US 11,814,773 B2
Washing machine
Sung-mo Lee, Gunpo-si (KR); Sang-ho Park, Suwon-si (KR); Kyung-up Lim, Seoul (KR); Seon-woo Lee, Incheon (KR); So-dam Han, Suwon-si (KR); In-hwan Kil, Yongin-si (KR); Jun-hyun Park, Osan-si (KR); Do-yeon Kim, Yongin-si (KR); and Hoon Wee, Yongin-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on May 9, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/662,514.
Application 17/662,514 is a continuation of application No. 16/696,869, filed on Nov. 26, 2019, granted, now 11,326,296.
Application 16/696,869 is a continuation of application No. 15/143,334, filed on Apr. 29, 2016, granted, now 10,494,750, issued on Dec. 3, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2015-0093124 (KR), filed on Jun. 30, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2022/0259791 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. D06F 33/48 (2020.01); D06F 37/02 (2006.01); D06F 37/12 (2006.01); D06F 37/14 (2006.01); D06F 37/20 (2006.01); D06F 37/24 (2006.01); D06F 37/42 (2006.01)
CPC D06F 37/14 (2013.01) [D06F 37/02 (2013.01); D06F 37/12 (2013.01); D06F 37/145 (2013.01); D06F 37/20 (2013.01); D06F 37/245 (2013.01); D06F 37/42 (2013.01); D06F 33/48 (2020.02)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A washing machine comprising:
a water tub configured to store wash water;
a rotating tub configured to be rotatably installed in the water tub;
a driver configured to be connected to the rotating tub and to rotate the rotating tub;
a balancer disposed at an upper portion of the rotating tub; and
a separation preventer having a circular shape and configured to protrude toward a central axis of the rotating tub from an inner circumference surface of the balancer in a circumferential direction of the balancer,
wherein an external diameter of the separation preventer is approximately the same as an internal diameter of the rotating tub, and
wherein the separation preventer is formed integrally with the balancer.