Samsung patents washing machine door with a stepped lower frame
Samsung has filed a patent for a washing machine door design that features a two-part protrusion on the bottom edge. The lower section of this protrusion extends further toward the front of the machine than the upper section, creating a stepped shape below the laundry opening.
In the filing’s own words
A clothes treating apparatus includes a housing including a housing opening through which laundry is introduced, a tub to be provided inside the housing, a drum, which is rotatable, to be provided inside the tub, a diaphragm to connect the housing and the tub, and a door configured to open or close the housing opening, wherein the door includes a door glass, a door frame configured to support the door glass, and a door protrusion configured to protrude from the door frame toward a front surface of the housing, and the door protrusion includes a first protrusion portion to be positioned below the housing opening when the door is closed, and a second protrusion portion to extend downwardly from the first protrusion portion and be closer to the front surface of the housing than the first protrusion portion.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A clothes treating apparatus comprising: a housing including a housing opening through which laundry is introduced; a tub to be provided inside the housing; a drum, which is rotatable, to be provided inside the tub; a diaphragm to connect the housing and the tub; and a door configured to open or close the housing opening, wherein the door comprises: a door glass; a door frame configured to support the door glass; and a door protrusion configured to protrude from the door frame toward a front surface of the housing, wherein the door protrusion comprises a first protrusion portion to be positioned below the housing opening while the door is closed, and a second protrusion portion to extend downwardly from the first protrusion portion and be closer to the front surface of the housing than the first protrusion portion.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
- Official title
- CLOTHES TREATING APPARATUS
- Publication number
- US20260327891A1
- Application number
- 19465607
- Filed
- Jan 30, 2026
- Published
- Oct 22, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 14
Classified under
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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