KR100446764B1 - Structure for engaging filter in clothes dryer - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a filter mounting structure of a clothes dryer, and the present invention is coupled to the front of the case is air exhausted through the inside of the rotating drum inside the door body is formed to open and close the rotating drum mounted on the inside of the case A door having a filter mounting portion having an air flow path flowing through the duct, and having a filter for filtering foreign matter mixed in the air passing through the air passage through the rotary drum, and a filter mounting portion of the door; It is configured to include a filter mounted to the body, and a viewing window provided in the body of the door to see the foreign matter accumulated in the filter lint and other foreign matter generated from the cloth accommodated in the rotary drum is stacked on the filter By making it visible, more than an appropriate amount of lint will accumulate on the filter. Immediately it is possible to clean, remove the filter prevents the stacked excessive lint on the filter that the flow resistance of the air increases, as well as to one to increase the ease of use by making possible the removal of without opening the door filter.

Description

Filter mounting structure of clothes dryer {STRUCTURE FOR ENGAGING FILTER IN CLOTHES DRYER}

The present invention relates to a filter mounting structure of a clothes dryer, and in particular, to make it easy for a user to recognize lint and other foreign matters accumulated in a filter for filtering lint and other foreign substances generated from a cloth contained in a rotating drum, It is related with the filter installation structure of the clothes dryer which made attachment and removal easy.

In general, a clothes dryer is a device for drying laundry by washing laundry such as clothes and then removing moisture remaining in the laundry. Such a clothes dryer is usually installed and used beside the washing machine, and the user takes out the laundry after all washing processes in the washing machine, that is, the dehydrated clothes from the washing machine, and dries the dehydrated clothes in the clothes dryer. .

1 illustrates an example of the clothes dryer, and as shown in FIG. 1, the clothes dryer is rotatable on a driving motor 20 mounted on a bottom surface of the case 10 and an upper side of the driving motor 20. The rear disc 40 and the front disc 50 and the driving force of the driving motor 20 are respectively applied to the rotating drum 30 and both sides of the rotating drum 30. Power transmission means for transmitting and the suction duct 60 is mounted so as to be positioned in the longitudinal direction of the rear disc 40 and the rotary drum 30 to guide the outside air to be heated and sucked into the rotary drum 30. And a heater (H), coupled to the lower side of the front disc 50 and the longitudinal direction of the rotary drum 30 to guide the air introduced into the rotary drum 30 to be exhausted outside the case 10. An exhaust duct 70 and a fan housing coupled to communicate with the exhaust duct 70 80 and a suction fan 81 rotatably mounted in the fan housing 80 and coupled to the driving motor 20. The power transmission means includes a pulley 90 coupled to the drive motor 20 and a belt 91 connecting the pulley 90 and the rotating drum 30.

The suction part 41 is formed of a plurality of through-holes in the middle of the rear disc 40 to allow air through the suction duct 60 to flow into the rotary drum 30. That is, one side of the suction duct 60 is coupled to the rear disc 40 so that the suction part 41 of the rear disc is located inside one side of the suction duct 60.

An inlet 50a is provided at the center of the front disc 50 to inject or take out clothes into the rotary drum 30, and the air flowing inside the rotary drum 30 is located below the center of the front disc 50. An exhaust unit 53 is provided which exits to the exhaust duct 70. That is, one side of the exhaust duct 70 is coupled to the front disc 50 so that the exhaust part 53 of the front disc is located inside one side of the exhaust duct 70.

And, as shown in FIG. 2, lint and other foreign matter generated in the cloth accommodated in the rotary drum 30 inside the front disc 50 so as to be located on the back of the front disc exhaust portion 53 is filtered. A lint filter F is mounted, and a door D for opening and closing the inlet 50a is provided on the front surface of the case 10. The door (D) is made of a non-transparent plastic plate material and the door (D) is hinged to one side of the case 10 so that the door (D) is opened and closed from the upper side to the lower side.

Reference numeral 11 is an air hole, 31 is a baffle, and R is a roller.

The operation of the clothes dryer as described above is as follows.

First, the door (D) provided on the front of the case 10 is opened, the clothes are put into the rotating drum 30 through the inlet (50a) and the door (D) is closed. When the operation switch is turned ON, power is applied to the driving motor 20 to drive the driving motor 20, and when the driving motor 20 is driven, the driving force of the driving motor 20 is increased. It is transmitted to the rotary drum 30 through the power transmission means and the rotary drum 30 is rotated at the same time the suction fan 81 connected to the drive motor 20 is rotated.

As the rotary drum 30 rotates, the fogging introduced into the rotary drum 30 rotates along the baffle 31 provided on the inner circumferential wall of the rotary drum 30, and at the same time, the suction fan 81 rotates. The outside air is heated by the suction force by the heater H and the suction duct 60 is heated and the heated air is rotated through the suction unit 50a of the rear disc 50 rotating drum 30 Flows inside.

Heated air introduced into the rotary drum 30 through the suction part 41 of the rear disc 40 is a double of the front disc 50 while drying the cloth, that is, the garment, that is rotating inside the rotary drum 30. It is exhausted to the base 53. At this time, lint and other foreign matter contained in the air exhausted to the exhaust unit 53 is filtered by the lint filter (F). Air passing through the lint filter F is discharged to the outside of the case 10 through the exhaust duct 70.

As the process continues, the clothes put into the rotating drum 30 are dried, and after the drying is completed, the user opens the door D and takes out the clothes through the inlet 50a.

And when used for a certain period of time while passing through the inside of the rotating drum 30, a lint filter that is installed in the exhaust passage, that is, exhaust duct 70 is exhausted to the outside of the case 10 to filter the lint generated from the fabric ( When lint is accumulated on lint filter (F), lint is accumulated on lint filter (F), and when lint is accumulated on lint filter (F), lint is accumulated on lint filter (F). The lint filter (F) must be cleaned.

However, in the conventional structure as described above, since the lint filter F is mounted inside the case 10, that is, on the rear side of the exhaust part 53 of the front disc, foreign substances such as lint and the like are applied to the lint filter F by the user. If the user forgets when to clean the lint filter (F) because it cannot be seen with the naked eye, or if the user does not know about the product and uses it for a long time without cleaning the lint filter (F), the lint filter The lint accumulated in (F) increases the flow resistance so that not only noise is increased, but also it takes a long time to dry and even the product cannot be used, and when the lint filter F is attached or detached from the door ( D) open and remove the lint filter (F) located in the lower front inner side of the case 10, so that the replacement operation of the lint filter (F) This had the disadvantage of cumbersome.

The object of the present invention devised in view of the above point is to make it easy for the user to grasp the lint and other foreign matter accumulated in the filter for filtering the lint and other foreign substances generated in the cloth contained in the rotating drum as well as the filter It is to provide a filter mounting structure of the clothes dryer to facilitate the removal of the clothes.

1 is a front sectional view showing a general clothes dryer,

2 is a cross-sectional view showing a filter mounting structure of a conventional clothes dryer;

Figure 3 is a front sectional view showing a clothes dryer equipped with a clothes dryer filter mounting structure of the present invention,

4 is a cross-sectional view showing a clothes dryer filter mounting structure of the present invention;

Figure 5 is a cross-sectional view showing another embodiment of the clothes dryer filter mounting structure of the present invention.

** Explanation of symbols for main parts of drawings **

10; Case 20; Rotary drum

50; Front disc 51; Front inner ring plate 52; Front outer ring plate 53; Exhaust

70; Exhaust duct 100, D; door

110; Door body 120,140; Air euro

130; Filter mounting 12,131; Filter insertion holes 71,133; Locking jaw 132; Locking groove 13,401; Jamming protrusion 200,400; filter

300,500; Viewing window

In order to achieve the object of the present invention as described above, the door, a rotating drum mounted inside the case, the door is configured to be opened and closed by rotating the rotating drum and the front plate and the back plate An air duct provided between the body, an exhaust duct installed in the case to exhaust air passing through the rotary drum, and a front plate and a rear plate of the door body to connect the inside of the rotary drum to the exhaust duct; And a filter installed in the air passage and filtering a foreign substance mixed in the air passing through the air passage, wherein the front plate constituting the door body includes the inside of the air passage and the door. A filter insertion hole connecting the outside of the front side of the air passage is formed across the air passage and constitutes the door body. The face plate is provided with a locking step that the lower end of the filter is caught across the air flow path, a locking groove is formed on the inner surface of the filter insertion hole, the locking projection corresponding to the locking groove is formed on the upper end of the filter, The front panel of the door body is provided with a filter mounting structure of the clothes dryer, characterized in that a viewing window through which the filter can be viewed.

In addition, in order to achieve the object of the present invention as described above, a case, a rotating drum mounted inside the case, a door body rotatably installed in the case to open and close the rotating drum, and the inside of the case An exhaust duct installed in the exhaust duct, through which the air passing through the rotary drum is exhausted, formed between the front inner ring plate and the front outer ring plate of the case, and connecting the rotary drum and the exhaust duct to the inside of the air passage. A clothes dryer provided with a filter for filtering foreign matter mixed in air passing through the air passage, wherein the front outer ring plate of the case has a filter insertion hole connecting the inside of the air passage and the outside of the front side of the case. It is formed across the air flow path, the front inner ring plate of the case to the lower of the filter An engaging jaw that is caught by an end is formed to traverse the air flow path, a locking groove is formed on an inner surface of the filter insertion hole, a locking protrusion corresponding to the locking groove is formed on an upper end of the filter, and the front outer side of the case. The ring plate is provided with a filter mounting structure of a clothes dryer, characterized in that a viewing window through which the filter can be seen.

Hereinafter, the clothes dryer filter mounting structure of the present invention will be described according to the embodiment shown in the accompanying drawings.

Figure 3 shows a clothes dryer equipped with an embodiment of the clothes dryer filter mounting structure of the present invention, as shown in this, a drive motor 20 mounted on the bottom of the case 10, and the drive motor ( A rotating disc 30 rotatably installed on an upper side of the 20 and a rear disc 40 and a front disc 50 respectively disposed on both sides of the rotary drum 30 and a driving force of the driving motor 20. Power transmission means for transmitting to the rotary drum 30, and the rear disc 40 and the rotary drum 30 is mounted so as to be located in the longitudinal direction so that the outside air is heated and sucked into the rotary drum (30) Guide air suction duct 60 and the heater (H), the lower side of the front disc 50 and the longitudinal direction of the rotary drum 30 is coupled to the air introduced into the rotary drum 30 case ( 10) the exhaust duct 70 for guiding the exhaust to the outside and the exhaust duct 70 And a fan housing 80 coupled such that, as soon rotatably mounted in the interior of the fan housing (80) as well as comprising: a suction fan (81) coupled to the drive motor (20).

The power transmission means includes a pulley 90 coupled to the drive motor 20 and a belt 91 connecting the pulley 90 and the rotating drum 30.

The suction part 41 is formed of a plurality of through holes in the middle upper portion of the rear disc 40 to allow air through the suction duct 40 to flow into the rotary drum 30. That is, one side of the suction duct 60 is coupled to the rear disc 40 so that the suction part 41 of the rear disc is located inside one side of the suction duct 60.

An inlet 50a for introducing or removing clothes into the rotating drum 30 is provided in the center of the front disc 50.

And the door 100 for opening and closing the entrance 53 is mounted on the front of the case 10, the door 100 is hinged to the lower portion of the door (100). As shown in FIG. 4, the door 100 includes a door body 110 formed to have a predetermined thickness and area, and a front plate 111 and a back plate 112 constituting the door body 110. It is formed between the and comprises an air flow path 120 and the filter mounting portion 130 provided in the door body 110 to connect the interior of the rotary drum 30 and the exhaust duct (70). The air flow path 120 formed in the door body 110 has a predetermined size on the exhaust inlet 121 consisting of a plurality of through holes in the inner surface of the door body 110 and the lower surface of the door body 110. The exhaust outlet 122 formed therethrough and the communication passage 123 communicating the exhaust inlet 121 and the exhaust outlet 122 inside the door body 110. The exhaust outlet 122 of the door 100 communicates with the exhaust duct 70 in a state in which the door 100 is closed.

The filter mounting unit 130 of the door 100 has a filter insertion hole 131 having a predetermined width and area to cross the air flow path 120 on the front plate 111 of the door body 110, and It is formed on the back plate 112 is composed of a locking jaw 133, the lower end of the filter 200 is caught. The filter insertion hole 131 is the inside of the air flow path 120 and the front of the door body 110. It is formed to communicate the outside of the side.

The filter 200 is mounted to the door filter mounting unit 130. The filter 200 is formed to have a predetermined thickness and an area so as to be inserted into the filter insertion hole 131 of the door filter mounting unit 130. A locking groove 132 is formed at an inner side of the upper end of the filter insertion hole 131. It is formed, the upper end of the filter 200 is formed with a locking projection 201 is caught by the locking groove 132.

And a viewing window 300 is provided on the front of the body 110 of the door to see the filter 200 mounted on the filter mounting portion 130.

Reference numeral 11 denotes a suction hole through which outside air is introduced, 31 denotes a baffle, and R denotes a roller.

Operation of the clothes dryer filter mounting structure of the present invention as described above is as follows.

First, the clothes dryer opens the door 100 provided on the front of the case 10 and injects clothes, that is, cloth, into the rotary drum 30 through the inlet 53 and closes the door 100. When the operation switch is turned ON, power is applied to the driving motor 20 to drive the driving motor 20, and when the driving motor 20 is driven, the driving force of the driving motor 20 is increased. It is transmitted to the rotary drum 30 through the power transmission means and the rotary drum 30 is rotated at the same time the suction fan 81 connected to the drive motor 20 is rotated.

As the rotary drum 30 rotates, the fogging introduced into the rotary drum 30 rotates along the baffle 31 provided on the inner circumferential wall of the rotary drum 30, and at the same time, the suction fan 81 rotates. The outside air is heated by the suction force by the heater H and the suction duct 70 is heated and the heated air is rotated through the suction part 41 of the rear disc 40 rotating drum 30 Flows inside.

The heated air introduced into the rotary drum 30 through the suction part 41 of the rear disc 40 dries the fabric being rotated inside the rotary drum 30 and then the air flow path provided in the door 100. Flowing through the 120 passes through the filter 200. At this time, lint and other foreign matter contained in the air flowing through the rotary drum 30 to the air flow path 120 is filtered by the filter 200. Air passing through the filter 200 is discharged to the outside of the case 10 through the exhaust duct 70.

As the process continues, the clothes put into the rotary drum 30 are dried, and after the drying is completed, the user opens the door 100 and takes out the cloth, that is, the clothes through the inlet 53.

On the other hand, the user can observe the filter 200 through the see-through window 300 provided in the door 100, when lint and other foreign matter accumulated in the filter 200 to a certain degree by visually checking the filter ( The filter 200 is formed on the front plate 111 of the door body 110 so as to communicate the inside of the air passage 120 with the outside of the front side of the door body 110. Since it is inserted into the insertion hole 131, it can be easily detached from the outside without opening the door 100. In the state in which the filter 200 is mounted, the engaging projection 201 formed at the upper end of the filter 200 is The state of being caught by the engaging groove 132 formed on the inner surface of the filter insertion hole 131 is not to be separated from the filter 200 arbitrarily, when removing the filter 200 does not open the door 100 Applying a slight force to the upper end of the filter 200 in the state (2) 01) can be easily removed by being separated from the locking groove (132).

In another embodiment of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 5, the inside of the rotary drum 200 and the exhaust duct between the front inner ring plate 51 and the front outer ring plate 52 of the case 10 ( An air flow path 140 connecting 70 is formed, and an exhaust part 53 through which the air passing through the rotating drum 30 is exhausted is provided under the center of the front inner ring plate 51. A filter 400 is provided to filter foreign matter contained in the air exhausted from the exhaust duct 70 through the exhaust part 53 of the ring plate 51 and the foreign matter accumulated in the filter 400 in the case 10. The viewing window 500 is provided so that you can see.

The exhaust duct 70 is mounted over the lower portion of the air passage 140 and the longitudinal direction of the rotary drum (30). The filter 400 is detachably mounted to the filter mounting part S provided in the case 10 and the exhaust duct 70. The filter mounting portion (S) is formed in the front outer ring plate 52 of the case 10, the filter insertion hole 12 for communicating the air flow path 140 with the outside of the case 10 front side, and the front inner side It is formed in the ring plate 51 is composed of a locking step 71 is caught the lower end of the filter 400. That is, when the filter 400 is mounted to the filter mounting part S, the filter 400 is inserted into the insertion groove 12 provided in the case 10 and crosses the catching duct 70 across the exhaust duct 70. It is supported by 71 and mounted.

In addition, a locking groove 13 is formed at an inner surface of the filter insertion hole 12, and a locking protrusion 401 corresponding to the locking groove 13 is provided at an upper end of the filter 400.

Operation of the clothes dryer filter mounting structure of the present invention as described above is as follows.

The air introduced into the rotary drum 30 during the operation of the clothes dryer dries the cloth contained in the rotary drum 30 and is then exhausted from the rotary drum 30 through the exhaust unit 53 and the exhaust unit. Air passing through the 53 is exhausted to the outside of the case 10 through the exhaust duct 70 while passing through the filter 400. At this time, lint and other foreign matter contained in the air exhausted to the exhaust unit 53 via the rotary drum 30 is filtered by the filter 400, and only the air in which the lint and other foreign matters are filtered is exhaust duct ( It is exhausted to the outside of the case 10 through 70.

On the other hand, the user can see the filter 400 through the see-through window 500 provided on the front of the case 10, when the lint and other foreign matter accumulated in the filter 400 to some extent to check with the naked eye The filter 400 is taken out and cleaned.

When the filter 400 is taken out, the filter 400 mounted on the filter mounting part S is removed from the outside of the case 10, and the cleaning of the filter 400 is completed. It may be inserted into the filter mounting portion (S) through the insertion groove (13) provided in the front of the). That is, in the state in which the filter 400 is mounted, the engaging projection 401 formed in the upper end of the filter 400 is It becomes a state caught by the engaging groove 13 formed in the inner surface of the insertion hole 12, the filter 400 is not detached arbitrarily, and when removing the filter 400, the door 100 is not opened By applying a little force to the upper end of the filter 400 in the locking projections 401 can be easily removed by being separated from the locking groove (13).

As described above, the filter mounting structure of the clothes dryer according to the present invention allows the user to see that the lint generated in the cloth accommodated in the rotating drum is accumulated on the filter, and the filter is immediately formed when the lint of the filter is appropriately accumulated. It is possible to take out and clean the excessive lint on the filter to prevent the increase in the flow resistance of the air, so that the flow of air is made smoothly to shorten the drying efficiency and time of the fabric, and also without opening the door By attaching and detaching a filter, there exists an effect which can improve convenience of use.

Claims (4)

A case, a rotating drum mounted inside the case, a door body including a front plate and a rear plate rotatably installed on the case to open and close the rotating drum, and the inside of the case; An exhaust duct through which the air passing through the drum is exhausted, an air passage formed between the front plate and the rear plate of the door body to connect the inside of the rotating drum and the exhaust duct, and installed inside the air passage; In the clothes dryer provided with a filter for filtering foreign matter mixed in the air passing through the flow path, The front plate constituting the door body is formed with a filter insertion hole connecting the inside of the air flow path and the outside of the front side of the door across the air flow path, and the bottom plate of the filter is formed on the back plate constituting the door body. A catching jaw is formed across the air passage, a catching groove is formed in the inner surface of the filter inserting hole, a catching protrusion corresponding to the catching groove is formed in the upper end of the filter, and the front plate of the door body Filter mounting structure of the clothes dryer, characterized in that the see-through window is installed to see through the filter. delete A case, a rotating drum mounted inside the case, a door body rotatably installed in the case to open and close the rotating drum, and an exhaust duct installed in the case to exhaust air passing through the rotating drum. And an air passage formed between the front inner ring plate and the front outer ring plate of the case to connect the rotary drum and the exhaust duct, and to install foreign matter mixed in the air passing through the air passage. In the clothes dryer provided with the filter to filter, A filter insertion hole connecting the inside of the air passage and the outside of the front side of the case is formed in the front outer ring plate of the case across the air passage, and the locking step of the lower end of the filter is caught in the front inner ring plate of the case. The air flow path is formed to cross, a locking groove is formed on an inner surface of the filter insertion hole, a locking protrusion corresponding to the locking groove is formed on an upper end of the filter, and the filter is projected on the front outer ring plate of the case. The filter mounting structure of the clothes dryer, characterized in that the viewing window can be installed. delete