US 11,788,222 B2
Bubble generator and washing machine having the same
Hwang-mook Cho, Suwon-si (KR); Geon-ung Lee, Suwon-si (KR); Eun-suk Bang, Hwaseong-si (KR); Dong-pil Seo, Hwaseong-si (KR); and Eung-ryeol Seo, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on May 6, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/302,562.
Application 17/302,562 is a division of application No. 16/146,746, filed on Sep. 28, 2018, granted, now 11,001,955.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2017-0127802 (KR), filed on Sep. 29, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0254256 A1, Aug. 19, 2021
Int. Cl. D06F 39/02 (2006.01); D06F 39/08 (2006.01); D06F 35/00 (2006.01); D06F 33/00 (2020.01); D06F 39/04 (2006.01); D06F 58/20 (2006.01); D06F 25/00 (2006.01)
CPC D06F 35/002 (2013.01) [D06F 33/00 (2013.01); D06F 39/022 (2013.01); D06F 25/00 (2013.01); D06F 39/02 (2013.01); D06F 39/04 (2013.01); D06F 39/085 (2013.01); D06F 58/20 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A bubble generator for a washing machine comprising:
a bubble spray part formed as a duct having opposite open ends;
a wash liquid jet nozzle provided inside the bubble spray part and configured to jet wash liquid;
a blowing fan provided at a rear end of the bubble pray part in a manner that the wash liquid jet nozzle is in an air flow path of the blowing fan and configured to blow air in a direction in which the wash liquid jet nozzle jets the wash liquid;
a porous plate member provided at a front end of the bubble spray part and including a plurality of holes, wherein when the wash liquid jetted from the wash liquid jet nozzle collides with the porous plate member, bubbles are generated; and
a center rib is formed in a longitudinal direction of the bubble spray part at a center of the bubble spray part,
wherein the wash liquid jet nozzle is provided to face one end of the center rib.