DOMESTIC APPLIANCE FOR CARING FOR LAUNDRY ITEMS HAVING AN IMBALANCE-COMPENSATING DEVICE HAVING BALLS MAGNETICALLY HELD IN DEPENDENCE ON ROTATIONAL SPEED AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SUCH A DOMESTIC APPLIANCE

摘要

The invention relates to a domestic appliance (1) for caring for laundry items (31), comprising at least one laundry drum (3) for holding laundry items and at least one imbalance-compensating device (13, 14), which is arranged on the laundry drum (3) and which has a housing (18, 21), in which a plurality of compensating elements (20, 23, 27, 29, 32, 33) are movably contained, of which at least some are magnetic and, at least in some regions, are designed as permanent magnets, wherein the imbalance-compensating device (13, 14) has at least one magnetically interacting component (26, 30) for magnetically interacting with the magnetic compensating elements (20, 23, 27, 29), which magnetically interacting component is rotationally coupled to the laundry drum (3), wherein the magnetic compensating elements (20, 23) and the magnetically interacting component (26, 30) have such a magnetic holding force with respect to each other that the compensating elements (20, 23) are not released from the magnetically interacting component (26, 30) until a rotational speed of the laundry drum (3) is greater than a specified reference rotational speed UR of the laundry drum (3). The invention also relates to a method for operating a domestic appliance (1).