JP2014097138A - Bathroom heater/dryer - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a bathroom heater/dryer capable of reducing uneven drying of laundry and improving drying efficiency of the laundry while preventing a size of the apparatus from being enlarged.SOLUTION: There is provided a bathroom heater/dryer (1A) which comprises a housing (2) provided with a warm air blowing port (3b) and warm air generating means included in the housing (2) and generating warm air to be fed to the warm air blowing port (3b), and blows warm air from the warm air blowing port (3b) to a bathroom (51). The bathroom heater/dryer (1A) has: a body (21) on which laundry (55) can be hung; a rotary clothes drying member (11) having a bearing (23) rotatably holding the body (21); hoisting/lowering means for hoisting/lowering the rotary clothes drying member (11) with respect to the housing (2) so that the warm air fed from the warm air blowing port (3b) blows over a part of the laundry (55) hung on the body (21).

Description

  The present invention relates to a bathroom heating dryer that can dry laundry that has been dried in the bathroom.

  In recent years, a bathroom heater / dryer has been installed on the ceiling of the bathroom for comfortable bathing and prevention of mold in the bathroom, and the laundry is dried using the bathroom heater / dryer during the idle time of the bathroom, which occupies most of the day. Doing things. This is convenient in that the laundry can be dried without being influenced by temperature or weather.

  Such bathroom heating dryers include a type installed on the ceiling and a type installed on the wall. FIG. 9 is a diagram schematically showing a state of a bathroom 201 having a conventional ceiling-mounted bathroom heating dryer 210. Since the ceiling 201a of the bathroom 201 has an inspection port (not shown) above the washing place 201b, the bathroom heater / dryer 210 is installed above the bathtub 202. Above the bathtub 202, a clothes-drying basket 203 for hanging clothes is arranged between the wall surfaces. The laundry suspended on the clothesline is exposed to the warm air sent from the bathroom heating dryer and dried.

  Since the bathroom heater / dryer 210 sends out warm air to a certain range, the degree of drying of the laundry was different unless the position of the laundry was moved. Specifically, even if the laundry at the position where the hot air hits was dry, the laundry at the position where the hot air did not hit was freshly dried.

  FIG. 10 is an external perspective view showing a conventional bathroom heater / dryer 101. For example, a bathroom heating / drying machine 101 shown in FIG. 10 has a main body case attached to the ceiling of a bathroom when clothes drying is instructed by a remote controller (not shown) in order to reduce the unevenness of drying of the laundry as described above. When the laundry bar 111 is lowered from the 102 to the position where it is easy to dry the laundry 120 via the lift bar 112 and then the laundry 120 is hung on the laundry bar 111, the hot air F1 blown out from the hot air outlet 103 is generated. The clothes-drying bar 111 is rotated so as to hit the laundry 120 evenly.

  FIG. 11 is a view showing the structure of the lifting and lowering mechanism and the rotating mechanism of the clothes drying bar 111 provided in the conventional bathroom heating / drying machine 101. As shown in FIG. 11, a pedestal 116 is rotatably provided in the main body case 102 of the bathroom heater / dryer 101 via an annular guide bearing 119. When the lifting motor 113 with a deceleration function fixed to the pedestal 116 rotates, the pinion 114 provided on the shaft 113a of the lifting motor 113 rotates. A rack 115 provided on the elevating bar 112 is engaged with the pinion 114. Therefore, when the pinion 114 rotates in the forward direction, the lifting bar 112 descends through the hole 116a of the pedestal 116 and the hole 102a of the main body case 102, and when the pinion 114 rotates in the reverse direction, the lifting bar 112 moves into the holes 116a, 102a. Rise through.

  On the other hand, when the rotation motor 117 fixed to the main body case 102 rotates, the bevel gear 118 provided on the shaft 117a of the rotation motor 117 also rotates. The bevel gear 118 is engaged with a bevel gear 116 b cut at the outer edge of the base 116. Therefore, when the rotation motor 117 rotates, the pedestal 116 rotates. When the pedestal 116 rotates, the lifting motor 113 and the lifting bar 112 rotate. As shown in FIG. 10, the clothes drying bar 111 is rotated by the rotation of the lifting bar 112 (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

JP 2001-314700 A (paragraphs [0004], [0009], paragraphs [0010] to [0017])

  However, as shown in FIG. 11, the conventional bathroom heater / dryer 101 requires mechanical mechanisms such as a rotation motor 117, a bevel gear 118, and a pedestal 116 to rotate the clothes drying bar 111, and the apparatus size is large. It had become.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and is capable of improving the drying efficiency of the laundry by reducing the unevenness of the drying of the laundry while suppressing the increase in the size of the apparatus. The purpose is to provide a machine.

One embodiment of the present invention has the following configuration.
(1) A housing provided with a hot air outlet, and hot air generating means that is built in the housing and generates hot air supplied to the hot air outlet, and sends the hot air from the hot air outlet to the bathroom. In a bathroom heater / dryer, a main body on which the laundry is hung, a rotary clothes drying member having a bearing for rotatably holding the main body, and the washing in which the hot air sent from the hot air outlet is hung on the main body Elevating means for elevating and lowering the rotary drying member relative to the housing so as to hit a part of the object.

(2) In the configuration described in (1), it preferably includes a mass measuring unit that measures the mass of the laundry hung on the rotary clothes drying member.

(3) In the configuration described in (2), preferably, the dryness detection unit that detects the dryness of the laundry based on the mass measured by the mass measurement unit, and the dryness detection unit detects Hot air stopping means for stopping the operation of the hot air generating means when the dryness exceeds a predetermined dryness.
Here, the “predetermined dryness” refers to a dryness (for example, 95%) at which the laundry is determined to be dry, or a dryness arbitrarily set by the user.

(4) The configuration described in (2) preferably includes a mass over warning unit that issues a warning when the mass measured by the mass measuring unit exceeds an upper limit value.

(5) In the configuration described in any one of (1) to (4), preferably, the elevating means automatically elevates and lowers the rotary clothes drying member.

(6) In the configuration described in any one of (1) to (5), preferably, it is formed in a cylindrical shape and accommodates the rotary drying member so as to be able to advance and retract. Between a first holding position that is housed in the housing with the rotary clothes-drying member housed therein, and a second holding position that protrudes downward from the housing so that the rotary clothes-drying member can be lowered. A storage cover that is held by the housing so that the storage cover can rotate, and an automatic rotation unit that automatically rotates the storage cover between the first holding position and the second holding position.

  In the bathroom heater / dryer having the above-described configuration, warm air hits a part of the laundry hung on the rotary clothes drying member lowered from the housing, and the rotary clothes drying member is given a rotational force. The rotary clothes drying member keeps the main body rotating together with the laundry by the bearing. Therefore, the warm air is evenly applied to the laundry, and the drying unevenness of the laundry is reduced. In addition, since the rotary clothes drying member continues to rotate only with warm wind power due to the function of the bearing, it is not necessary to provide a mechanical mechanism for rotating the rotation clothes drying member in the bathroom heating dryer. Therefore, according to the bathroom heating dryer of the said structure, the drying efficiency of laundry can be raised, without enlarging apparatus size.

It is a figure which shows the bathroom in which the bathroom heating dryer which concerns on 1st Embodiment of this invention was installed. It is the schematic which shows the internal structure of the bathroom heating dryer of 1st Embodiment. It is the figure which looked at the bathroom heating dryer of a 1st embodiment from the front grille side. It is a figure which shows the structure of the raising / lowering rotation mechanism provided in the bathroom heating dryer of 1st Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the internal structure of a rotary-type clothes drying member. It is a figure which shows partially the structure of the raising / lowering rotation mechanism provided in the bathroom heating dryer of 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is the figure which looked at the bathroom heating dryer of 3rd Embodiment of this invention from the front grille side. It is a figure which shows the structure of the raising / lowering rotation mechanism provided in the bathroom heating dryer of 3rd Embodiment. It is a figure which shows typically the state of the bathroom which has the conventional ceiling installation type bathroom heating dryer. It is an external appearance perspective view which shows the conventional bathroom heating dryer. It is a figure which shows the structure of the raising / lowering mechanism and rotation mechanism of the drying bar provided in the conventional bathroom heating dryer.

  Below, preferred embodiment of the bathroom heating dryer of this invention is described based on drawing.

<First Embodiment>
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a bathroom 51 in which a bathroom heating dryer 1A according to the first embodiment of the present invention is installed.
The bathroom heater / dryer 1 </ b> A is attached to the ceiling 51 a of the bathroom 51 and heats or dries the bathroom 51 by sending warm air F to the bathroom 51. The bathroom heater / dryer 1 </ b> A dries the rotary clothes drying member 11 accommodated in the housing 2 in the laundry (in the following description, the entire hanger on which one or more clothes are put is called “laundry”) 55. An elevating rotary mechanism 10A is provided that is lowered to an easy position and continues to rotate the rotary clothes drying member 11 with only the warm wind F.

  FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing the internal structure of the bathroom heating dryer 1A of the first embodiment. The exterior of the bathroom heater / dryer 1 </ b> A is configured by the housing 2. The housing 2 includes a main body case 4 in which equipment necessary for heating and drying the bathroom 51 is placed, and a front grill 3 that closes the inside of the main body case 4 so that the inside of the main body case 4 cannot be seen. The bathroom heater / dryer 1 </ b> A is installed such that the main body case 4 is embedded in the ceiling 51 a of the bathroom 51, and the front grill 3 is exposed to the ceiling 51 a of the bathroom 51.

  In the bathroom heater / dryer 1 </ b> A, a hot air generating means 5 for generating hot air F by sucking the air in the bathroom 51 from the air inlet 3 a of the front grill 3 is provided in the main body case 4. The warm air F generated by the warm air generating means 5 is sent to the bathroom 51 from the warm air outlet 3b of the front grill 3 through the ventilation path 6, and warms the bathroom 51. Thereby, heating or drying of the bathroom 51 is performed. The bathroom heater / dryer 1 </ b> A activates a ventilation fan (not shown) installed in or outside the main body case 4, thereby sucking the air in the bathroom 51 from the air suction port 3 a and discharging it to the outside, thereby ventilating the bathroom 51. I do.

  The operation of the bathroom heating dryer 1A is controlled by the control means 7A. The control means 7A is a well-known microcomputer and is connected to the remote controller 8 in the bathroom shown in FIG. 1 or a remote controller provided in the dressing room with a signal line, and controls the operation of the bathroom heater / dryer 1A according to the user's instructions. To do.

  FIG. 3 is a view of the bathroom heating dryer 1A according to the first embodiment as viewed from the front grill 3 side. The bathroom heater / dryer 1 </ b> A stores the rotary clothes drying member 11 so as to be embedded in the housing 2. In the present embodiment, the rotary drying member 11 is provided in the housing so that the lower surface of the rotary drying member 11 is substantially flush with the bathroom side surface of the front grill 3. This is to improve the aesthetics and to prevent the rotating clothes-drying member 11 from getting in the way when taking a bath.

  The elevating rotary mechanism 10A is configured to heat and dry the bathroom so that the hot air F (see FIG. 1) hits a part of the laundry 55 hung on the rotary clothes drying member 11 when the rotary clothes drying member 11 is lowered. It is positioned and attached to the machine 1A. The bathroom heating / drying machine 1A according to the first embodiment has a lower side of the air suction port 3a in the drawing so that the elevating rotary mechanism 10A partially overlaps the projection surface of the bottom view of the laundry 55 with the hot air outlet 3b. Is provided. The arrangement of the up-and-down rotation mechanism 10A is not limited to this. For example, on the left side of the hot air outlet 3b in the drawing, the lower side of the hot air outlet 3b in the drawing, the upper side of the hot air outlet 3b or the air suction port 3a in the drawing, etc. The elevating rotary mechanism 10A may be provided. In the first embodiment, only one lifting / lowering rotating mechanism 10A is provided in the housing 2 (front grill 3 and / or main body case 4). However, two or more lifting / lowering rotating mechanisms 10A are provided in the housing 2 (front Needless to say, it may be provided on the grill 3 or / and the main body case 4).

  FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a structure of an elevating rotary mechanism 10A provided in the bathroom heater / dryer 1A of the first embodiment. In the lifting rotation mechanism 10A, a lifting motor 14 is fixed to the housing 2 (front grill 3 or main body case 4). A wire take-up member 13 around which a wire 12 is wound is attached to a shaft 14 a of the lifting motor 14. The wire winding member 13 is rotatably held by the housing 2 (front grill 3 or main body case 4). The wire 12 hangs down to the bathroom 51 through the storage hole 3c of the front grill 3, and the rotary clothes-drying member 11 is fixed to the tip. The wire 12 is formed of a metal such as stainless steel in order to ensure strength.

  The raising / lowering motor 14 is connected to the control means 7A, and the rotation direction and the number of rotations are controlled. For example, the rotation direction and the number of rotations of the lifting / lowering motor 14 are such that the user can easily dry the laundry 55 on the rotary clothes drying member 11 (for example, a position 200 mm lower than the bathroom side surface of the front grill 3). Control is performed to lower the member 11.

  FIG. 5 is a view showing the internal structure of the rotary clothes drying member 11. The rotary laundry 11 includes a main body 21 having a hook on which the laundry 55 is suspended, a shaft member 22 connected to the wire 12, and a bearing 23 disposed between the main body 21 and the shaft member 22. It is configured. The main body 21 is fixed to the outer race 23 a of the bearing 23, and the shaft member 22 is fixed to the inner race 23 b of the bearing 23. Therefore, the main body 21 can freely rotate with respect to the shaft member 22 with a very small resistance. The main body 21 and the shaft member 22 are made of resin from the viewpoint of preventing rust.

  1 A of bathroom heating dryers of the said structure operate | move as follows. The bathroom heater / dryer 1 </ b> A, for example, raises the rotary clothes-drying member 11 and stores it in the housing 2 until the clothes drying is instructed by the remote controller 8 shown in FIG. 1 or the like. Hereinafter, this state is referred to as “normal state”.

  When an instruction for drying clothes is input from the remote controller 8 or the like, the control means 7A of the bathroom heating / drying machine 1A rotates the elevating motor 14 by a predetermined number of rotations in the forward direction to lower the rotary drying member 11. At the same time, the control means 7A activates the warm air generating means 5 and starts sending the warm air F from the warm air outlet 3b to the bathroom 51.

  For example, when the user hangs the laundry 55 in which a towel or the like is hung on a commercially available octopus hanger on the rotary clothes drying member 11, the hot air F sent from the warm air outlet 3 b to the bathroom 51 is It hits a part. With this force, the rotary clothes drying member 11 is given a rotational force, and the main body 21 starts to rotate with respect to the shaft member 22 via the bearing. If the rotary drying member 11 does not start to rotate automatically, the user turns the laundry 55 by hand and rotates the main body 21 of the rotary drying member 11. While the bathroom heater / dryer 1A sends out the hot air F, the hot air F continues to partially hit the laundry 55, and the main body 21 of the rotary drying member 11 continues to rotate. That is, the rotary clothes drying member 11 can continue to rotate the main body 21 and the laundry 55 only with the wind of the warm air F used for drying without using a mechanical mechanism such as a motor. Thereby, the warm air F hits the laundry 55 uniformly, and the drying unevenness of the laundry 55 can be reduced.

  In addition, the hanger used for the laundry 55 is not limited to the octopus foot hanger, and various commercial products having different shapes such as a square hanger and a shirt hanger can be used. In this manner, since various types of commercially available hangers can be hung on the rotary clothes drying member 11, it is inexpensive and convenient.

  When the user finishes drying the laundry 55 and inputs an instruction to end clothing drying to the remote controller 8, the control means 7A rotates the lifting motor 14 in the reverse direction. Then, the wire winding member 13 winds the wire 12 and stores the rotary clothes drying member 11 in the storage hole 3c of the housing 2 (front grill 3). Thereby, 1 A of bathroom heating dryers return to a normal state.

  Here, the inventors made the same position for drying the laundry 55 in the bathroom 51 and rotated the laundry 55 (when rotated) and when the laundry 55 was not rotated (non-rotated). In the case), a test for measuring the drying time of the laundry 55 was performed. As a result, the drying time of the laundry 55 in the case of rotational installation was about 10% shorter than the drying time of the laundry 55 in the non-rotational installation. From this test result, it was demonstrated that rotating the laundry 55 reduces drying unevenness and improves the drying efficiency of the laundry 55.

As described above, the bathroom heater / dryer 1A according to the first embodiment generates the warm air F that is built in the housing 2 (main body case 4) provided with the warm air outlet 3b and is supplied to the hot air outlet 3b. A rotary clothes drying member having a hot air generating means 5 and sending hot air F from the hot air outlet 3b to the bathroom 51, including a main body 21 on which the laundry 55 is hung, and a bearing 23 for rotatably holding the main body 21 11 and lifting means for raising and lowering the rotary drying member 11 relative to the housing 2 so that the warm air F sent from the warm air outlet 3b hits a part of the laundry 55 hung on the main body 21 (first embodiment) In the embodiment, the wire 12, the wire winding member 13, and the lifting motor 14 are included. In the bathroom heating / drying machine 1A having such a configuration, warm air F hits a part of the laundry 55 hung on the rotary clothes drying member 11 lowered from the housing 2, and the rotary clothes drying member 11 is given a rotational force. The In the rotary clothes drying member 11, the main body 21 continues to rotate together with the laundry 55 by the bearing 23. Therefore, the warm air F hits the laundry 55 evenly, and the drying unevenness of the laundry 55 is reduced. Moreover, since the rotary drying member 11 continues to rotate only by the wind of the warm air F by the function of the bearing 23, it is not necessary to provide a mechanical mechanism for rotating the rotary drying member 11 in the bathroom heating dryer 1A. Therefore, according to 1 A of bathroom heating dryers of the said structure, the drying efficiency of the laundry 55 can be raised, without enlarging apparatus size.

  In the bathroom heating / drying machine 1A of the first embodiment, the lifting / lowering means automatically lifts and lowers the rotary clothes drying member 11. Specifically, the bathroom heater / dryer 1 </ b> A includes a wire 12 connected to the rotary clothes drying member 11, a wire winding member 13 that winds the wire 12, and a lifting motor 14 that rotates the wire winding member 13. The wire take-up member 13 is rotated by the elevating motor 14 and the rotary drying member 11 is automatically raised and lowered via the wire 12. Such a bathroom heating / drying machine 1 </ b> A can easily lift and lower the rotary clothes-drying member 11 even when the bathroom heating / drying machine 1 </ b> A is mounted at a high position like the ceiling 51 a of the bathroom 51.

Second Embodiment
Then, the bathroom heating dryer which concerns on 2nd Embodiment of this invention is demonstrated. FIG. 6 is a view partially showing the structure of the elevating rotary mechanism 10B provided in the bathroom heating / drying machine according to the second embodiment of the present invention. The bathroom heating dryer of the second embodiment includes a mass sensor 61 for measuring the mass of the laundry 55 hung on the rotary clothes drying member 11, and the control means 7B controls the dryness via the remote controller 8 or the like. The point which performs notification and warning of mass over is different from the configuration of the bathroom heating dryer 1A of the first embodiment, and the other points have the same configuration as the bathroom heating dryer 1A. Here, it demonstrates centering on the point which is different from 1 A of bathroom heating dryers, and abbreviate | omits description suitably about the point which is common with 1 A of bathroom heating dryers. In addition, the code | symbol used in 1st Embodiment is used for the structure which is common with 1 A of bathroom heating dryers as it is.

  The elevating rotation mechanism 10B is configured by providing a mass sensor 61 in the elevating rotation apparatus 10A of the first embodiment. The mass sensor 61 is provided in the housing 2 (the front grill 3 or the main body case 4) so as to be pressed against the wire winding member 13 and measure the mass. Specifically, when the laundry 55 is hung on the rotary laundry 11, the wire winding member 13 is pulled by the laundry 55 to press the mass sensor 61, and the mass sensor 61 measures the mass.

  In the elevating rotation mechanism 10B, the mass sensor 61 and the elevating motor 14 are electrically connected to the control means 7B, and the operation of the elevating motor 14 can be controlled based on the mass measured by the mass sensor 61. . Further, the control means 7B is connected to the remote controller 8 and is configured to make a notification or warning related to mass using a buzzer or a liquid crystal screen provided in the remote controller 8.

  The operation of the bathroom heater / dryer will be described. The bathroom heating dryer stores the mass (initial state) when the control means 7B is not hung on the rotary clothes drying member 11.

  When the laundry 55 is put on the rotary clothes drying member 11 lowered from the housing 2, the mass sensor 61 measures the mass and transmits the measurement result to the control means 7B. When the control unit 7B detects that the mass has increased from the initial state, the control unit 7B starts the hot air generation unit 5 and starts sending the hot air F to the bathroom 51.

  In this case, when the control unit 7B detects that the received mass measurement data exceeds the upper limit value (for example, 5 kg), the mass of the laundry 55 exceeds the upper limit value via the buzzer of the remote controller 8 or the liquid crystal screen. Inform the user that Therefore, the user does not perform drying by placing the laundry 55 exceeding the permitted mass on the rotary laundry 11 and can prevent the bathroom heating dryer from being damaged due to the mass of the laundry 55 being exceeded.

  The bathroom heating dryer detects the dryness of the laundry 55 based on the mass measurement data received from the mass sensor 61 by the control means 7B. Specifically, based on the difference between the mass measurement data received from the mass sensor 61 at the start of clothes drying or immediately after the clothes drying start and the mass measurement data received from the mass sensor 61 after the clothes drying start, the degree of dryness is determined. Is detected. And the control means 7B stops operation | movement of the warm air generation means 5, when the detected dryness becomes more than predetermined dryness. Here, the predetermined dryness refers to the dryness (for example, 95%) at which the laundry 55 is determined to be dry, or the dryness arbitrarily set by the user. According to such a bathroom heating dryer, after the laundry 55 is dried or after the laundry 55 is dried as desired by the user, the hot air generating means 5 is not driven wastefully, and energy saving is achieved. Excellent in properties.

  Moreover, the said bathroom heating dryer detects that the mass returned to the initial state based on the mass measurement data of the mass sensor 61, when the user removes the laundry 55 from the rotary laundry 11 and the control means 7B. . Then, the control means 7B rotates the elevating motor 14 in the reverse direction after the elapse of a predetermined time (for example, 1 minute) after detecting the return to the initial state, so that the wire 12 becomes the wire take-up member 13. The rotary clothes drying member 11 is raised and stored in the housing 2. Therefore, the user does not need to return to the bathroom 51 in order to raise the rotary laundry member 11 after placing the laundry 55 removed from the rotary laundry member 11 in a separate room, thereby improving the efficiency of housework. be able to.

  As described above, the bathroom heating / drying machine according to the second embodiment has the mass sensor (an example of the mass measuring unit) 61 that measures the mass of the laundry 55 hung on the rotary clothes drying member 11. 55 masses can be automatically recognized.

  In addition, the bathroom heating / drying machine according to the second embodiment detects the dryness of the laundry 55 based on the mass measured by the mass sensor 61 and an example of the dryness detected. Since it has the control means 7B (warm air stop means) for stopping the operation of the hot air generating means 5 when it reaches a predetermined dryness or higher, the hot air generating means 5 is appropriately set according to the drying condition of the clothes. It can be operated and has excellent energy savings.

  Moreover, since the bathroom heating dryer of 2nd Embodiment has the control means 7B (an example of a mass over warning means) which warns when the mass which the mass sensor 61 measured exceeds the upper limit, The housing 2 is not damaged by overhanging.

<Third Embodiment>
Then, 1 C of bathroom heating dryers which concern on 3rd Embodiment of this invention are demonstrated. FIG. 7: is the figure which looked at the bathroom heating dryer 1C of 3rd Embodiment of this invention from the front grille 3 side. The bathroom heating / drying machine 1C according to the third embodiment has a feature in that the housing 2 is provided so as to automatically rotate the cylindrical storage cover 71 that stores the rotary clothes drying member 11 so as to be movable forward and backward. Unlike the heating dryer 1A, other configurations are the same as those of the bathroom heating dryer 1A. Here, it demonstrates centering on the point which is different from 1 A of bathroom heating dryers, and abbreviate | omits description suitably about the point which is common with 1 A of bathroom heating dryers. In addition, the code | symbol used in 1st Embodiment is used for the structure which is common with 1 A of bathroom heating dryers as it is.

  The storage cover 71 has a cylindrical shape with a square cross section. The front grill 3 has a rectangular storage hole 72 for storing the storage cover 71 so that the storage cover 71 can be stored without protruding from the surface of the front grill 3.

  FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a structure of an elevating rotary mechanism 10 </ b> C provided in the bathroom heating dryer 1 </ b> C of the third embodiment. In the elevating rotation mechanism 10 </ b> C, the storage cover 71 is rotatably held in the housing 2 (the front grill 3 or the main body case 4) with the wire winding member 13 as a rotation axis. The storage cover 71 includes a first holding position (see a two-dot chain line in the figure) stored in the storage hole 72 of the housing 2 (front grill 3) in a state in which the rotary clothes drying member 11 is stored therein, and a rotation clothes drying member. 11 is rotated between a second holding position (refer to a solid line in the figure) projecting downward from the housing 2 (front grill 3) so as to be lowered.

  The distal end portion of the wire 75 wound around the cover wire winding member 74 is fixed to the storage cover 71. The cover wire winding member 74 is connected to the shaft 73a of the cover motor 73, and rotates integrally with the shaft 73a.

  The storage cover 71 is locked by the electromagnetic lock 76 and is held at the first holding position. The electromagnetic lock 76 has an electromagnetic lock main body 76 a fixed to the housing 2 (front grill 3 or main body case 4), a strike plate 76 b attached to the storage cover 71, and the housing 2 (front grill 3 or main body case 4) and storage cover. It locks between 71 with a powerful electromagnet.

  The hollow hole of the storage cover 71 is provided in such a size that the rotary clothes drying member 11 can move. The wire 12 is wound around the wire winding member 13 through the hollow hole of the storage cover 71. Therefore, the rotary clothes drying member 11 protrudes from the storage cover 71 when the wire 12 is sent out from the wire winding member 13, and retracts into the storage cover 71 when the wire 12 is wound around the wire winding member 13. Stored.

  The cover motor 73 and the electromagnetic lock 76 (electromagnetic lock body 76a) are electrically connected to the control means 7C together with the elevating motor 14, and the operation is controlled.

  The operation of such a bathroom heater / dryer 1C will be described. The bathroom heating / drying machine 1 </ b> C is normally in a state in which the wires 75 and 12 are respectively wound by the cover wire winding member 74 and the wire winding member 13 and the storage cover 71 is held at the first holding position. The storage cover 71 is held at the first holding position in a state where the rotary clothes drying member 11 is stored inside the hollow hole. Therefore, in this normal state, there are few unevenness | corrugations on the surface of the front grille 3, and the aesthetics of the bathroom heating dryer 1C are good.

  For example, when an instruction for drying clothes is input to the remote controller 8, the bathroom heating dryer 1 </ b> C changes the laundry 55 from the normal state to a state where the laundry 55 can be hung on the rotary laundry 11.

  Specifically, the control means 7 </ b> C stops energization to the electromagnetic lock 76. Then, the electromagnetic lock main body 76a is demagnetized and does not attract the strike plate 76b, and the electromagnetic lock 76 is unlocked.

  Next, the control means 7C rotates the cover motor 73 in the forward direction, feeds the wire 75 from the cover wire winding member 74, and rotates the storage cover 71 from the first holding position to the second holding position. At this time, the rotary clothes drying member 11 is still stored in the storage cover 71.

  Next, the control means 7 </ b> C rotates the elevating motor 14 in the forward direction, feeds the wire 12 from the wire winding member 13, and lowers the rotary clothes drying member 11. The rotary clothes drying member 11 stops at a position protruding a predetermined amount from the storage cover 71.

  When the user hangs the laundry 55 on the rotary laundry 11, the warm air F sent from the bathroom heater / dryer 1 </ b> C to the bathroom 51 hits the laundry 55, and the rotary laundry 11 continues to rotate. Thereby, the warm air F hits the laundry 55 uniformly, and the drying efficiency of the laundry 55 improves.

  When clothes drying is completed and the user removes the laundry 55 from the rotary clothes-drying member 11 and inputs an operation storage instruction to the remote controller 8, the control means 7C rotates the lifting motor 14 in the reverse direction to wind the wire. The take-up member 13 winds the wire 12. As a result, the rotary clothes-drying member 11 is stored inside the hollow hole of the storage cover 71.

  Next, the control means 7 </ b> C rotates the cover motor 73 in the reverse direction to wind the wire 75 around the cover wire winding member 74. As a result, the storage cover 71 is pulled by the wire 75, rotates around the wire winding member 13 as a fulcrum, and moves from the second holding position to the first holding position.

  Next, the control means 7C energizes the electromagnetic lock body 76a to cause the electromagnetic lock body 76a to attract the strike plate 76b. Thereby, the storage cover 71 is held at the first holding position, and the bathroom heating dryer 1C returns to the normal state.

  As described above, the bathroom heating / drying machine 1C according to the third embodiment is formed in a cylindrical shape and accommodates the rotary clothes-drying member 11 so that the rotary-drying member 11 can be moved back and forth. The first holding position stored in the housing 2 (front grill 3 or main body case 4) in the state of being stored in the housing 2 and the housing 2 (front grill 3 or main body case 4) so that the rotary clothes drying member 11 can be lowered. A storage cover 71 held by the housing 2 (the front grill 3 or the main body case 4), the first holding position, and the second holding position so as to be rotatable between a second holding position protruding downward. Automatic rotating means (in this embodiment, a cover motor 73, a cover wire winding member 74, a wire 75, an electromagnetic Having constructed.) And the click 76. Such a bathroom heater / dryer 1 </ b> C can be housed in the housing 2 (the front grill 3 or the main body case 4) with good aesthetics in a state where the rotary drying member 11 is housed in the housing cover 71. Even if the storage cover 71 is provided at a high position such as the ceiling 51a of the bathroom 51, the storage cover 71 can be automatically rotated, which is convenient.

  In addition, this invention is not limited to the said embodiment, Various application is possible.

(1) For example, in the above-described embodiment, the rotary clothes drying member 11 is automatically raised and lowered. However, for example, the user manually hooks and rotates the operation rod on the rotary clothes drying member 11 to rotate the clothes drying member 11. You may make it raise / lower.

(2) For example, in the above embodiment, the laundry 55 is hung on the hook provided on the main body 21 of the rotary clothes drying member 11, but a bar for hanging the laundry 55 may be provided on the main body 21.

(3) For example, in the above-described embodiment, the lowering position of the rotary drying member 11 is made constant, but the user may freely adjust the position of the rotary drying member 11 by the remote controller 8 or the like. According to this, the user can arbitrarily adjust the position of the rotary clothes-drying member 11 (the position where the laundry 55 is dried) according to the height and the like, which is easy to use.

(4) For example, in the third embodiment, the storage cover 71 is held at the first holding position using the electromagnetic lock 76. However, the storage cover 71 can be obtained by hooking a lock pin that operates by an electromagnetic valve to the storage cover 71. May be held at the first holding position. In this case, it is necessary to energize the solenoid valve only when moving the storage cover 71 from the first holding position to the second holding position to remove the lock pin from the storage cover 71, and in other cases it is necessary to energize the solenoid valve. Therefore, the storage cover 71 can be locked with power saving.

(5) For example, you may provide the mist sauna apparatus which sends out mist and makes a bathroom a mist sauna state in the bathroom heating dryer of the said embodiment. Even in this case, each bathroom heater / dryer has few irregularities formed on the surface of the housing 2 (front grill 3) by the rotary drying member 11, so that the mist generated by the mist sauna device is condensed on the rotary drying member 11. And it is difficult for the user to feel uncomfortable.

1A, 1C Bathroom heating dryer 2 Housing 3b Hot air outlet 5 Hot air generating means 7B Control means (an example of dryness detecting means, hot air stop means, mass over warning means)
11 Rotating clothes drying member 12 Wire (part of lifting means)
13 Wire winding member (part of lifting means)
14 Lifting motor (part of lifting means)
21 Body 23 Bearing 51 Bathroom 61 Mass sensor (an example of mass measuring means)
F Hot air

Claims (6)

A bathroom heating / drying system comprising a housing provided with a hot air outlet, and hot air generating means for generating hot air to be supplied to the hot air outlet, which is incorporated in the housing, and sends the hot air from the hot air outlet to the bathroom In the machine
A main body on which the laundry is hung, and a rotary laundry member having a bearing for rotatably holding the main body;
Elevating means for elevating and lowering the rotary clothes drying member with respect to the housing so that the warm air sent out from the warm air outlet hits a part of the laundry hung on the body;
A bathroom heating dryer characterized by comprising: In the bathroom heating dryer according to claim 1,
A bathroom heating dryer having a mass measuring means for measuring the mass of the laundry hung on the rotary clothes drying member. In the bathroom heating dryer according to claim 2,
A dryness detecting means for detecting the dryness of the laundry based on the mass measured by the mass measuring means;
A bathroom heating dryer, comprising: hot air stopping means for stopping the operation of the hot air generating means when the dryness detected by the dryness detecting means is equal to or higher than a predetermined dryness. In the bathroom heating dryer according to claim 2,
A bathroom heating dryer having a mass over warning means for giving a warning when the mass measured by the mass measuring means exceeds an upper limit value. In the bathroom heating dryer according to any one of claims 1 to 4,
The bathroom heating / drying machine, wherein the lifting / lowering means automatically raises / lowers the rotary clothes drying member. In the bathroom heating dryer according to any one of claims 1 to 5,
A first holding position that is formed in a cylindrical shape and accommodates the rotary clothes drying member so as to be movable back and forth, and is housed in the housing in a state in which the rotary clothes drying member is housed inside; A storage cover held by the housing so as to be able to rotate between a second holding position protruding downward from the housing so that the rotary clothes drying member can be lowered;
A bathroom heating / drying machine comprising: an automatic rotation unit that automatically rotates the storage cover between the first holding position and the second holding position.

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