JP2000257894A - Indoor heating system employing clothing dryer - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simplify a facility work very much and permit the easy heating of the inside of a dressing room or a bathroom by a method wherein the bathroom or the dressing room is constituted so as to be heated by introducing warm-air, generated in a clothing dryer, into the bathroom or the dressing room directly or through a duct. SOLUTION: Upon the operation of a clothing dryer 1 only, switching dampers a, c, e are opened and the same dampers b, d, d' are closed by a control circuit to discharge exhaust gas, discharged out of the clothing dryer 1, to the outside of a house from the top 7a of a ventilating and warm-air blow-out duct 7 through a moisture discharging duct 4 and the ventilating and warm-air blow-out duct 7. On the other hand, when both of the dressing room 2 and the bathroom 3 are heated at the same time, the ventilating fan and a heat exchanger are operated in the same manner as the time of drying clothing while stopping the rotation of a drum for the clothing dryer 1 as it is to generate warm-air while the warm-air is sent to the moisture discharging duct 4. Then, a part of the warm-air is sent into the dressing room from a ventilating and warm-air outlet port 5 while the balance of the warm-air is controlled so as to be sent into the bathroom 3 through the ventilating and warm-air blow-out port 6.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a clothes drying system in which warm air is generated using a hot water or heat medium type heat exchanger or electric heater as a heat source, and the warm air is sent into a drum to dry clothes. More specifically, the present invention relates to an indoor heating system that uses a heating machine as a heat source, and more specifically, clothing that can heat a bathroom or a dressing room by introducing warm air generated by a clothes dryer, or that can use the bathroom as a drying room. The present invention relates to an indoor heating system using a dryer.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When trying to take a bath in the winter period, the room temperature in the dressing room and bathroom is extremely low, so that an elderly person may fall down by a stroke. Therefore,
In recent years, there are many cases where a heater is installed in a bathroom or a dressing room.

[0003]

However, in the case of the above-mentioned heater, which is of a hot water or heat medium type, a heat source unit is required, and a pipe of a heat medium such as a hot water pipe is required. In any case, the construction cost of an existing house is high, and the construction itself may be difficult. On the other hand, in the case of the electric type, there is a problem that, instead of having the above-mentioned problems, costs are required for equipment and maintenance, and furthermore, electric work is required.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and uses a clothes dryer, which has been widely used in ordinary households, as a heat source, and introduces the warm air generated here into, for example, a bathroom or a dressing room. Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to eliminate the above-mentioned drawbacks of the heating system using the hot water, the heating medium, or the electric heater alone.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the first aspect of the present invention, in a room heating system using a clothes dryer, warm air generated in the clothes dryer is directly or via a duct. And introduced into a room to heat the room.

Further, in the invention according to claim 2,
In the invention described in claim 1, the room is a bathroom and a dressing room.

Further, in the invention according to claim 3,
The invention according to claim 2 is characterized in that, when introducing warm air into the bathroom, the warm air is blown out toward a washing place in the bathroom.

Further, in the invention according to claim 4,
In the invention according to claim 1, 2 or 3, when introducing warm air generated by the clothes dryer into the bathroom and the undressing room via the duct, a ventilation duct for performing ventilation from the bathroom and the undressing room to the outside. It is characterized in that it is configured to be shared.

Further, in the invention described in claim 5,
4. The invention according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein warm air generated by the clothes dryer is introduced into the bathroom, and a dedicated ventilation port and a dedicated ventilation duct following the ventilation port are attached to the bathroom to make the bathroom a drying room for clothes and the like. It is characterized in that it is configured so that it can also be used as.

Further, in the invention according to claim 6,
The invention according to claim 5 is characterized in that warm air generated by the clothes dryer is blown out from an outlet on the ceiling in the bathroom and an auxiliary outlet installed on the floor side.

Further, in the invention according to claim 7,
The invention according to claim 6 is characterized in that the auxiliary outlet is configured to be detachable.

Further, in the invention according to claim 8,
In the invention described in claim 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7, the clothes dryer has a built-in heat exchanger or electric heater of a hot water or heat medium type and sends out warm air into the room. At this time, the rotation of the drum is stopped.

Further, in the invention according to claim 9,
In the invention described in claim 1 or 2 or 3 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8, a double pipe or a separate pipe partitioned vertically or horizontally to exhaust moisture from a clothes dryer and ventilation from a bathroom and a dressing room. It is characterized by performing in.

Further, in the invention according to claim 10, in the invention according to claim 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9, a warm air outlet is provided in a part of the clothes dryer. Is provided so that warm air can be directly blown out of the clothes dryer into the room where the clothes dryer is placed.

[0015]

When the bathroom or the dressing room is heated, only the blower fan and the heat exchanger of the clothes dryer are driven, and the drum does not rotate. The warm air generated by passing through the heat exchanger passes through the drainage duct of the clothes dryer via the inside of the drum, and is attached to the ceiling of the bathroom and the dressing room or the washing outlet of the bathroom. From the room. On the other hand, when the clothes are dried by the clothes dryer, the high-humidity warm air is prevented from entering the room by shutting off the air outlet or the ventilation port side with the switching damper. or,
When this bathroom is used as a clothes drying room, warm air is blown out from the floor side together with the ceiling of the bathroom, so that the clothes can be uniformly dried by a draft action from below.

[0016]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION A clothes dryer which can be used in the present invention has a built-in heat exchanger in which hot water supplied from a heat source device circulates. It has a built-in heat exchanger utilizing the heat carried in, or has a built-in electric heater. The gas combustion method is not suitable because the combustion exhaust gas is mixed in the exhaust gas.

In the clothes dryer used in the present invention, a built-in fan and a heat exchanger or an electric heater are driven, and the rotation of the drum is not stopped at this time. Further, in the case where warm air is blown directly from the clothes dryer to, for example, a dressing room, for example, a warm air outlet capable of adjusting an air volume and a wind direction is provided in a part of the clothes dryer.

The duct for introducing warm air from the clothes dryer into the bathroom and the undressing room may be dedicated, but from the viewpoint of cost and space, it is desirable to share the duct with the ventilation duct provided in the bathroom and the undressing room. . Particularly, in an existing house, sharing of the ventilation duct is advantageous in terms of construction, cost, and the like.

In order to introduce warm air from the clothes dryer into the room, a fan or a switching damper is used. The switching damper may be built in or attached to the clothes dryer main body. Then, when the heating mode and the clothes drying mode are input to the controller,
Configure to be controlled automatically.

Many clothes dryers are usually installed in a dressing room, which is advantageous in terms of location when heating a bathroom or a dressing room, but can also be applied to heating a general living room or corridor. . In addition, since there is an example where the apartment is installed on a veranda, when construction is possible, warm air may be introduced into the room from this veranda. In the case of a bathroom, since the washing place is cold, warm air may be blown out toward the washing place to warm it. Also, when the bathroom is used as a clothes drying room, if warm air is added to the ceiling and blown upward from the floor side, clothes can be dried quickly and evenly.

[0021]

Embodiment 1 Claims 1 to 4, 8 and 1 based on FIG.
An embodiment of the invention described in No. 0 will be described in detail. 1 is a clothes dryer, 2 is a dressing room, 3 is a bathroom, 4 is a moisture drainage duct (drain tube) of the clothes dryer 1, 5 is a ventilation and warm air outlet mounted on the ceiling of the dressing room 2, 6 is a ventilation / warm air outlet attached to the ceiling of the bathroom 3, 7 is a ventilation / warm air duct extended from the dehumidification duct 4 to the outdoor top 7a,
The ventilation and warm air outlets 5 and 6 are connected to the ventilation and warm air duct 7 by connection ducts 8 and 9. The branch duct 9b is connected to the ventilation / warm air duct 7 to extend the branch duct 9b to the washing room of the bathroom 3, and to blow out warm air from the outlet 6a of the washing room toward the floor of the washing room to warm the floor. You may comprise. In the figure, reference numeral 1 d denotes a warm air outlet directly attached to the clothes dryer 1. 10 is a control box for controlling the entire system based on various modes, a is inside the moisture exhaust duct 4, b is inside the connection duct 8, c and e.
Is a switching damper mounted in the ventilation / warm air duct 7, d in the connection duct 9, and d 'in the branch duct 9b.

Next, an operation example of the system according to the above embodiment will be described. 1. At this time, only the clothes dryer 1 is operated. At this time, the control circuit in the control box 10 controls the switching dampers a, c, and e to open, and b, d, and d 'to close, and is discharged from the clothes dryer 1. Exhaust to exhaust moisture 4
→ The air is discharged outside from the top 7a via the ventilation / warm air duct 7.

2. As shown in FIG. 2, in the clothes dryer 1, the drum 1 a
While the rotation is stopped, the blower fan 1b and the heat exchanger 1c are operated in the same manner as when drying the clothes to generate warm air, and this warm air is transmitted from the moisture drain duct 4 through the inside of the drum 1a as shown by the arrow. Send out. At this time, the switching dampers a, b,
d and d 'are opened, c is partially opened, and e is closed. As a result, part of the warm air is blown out of the ventilation / warm air outlet 5 into the undressing room 2 via the ventilation / warm air duct 7 and the connection duct 8. At the same time, a part of the warm air in the ventilation / warm air duct 7 is blown into the bathroom 3 from the ventilation / warm air outlets 6 and 6a via the connection duct 9 and the branch duct 9b via the half-opening switching damper c.

3. Only the dressing room is heated. The switching dampers a and b are opened and c is closed.

4. Only the bathroom is heated. The switching dampers a, c, d and d 'are opened and b and e are closed.

[5] Direct heating of the dressing room (Claim 10) For this direct heating, there is also a method of using the ventilation and warm air outlet 6, but the clothes dryer 1 is directly provided with the warm air outlet 1d and is sent out from the moisture discharge duct 4 side. Some or all of the warm air is blown directly from the warm air outlet 1d. In the case of the embodiment, an air volume and air direction adjusting device is attached to the warm air outlet 1d.

6. Ventilation of the dressing room and bathroom The switching dampers b, c, d, and e are opened and a is controlled to be closed, and the ventilation fans 8a and 9a in the ventilation and warm air outlets 5 and 6 are driven to form the ventilation and warm air duct 7. The air in the undressing room 2 and the bathroom 3 is discharged outside through the top 7a. Example 1
In the case of, the ventilation fans 8a and 9a are stopped at the time of heating, and the structure is such that warm air is blown into the undressing room 2 and the bathroom 3 by the wind pressure of the blower fan 1b on the clothes dryer 1 side. 8a and 9a may be driven together with the blower fan 1b. However, in this case, the ventilation fan 8
Needless to say, the rotation directions of a and 9a are reversed during ventilation and during heating.

[0028]

Embodiment 2 An embodiment of the present invention according to claims 5, 6, 7 and 8 will be described in detail with reference to FIG. This embodiment 2
In the bathroom 3, in addition to the ventilation and warm air outlet 6, a dehumidifying port 11 with a fan 11 a is separately provided, and the dehumidifying port 11 is connected to the ventilation and warm air duct 7 so that the bathroom 3 can be used as a drying room. It is what was constituted. Further, the branch duct 9
b is branched and extended from the ventilation / warm air duct 7 to the floor side of the bathroom 3 so that warm air is blown out also from the auxiliary outlet 6b on the floor side. The auxiliary outlet 6b of the embodiment is detachably connected to the branch duct 9b using an adapter, and is detached and stored when unnecessary. In this operation example, the switching dampers a, c, d, d ', f are opened and b, e are closed. In this way, the warm air sent from the clothes dryer 1 is blown into the bathroom 3 from the ventilation / warm air outlet 6 and the auxiliary outlet 6b, and the moisture evaporated from the clothes 12, 13 is
The air is discharged from the moisture exhaust port 11 to the outside via the ventilation / warm air duct 7 and the top 7a. In this bathroom drying operation, it is possible to heat the undressing room 2 by controlling the switching damper b to be open and c to be half open, but in order to increase the heat capacity of bathroom heating, this simultaneous operation is performed as much as possible. Not better.

[0029]

[Embodiment 3] This embodiment corresponds to the ninth embodiment. As shown in FIG. 4, a ventilation / warm air duct 7 and a ventilation / warm air outlet for dehumidification and warm air from the clothes dryer 1 are provided. 5 and 6 are the same as those in the first embodiment.
In this embodiment, a ventilation fan 7b is incorporated in the top 7a, and the ventilation openings 14 and 15 are not provided with fans. . However, the ventilation fan 7 of the top 7a
b may be abolished and ventilation fans may be incorporated into the individual ventilation ports 14 and 15. In the case of FIG. 4, the switching dampers a,
The c and e are controlled to be open, the clothes dryer 1 performs the clothes drying operation, and at the same time, the ventilation fan 7b is driven to indicate that the undressing room 2 and the bathroom 3 are being ventilated.

Although the ventilation / warm air duct 7 and the ventilation duct 16 of this embodiment use separate type pipes (ducts) divided vertically or horizontally, double pipes may be used. Good. Further, as shown in FIG. 5, the moisture drain duct 4 from the clothes dryer 1 may be extended to the outdoors as it is, and the dressing room 2 and the ventilation duct 16 of the bathroom 3 may be completely separated.

The ventilation may be performed not by the ventilation fan 7b in the top 7a but by the ventilation unit 17 attached to the ventilation duct 16. In FIG.
f and g are switching dampers, which open f and g when ventilating both the undressing room 2 and the bathroom 3 at the same time, switch f to open when only the undressing room 2 is used, and close g when closed; Controls f to be closed and g to be open.

[0032]

As described above, according to the present invention, since the warm air generated in the clothes dryer can be introduced into, for example, a dressing room or a bathroom to perform heating, the following effects can be obtained. 1. For a dressing room and bathroom heating, a separate heat source device and piping are not required, and the equipment cost is almost negligible. 2. By using the clothes dryer as a heat source of warm air, it is only necessary to connect the drying duct of the clothes dryer to the ventilation duct of the dressing room and bathroom, and the construction becomes extremely simple, and it can be realized by combining with the existing ventilation device. it can.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of a first embodiment of the invention described in claim 1;

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of a main part in a clothes dryer.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory view of a third embodiment of the invention described in claim 4;

FIG. 4 is an explanatory view of an example in which the present invention is implemented by being separated into a ventilation / warm air duct, a ventilation / warm air outlet, a ventilation dedicated duct, and a ventilation dedicated port.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of an example in which a fan unit is attached to a ventilation duct.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Clothes dryer 1a Drum 1b Blow fan 1c Heat exchanger 1d Warm air outlet 2 Dressing room 3 Bathroom 4 Moisture exhaust duct (moisture exhaust tube) 5 Ventilation / warm air outlet 6,6a Ventilation / warm air outlet 6b Auxiliary outlet 7 Ventilation / warm air duct 7a Top 7b Ventilation fan 8,9 Connection duct 9b Branch duct 8a, 9a Ventilation fan 10 Control box 11 Drainage port 11a Fan 12,13 Clothing 14,15 Ventilation dedicated port 16 Ventilation dedicated duct 17 Ventilation unit a, b, c, d, d ', e, f, g switching damper

 ────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Masayuki Kawamoto 2-26, Fukuzumi-cho, Nakagawa-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi F-term in Rinnai Corporation (reference) 3L071 AA01 AB01 AB03 AC02 AC06 AD02 AD03 3L072 AA05 AB06 AB10 AC02 AC05 AD19 3L113 AA01 AB02 AC08 AC25 AC45 AC46 AC52 AC53 AC67 BA14 DA06 DA13 4L019 BB01 BB04

Claims (10)

[Claims] 1. An indoor heating system using a clothes dryer configured to introduce warm air generated by a clothes dryer into a room directly or via a duct to heat the room. 2. An indoor heating system using a clothes dryer according to claim 1, wherein the room is a bathroom and a dressing room. 3. The indoor heating system using a clothes dryer according to claim 2, wherein when the warm air is introduced into the bathroom, the warm air is blown out toward a washing place in the bathroom. 4. When the warm air generated in the clothes dryer is introduced into the bathroom and the undressing room via the duct, the warm air is shared with a ventilation duct for ventilating the bathroom and the undressing room to the outside. An indoor heating system using the clothes dryer according to claim 1. 5. A structure in which warm air generated by a clothes dryer is introduced into a bathroom, and a dedicated ventilation port and a dedicated ventilation duct subsequent thereto are attached to the bathroom so that the bathroom can be used as a drying room for clothes and the like. An indoor heating system using the clothes dryer according to claim 1, 2 or 3. 6. An indoor heating apparatus using a clothes dryer according to claim 5, wherein warm air generated by the clothes dryer is blown out from an outlet on the ceiling in the bathroom and an auxiliary outlet installed on the floor side. system. 7. The indoor heating system using the clothes dryer according to claim 6, wherein the auxiliary outlet is configured to be detachable. 8. The clothes dryer has a built-in heat exchanger or electric heater of a hot water or heat medium type, and the rotation of the drum is stopped when sending out warm air into the room. An indoor heating system using the clothes dryer according to claim 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7. 9. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein moisture from the clothes dryer and ventilation from the bathroom and the undressing room are performed by a double pipe or a separate pipe divided into upper and lower or left and right.
Or, an indoor heating system using the clothes dryer according to 5 or 6 or 7 or 8. 10. A warm air outlet is provided in a part of the clothes dryer so that warm air can be directly blown out of the clothes dryer into the room where the clothes dryer is placed. Or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 or 9
An indoor heating system using the clothes dryer described in the above.