EP3284858B1 - Laundry dryer with fan - Google Patents

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EP3284858B1
EP3284858B1 EP17182738.9A EP17182738A EP3284858B1 EP 3284858 B1 EP3284858 B1 EP 3284858B1 EP 17182738 A EP17182738 A EP 17182738A EP 3284858 B1 EP3284858 B1 EP 3284858B1
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Uwe Dey
Maoyin Li
Yonggang Xu
Qixia You
Qi Zhang
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
    • D06F58/00—Domestic laundry dryers
    • D06F58/20—General details of domestic laundry dryers 
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
    • D06F2103/00—Parameters monitored or detected for the control of domestic laundry washing machines, washer-dryers or laundry dryers
    • D06F2103/28—Air properties
    • D06F2103/36—Flow or velocity
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
    • D06F2105/00—Systems or parameters controlled or affected by the control systems of washing machines, washer-dryers or laundry dryers
    • D06F2105/16—Air properties
    • D06F2105/24—Flow or velocity
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
    • D06F25/00—Washing machines with receptacles, e.g. perforated, having a rotary movement, e.g. oscillatory movement, the receptacle serving both for washing and for centrifugally separating water from the laundry and having further drying means, e.g. using hot air 
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
    • D06F58/00—Domestic laundry dryers
    • D06F58/02—Domestic laundry dryers having dryer drums rotating about a horizontal axis

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  • the present invention relates to a fan of a laundry dryer.
  • a high temperature is generally produced on some parts in an operation process of a laundry dryer. For example, a temperature of a motor driving a drying barrel to rotate rises, an air heating channel heating air causes temperatures of surrounding parts to rise, a temperature of a fan motor driving air flow rises, and a temperature of a circuit board rises after operation for a long time. Excessively high temperatures of these parts may affect performance and lives of the parts. Therefore, cooling or heat insulation for these parts needs to be considered by designers. In addition, it is also desired by designers to cool walls of a drying chamber so that the drying chamber itself has a condensation effect to some extent.
  • cooling or heat insulation measures above may be implemented by means of providing a heat insulation pad or additionally providing a fan.
  • the heat insulation pad does not have a desirable effect, and cannot be used for some parts. It is also undesirable to provide a fan dedicatedly for a cooling purpose inside a body of the dryer. A fan occupies a relatively large space, consequently increasing a size of the dryer and increasing great costs at the same time.
  • DE 31 35 289 A1 refers to a laundry dryer having a cabinet and a drying chamber. Air for drying the laundry inside the drying chamber quits the drying chamber via an air channel associated with an opening into a blower space. The air is sucked by a fan and flows via an air channel to a condenser.
  • EP 2 843 119 A1 refers to a laundry dryer comprising a cabinet, a laundry chamber enclosed within the cabinet for containing laundry to be dried, and a worktop atop the cabinet, the worktop integrating a drying process air circulation system adapted to continuously circulate process air through the laundry chamber.
  • US 2011/041260 A1 refers to a controlled moisture removal in a laundry dryer. Air from the outside may enter via a ventilation path the drying chamber of the laundry dryer. The heated air may flow via a dispensing circuit through a dispenser for leaving the laundry dryer.
  • EP 1 270 793 A2 refers to a laundry dryer.
  • the laundry dryer is provided with a double inlet fan.
  • the double inlet fan is installed at the center of an exhaust duct and a suction increasing duct, for sucking air and exhausting the air to both direction. Air from the outside of the laundry dryer may enter the laundry dryer via inflow holes and may be removed from the laundry dryer via an air path at the bottom of the laundry dryer.
  • EP 2 886 705 A1 refers to a dryer for wall mounted washing machines.
  • the dryer is provided with a duct body having multiple air paths separated by walls.
  • the duct body is covered by a cover.
  • a fan is installed at the inlet of the duct body and outside a heater.
  • the fan has a fan housing, which however does not provide a secondary air channel being formed between the cover and the housing.
  • An objective of the present invention is to modify a fan in a laundry dryer, so that the fan can provide an additional cooling function without changes of an original function and performance of the fan.
  • the present invention provides a laundry dryer as claimed in the independent claim.
  • Preferred facultative embodiments of the invention are claimed in dependent claims, described in the subsequent disclosure and exhibited in the attached drawing.
  • the invention also includes combinations of such preferred embodiments as disclosed as further facultative preferred embodiments.
  • the present invention provides a laundry dryer with a fan, including a cabinet and a drying chamber, and the fan having a primary air channel formed by a housing, where the housing is covered by a cover outside, a secondary air channel having an inlet and an outlet is formed between the cover and the housing, impellers rotating with a rotator of a motor are provided in the secondary air channel, the impellers are disposed such that when the impellers rotate with the rotator, air is driven to enter the secondary air channel from the inlet of the secondary air channel and exit from the outlet of the secondary air channel, the inlet and the outlet of the secondary air channel respectively extend by using a first pipe and a second pipe, and an outlet of the second pipe is close to an apparatus that needs to be cooled in the cabinet.
  • the fan in the present invention has both the primary air channel and the secondary air channel.
  • the primary air channel can fulfill an original function, and the secondary air channel can guide an airflow to the apparatus that needs to be cooled.
  • the air when flowing through the secondary air channel, the air further cools the motor of the fan itself.
  • modification to the fan is minor, costs are low, the newly added parts occupy a small space, and the cabinet and other parts of the laundry dryer do not need to be modified.
  • the inlet of the secondary air channel introduces ambient air from the outside of the cabinet through the first pipe.
  • a temperature of the ambient air is usually lower than a temperature of the air in the cabinet.
  • the apparatus that needs to be cooled includes at least one of a circuit system, an outer wall of the drying chamber, and a detergent adding apparatus, where the detergent adding apparatus is installed closely to a heat source.
  • the detergent adding apparatus includes an accommodating chamber adapted to store a detergent for multiple washing processes, and the outlet of the second pipe faces the accommodating chamber. Air from the secondary air channel removes heat of the accommodating chamber, reduces a temperature in the accommodating chamber, thereby avoiding deterioration of the detergent or a decrease in chemical performance of the detergent due to a high temperature.
  • the fan is disposed neighboring an air heating channel that heats air entering the drying chamber, and the inlet and the outlet of the secondary air channel of the fan are isolated from an ambient space in which the air heating channel is located. In this way, rotation of the impellers does not disturb ambient air of the air heating channel, thereby avoiding a heat loss of the air heating channel arising therefrom.
  • At least a part of the rotator of the motor of the fan is located in the secondary air channel between the housing and the cover, and the impellers are disposed in a peripheral direction of the part of the rotator of the motor that is located in the secondary air channel.
  • an occupied space is small, a structure is simple, and manufacturing costs are low.
  • a laundry dryer 100 has a cabinet 1.
  • a drying chamber 2 is provided in the cabinet 1.
  • the drying chamber 2 includes a rotatable drum 3 and a tub 4 located outside the drum 3. Spaces of the drum 3 and the tub 4 communicate. Pieces of laundry are dried in the drum 3.
  • the tub 4 sequentially connects to a condensation channel 5, a fan 6, and an air heating channel 7.
  • An outlet of the air heating channel 7 communicates with the space of the tub 4 again. After the fan 6 is started, air is driven to sequentially circulate in a direction of the fan 6, the air heating channel 7, the drying chamber 2, the condensation channel 5, and the fan 6.
  • the laundry dryer 100 further includes a detergent adding apparatus 8.
  • the detergent adding apparatus 8 includes an accommodating chamber 9 adapted to store a detergent for multiple washing processes.
  • the detergent adding apparatus 8 is disposed neighboring the air heating channel 7. Therefore, heat radiating from the air heating channel 7 causes a temperature of the detergent adding apparatus 8 to increase.
  • the fan 6 has a primary air channel 11 formed by a housing 10.
  • the primary air channel 11 is in fluid communication with the drying chamber 2 and the air heating channel 7.
  • the housing 10 is covered by a cover 12 outside.
  • a secondary air channel 15 having an inlet 13 and an outlet 14 is formed between the cover 12 and the housing 10.
  • the inlet 13 and the outlet 14 of the secondary air channel 15 respectively extend by using a first pipe 16 and a second pipe 17.
  • At least a part of a rotator 61 of a motor of the fan 6 is located in the secondary air channel 15 between the housing 10 and the cover 12.
  • Impellers 62 are provided in a peripheral direction of the part of the rotator 61 of the motor that is located in the secondary air channel 15. When the impellers 62 rotate with the rotator 61, air is driven to enter the secondary air channel 15 from the inlet 13 of the secondary air channel 15 and exit from the outlet 14 of the secondary air channel 15.
  • the inlet 13 of the secondary air channel 15 connects to the outside of the cabinet 1 by using the first pipe 16, so as to introduce ambient air with a lower temperature from the outside of the cabinet 1.
  • An end of the second pipe 17 connecting to the outlet 14 of the secondary air channel 15 connects to a frame 19 provided around a detergent accommodating chamber 9.
  • An outlet 18 of the second pipe 17 faces the accommodating chamber 9. Therefore, after ambient air with a lower temperature enters the secondary air channel 15, some heat of the fan 6 is removed, and the ambient air continues flowing and blows into the detergent accommodating chamber 9, thereby cooling the detergent accommodating chamber 9.
  • the outlet 14 of the secondary air channel 15 is isolated by using the fame 19 from an ambient space in which the air heating channel 7 is located.
  • the outlet 18 of the second pipe 17 may be close to another apparatus that needs to be cooled, for example, a circuit system or an outer wall of the drying chamber 2.
  • the outlet 18 of the second pipe 17 is preferably far away from the ambient space in which the air heating channel 7 is located, and is better isolated therefrom in space.

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