Craig & Antonelli
Automatic washing machine and method for operating the same
 An automatic washing machine capable of automatically carrying out a programmed sequence of a washing operation, a rinsing operation and/or a spinning or extracting operation, and a method for operating such a washing machine, in which a newly selected operation program is compared with an already selected operation program, and when the already selected operation program includes an operation included in the newly selected operation program, the operation in the already selected operation program corresponding to that in the newly selected operation program is only continuously carried out for improving the utility of the automatic washing machine. 
Hitachi, Ltd.
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Hideyuki Toshio
Tobita Mori