JP2001145800A - Clothes dryer - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem of the conventional clothes dryer that the energy efficiency is bad. SOLUTION: Dehumidified air is fed into a plurality of air bags 26 having air permeability arranged in a drying housing 10 by a blowing means 12 and a dehumidifying means 17, whereby the dehumidified air blown off from the air bags 26 may come into contact with clothes stored among the air bags uniformly so as to attain the high drying efficiency of the clothes dryer.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a clothes dryer used in ordinary households.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, in order to prevent the attachment of pollen and dust,
Furthermore, in order to avoid dioxin and the like, which have recently become a problem, clothes are often dried indoors even in fine weather. Also, with the number of dual-income families increasing, it is often heard that there is resistance to hanging clothes outdoors for long periods of time, such as weather changes or theft.

FIG. 5 illustrates the structure of a clothes dryer conventionally used in the background described above. That is, a drying cabinet 1 installed indoors, a blowing unit 2 for sending air into the drying cabinet 1, and a heating unit 3 for heating the blowing air.
And a control means 4. At this time, the supply of air into the drying cabinet 1 is performed by indoor air that is blown from the air inlet 5 by the blowing means 2, and the exhaust of air from the drying cabinet 1 is performed by the drying cabinet installed indoors. 1 is performed at the exhaust port 6 opened at the upper part of the apparatus. As shown, clothes such as laundry are stored in the drying cabinet 1.

[0004] With the above configuration, when the user operates an operation unit (not shown) to start the operation, the blowing means 2 and the heating means 3 start operating, and the hot air is blown into the drying cabinet 1. Can be The drying of the clothes proceeds by the warm air. At this time, the air that has become highly humid due to drying is exhausted from the exhaust port 6.

[0005]

The clothes dryer having the above-mentioned conventional construction has a problem that its energy efficiency is low. That is, the clothes dryer of the conventional configuration supplies a large amount of energy to the clothes by using the heating means, but there is a distance between the outlet of the dry air and the clothes, or the flow of the dry air. Since the direction is constant, the clothes may be unevenly dried, and the drying ability of the dry air cannot be used effectively. Further, the indoor air is always heated and supplied by the heating means, and a lot of energy is consumed.

[0006]

According to the present invention, air dehumidified by a blowing means and a dehumidifying means is blown into a plurality of air bags having air permeability provided in a drying chamber, and is blown out from a gap between the air bags. The dehumidified air makes uniform contact with the clothes stored between the plurality of air bags, thereby providing a clothes dryer with high drying efficiency.

[0007]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The invention described in claim 1 is characterized in that the air dehumidified by a blowing means and a dehumidifying means is sent to a plurality of air bags having air permeability provided in a drying cabinet, so that the air bags are discharged from the air bag. The dehumidified air that blows out comes into even contact with the clothes housed between the plurality of air bags, thereby providing a clothes dryer with high drying efficiency.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, while the outside air is supplied to the air bag by the second blowing means, the dehumidifying air is blown into the drying chamber by the blowing means.
The air in the drying chamber can be agitated, and a large amount of air comes into contact with the clothes, so that the clothes dryer has high drying efficiency.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, the control means controls opening and closing of the first damper, the second damper, the third damper, and the fourth damper according to fine weather and rainy weather.
You can choose to use the outdoor air or circulate the air inside the drying cabinet without using the outdoor air,
It is a clothes dryer with high drying efficiency.

[0010]

(Embodiment 1) Hereinafter, a first embodiment of the present invention will be described. FIG. 1 is a sectional view showing the configuration of the present embodiment. Numeral 10 denotes a drying cabinet for storing and drying the clothes, which includes a hanger pole 11 for hanging the clothes and a plurality of air bags 26 having air permeability. An intake pipe 13 is connected to the upper part of the drying cabinet 10, and a ventilation space 15 is connected to the bottom of the drying cabinet 10. The blower means 12 is composed of a fan and a motor. The air in the drying chamber 10 sucked from the suction pipe 13 is sucked from the suction port 14, and the air is blown from the blowout port 16 of the blower pipe 15 via the dehumidifying means 17. I'm blowing. A plurality of air bags 26 having air permeability are attached to the outlet 16. Air bag 26
Is made of cotton or the like woven into a mesh, thereby realizing air permeability. The dehumidifying means 17 comprises an adsorbent 18 such as zeolite or silica gel, a regeneration heater 19 for regenerating the adsorbent 18, and a regeneration fan 20. Reference numeral 25 denotes control means for controlling energization of the blower 12, the heater 18 for reproduction, and the fan 20 for reproduction.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram for explaining the structure of the dehumidifying means 17. The adsorbent 18 is divided into an adsorption zone 23 and a regeneration zone 24 by a partition plate, and is rotationally driven by driving means (not shown). That is, it passes through the adsorption zone 23 and the regeneration zone 24 sequentially. The blast air from the blast means 12 is supplied to the adsorption zone 23. The regeneration zone 24 is in contact with high-temperature air that the regeneration fan 20 draws in through the regeneration heater 19.

Further, the dried clothes stored in the drying cabinet 10 are suspended using the hanger pole 11 so as to be located between the plurality of air bags 26.

The operation of this embodiment will be described below.
The user first suspends the clothes to be dried on the pole hanger 11 installed in the drying cabinet 10 so as to be sandwiched between the air bags 26. At this time, since the air is not blown into the air bag 26 and is in a deflated state, the clothes can be easily arranged. Next, the opening / closing opening of the drying cabinet 10 (not shown) is closed to instruct drying of the clothes. This instruction is performed using a controller (not shown) in this embodiment. When instructed to start using by the controller, the control means 25
2 is energized. The operation of the blowing means 12 causes the drying cabinet 1
The air in 0 passes through the intake pipe 13 and is taken in from the intake port 14. The sucked air passes through the dehumidifying means 17 provided in the blower pipe 15. As described above, the dehumidifying unit 17 includes the adsorbent 18, the regeneration heater 19, the regeneration fan 20, and the like. Simultaneously with the operation of the blower 12, the heater 19 for regeneration, the fan 20 for regeneration, and the driving means for the adsorbent (not shown) also operate.

As shown in FIG. 2, the air containing moisture in the drying chamber 10 sucked from the suction port 14 through the suction pipe 13 passes through the adsorption zone 23 of the adsorbent 18 as shown in FIG. Then, moisture is adsorbed to form dry air. In addition, the outside air sucked from the regeneration inlet 21 by the regeneration fan 20 becomes hot air of an appropriate temperature by the regeneration heater 19 and passes through the regeneration zone 24 shown in FIG. When the hot air passes through the regeneration zone 24, the adsorbed moisture is desorbed by the hot air, and the adsorbent 18 is regenerated and activated. The high-humidity air containing the water desorbed from the adsorbent 18 is supplied to the regeneration fan 20.
The air is exhausted out of the system by the air blow. That is, since the adsorbent 18 of this embodiment is caused to alternately pass through the adsorption zone 24 and the regeneration zone 23 by a driving unit (not shown), the adsorbent 18 does not reach saturation due to the adsorption of moisture, so that Is activated and regenerated.

The dehumidified air is supplied from the blower pipe 15 to the air bags 26 through the outlet 16. Since the plurality of air bags 26 have air permeability as described above, when a certain internal pressure is reached by the dehumidified dry air, the air bags 26 blow out in all directions in the drying cabinet 10. . Therefore, the dehumidified air uniformly contacts the clothing arranged between the plurality of air bladders 26 from a close distance. Therefore, the clothes are efficiently dried. In this way, the high-humidity air containing the moisture contained in the clothes is sucked in from the intake pipe 13 by the blowing means 12 as described above, and is again dehumidified by contacting the dehumidifying means 17. It is.

In this way, the blasting means 12 circulates the air in the drying chamber 10 through the suction pipe 13, the dehumidifying means 17 and the blowing pipe 15, so that the clothes stored in the drying chamber 10 can be efficiently used. It is often dried.

In the above description, the controller 25 controls the drying of clothes by using a controller (not shown) for drying the clothes. The controller 25 does not necessarily need to use the controller. Things.

(Embodiment 2) Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described. FIG. 3 is a sectional view showing the configuration of the present embodiment. In this embodiment, the second blowing means 27 is used. The second blowing means 27 takes in outside air and supplies it to a plurality of air bags 26 suspended from the hanger pole 11. At this time, as described in the first embodiment,
The blowing means 12 draws air from the drying chamber 10 through the suction pipe 13 and dehumidifies the air by the dehumidifying means 17 into the blowing pipe 1.
5 blows out from the outlet 16 into the drying cabinet 10.

The operation of this embodiment will be described below.
In the present embodiment, the flow of the air blown by the blowing means 12 and the flow of the air blown by the second blowing means 27 coexist in the drying cabinet 10. That is, the air in the drying cabinet 10 is agitated by the two air flows. Accordingly, more air is uniformly contacted with the clothes arranged between the plurality of air bladders 26 by this stirring.

That is, according to the present embodiment, the drying cabinet 10
By stirring the air inside, a clothes dryer capable of drying more efficiently is realized.

(Embodiment 3) Next, a third embodiment of the present invention will be described. FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view illustrating the configuration of the present embodiment. In this embodiment, a first damper 30 is provided in an exhaust port 29 provided in the drying cabinet 10. Further, a second intake port 31 is provided in the intake pipe 13 to introduce outside air. The second intake port 31 is opened and closed by a second damper 32. The second intake port 31 is provided with a temperature / humidity detecting means 33 for detecting information on outdoor air. The temperature / humidity detecting means 33 includes, for example, a temperature sensor using a thermistor and a humidity sensor. Also,
A ventilation pipe 34 is provided in parallel with the dehumidifying means 17. A third damper 35 is provided at the inlet of the ventilation pipe 34, and a fourth damper 36 is provided at the outlet. The control means 25 controls the first damper 30 according to the detection information of the temperature and humidity detection means 33.
, The second damper 32, the third damper 35, and the fourth damper 36.

Hereinafter, the operation of this embodiment will be described.
When the user starts operation by operating an operation unit (not shown), the first damper 30 opens the exhaust port 29, the second damper 32 closes the intake pipe 13, and the second intake port After opening 31, the third damper 35 and the fourth damper 36 close the path on the dehumidifying means 17 side, open the ventilation pipe 34 side, and the blowing means 12 operates. Outdoor air taken in from the second air inlet 31 by the blowing means 12 is:
The temperature and humidity are detected by the temperature / humidity detecting means 33 disposed in the second intake port 31. In the case of high temperature and low humidity, the operation continues as it is. The high-temperature and low-humidity outdoor air passes through a filter provided in the second air inlet 31 to remove dirt such as dust, pollen, and soot, and is sucked in as clean air. 34, passes through the blower tube 15, and is supplied to the air bag 26 through the outlet 16. The air blown out from the air bag 26 into the drying cabinet 10 passes through the clothes, and then is discharged outside through the exhaust port 29. In the present embodiment, the reference state for determination of high temperature and low humidity is a temperature of 20 ° C. and a relative humidity of 60%. In cases other than high temperature and low humidity, that is, when the outdoor air does not have a sufficient drying ability, the control means 25 causes the first damper 30 to close the exhaust port 29 and the second damper 32 to operate The pipe 13 is opened, the second intake port 31 is closed, and the third damper 35 and the fourth damper 36 open the path on the dehumidifying means 17 side, and close the ventilation pipe 34. In this way, the air dried by the dehumidifying means 17 is supplied to the air bag 26.

The same operation is performed in the configuration as in the second embodiment.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, in the case of high temperature and low humidity, outdoor air is sucked in by the blowing means 12 and
By blowing air into the air bag 26, outdoor air can be used effectively. Furthermore, in cases other than high temperature and low humidity, the air in the drying cabinet 10 is circulated, and the dehumidified and dried air is sent into the air bag 26, so that the dried air is sufficiently brought into contact with the clothing, and the clothes can be finished evenly. It is possible to realize an energy-saving and efficient clothes dryer.

[0025]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a drier for accommodating clothes, a plurality of air bags having air permeability provided in the drier, and a dehumidifier for dehumidifying air sucked from the drier. Means, air blowing means for blowing the air dehumidified by the dehumidifying means to the air bag, and a control means for controlling the dehumidifying means and the air blowing means, the dehumidified air blown from the air bag is a plurality of air bags. The present invention realizes a clothes dryer with high drying efficiency by evenly contacting clothes stored in between.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a drying cabinet for storing clothes, a plurality of air bags having air permeability provided in the drying cabinet, and a dehumidifying means for dehumidifying air sucked from the drying cabinet. Air blowing means for blowing air dehumidified by the dehumidifying means to the drying chamber, a plurality of air bags provided in the drying chamber, a second blowing means for blowing outside air to the air bag, and the dehumidifying means As a configuration including a blowing means and a control means for controlling the second blowing means, it is possible to stir the air in the drying chamber, and to contact a large amount of air with the clothes, thereby realizing a clothes drying machine with high drying efficiency. It is.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, the control means includes:
A first damper that opens and closes an exhaust port provided in the drying cabinet, a second damper that opens and closes a first intake port provided in the drying cabinet, a ventilation path that bypasses the dehumidifying means, a ventilation path and the dehumidifying means. As a configuration that opens and closes the third damper or the fourth damper that switches with the passing path, controls the opening and closing of the first damper, the second damper, the third damper, and the fourth damper according to fine weather and rainy weather In this way, it is possible to select whether to use the outdoor air or to circulate the air in the drying cabinet without using the outdoor air, and to realize a clothes dryer with high drying efficiency.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a sectional view showing a configuration of a clothes dryer according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing a configuration of a dehumidifying unit.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view illustrating a configuration of a clothes dryer according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view showing a configuration of a clothes dryer according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory view showing a configuration of a conventional clothes dryer.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Drying cabinet 11 Hanger pole 12 Blowing means 13 Suction pipe 14 Suction port 15 Blowing pipe 16 Outlet 17 Dehumidification means 18 Adsorbent 19 Regeneration heater 20 Regeneration fan 21 Regeneration intake port 22 Regeneration exhaust port 23 Adsorption zone 24 Reproduction Zone 25 control means 26 air bag 27 second blowing means 28 second blowing pipe 29 exhaust port 30 first damper 31 second intake port 32 second damper 33 temperature and humidity detecting means 34 ventilation pipe 35 third Damper 36 Fourth Damper

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────の Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Bunshin Hosokawa 1006 Kazuma Kadoma, Osaka Prefecture Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. F-term (reference) 4L019 BB02

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A drying cabinet for accommodating clothes, a plurality of air bags having air permeability provided in the drying cabinet, dehumidifying means for dehumidifying air taken in from the drying cabinet, and air dehumidified by the dehumidifying means. And a control means for controlling the dehumidifying means and the blowing means. 2. A drying cabinet for accommodating clothes, a plurality of air bags having air permeability provided in the drying cabinet, dehumidifying means for dehumidifying air taken in from the drying cabinet, and air dehumidified by the dehumidifying means. Means for blowing air to the drying chamber, a plurality of air bags provided in the drying chamber, a second blowing means for blowing outside air to the air bag, the dehumidifying means, the blowing means, and the second blowing means Control means for controlling the means. 3. The control means includes a first damper for opening and closing an exhaust port provided in the drying cabinet, a second damper for opening and closing a first intake port provided in the drying cabinet, and ventilation for bypassing the dehumidifying unit. 3. The clothes dryer according to claim 1, wherein a third damper or a fourth damper that switches between a path, a ventilation path, and a path passing through the dehumidifying means is opened and closed.