| 摘要 |
An inventive electric washing machine is configured so that a gas to be used for performing a specific process (decontamination process) on laundry is prevented from leaking to the outside. In the electric washing machine, a packing ( 120 ) to be brought into intimate contact with a door ( 12 ) for sealing a gap defined between the door ( 12 ) and a peripheral edge of an outer tub opening ( 118 ) when the door ( 12 ) is closed is opposed to a housing opening ( 14 ) with a space ( 129 ) defined between a lower edge portion of the housing opening ( 14 ) and the packing ( 120 ). If the door ( 12 ) is closed with laundry protruding through the lower edge portion of the housing opening ( 14 ), the protruding laundry is caught between the door ( 12 ) and the packing ( 120 ), so that the packing ( 120 ) is not brought into intimate contact with the door ( 12 ). If ozone is supplied into an outer tub ( 21 ) in this state, the ozone flows toward the housing opening ( 14 ) through a gap between the door ( 12 ) and the packing ( 120 ) at which the laundry is caught. However, the ozone flows into the space ( 129 ) (as indicated by a broken-line arrow X) and is retained in a housing ( 11 ) to be thereby prevented from leaking to the outside.
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