| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress the generation of an unbalance at the time of a dehydration, and at the same time, eliminate a belt, and make a washing machine thinner and smaller by arranging a reduction mechanism and a driving motor on the same axis, and making the locations of the center of gravity of a spinning tub and receiving cylinder, or the like, and the rotating center of the spinning tub agree. SOLUTION: At the time of a washing-rinsing process, a solenoid 32c is excited, and a movable clutch section 32b is moved upward along a dehydrating shaft 27. Then, the engagement between a fixed clutch section 32a and the movable clutch section 32b is disengaged. Thus, the rotating force of a driving motor 31 is transmitted to a washing shaft 29 through a reduction mechanism 30 which is coaxially provided on the top of the driving motor 31, and a pulsator 25 alone is rotated to perform a washing. Then, in a dehydrating process, water in a spinning tub 24 is drained, and at the same time, the turning on of the solenoid 32c is stopped. By this motion, the movable clutch section 32b is lowered by its self-weight, and the fixed clutch section 32a and the movable clutch section 32b are engaged with each other. Then, the pulsator 25 and the spinning tub 24 are integrally rotated to perform a dehydration. |
