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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a washing machine which ensures good cleaning performance and drying performance, prevents the rotational unbalance of a washing tank during drying, and is easy to use. SOLUTION: The washing machine has a housing 1, a washing tank 5 disposed in a water tank 2, an inclining means for inclining the washing tank 5 with an inclining supporting point 20a as a supporting point, and a control means, the inclining angle of the washing tank 5 being able to be changed according to the steps of charging clothes through taking out washed and dehydrated clothes. For example, a mechanism is provided that allows the clothes to be washed with the washing tank 5 inclined, to be dehydrated with the washing tank 5 erected, and to be taken out with the washing tank 5 inclined. In addition, the volume of charged clothes is detected, and, based on the result of the detection, an inclination angle during a washing step is determined or a washing step is carried out in a raised state. Further, an inclination angle is changed during a washing step for stepwise inclining or for continuous reciprocating inclining. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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