change in a temperature to make the friction member be tightly attached to the friction surface or separated therefrom; and a heating unit for thermally deforming the thermally deformable member. The damper absorbs the small and large amount of vibrations to thereby prevent transfer of vibration to other parts.
Type:
Application
Filed:
January 12, 2004
Publication date:
August 5, 2004
Inventors:
Dong-Won Kim, Joon-Woo Kim, Young-Ho Kim
Abstract: There is disclosed a method of controlling an automatic door opening/closing apparatus for a washing machine that includes the steps of determining whether or not there is an error in an automatic door opening or closing operation carried out in response to a command to open or close the washing machine's door; determining if the erroneous operation has been repeated more than a predetermined number of times according to consecutive incoming commands to open or close the door; and when erroneous operation has repeated more than the predetermined number of times, ignoring a subsequent command to open or close the door.
Inventors:
Ildefonso Resuello, Jonathan Dalton, Dana Reinisch, Rafael Massei, Aaron Hayes, James Owen, Charles L. Jones, Philip Michael Thompson, Tania L. Aldous, Mark William Baldwin
Inventors:
Ildefonso Resuello, Jonathan Dalton, Dana Reinisch, Raffaele Mazzei, Aaron Hayes, James Owen, Charles L. Jones, Timothy Edward McKeown, Allen D. Wong, Daniel Henry Quinlan