| TOSHIBA HOME APPLIANCES CORPORATION Patent applications |
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| 20120068659 | WASHING MACHINE - Disclosed is a washing machine comprising a permanent magnet motor that includes a rotor and that drives rotation for execution of a wash operation; a permanent magnet that is provided on the rotor side and that has a level of coercivity allowing variation in an amount of magnetism with ease, and a magnetism controller that produces an excitation current to vary the amount of magnetism of the permanent magnet; wherein the magnetism controller, when interrupting or stopping an ongoing operation, interrupts or stops the ongoing operation after magnetizing the permanent magnet. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120062078 | PERMANENT MAGNET MOTOR AND WASHING MACHINE PROVIDED THEREWITH - A permanent magnet motor includes a rotor including a rotor core formed with circumferentially arranged magnet insertion holes and permanent magnets inserted into the respective magnet insertion holes, the magnets establishing in the magnet insertion holes magnetic poles corresponding to magnetic pole teeth of a stator. The magnets include a plurality of types of permanent magnets having different coercive forces and are inserted into the insertion holes respectively so that each pole corresponds to one of the types of magnets. The rotor core has a part located between the magnets adjacent to each other and having different coercive forces. The rotor core has a magnetic flux path defined in the part so as to protrude to the stator side. The magnetic sensor is configured to be relatively moved along a trajectory corresponding to the magnets and the flux path with rotation of the rotor. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20110289981 | DRUM TYPE WASHING MACHINE - A suspension for a drum type washing machine includes a cylinder, a magnetic field generator fixed in the cylinder and generating a magnetic field in a variable manner, a pair of magnetic members located at both axial sides of the generator respectively, a shaft supported so as to be axially reciprocable relatively between the generator and the magnetic member and so as to extend through the generator and the magnetic member, a smart fluid including a magneto-rheological fluid filling a first space defined between the shaft and the magnetic field generator and a second space defined between the shaft and the magnetic members and located near the first space, and a sealing member which is fixed in the cylinder so as to be located below the generator and is in close contact with a periphery of the shaft thereby to prevent leak of the smart fluid. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20100218341 | ELECTRIC VACUUM CLEANER - The present invention provides an electric vacuum cleaner which can reliably absorb vibration accompanying driving of an electric blowing part. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100139333 | MOTOR CONTROLLER AND DRUM WASHING MACHINE - A motor controller including a vector controller that controls a permanent magnet motor including a rotor being provided with a permanent magnet having a coercivity low enough to allow modification in amount of magnetization and that executes a vector control by detecting current flowing at the permanent magnet motor; a speed/position detector that detects a rotational speed and a rotational position of the permanent magnet motor; a magnetization controller that increases or decreases the magnetization of the permanent magnet depending on the rotational position of the permanent magnet motor through adjustment in status of the magnetization of the permanent magnet by way of armature counteraction; and a demagnetization detector that detects a decrease in the magnetization of the permanent magnet magnetized by the magnetization controller during operation of the permanent magnet motor. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100050703 | WASHER DRYER - A washer dryer including a DC power supply generator that generates a DC power supply from an AC power supply; a heat pump that circulates refrigerant between a compressor, a condenser and an evaporator; an air circulatory path that circulates air between the condenser and the evaporator; a first inverter circuit that receives the DC power supply to drive a compressor motor; a rotary tub disposed rotatably within an exterior tub; a rotary tub motor that directly drives the rotary tub at least during dehydration; a second inverter circuit that receives the DC power supply having an output terminal connected to windings of the rotary tub motor; a voltage detector that detects DC voltage occurring between the second inverter circuit and a power supply bus; a brake controller that controls the DC voltage within a predetermined range by controlling a regenerative electric power when braking is applied. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20090133212 | VACUUM CLEANER - A vacuum cleaner includes an electric blower that sucks dust through a suction connecting port, a first dust separating unit for separating the dust and air sucked into the suction connecting port from each other, and a pleat filter for separating the dust and air passing through a first dust separating unit. The vacuum cleaner further includes an external-air introducing air passage for introducing external air toward an upstream side of the pleat filter, a rotational fan for dropping off dust adhering to the pleat filter by the introduced external air, and a return air passage for returning the dust dropped off from the rotating fan toward the upstream side of the first dust separating unit by the introduced external air. | 05-28-2009 |
