Electric washing machine has force sensors between washing machine housing frame and carrier frame for washing unit

摘要

The washing machine has a housing (1) enclosing a washing unit with a laundry drum (35) which rotates within a washing liquid container (31), the washing unit supported within a carrier frame (34) via a spring -damper system (36,37; 32,33). The weight of the laundry in the laundry drum is measured via at least one force sensor (5) positioned between the carrier frame for the laundry drum and the washing machine housing frame (14).