CN214245027U - Clothes treating device - Google Patents

Abstract

An embodiment of the utility model provides a clothes treatment device, including casing, staving subassembly, air supply subassembly, compressor and pipeline subassembly. Wherein, the shell comprises a front panel and a side panel; the barrel body assembly is positioned in the shell, and the opening of the barrel body assembly faces the front panel; the air supply assembly is positioned in the shell and communicated with the barrel body assembly; the compressor is positioned in the shell, and the compressor and the air supply assembly are arranged at intervals along the circumferential direction of the barrel body assembly; the pipeline subassembly is connected between air supply subassembly and compressor, and the pipeline subassembly is located between staving subassembly and the side board. Through arranging the pipeline subassembly between the side board of staving subassembly and casing, just can adjust the hookup location of pipeline subassembly and air supply subassembly to the position that the front panel was avoided to the air supply subassembly to can utilize the open space of these positions department to realize that pipeline subassembly and air supply subassembly are connected the assembly, ensure sufficient operating space, help promoting the operating performance, reduce the assembly degree of difficulty, promote assembly efficiency.

Description

Clothes treating device

Technical Field

The embodiment of the utility model relates to a clothing processing technology field particularly, relates to a clothing processing apparatus.

Background

The heat pump clothes dryer greatly improves the life quality of people, can achieve the effect that clothes are dried and worn, and has the characteristic of energy conservation, but the simple combination set of the drum washing machine and the heat pump clothes dryer occupies a large space, and the heat pump washing and drying integrated machine with the heat pump system introduced into the washing machine is gradually favored by consumers. However, the structure of the washing machine is complex, and how to arrange the heat pump system in the complex structure is the bottleneck of the development of the washing and drying integrated machine.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The embodiment of the utility model aims at solving one of the technical problem that exists among the prior art at least.

To this end, an aspect of an embodiment of the present invention provides a laundry treating apparatus.

In view of this, according to an aspect of an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a laundry treating apparatus including a case, a tub assembly, an air supply assembly, a compressor, and a pipe assembly. Wherein, the shell comprises a front panel and a side panel; the barrel body assembly is positioned in the shell, and the opening of the barrel body assembly faces the front panel; the air supply assembly is positioned in the shell and communicated with the barrel body assembly; the compressor is positioned in the shell, and the compressor and the air supply assembly are arranged at intervals along the circumferential direction of the barrel body assembly; the pipeline subassembly is connected between air supply subassembly and compressor, and the pipeline subassembly is located between staving subassembly and the side board.

The embodiment of the utility model provides a clothing processing apparatus, casing form its whole frame, can hold other structures. The tub assembly within the housing forms a cavity that can be used to hold laundry to be treated. The tub assembly is opened toward the front panel of the casing, that is, the laundry treating apparatus is of a drum type structure. The air supply assembly is communicated with the barrel body assembly so as to introduce wet and cold air in the barrel body assembly into the air supply assembly, and the wet and cold air is dehumidified and heated and then is sent into the barrel body assembly again, so that clothes can be dried. The compressor can provide power for dehumidification and temperature rise of the air supply assembly. The air supply assembly and the compressor which are large in size are separately arranged in the circumferential direction of the barrel assembly, so that the limited space in the shell can be fully utilized, reasonable compact layout is realized, the overall size of the clothes treatment device is reduced, the adaptability of the clothes treatment device to the installation environment is improved, and the competitiveness of products is improved. At this time, the pipeline assembly is used for connecting the air supply assembly and the compressor, and the air supply assembly and the compressor are separately arranged, so that the pipeline assembly is often provided with a longer pipeline. Through arranging the pipeline subassembly between the side board of staving subassembly and casing, also arrange side or rear all around at the staving subassembly promptly, but not arranging in the place ahead towards the front panel of casing, just can adjust the hookup location of pipeline subassembly and air supply subassembly to the position that the front panel was avoided to the air supply subassembly, thereby can utilize the open space of these positions department to realize that pipeline subassembly and air supply subassembly are connected the assembly, sufficient operating space has been ensured, help promoting the operating performance, reduce the assembly degree of difficulty, promote assembly efficiency, and help in-process dismouting pipeline subassembly of follow-up maintenance, reduce the maintenance degree of difficulty, and then the life of product has been prolonged.

Specifically, the air supply assembly can be arranged above the barrel assembly, behind the control panel at the front panel and arranged in parallel with the detergent box, so that the space at the position is utilized to realize the optimized layout of the air supply assembly. Clearance compactness between control panel and the air supply subassembly this moment, operating space is very limited, is particularly useful for the embodiment of the utility model provides a pipeline subassembly arrange the scheme, can avoid control panel to accomplish pipeline subassembly and air supply subassembly's the operation of being connected. The tub assembly includes a stationary outer tub for storing water and an inner tub rotatable with respect to the outer tub for accommodating laundry, the inner tub being communicated with the outer tub to allow washing water to enter the inner tub. The barrel body assembly further comprises a door seal positioned at an opening of the outer barrel, and the door seal can be matched with a door body of the clothes treatment device, so that the barrel body assembly is sealed, and water leakage in the barrel body assembly is avoided. The inner barrel rotates according to a certain rule, so that the clothes can be fully contacted with the washing water, and the washing of the clothes is realized. After washing is finished, the inner barrel rotates, so that part of water on the clothes can be thrown out under the action of centrifugal force, and the clothes are dehydrated. By additionally arranging the air supply assembly with the dehumidification and temperature rise functions, the processing mode for drying clothes can be added to the clothes processing device, so that the clothes processing device can be used as a washing and drying integrated machine.

In addition, according to the present invention, the laundry processing apparatus further has the following additional features:

in one possible design, the duct assembly is connected to a side of the blower assembly facing away from the front panel.

In this design, the connection position of the duct assembly and the air supply assembly is specifically set on the side of the air supply assembly away from the front panel, that is, on the rear side of the air supply assembly. The air supply assembly and the detergent box are arranged behind the control panel side by side, for the left side and the right side of the air supply assembly, the space on the rear side of the air supply assembly is more sufficient, the wide space behind the air supply assembly can be used for realizing the connection operation of the pipeline assembly and the air supply assembly, the operation performance is improved, the assembly difficulty is reduced, the assembly efficiency is improved, the pipeline assembly can be assembled and disassembled in the follow-up maintenance process, the maintenance difficulty is reduced, and the service life of a product is prolonged.

In a possible design, the side panel comprises a back plate and a first side plate which are connected, and the pipeline assembly extends from one end connected with the air supply assembly to the back plate and then bends towards the first side plate.

In the design, the front panel and the rear panel are arranged in a same plane, and the front panel and the rear panel are arranged in a same plane. Through making the pipeline subassembly extend backward earlier, can make the pipeline subassembly extend along clothes treatment facilities's fore-and-aft direction with the partial pipeline section of air supply subassembly lug connection to guarantee to have one section straight pipeline section, make in the position department of neighbouring air supply subassembly, the flow of intraductal refrigerant is stable, helps guaranteeing the stoving effect. Afterwards, make pipeline subassembly buckle towards first curb plate, can continue to arrange pipeline subassembly according to the position at compressor place, can continue to buckle, also can continue to extend, the part pipeline section that continues to arrange will be located between the first curb plate of casing and the staving subassembly, also arrange the left side or the right side at the staving subassembly, make full use of the space in the casing, needn't increase the interval between staving subassembly and the backplate deliberately, in order to arrange pipeline subassembly between staving subassembly and backplate, help reducing clothing processing apparatus's size.

In one possible design, the air supply assembly includes a first interface and a second interface, the first interface is located between the second interface and the first side plate; the pipeline subassembly is including the first pipeline of connecting first interface and the second pipeline of connecting the second interface, and first pipeline is when buckling towards first curb plate, and the bottom plate of orientation casing is buckled.

In the design, the air supply assembly comprises two interfaces, namely a first interface and a second interface, and the pipeline assembly correspondingly comprises two pipelines, namely a first pipeline and a second pipeline, so that the connection between the evaporator and the condenser of the air supply assembly is realized. The first pipeline is bent towards the first side plate and the bottom plate at the same time, namely the first pipeline is bent towards the lateral lower part, so that the first pipeline can be matched with the barrel body shape of the barrel body assembly, the first pipeline is prevented from interfering with the supporting beam when being directly bent towards the first side plate, and the pipeline is reasonably arranged; and the length of the first pipeline can be fully shortened, the pipeline arrangement is simplified, the material consumption is reduced, and the production cost is reduced. Specifically, the evaporator is connected with the second interface, and the condenser is connected with the first interface.

In one possible design, the second pipeline is bent and extended toward the first side plate, and then bent toward the bottom plate and extended toward the first side plate.

In this design, the second conduit is further from the first side plate, i.e., closer to the central axis of the bowl assembly, than the first conduit. At this time, if the second pipeline is directly bent to the lateral lower side, the second pipeline may interfere with the barrel assembly. Through making the second pipeline earlier buckle and extend certain distance towards first curb plate, can suitably shorten the distance of the department of buckling next time and first curb plate to the overall arrangement that makes the second pipeline more reasonable reduces the risk that second pipeline and staving subassembly take place to interfere. Particularly, when buckling next time, the second pipeline can be towards the bottom plate and be a small size and buckle, then extend towards first curb plate, can cooperate with the staving shape of staving subassembly, utilize staving subassembly and casing, specifically with the space between the supporting beam of relevant position, the rational arrangement second pipeline helps shortening the length of second pipeline, simplifies the pipeline and arranges, reduces material consumption, reduction in production cost.

In one possible design, the first pipeline includes a first pipe section located between the barrel assembly and the first side plate, the second pipeline includes a second pipe section located between the barrel assembly and the first side plate, and the first pipe section and the second pipe section are arranged at intervals along a central axis direction of the barrel assembly.

In this design, the clearance between the bucket assembly and the first side plate is limited. For the part of the pipe section of the pipeline assembly between the barrel body assembly and the first side plate, the part of the pipe section corresponding to the first pipeline and the second pipeline respectively is arranged at intervals along the central axis direction of the barrel body assembly instead of overlapping the first pipeline and the second pipeline in the gap, the pipelines with the pipe diameters as large as possible can be adopted in the limited gap space, the compact layout is realized, the reasonable layout of the pipeline assembly is facilitated, and the drying effect is ensured. It can be understood that, according to actual layout needs, the second pipeline can be slightly bent towards the back plate while being bent towards the bottom plate, so as to avoid overlapping interference with the first pipeline, and realize that the subsequent first pipe section and the second pipe section are arranged at intervals front and back along the central axis direction of the barrel assembly.

In one possible design, the housing further includes a base plate, and the compressor is located between the base plate and the bucket assembly.

In this design, through setting up the compressor between the bottom plate of casing and staving subassembly, can utilize the space of casing bottom to hold the compressor to can realize the interval setting of compressor and air supply subassembly, can keep the original complete machine height of clothing processing apparatus unchangeable again, or only increase the original high condition of clothing processing apparatus by a small amount under, realize the rational overall arrangement of compressor, effectively solve the problem that the compressor arranged the difficulty. Specifically, the air supply assembly is located on a side of the barrel assembly facing away from the compressor, i.e., at the top of the barrel assembly. At this time, the compressor and the bottom plate (specifically, a base cross beam) are installed on the base of the clothes treatment device as a large assembly, the air supply assembly and the connecting piece connected with the air supply assembly are installed on the shell (specifically, a supporting beam) as a large assembly, the two large assemblies are connected through the pipeline assembly to transfer the refrigerant, and the maintenance and the installation are convenient.

In a possible design, the side panel further includes a second side panel, and a distance between the second side panel and the compressor is greater than a distance between the first side panel and the compressor.

In this design, it is further defined that the side panel further comprises a second side panel disposed opposite the first side panel. Through making the compressor more be close to first curb plate setting, can make the setting position of compressor unanimous with pipeline assembly's the direction of buckling, be convenient for be close to first curb plate department and directly realize being connected of pipeline assembly and compressor, can realize the inside reasonable compactification overall arrangement of clothing processing apparatus, help shortening pipeline assembly's length again, simplify the pipeline and arrange, reduce material consumption, reduction in production cost.

In one possible design, the air supply assembly comprises an air duct, an evaporator and a condenser, an air inlet and an air outlet of the air duct are communicated with the barrel assembly, the evaporator and the condenser are located in the air duct, and the pipeline assembly is communicated with the evaporator and the condenser.

In this design, the air supply subassembly includes the wind channel and is located evaporimeter and the condenser in the wind channel, through all setting up evaporimeter and condenser in the wind channel, but not introduce the space at evaporimeter and condenser place with the air current in the wind channel, can enough fully increase the heat transfer area of air current and evaporimeter and condenser, reduce the cold volume dissipation of evaporimeter and the heat dissipation of condenser, promote heat exchange efficiency, optimize dehumidification intensification effect, shorten the consuming time of stoving clothing, can simplify the product structure again, reduce the cost of generation, promote production efficiency.

Specifically, an air inlet and an air outlet of the air duct are communicated with the barrel assembly, specifically, the barrel assembly is communicated with the inner barrel, so that air in the barrel assembly is circularly treated, and clothes are dried. It can be understood that the inner barrel is arranged inside the outer barrel and is not directly exposed outside, and the air channel is communicated with the inner barrel, can be directly communicated with the outer barrel so as to be communicated with the inner barrel, and can also be communicated with the inner barrel through a door seal. Both the evaporator and the condenser have heat exchange tubes through which refrigerant passes, and an air flow passing over the surfaces of the heat exchange tubes exchanges heat with the refrigerant in the heat exchange tubes. The evaporimeter is located between income wind gap and the condenser, and the evaporimeter is located the upstream position of condenser promptly, and the wet cold air that gets into the wind channel from the staving subassembly contacts with the evaporimeter earlier, and the refrigerant evaporation heat absorption in the evaporimeter takes away the heat of wet cold air for the vapor cooling condensation in the wet cold air becomes liquid, discharges then, can reduce the humidity of wet cold air, realizes the dehumidification. The dehumidified dry and cold air is then contacted with a downstream condenser. The refrigerant in the condenser is condensed to release heat, and heat is transferred to the dry and cold air, so that the dry and cold air is heated to obtain warm and dry air, and the warm and dry air returns to the barrel body assembly again, so that the evaporation of moisture on the clothes can be promoted, the drying of the clothes is accelerated, and the humidity of the air in the barrel body assembly is increased. The drying of the clothes can be realized by the circulation.

Specifically, the air supply assembly further includes a throttling device, such as a capillary tube, connected between the outlet of the condenser and the inlet of the evaporator. The compressor is communicated with the evaporator and the condenser through the pipeline assembly and can provide power for the circulation of the refrigerant. Specifically, an air inlet of the compressor communicates with an outlet of the evaporator, and an air outlet of the compressor communicates with an inlet of the condenser, thereby forming a refrigerant circulation path of the compressor → the condenser → the throttle device → the evaporator → the compressor, and constituting a heat pump system. When the heat pump system operates, refrigerant is compressed into high-temperature and high-pressure gaseous refrigerant in the compressor, the high-temperature and high-pressure gaseous refrigerant is discharged out of the compressor through an exhaust port of the compressor and then enters the condenser to be condensed and release heat, the high-temperature and high-pressure gaseous refrigerant is gradually converted into high-pressure liquid refrigerant, the high-pressure liquid refrigerant flows out of the condenser and enters the throttling device to be throttled, cooled and depressurized, the high-pressure liquid refrigerant is converted into low-temperature and low-pressure refrigerant in a gas-liquid mixed state, then the low-temperature and low-pressure refrigerant flows out of the throttling device and enters the evaporator to absorb heat in the surrounding environment to be continuously evaporated to be converted into low-pressure gaseous refrigerant, the low-pressure gaseous refrigerant flows out of the evaporator and then enters the compressor again.

Further, the air supply subassembly is still including setting up the filtration piece in the evaporimeter upper reaches to reduce the risk of debris such as the batting adhesion on evaporimeter and condenser that mix with in the air current that gets into in the wind channel, help guaranteeing the reliable heat transfer of evaporimeter and condenser, promote heat exchange efficiency. Taking the case that the air supply assembly and the detergent box are arranged at the back of the control panel in parallel as an example, the control panel is correspondingly provided with an assembly port of the detergent box and an insertion port of the filter element, so that the front insertion of the filter element can be realized.

In one possible design, the air supply assembly further comprises an air inlet pipe, the air inlet pipe is connected between the air inlet and the barrel assembly, and the air inlet pipe and the pipeline assembly are arranged at intervals along the circumferential direction of the barrel assembly.

In this design, the air supply assembly still further includes the air-supply line of intercommunication in the inlet of wind channel, and specifically, the one end that the air-supply line deviates from the inlet is linked together with the staving subassembly. The air inlet pipe is arranged at the air inlet of the air supply shell, and the air inlet pipe can be communicated with the barrel body assembly of the clothes treatment device, so that the air supply assembly and the barrel body assembly can be reliably assembled. In addition, the air inlet pipe is utilized, so that the air duct can be conveniently communicated with the barrel body assembly by utilizing the air inlet pipe after the setting position of the air supply shell is determined, and the flexibility of the setting position of the air duct is favorably improved. Particularly, at least part of the pipe section of the air inlet pipe is a corrugated pipe, which is beneficial to improving the vibration resistance of the air supply assembly. Through setting up air-supply line and pipeline subassembly along the circumference interval of staving subassembly, can reduce the interference of air-supply line and pipeline subassembly, the space in the make full use of casing realizes reasonable compactification overall arrangement, just also need not to increase pipeline subassembly's the position of buckling in order to avoid the air-supply line, help simplifying the pipeline and arrange, reduce the flow loss of refrigerant, reduce the assembly simultaneously and dismantle the degree of difficulty, promote assembly efficiency, reinforcing maintenance performance, help prolonging the life of product.

Additional aspects and advantages in accordance with the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention.

Drawings

The above and/or additional aspects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent and readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:

fig. 1 shows a front view of a housing of a laundry treating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 shows one of partial structural plan views of a laundry treating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 shows a second partial structure plan view of the clothes treating apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 shows one of partial structural schematic views of a laundry treating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 shows a second partial schematic structural view of a clothes treating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Wherein, the correspondence between the reference numbers and the part names in fig. 1 to 5 is:

100 casing, 102 front panel, 104 control panel, 106 assembly port, 108 insertion port, 110 back panel, 112 first side panel, 114 second side panel, 116 bottom panel, 118 support beam, 200 barrel assembly, 202 door seal, 300 air supply assembly, 302 air duct, 304 evaporator, 306 condenser, 308 throttling device, 310 filter element, 312 air inlet pipe, 314 fan, 316 first interface, 318 second interface, 400 compressor, 500 pipeline assembly, 502 first pipeline, 504 second pipeline, 600 detergent box, 700 connecting piece.

Detailed Description

In order to make the aforementioned objects, features and advantages of the present invention more clearly understood, the present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and detailed description. It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments of the present application may be combined with each other without conflict.

In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention, however, the present invention may be practiced in other ways than those specifically described herein, and therefore the scope of the present invention is not limited by the specific embodiments disclosed below.

A laundry treatment apparatus provided according to some embodiments of the present invention is described below with reference to fig. 1 to 5.

As shown in fig. 1 and 4, an embodiment of an aspect of the present invention provides a laundry treating apparatus including a case 100, a tub assembly 200, an air supply assembly 300, a compressor 400, and a pipe assembly 500. Wherein, the housing 100 includes a front panel 102 and side panels (e.g., a back panel 110, a first side panel 112 described below); the tub assembly 200 is located within the casing 100, with the opening of the tub assembly 200 facing the front panel 102; the air supply assembly 300 is positioned in the shell 100, and the air supply assembly 300 is communicated with the barrel assembly 200; the compressor 400 is positioned in the shell 100, and the compressor 400 and the air supply assembly 300 are arranged at intervals along the circumferential direction of the barrel assembly 200; the pipe assembly 500 is connected between the air supply assembly 300 and the compressor 400, and the pipe assembly 500 is located between the tub assembly 200 and the side panel.

The embodiment of the utility model provides a clothes treating device, casing 100 form its whole frame, can hold other structures. The tub assembly 200 within the casing 100 forms a cavity for receiving laundry to be treated. The tub assembly 200 is opened toward the front panel 102 of the casing 100, that is, the laundry treating apparatus is of a drum type structure. The air supply assembly 300 is communicated with the tub assembly 200 to introduce the wet and cold air in the tub assembly 200 into the air supply assembly 300, and the wet and cold air is dehumidified and heated and then is re-fed into the tub assembly 200, so that the clothes can be dried. The compressor 400 can provide power for the dehumidification and temperature rise of the air supply assembly 300. By separately arranging the large-sized air supply assembly 300 and the compressor 400 around the circumference of the tub assembly 200, the limited space in the casing 100 can be fully utilized, a reasonable compact layout is realized, the overall size of the laundry treating apparatus is facilitated to be reduced, the adaptability of the laundry treating apparatus to the installation environment is improved, and the competitiveness of the product is improved. At this time, the pipe assembly 500 is used to connect the air supply assembly 300 and the compressor 400, and since the air supply assembly 300 and the compressor 400 are separately provided, the pipe assembly 500 tends to have a long pipe. Through arranging pipeline assembly 500 between the side panels of staving assembly 200 and casing 100, namely arrange side or rear around staving assembly 200, and not arrange in the place ahead towards front panel 102 of casing 100, just can adjust the hookup location of pipeline assembly 500 and air supply assembly 300 to the position that air supply assembly 300 avoids front panel 102, thereby can utilize the open space of these positions department to realize that pipeline assembly 500 and air supply assembly 300 are connected the assembly, sufficient operating space has been ensured, help promoting operating performance, reduce the assembly degree of difficulty, promote assembly efficiency, and help dismouting pipeline assembly 500 in the in-process of follow-up maintenance, reduce the maintenance degree of difficulty, and then the life of product has been prolonged.

Specifically, the air supply assembly 300 may be disposed above the tub assembly 200, behind the control panel 104 at the front panel 102, in parallel with the detergent box 600, to achieve an optimal layout of the air supply assembly 300 using the space therein. At this moment, the gap between the control panel 104 and the air supply assembly 300 is compact, the operation space is very limited, and the embodiment of the present invention is particularly suitable for the arrangement scheme of the pipeline assembly 500, which can avoid the control panel 104 to complete the connection operation of the pipeline assembly 500 and the air supply assembly 300.

Specifically, the tub assembly 200 includes a stationary outer tub for storing water and an inner tub rotatable with respect to the outer tub, for accommodating laundry, and communicated with the outer tub for washing water to enter the inner tub. The barrel assembly 200 further comprises a door seal 202 located at an opening of the outer barrel, and the door seal can be matched with a door body of the clothes treatment device to realize sealing of the barrel assembly 200 and avoid water leakage in the barrel assembly 200. The inner barrel rotates according to a certain rule, so that the clothes can be fully contacted with the washing water, and the washing of the clothes is realized. After washing is finished, the inner barrel rotates, so that part of water on the clothes can be thrown out under the action of centrifugal force, and the clothes are dehydrated. By additionally arranging the air supply assembly 300 with the dehumidification and temperature rise functions, a processing mode for drying clothes can be added to the clothes processing device, so that the clothes processing device can be used as a washing and drying integrated machine.

As shown in fig. 2, in some embodiments, the duct assembly 500 is connected to a side of the blower assembly 300 facing away from the front panel 102.

In this embodiment, the connection position of the duct assembly 500 and the air supply assembly 300 is specifically set on the side of the air supply assembly 300 away from the front panel 102, that is, on the rear side of the air supply assembly 300. As shown in fig. 4, taking the case that the air supply assembly 300 and the detergent box 600 are arranged at the back of the control panel 104 in parallel as an example, the space at the rear side is more sufficient compared with the left side and the right side of the air supply assembly 300, and the connection operation between the pipeline assembly 500 and the air supply assembly 300 can be realized by using the wide space at the rear side of the air supply assembly 300, which is helpful for improving the operation performance, reducing the assembly difficulty and improving the assembly efficiency, and is helpful for dismounting and mounting the pipeline assembly 500 in the subsequent maintenance process, reducing the maintenance difficulty, and further prolonging the service life of the product.

Specifically, as shown in fig. 3, in some embodiments, the air supply assembly 300 includes an air duct 302, an evaporator 304, and a condenser 306, an air inlet and an air outlet of the air duct 302 are both communicated with the tub assembly 200, the evaporator 304 and the condenser 306 are both located in the air duct 302, and the pipe assembly 500 is communicated with the evaporator 304 and the condenser 306.

In this embodiment, the air supply assembly 300 includes the air duct 302, and the evaporator 304 and the condenser 306 located in the air duct 302, and by disposing both the evaporator 304 and the condenser 306 in the air duct 302, rather than introducing the air flow in the air duct 302 into the space where the evaporator 304 and the condenser 306 are located, the heat exchange area between the air flow and the evaporator 304 and the condenser 306 can be sufficiently increased, the cold dissipation of the evaporator 304 and the heat dissipation of the condenser 306 are reduced, the heat exchange efficiency is improved, the dehumidification and temperature rise effect is optimized, the time consumption for drying clothes is reduced, the product structure can be simplified, the production cost is reduced, and the production efficiency is improved.

Specifically, the air inlet and the air outlet of the air duct 302 are both communicated with the barrel assembly 200, specifically, the inner barrel, so as to circulate the air in the barrel assembly 200, thereby drying the clothes. It is understood that the inner barrel is located inside the outer barrel and not directly exposed, and the air duct 302 is in communication with the inner barrel, either directly with the outer barrel, and thus with the inner barrel, or via the door seal 202. Both the evaporator 304 and the condenser 306 have heat exchange tubes through which refrigerant passes, and an air stream flowing over the surfaces of the heat exchange tubes exchanges heat with the refrigerant in the heat exchange tubes. The evaporator 304 is located between the air inlet and the condenser 306, that is, the evaporator 304 is located at the upstream position of the condenser 306, the wet cold air entering the air duct 302 from the tub assembly 200 contacts with the evaporator 304, the refrigerant in the evaporator 304 evaporates to absorb heat, and the heat of the wet cold air is taken away, so that the water vapor in the wet cold air is cooled and condensed into a liquid state, and then discharged, the humidity of the wet cold air can be reduced, and dehumidification is realized. The dehumidified cold dry air is then contacted with the downstream condenser 306. The refrigerant in the condenser 306 condenses to release heat, transferring heat to the dry and cool air, causing the dry and cool air to heat up, resulting in warm and dry air, which is returned to the tub assembly 200 again, which promotes evaporation of moisture from the laundry, accelerates drying of the laundry, and increases humidity of the air in the tub assembly 200. The drying of the clothes can be realized by the circulation.

Specifically, air supply assembly 300 also includes a flow restriction device 308, such as a capillary tube, coupled between the outlet of condenser 306 and the inlet of evaporator 304. The compressor 400 is in communication with the evaporator 304 and the condenser 306 via a tube assembly 500 and is capable of powering a refrigerant cycle. Specifically, the air intake port of the compressor 400 communicates with the outlet of the evaporator 304, and the air discharge port of the compressor 400 communicates with the inlet of the condenser 306, thereby forming a refrigerant circulation path of the compressor 400 → the condenser 306 → the throttle device 308 → the evaporator 304 → the compressor 400, and constituting a heat pump system. When the heat pump system is operated, the refrigerant is compressed into high-temperature and high-pressure gaseous refrigerant in the compressor 400, the high-temperature and high-pressure gaseous refrigerant is discharged out of the compressor 400 through the gas outlet of the compressor 400 and then enters the condenser 306 to be condensed and release heat, the high-temperature and high-pressure gaseous refrigerant is gradually transformed into high-pressure liquid refrigerant, the high-pressure liquid refrigerant flows out of the condenser 306 and enters the throttling device 308 to be throttled, cooled and depressurized, the high-pressure liquid refrigerant is transformed into low-temperature and low-pressure refrigerant in a gas-liquid mixed state, then the low-temperature and low-pressure refrigerant flows out of the throttling device 308 and enters the evaporator 304 to absorb heat in the surrounding environment to be evaporated continuously and transformed into low-pressure gaseous refrigerant, the low-pressure gaseous refrigerant flows out of the evaporator 304 and then reenters the compressor 400 to be compressed through the gas inlet of the compressor 400, the operation is repeated in a circulating way.

Further, the air supply assembly 300 further includes a filter 310 disposed upstream of the evaporator 304 to reduce the risk of impurities, such as lint, entrained in the air flow entering the air duct 302 adhering to the evaporator 304 and the condenser 306, which helps to ensure reliable heat exchange between the evaporator 304 and the condenser 306 and improve heat exchange efficiency. As shown in fig. 1, 2 and 4, taking the case that the air supply assembly 300 and the detergent box 600 are arranged in parallel at the back of the control panel 104 as an example, the control panel 104 is correspondingly provided with the assembly port 106 of the detergent box 600 and the insertion port 108 of the filter 310, so that the front insertion of the filter 310 can be realized.

As shown in FIG. 3, in some embodiments, supply air assembly 300 further includes air inlet ducts 312, air inlet ducts 312 being connected between the air inlet and tub assembly 200, air inlet ducts 312 and duct assemblies 500 being spaced circumferentially about tub assembly 200.

In this embodiment, the air supply assembly 300 further includes an air inlet pipe 312 communicated with the air inlet of the air duct 302, and specifically, an end of the air inlet pipe 312 facing away from the air inlet is communicated with the tub assembly 200. By providing the air inlet pipe 312 at the air inlet of the air supply casing 100, the air inlet pipe 312 can be communicated with the tub assembly 200 of the laundry treating apparatus, so that the air supply assembly 300 and the tub assembly 200 can be reliably assembled. In addition, the air inlet pipe 312 is utilized to conveniently communicate the air duct 302 with the tub assembly 200 after the setting position of the air supply casing 100 is determined, which helps to improve the flexibility of the setting position of the air duct 302. Specifically, at least a portion of the air inlet duct 312 is a corrugated tube, which helps to improve the vibration resistance of the blower assembly 300. Through setting up air-supply line 312 and pipeline subassembly 500 along staving subassembly 200's circumference interval, can reduce the interference of air-supply line 312 and pipeline subassembly 500, make full use of space in the casing 100 realizes reasonable compactification overall arrangement, just also need not to increase pipeline subassembly 500's the position of buckling in order to avoid air-supply line 312, help simplifying the pipeline and arranging, reduce the flow loss of refrigerant, reduce the assembly simultaneously and dismantle the degree of difficulty, promote assembly efficiency, reinforcing maintenance performance, help prolonging the life of product.

In some embodiments, the air supply assembly 300 further includes a fan 314 communicated with the air outlet of the air duct 302, specifically, an outlet of the fan 314 is communicated with the tub assembly 200 of the laundry processing apparatus, that is, the air duct 302 is communicated with the tub assembly 200 via the fan 314, and an outlet of the fan 314 is communicated with the door seal 202, specifically as shown in fig. 5, so as to reduce structural damage to the outer tub. By providing the fan 314, power can be provided for circulation of the air flow, and the air flow direction can be planned, and in the case that the air supply assembly 300 includes the evaporator 304 and the condenser 306, the air flow can be guided to pass through the evaporator 304 and then the condenser 306, so as to ensure that the temperature of the air returning to the tub assembly 200 is high, thereby ensuring the drying effect of the clothes. By specifically arranging the fan 314 at the air outlet, negative pressure can be formed at the air outlet, and the air flow is guided to flow from the air inlet to the air outlet by using pressure difference, so that the direction of the air flow is stable and reliable. Specifically, the fan 314 includes a fan volute and an impeller located in the fan volute, and further includes a motor for driving the impeller to rotate, and the inlet and the outlet of the fan 314 are specifically the inlet and the outlet of the fan volute. As shown in fig. 2 and 4, taking the case that the air supply assembly 300 and the detergent box 600 are arranged at the back of the control panel 104 in parallel as an example, the detergent box 600 is located at the left side of the air duct 302, and the fan 314 is located at the right side of the air duct 302, at this time, the duct assembly 500 can be connected to the side of the air supply assembly 300 departing from the front panel 102, that is, the back side of the air supply assembly 300.

As shown in fig. 3 to 5, in some embodiments, the side panels include a back panel 110 and a first side panel 112 connected to each other, and the duct assembly 500 extends from an end connected to the air supply assembly 300 toward the back panel 110 and then bends toward the first side panel 112.

In this embodiment, the front panel 102 is disposed opposite to the back panel 110, and the first side panel 112 is connected to the front panel 102 according to different positions of the side panels, taking fig. 2 as an example, the first side panel 112 is located at the right side of the tub assembly 200 and is a right side panel. By extending the pipeline assembly 500 first and then, the partial pipe section of the pipeline assembly 500 directly connected with the air supply assembly 300 can extend along the front and back direction of the clothes treatment device, so that a straight pipe section is ensured, the flow of refrigerant in the pipe is stable at the position adjacent to the air supply assembly 300, and the drying effect is ensured. After that, the pipeline assembly 500 is bent toward the first side plate 112, the pipeline assembly 500 can be continuously arranged according to the position of the compressor 400, and can be continuously bent or extended, and a part of the continuously arranged pipeline section is located between the first side plate 112 of the casing 100 and the tub assembly 200, that is, arranged on the left side of the tub assembly 200 or on the right side as shown in fig. 4, so that the space in the casing 100 is fully utilized, and the distance between the tub assembly 200 and the back plate 110 does not need to be intentionally increased, so that the pipeline assembly 500 is arranged between the tub assembly 200 and the back plate 110, which helps to reduce the size of the laundry treating apparatus.

In other embodiments, the pipe assembly 500 extends from the end connected to the air supply assembly 300 toward the back plate 110 and then bends toward the bottom plate 116 of the housing 100, so that a part of the pipe section of the pipe assembly 500 is located between the barrel assembly 200 and the back plate 110, and bending of the pipe can be reduced.

As shown in fig. 2-5, in some embodiments, air supply assembly 300 includes a first interface 316 and a second interface 318, with first interface 316 being located between second interface 318 and first side panel 112; the pipe assembly 500 includes a first pipe 502 connected to the first port 316 and a second pipe 504 connected to the second port 318, and the first pipe 502 is bent toward the bottom plate 116 of the housing 100 while being bent toward the first side plate 112.

In this embodiment, the air supply assembly 300 includes two interfaces, a first interface 316 and a second interface 318, and the conduit assembly 500 includes two conduits, a first conduit 502 and a second conduit 504, respectively, to enable connection with the evaporator 304 and the condenser 306 of the air supply assembly 300. By bending the first pipeline 502 towards the first side plate 112 and the bottom plate 116 at the same time, that is, bending the first pipeline 502 towards the lateral lower part, the first pipeline can be matched with the barrel shape of the barrel assembly 200, so that interference between the first pipeline 502 and the supporting beam 118 when directly bending towards the first side plate 112 is avoided, and reasonable pipeline arrangement is realized; and the length of the first pipeline 502 can be fully shortened, the pipeline arrangement is simplified, the material consumption is reduced, and the production cost is reduced. Specifically, as shown in fig. 3, the evaporator 304 is connected to the second port 318, and the condenser 306 is connected to the first port 316.

As shown in fig. 2-5, in some embodiments, the second pipe 504 is bent and extended toward the first side plate 112, and then bent toward the bottom plate 116 and extended toward the first side plate 112.

In this embodiment, second conduit 504 is further from first side plate 112, i.e., closer to the central axis of bowl assembly 200, than first conduit 502. At this time, if the second pipe 504 is directly bent downward, the second pipe 504 may interfere with the barrel assembly 200. By bending the second pipeline 504 toward the first side plate 112 and extending a certain distance, the distance between the next bending position and the first side plate 112 can be properly shortened, so that the layout of the second pipeline 504 is more reasonable, and the risk of interference between the second pipeline 504 and the barrel assembly 200 is reduced. Specifically, when bending next time, the second pipeline 504 may be bent toward the bottom plate 116 by a small amount, and then extend toward the first side plate 112, and may be matched with the shape of the barrel assembly 200, and the second pipeline 504 may be reasonably arranged by using the space between the barrel assembly 200 and the housing 100, specifically, the support beam 118 at the corresponding position, which is helpful to shorten the length of the second pipeline 504, simplify the pipeline arrangement, reduce the material consumption, and reduce the production cost.

As shown in fig. 4 and 5, in some embodiments, first conduit 502 includes a first pipe segment between bowl assembly 200 and first side plate 112, and second conduit 504 includes a second pipe segment between bowl assembly 200 and first side plate 112, the first and second pipe segments being spaced apart along a central axis of bowl assembly 200.

In this embodiment, there is limited clearance between the bucket assembly 200 and the first side plate 112. For the part of the pipe section of the pipeline assembly 500 located between the barrel assembly 200 and the first side plate 112, the part of the pipe section corresponding to each of the first pipeline 502 and the second pipeline 504 is arranged at intervals along the central axis direction of the barrel assembly 200, rather than overlapping the first pipeline 502 and the second pipeline 504 in the gap, so that the pipeline with the pipe diameter as large as possible can be adopted in the limited gap space, the compact layout is realized, the reasonable layout of the pipeline assembly 500 is facilitated, and the drying effect is ensured. It is understood that, according to the actual layout requirement, the second pipeline 504 may be slightly bent toward the back plate 110 while being bent toward the bottom plate 116 as shown in fig. 2, so as to avoid overlapping interference with the first pipeline 502, and thus, the subsequent first pipeline section and the second pipeline section are arranged at intervals back and forth along the central axis of the barrel assembly 200.

As shown in FIG. 4, in some embodiments, the enclosure 100 further includes a base plate 116, and the compressor 400 is located between the base plate 116 and the bucket assembly 200.

In this embodiment, the compressor 400 is disposed between the bottom plate 116 of the casing 100 and the tub assembly 200, and the compressor 400 can be accommodated in the space at the bottom of the casing 100, so that the compressor 400 and the air supply assembly 300 can be spaced from each other, the reasonable layout of the compressor 400 can be realized while maintaining the original overall height of the laundry treatment apparatus, or only slightly increasing the original height of the laundry treatment apparatus, and the problem of difficulty in arranging the compressor 400 is effectively solved. Specifically, the blower assembly 300 is located at a side of the tub assembly 200 facing away from the compressor 400, that is, at the top of the tub assembly 200. At this time, the compressor 400 and the base plate 116 (specifically, the base cross member) are installed as one large assembly on the base of the laundry treating apparatus, the air supply assembly 300 and the connecting member 700 connected thereto are installed as one large assembly on the casing 100 (specifically, the supporting beam 118), and the two large assemblies are connected through the pipe assembly 500 to transfer the refrigerant, so that the maintenance and installation are convenient.

As shown in fig. 4 and 5, in some embodiments, the side panels further include a second side panel 114, the second side panel 114 being spaced further from the compressor 400 than the first side panel 112 is spaced from the compressor 400.

In this embodiment, the side panels are further defined to further include a second side panel 114 disposed opposite the first side panel 112. Through making compressor 400 more be close to first curb plate 112 setting, can make the position of setting up of compressor 400 unanimous with pipeline assembly 500's the direction of buckling, be convenient for directly realize being connected of pipeline assembly 500 and compressor 400 near first curb plate 112 department, can realize the inside reasonable compactification overall arrangement of clothing processing apparatus, help shortening pipeline assembly 500's length again, simplify the pipeline and arrange, reduce material consumption, reduction in production cost.

In the description of the present specification, the terms "connect", "mount", "fix", and the like are to be understood in a broad sense, for example, "connect" may be a fixed connection, a detachable connection, or an integral connection; may be directly connected or indirectly connected through an intermediate. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood according to specific situations by those skilled in the art.

In the description of the present specification, the description of the terms "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "specific embodiments," etc., means that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the invention. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above do not necessarily refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples.

The above is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present invention, and various modifications and changes will occur to those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims (10)

1. A laundry treating apparatus, comprising:

a housing (100) comprising a front panel (102) and side panels;

a tub assembly (200) located within the housing (100), the tub assembly (200) opening toward the front panel (102);

the air supply assembly (300) is positioned in the shell (100), and the air supply assembly (300) is communicated with the barrel assembly (200);

the compressor (400) is positioned in the shell (100), and the compressor (400) and the air supply assembly (300) are arranged at intervals along the circumferential direction of the barrel assembly (200); and

a pipe assembly (500) connected between the blower assembly (300) and the compressor (400), the pipe assembly (500) being located between the tub assembly (200) and the side panel.

2. The laundry treating apparatus according to claim 1,

the pipeline assembly (500) is connected to the side, away from the front panel (102), of the air supply assembly (300).

3. The laundry treating apparatus according to claim 2,

the side panels comprise a back panel (110) and a first side panel (112) which are connected, and the pipeline assembly (500) extends from one end connected with the air supply assembly (300) to the back panel (110) and then bends to the first side panel (112).

4. The laundry treating apparatus according to claim 3,

the air supply assembly (300) comprises a first interface (316) and a second interface (318), wherein the first interface (316) is positioned between the second interface (318) and the first side plate (112);

the pipeline assembly (500) comprises a first pipeline (502) connected with the first interface (316) and a second pipeline (504) connected with the second interface (318), and the first pipeline (502) bends towards the bottom plate (116) of the shell (100) while bending towards the first side plate (112).

5. The laundry treating apparatus according to claim 4,

the second pipeline (504) bends and extends towards the first side plate (112) firstly, and then bends towards the bottom plate (116) and extends towards the first side plate (112).

6. The laundry treating apparatus according to claim 4,

the first pipeline (502) comprises a first pipe section located between the barrel assembly (200) and the first side plate (112), and the second pipeline (504) comprises a second pipe section located between the barrel assembly (200) and the first side plate (112), wherein the first pipe section and the second pipe section are arranged at intervals along the central axis direction of the barrel assembly (200).

7. The laundry treating apparatus according to claim 3,

the housing (100) further includes a base plate (116), and the compressor (400) is located between the base plate (116) and the tub assembly (200).

8. The laundry treating apparatus according to claim 7,

the side panels further comprise a second side panel (114), and the distance between the second side panel (114) and the compressor (400) is larger than the distance between the first side panel (112) and the compressor (400).

9. The laundry treating apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 5,

the air supply assembly (300) comprises an air duct (302), an evaporator (304) and a condenser (306), an air inlet and an air outlet of the air duct (302) are communicated with the barrel assembly (200), the evaporator (304) and the condenser (306) are located in the air duct (302), and the pipeline assembly (500) is communicated with the evaporator (304) and the condenser (306).

10. The laundry treating apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the air supply assembly (300) further includes:

the air inlet pipe (312) is connected between the air inlet and the barrel assembly (200), and the air inlet pipe (312) and the pipeline assembly (500) are arranged at intervals along the circumferential direction of the barrel assembly (200).

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