CN211368138U - Drying assembly for clothes treatment equipment and clothes treatment equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model relates to a clothing treatment facility technical field aims at solving the problem that the sealing member in the air supply passageway of current clothing treatment facility easily takes off the normal position and leads to sealing performance poor, a stoving subassembly and clothing treatment facility for clothing treatment facility is provided for this reason, the stoving subassembly includes first component, second component and sealing member, first component and second component are with the help of sealing member sealing connection, first component is formed with the slot in sealing connection department, the sealing member holding is in the slot, the diapire or the lateral wall of slot are formed with a plurality of through-holes. The utility model provides a stoving subassembly can observe whether sealing member keeps at the normal position in sealing member's the installation, avoids making sealing member break away from the normal position and lead to sealed not tight problem because of the collision in assembling process.

Description

Drying assembly for clothes treatment equipment and clothes treatment equipment

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a clothing treatment facility technical field, concretely relates to a stoving subassembly and clothing treatment facility for clothing treatment facility.

Background

With the improvement of economic level, more and more users are focusing on the multi-functionalization of household appliances, for example, a washing and drying all-in-one machine with washing and drying functions is gradually favored by the majority of users due to convenience and time saving.

The drying principle of most washing and drying integrated machines in the current market is basically as follows: form the air current through the fan drive in air supply channel, through the heating pipe heating air current to send hot-air into flourishing clothing section of thick bamboo, hot-air makes the moisture evaporation in the wet clothing form vapor, and vapor sneaks into and gets into the interchanger along with the air current and carries out the heat transfer condensation, forms the comdenstion water and flows out along the inner wall of interchanger, and the cold air that remains the low humidity gets into air supply channel again and participates in the circulation, and after the certain period, the moisture in the wet clothing is separated gradually, and the clothing is dried. The main parts related to the drying process comprise an air supply channel, a fan, a heating pipe, an exchanger and the like, wherein the fan and the heating pipe are arranged in the air supply channel, the fan is used for driving air to circulate to form air flow, and the heating pipe is used for heating the air flow. In the process of conveying the heated air in the air supply channel, the tightness of the whole air supply channel must be ensured.

An air supply channel in the existing washing and drying integrated machine is formed by connecting an upper shell, a fan volute and a lower shell, and the shells are in sealing connection with each other by means of a sealing component. Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a blower volute in the prior art, as shown in fig. 1, an axial hole 311 of the blower volute 31 is used for connecting a blower, a groove 313 for installing a sealing member is formed on an edge of the blower volute 31, a part of the groove 313 extends smoothly, the bending degree is small, and the sealing member can be stably accommodated in the groove, such as a groove at a connection position of the blower volute 31 and a lower shell; the bending angle of the partial groove 313 is large, so that the bending angle of the sealing member is large, and the sealing member cannot be well accommodated in the groove and is easily separated from the original position under the influence of the flexibility of the sealing member, for example, the groove at the sealing connection position of the volute of the fan and the upper shell causes the air supply channel to be not tightly sealed, so that part of high-temperature wet air escapes, the escaped wet air is likely to be condensed under the cooling of surrounding parts, the surfaces of the surrounding parts are fully covered with water stains, and users complain about the grooves; in addition, cold air outside the air supply channel can enter the air supply channel through the part, the temperature of hot air in the channel is reduced, the drying efficiency is reduced, and the brand quality is reduced.

Accordingly, there is a need in the art for a new drying assembly for a laundry treating apparatus and a laundry treating apparatus to solve the above problems.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In order to solve the above-mentioned problem in the prior art, that is, to solve the problem that the sealing member in the air supply channel of the existing clothes treatment apparatus is easy to be disengaged from the original position, resulting in poor sealing performance, a first aspect of the present invention provides a drying assembly for a clothes treatment apparatus, which includes a first member, a second member and a sealing member, wherein the first member and the second member are hermetically connected by means of the sealing member, the first member is formed with a groove at the hermetic connection, the sealing member is accommodated in the groove, and a bottom wall or a side wall of the groove is formed with a plurality of through holes.

In the above-mentioned preferred technical solution of the drying assembly for the laundry treating apparatus, the groove includes a curved section and a straight section, and the distribution density of the through holes on the curved section is greater than that on the straight section.

In the above preferred technical solution of the drying assembly for a laundry treatment apparatus, the side wall of the groove protrudes inward to form a plurality of limiting protrusions, and the limiting protrusions are used for clamping and fixing the sealing member.

In the preferable technical scheme of the drying assembly for the clothes treatment equipment, the limiting bulges are uniformly distributed on two side walls of the groove; and/or

The limiting bulges are arranged on the two side walls of the groove in a staggered mode.

In the above preferred technical solution of the drying assembly for the laundry treating apparatus, the sealing member is further formed with a plurality of positioning protrusions, and in an installation state, the positioning protrusions can be snapped into the through holes.

In the above preferred technical solution of the drying assembly for the laundry treating apparatus, the end of the positioning protrusion is formed with a guide slope or a guide arc surface.

In the above-mentioned preferred technical solution of the drying assembly for the laundry treating apparatus, a distal end of the groove is further formed with a clip portion in which a distal end of the sealing member is clipped.

In a preferred embodiment of the drying assembly for a laundry processing apparatus, the clamping portion is a clamping groove formed on the front surface or the back surface of the groove, and the width of the clamping groove is smaller than the width of the groove.

In the above preferred technical solution of the drying assembly for a laundry processing apparatus, the drying assembly includes an upper casing, a lower casing and a blower volute, the upper casing and the blower volute are both connected to the lower casing and thus form an air supply channel, the first member is the upper casing, the second member is the lower casing or the blower volute, or the first member is the blower volute, the second member is the upper casing or the lower casing, or the first member is the lower casing, and the second member is the upper casing or the blower volute.

The utility model provides a drying assembly through the ditch inslot setting through-hole that is used for holding sealing member, at the in-process of installation sealing member, can judge whether sealing member installs and targets in place as the observation hole with the through-hole to can observe sealing member whether still in the normal position through the through-hole after the installation is accomplished, avoid making sealing member break away from the normal position and lead to sealed not tight problem because of the collision in assembling process.

Further, the distribution density of the through holes is set according to the bending degree of the groove, the sealing member at the position is easier to separate from the original position due to the fact that the bending degree of the groove is larger, and the installation condition of the sealing member at the position which is easy to separate from the original position can be checked more clearly through the through holes distributed at the position where the bending degree of the groove is larger, namely the bending angle is larger, so that the effectiveness of the sealing member is guaranteed.

Furthermore, the side walls of the groove are provided with the limiting bulges, and the sealing component is clamped and fixed by the opposite or staggered limiting bulges formed on the two side walls of the groove, so that the limitation on the sealing component can be further enhanced, and the sealing component is prevented from being separated from the original position.

Furthermore, when the sealing component adopts a compression molding process, a plurality of positioning bulges protruding out of the surface of the sealing component can be arranged, and the distribution of the positioning bulges is matched with that of the through holes on the groove, so that the mounted sealing component can be further clamped and fixed by virtue of the clamping connection of the positioning bulges and the through holes, and the mounting stability of the sealing component is enhanced. Furthermore, the positioning bulge can be conveniently clamped in the through hole by forming a guide inclined plane or a guide arc surface at the end part of the positioning bulge.

Further, the clamping part is formed at the tail end of the groove, the tail end of the sealing component can be clamped to the clamping part, the clamping part can effectively fix two ends of the sealing component, and the sealing component is prevented from being separated from the groove due to the influence of self flexibility.

The second aspect of the present invention further provides a clothes treating apparatus, which is provided with the drying assembly according to any one of the above technical solutions.

It can be understood that, since the laundry processing apparatus is configured with the drying assembly, all technical effects of the drying assembly are provided, and are not described herein again.

Drawings

The laundry treatment apparatus of the present invention and its drying assembly are described below with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a blower volute in the prior art;

fig. 2 is a schematic view of a part of the structure of the drum-type washing and drying machine according to an embodiment of the present invention, in which the installation positions of the drying assembly and the condensing assembly are shown;

fig. 3 is a schematic view of an assembly structure of the drying component and the condensing component provided by the embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a drying assembly provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a blower volute provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is an enlarged view of a portion of FIG. 5 at A;

fig. 7 is an embodiment of a sealing member according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a front view of a blower volute provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

list of reference numerals:

1. an outer cylinder; 2. a condensing assembly; 20. an air inlet; 3. a drying assembly; 30. a lower housing; 31. a fan volute; 310. the fixed end of the exchanger; 311. a shaft hole; 312. a lower housing fixing hole; 313. a trench; 3130. a through hole; 3131. a limiting bulge; 3132. a clip portion; 32. a fan; 320. a fan impeller; 33. an upper housing; 34. heating a tube; 35. an extension end; 36. an air outlet; 37. a sealing member; 370. positioning the projection; 4. a fixing plate; 5. a window pad.

Detailed Description

Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be understood by those skilled in the art that these embodiments are only for explaining the technical principle of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. For example, although the following embodiments are explained in connection with a tumble washer dryer, this is not intended to be limiting, and the present invention is equally applicable to a pulsator washer dryer, a dryer, and the like, without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention.

Furthermore, in the following detailed description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a better understanding of the present invention. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention may be practiced without some of these specific details.

It should be noted that in the description of the present invention, the terms "center", "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "inner", "outer", etc. indicate directions or positional relationships based on those shown in the drawings, which are merely for convenience of description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention. Furthermore, the terms "first" and "second" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance.

Furthermore, it should be noted that, in the description of the present invention, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, and may be, for example, fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.

Sealing member among current clothing treatment facility's the air supply passageway pointed out based on the background art easily takes off the normal position and leads to the poor problem of sealing performance, the utility model provides a new stoving subassembly and dispose the clothing treatment facility of this stoving subassembly aims at improving the leakproofness of stoving subassembly, improves drying efficiency to promote user experience.

The drying assembly and the clothes treating apparatus equipped with the drying assembly of the present invention will be described with reference to fig. 2-8, specifically, a drum-type washing and drying machine will be taken as an example. Fig. 2 is a schematic view of a part of the structure of the drum-type washing and drying machine according to an embodiment of the present invention, in which the installation positions of the drying assembly and the condensing assembly are shown; fig. 3 is a schematic view of an assembly structure of the drying component and the condensing component provided by the embodiment of the present invention; fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a drying assembly provided by an embodiment of the present invention; fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a blower volute provided by an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 6 is an enlarged view of a portion of FIG. 5 at A; fig. 7 is an embodiment of a sealing member according to an embodiment of the present invention; fig. 8 is a front view of a blower volute provided by the embodiment of the present invention.

Referring first to fig. 2 to 4, the drum type washing and drying all-in-one machine includes a cabinet (not shown), an outer tub 1, an inner tub (not shown), etc., the inner tub being rotatably disposed in the outer tub 1, the outer tub 1 being accommodated in the cabinet, a window gasket 5 being disposed at a tub opening of the outer tub 1. This all-in-one possesses the stoving function, and the stoving function is realized through drying assembly 3 and condensation assembly 2 jointly. Referring to fig. 4, the drying assembly 3 includes an upper housing 33, a lower housing 30, a fan 32 and a fan volute 31, the upper housing 33 and the fan volute 31 are both connected to the lower housing 30 and thus construct an air supply channel, the fan 32 includes a fan impeller 320, the fan 32 is connected to the fan volute 31, and the installed fan 32 is located in the air supply channel; a heating pipe 34 is disposed in the air supply passage and downstream of the fan 32 for heating the cool air in the air supply passage, and an air outlet 36 of the air supply passage is connected to an opening in the window mat 5 and further communicated with the inner space of the outer tub 1, so that the air supply passage can supply the hot air into the tub to heat the clothes in the tub. One end of the air supply channel is fixedly connected to the fixing plate 4, the fixing plate 4 is fixedly connected to the box body, and the extending end 35 arranged outside the air supply channel extends out of the hole in the fixing plate 4. Referring to fig. 3, the condensing assembly 2 includes an exchanger for cooling the hot air of high temperature and high humidity discharged from the drum, and condensing the water vapor in the hot air to form condensed water, and the condensed water flows down along the inner wall surface of the exchanger and is discharged outside the integrated machine. Referring to fig. 2, the gas outlet of urceolus 1 is connected to air inlet 20 of condensation subassembly 2 through the hose, the gas vent of condensation subassembly 2 is connected to the air intake of stoving subassembly 3, in the in-process of drying the clothing, after the cold air in the air supply passageway is heated by heating pipe 34, in window pad 5 gets into a section of thick bamboo under fan 32's effect, form the high temperature and high humidity's steam in a section of thick bamboo, steam gets into the interchanger through the air inlet 20 of interchanger under fan 32 effect, steam condensation forms the comdenstion water and flows out, after the high temperature and high humidity's steam cooling forms low temperature and low humidity air, get into the air supply passageway again and heated, realize the circulation of air.

The utility model provides a drying assembly 3 includes first component, second component and sealing member 37, and first component and second component are with the help of sealing member 37 sealing connection, and first component is formed with slot 313 in sealing connection department, and sealing member 37 holds in slot 313. In the drying assembly 3 provided by the present embodiment, the first component is the blower volute 31, the second component is the upper casing 33 or the lower casing 30, and the groove 313 is formed at the edge of the blower volute 31. Referring to fig. 5 and 8, the blower volute 31 is fixedly connected with the lower housing 30 through a lower housing fixing hole 312, and is fixedly connected with the exchanger through an exchanger fixing end 310. The groove 313 (i.e., the groove 313 similar to the spiral line in fig. 5) in the blower scroll 31 at the position connected to the lower housing 30 extends in a curved manner in the horizontal plane, but the degree of curvature is small, and the sealing member 37 does not need to be bent at a large angle when the sealing member 37 is installed; the groove 313 at the position where the blower scroll 31 is connected to the upper housing 33 (i.e., the groove 313 not shown in fig. 8 that can be adapted to the shape of the sealing member 37 shown in fig. 7, and labeled in fig. 8 as the groove 313 at the position where the blower scroll 31 is connected to the lower housing 30) is bent largely in the vertical plane, similar to an inverted U shape, so that the bending angle of the sealing member 37 at the position installed in the groove 313 is large, and the probability that the sealing member 37 comes out of the groove 313 is higher. Referring to fig. 5, in order to allow the sealing member 37 to be accurately and stably mounted, a plurality of through holes 3130 are formed in the bottom wall of the groove 313. In the installation process, through the through hole 3130, an installation operator can observe whether the sealing member 37 in the groove 313 is well placed in the groove 313, after the sealing member 37 is installed in the fan volute 31, the fan volute 31 is fixedly connected with the upper shell 33 or the lower shell 30, and in the process, whether the sealing member 37 is separated from the original position can be continuously observed through the through hole 3130, so that the phenomenon that the sealing member 37 is displaced due to collision in the shell assembling process is prevented, namely in two installation processes, the sealing member 37 can be further ensured to be installed in place through the through hole 3130, and the sealing performance between the shells is improved.

It is understood that the through hole 3130 may also be formed in the sidewall of the groove 313, as long as it is convenient to observe whether the mounted sealing member 37 is mounted in place.

As for the distribution of the through holes 3130, the through holes 3130 may be spaced apart by the same distance, that is, the through holes 3130 may be uniformly distributed, and the distribution density thereof may be set according to the degree of bending of the grooves 313. According to the degree of curvature of groove 313, groove 313 can be divided into crooked district section and straight district section, the utility model discloses in, straight district section is not the complete straight in the strict sense, can also be the less district section of degree of curvature, for example with a certain radian as the boundary, can call flat district section when the crooked radian is less than this settlement radian, otherwise can call crooked district section when its crooked radian is greater than this settlement radian. Specifically, the distribution density of the through holes 3130 is greater in the curved section than in the straight section, in other words, in the same length of the groove 313, the groove 313 is curved more and the through holes 3130 are distributed thereon than it is curved less, so that the operator can easily observe whether each part of the sealing member 37 is mounted in place.

Further, in order to enhance the mounting stability of the sealing member 37, a plurality of stopper protrusions 3131 are formed by inwardly protruding sidewalls of the groove 313, and the stopper protrusions 3131 are used to clamp the sealing member 37. Specifically, the limiting protrusions 3131 may be uniformly distributed on both side walls of the groove 313, and may be arranged on both side walls of the groove 313 in a staggered manner. The uniform distribution may mean that the limiting protrusions 3131 are uniformly distributed on the side walls of the grooves 313, or that after the limiting protrusions 3131 are divided into a plurality of groups, the limiting protrusions 3131 of each group are uniformly distributed on the side walls of the grooves 313; the staggered arrangement may refer to the staggered arrangement between the limiting protrusions 3131 uniformly distributed on the side walls, or the staggered arrangement of the limiting protrusions 3131 in each group. Referring to fig. 5 and 6, a plurality of sets of limiting protrusions 3131 are formed on the side walls of the grooves 313, each set including 3 limiting protrusions 3131, two of the limiting protrusions 3131 are located on the left side wall, one limiting protrusion 3131 is located on the right side wall, and the limiting protrusion 3131 located on the right side wall is located between the two limiting protrusions 3131 on the left side wall, that is, in the set, the limiting protrusions 3131 are arranged in a staggered manner, and for a certain length of the grooves 313, a plurality of sets of the limiting protrusions 3131 are uniformly distributed.

The sealing member 37 is typically in the form of a sealing strip, which is easy to install and easy to machine. The sealing strip has various forms such as solid, hollow and the like, generally, the solid sealing strip can adopt an extrusion process and a die pressing process, and the hollow sealing strip adopts an extrusion process. The sealing strip can be made of materials with high elasticity and good durability such as rubber and silica gel. When the sealing member 37 is molded, a plurality of positioning protrusions 370 may be further formed on the sealing member 37, referring to fig. 7, a plurality of positioning protrusions 370 are integrally formed on a surface of the sealing member 37 contacting the bottom wall of the groove 313, an end portion of the positioning protrusion 370 is formed with a guiding inclined surface or a guiding arc surface, in an installation state, the positioning protrusions 370 can be snapped into the through holes 3130, and the number and positions of the positioning protrusions 370 may correspond to the positions of the through holes 3130 one by one, or may be less than the number of the through holes 3130 but correspond to the positions of the through holes 3130, so that the positioning protrusions 370 can be snapped into the through holes 3130, thereby further snapping the sealing member 37.

In order to stably accommodate the installed sealing member 37 in the groove 313 without warping, a clamping portion 3132 is provided at a distal end of the groove 313, and the distal end of the sealing member 37 is clamped in the clamping portion 3132, so that both end portions of the sealing member 37 are fixed and prevented from warping out of the groove 313. Specifically, referring to fig. 8, taking the clamping portion 3132 located on the left side in the drawing as an example, the clamping portion 3132 is located on the back of the groove 313, the bottom wall of the groove 313 extends upward to form a vertical clamping rib (not labeled), in fig. 8, that is, a left side rib of the clamping portion, a gap between the clamping rib and the outer surface of the blower volute 31 is the clamping portion of the groove 313, and the width of the clamping portion may be smaller than the width of the groove 313 to firmly fix the end of the sealing member 37. Alternatively, a clamping portion may be formed on the front surface of the groove 313, for example, a clamping groove with a width smaller than that of the other position of the groove 313 is formed at the tail end of the groove 313 and protrudes into the groove, a small groove matched with the clamping groove is formed at the end of the sealing member 37 and the side wall of the clamping groove extends into the small groove of the sealing member 37, so as to realize further clamping of the sealing member 37.

The above embodiments all use the first component as the fan volute 31, the second component as the upper casing 33 or the lower casing 30 as an example, it can be understood that the first component may also be the upper casing 33, the second component is the lower casing 30 or the fan volute 31, or the first component may be the lower casing 30, the second component is the fan volute 31 or the upper casing 33, or even may be a sealing connection between other components that assist in forming the air supply channel, for example, the air outlet 36 of the air supply channel may be a pipe component that is additionally connected, and the sealing connection between the pipe component and the upper casing 33 and the lower casing 30 may also adopt the structure and the like in the present invention.

The utility model provides a drying assembly through the ditch inslot setting through-hole that is used for holding sealing member, at the in-process of installation sealing member, can judge whether sealing member installs and targets in place as the observation hole with the through-hole to can observe sealing member whether still in the normal position through the through-hole after the installation is accomplished, avoid making sealing member break away from the normal position and lead to sealed not tight problem because of the collision in assembling process.

So far, the technical solution of the present invention has been described with reference to the preferred embodiments shown in the drawings, but it is easily understood by those skilled in the art that the scope of the present invention is obviously not limited to these specific embodiments. Without departing from the principle of the present invention, a person skilled in the art can make equivalent changes or substitutions to the related technical features, and the technical solutions after these changes or substitutions will fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims (10)

1. A drying assembly for a clothes treatment apparatus, the drying assembly comprising a first member, a second member and a sealing member, the first member and the second member being sealingly connected by the sealing member, the first member being formed with a groove at the sealing connection, the sealing member being received in the groove, a bottom wall or a side wall of the groove being formed with a plurality of through holes.

2. The drying assembly for a laundry treating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the groove includes a curved section and a straight section, and a distribution density of the through holes is greater on the curved section than on the straight section.

3. The drying assembly for a clothes treating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the side wall of the groove protrudes inward to form a plurality of limiting protrusions for clamping the sealing member.

4. The drying assembly for a clothes treating apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the limiting protrusions are uniformly distributed on both side walls of the groove; and/or

The limiting bulges are arranged on the two side walls of the groove in a staggered mode.

5. The drying assembly for a clothes treating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the sealing member is further formed with a plurality of positioning protrusions, and the positioning protrusions can be snapped into the through holes in a mounted state.

6. The drying assembly for a clothes treating apparatus according to claim 5, wherein an end of the positioning protrusion is formed with a guide slope or a guide arc.

7. The drying assembly for a laundry treating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a distal end of the groove is further formed with a catching portion in which a distal end of the sealing member is caught.

8. The drying assembly for a laundry treating apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the chucking part is a chucking groove formed at a front or rear surface of the groove and having a width smaller than a width of the groove.

9. The drying assembly for a laundry treating apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein the drying assembly includes an upper casing, a lower casing and a blower volute, both of which are connected to the lower casing and thus configure a blower passage, the first member is the upper casing, the second member is the lower casing or the blower volute, or the first member is the blower volute, the second member is the upper casing or the lower casing, or the first member is the lower casing, and the second member is the upper casing or the blower volute.

10. A laundry treating apparatus, characterized by comprising the drying assembly of any one of claims 1-9.

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