KR101467774B1 - Laundry treating machine - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a clothes processing apparatus. More particularly, the present invention relates to a garment processing apparatus having a discharge guide on the side of a discharge port so as to process clothes using steam or hot air, and to supply hot air or the like uniformly supplied into a storage chamber in which clothes are stored .

Discharge, guide, blade, steam, hot air

Description

[0001] LAUNDRY TREATING MACHINE [0002]

The present invention relates to a clothes processing apparatus. More particularly, the present invention relates to a garment processing apparatus having a discharge guide on the side of a discharge port so as to process clothes using steam or hot air, and to supply hot air or the like uniformly supplied into a storage chamber in which clothes are stored .

The clothes processing apparatus refers to a device for processing clothes stored in a compartment provided in a cabinet. The processing of the stored clothes refers to a series of processes that can provide satisfaction to a user wearing clothes by blowing off clothes, supplying steam or hot air, and removing odors, wrinkles, or moisture remaining in the clothes.

For example, if the same garment is worn more than once, the smell, the wrinkle, or the moisture will remain in the garment. The smell remaining on the clothes, etc., is displeasing to the user who wants to wear the same clothes again. In order to remove the clothes, the clothes can be washed. However, the frequent process of washing the clothes shortens the life of the clothes and increases the cost required for maintenance of the clothes.

In addition, there is a case where the clothes which have been dried after the washing are wrinkled, the clothes can not be worn immediately, and the user has to perform extra troublesome ironing work.

In order to solve such a problem, a clothes processing apparatus can be used to remove odors, wrinkles, or moisture remaining in clothes.

The clothes processing apparatus may blow air (including hot wind) in order to spray the clothes on the clothes and dry the clothes containing moisture by the sprayed steam in order to remove the smell, wrinkle or moisture of the clothes stored.

By simply exposing the clothes to wind or hot air, it is possible to remove odors, wrinkles or moisture, but steam can be used to maximize the effect.

When steam is sprayed on clothes stored in the clothes processing apparatus, fine water particles combine with the odor particles remaining deeply in the fiber texture, and the water particles combined with the odor particles are discharged separately from the clothes in the drying process. In this way, the odor remaining in the garment is removed.

When steam is supplied to the clothes stored in the clothes processing apparatus, there is an effect of alleviating wrinkles remaining on the clothes. Wet garments supplied with steam will mitigate or eliminate wrinkles during the drying process.

Through such a process, it is possible to remove the odor, wrinkle, or moisture remaining in the clothes, and the user of the clothes can wear the clothes in a more comfortable condition.

Such a garment treating apparatus is provided with a circulating duct for dehumidifying or heating the air in the storage room by circulating the air in the storage room below the storage room for storing clothes.

The circulating duct sucks air in the storage chamber, dehumidifies or heats it, and supplies the air to the inside of the storage chamber again. Therefore, the circulating duct supplies the circulating air to the storage chamber through the discharge port formed in the interface between the storage chamber and the electric chamber where the circulation duct is installed.

The hot wind and the like discharged from the discharge port formed on the storage compartment side are discharged with a constant flow rate by the blowing fan so that hot air or the like is intensively supplied to a region where the discharged air is difficult to reach within the compartment depending on the position of the discharge port Area. ≪ / RTI >

Such a variation in the amount of wind blowing can make it difficult to uniformize the treatment process of the received clothes, for example, the drying process. Therefore, there is a need for a method for uniformly supplying the air that is re-supplied via the circulating duct in the compartment.

An object of the present invention is to provide a clothes processing apparatus which processes garments by using steam or hot air, and which can uniformly supply hot air or the like, which is supplied into a storage room in which clothes are stored.

In order to solve the above-described problems, the present invention provides a cabinet comprising: a cabinet having a storage room for storing clothes; a circulation system for circulating air in the storage compartment to the compartment, And a discharge guide mounted on the discharge port of the compartment communicating with the circulation duct for guiding the discharging direction of the air to be discharged.

In this case, the discharge guide may be formed of a plurality of inclined partition walls provided in the discharge port and partitioning the discharge area of the discharge port.

Further, the partition walls may each have a gradually varying inclination.

At least one of the plurality of inclined barrier ribs may have an inclined direction different from that of the other barrier ribs.

When the discharge port is provided at a corner of the bottom of the compartment, it is preferable that the inclination of the partition wall with respect to the vertical plane is inversely proportional to the distance between the center of each compartment and the bottom surface of the compartment.

In the case where the discharge port and the discharge guide are mounted at the corners of the bottom surface of the compartment, at least one inner wall surface of the compartment adjacent to the discharge port is provided with at least one The above guide blades can be formed.

In this case, the straight upper portion connecting both longitudinal ends of the guide blade may be curved so as to be convex.

Also, the blades may be provided on a separately provided back panel, and a back panel provided with the guide blades may be mounted on an inner wall surface of the cabinet.

The back panel may be mounted separately from the discharge guide.

In addition, at least one of the inclined partitions forming the discharge guide may be curved so as to be convex upward.

According to the control method of the clothes processing apparatus according to the present invention, the clothes are accommodated and steam or hot air is supplied to remove wrinkles, odors, or moisture remaining in the clothes to give the user satisfaction.

Further, according to the method for controlling a garment processing apparatus according to the present invention, hot air or the like supplied into the compartment for storing clothes can be uniformly supplied, so that the clothes can be uniformly dried.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described herein but may be embodied in other forms. Rather, the embodiments disclosed herein are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the concept of the invention to those skilled in the art. Like reference numerals designate like elements throughout the specification.

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a clothes processing apparatus according to the present invention, and Fig. 2 shows an internal structure of an electric compartment of a clothes processing apparatus according to the present invention.

1, the clothes processing apparatus 10 according to the present invention is provided with a compartment 10 in which clothes are stored and a lower portion of the compartment 10 to circulate air in the compartment 10 And an electric field chamber 20 in which various components for removing wrinkles, odors, or moisture remaining in the clothes by dehumidifying, heating, or circulating the air are mounted.

The storage room 10 and the electric room 20 may be provided in a single cabinet 70. In addition, the storage compartment 10 has a structure that can be opened and closed by a door provided in the cabinet 70.

The electric field chamber 20 sucks the air in the housing chamber 10 and is pushed into the housing chamber 10 again. A suction port 11 for sucking air in the storage chamber 10 and a discharge port 14 for discharging air supplied to the storage chamber are provided on the bottom surface of the storage chamber 10.

The reason why the suction port 11 and the discharge port 14 are provided on the bottom surface of the compartment 10 is that the electric compartment 20 is located below the compartment 10. [

In addition, the storage chamber 10 is provided with a steam injection unit 50 for spraying steam generated in the steam generator installed in the electric field chamber 20.

The intake port 11 and the discharge port 14 are preferably mounted with a net-like structure in order to prevent foreign substances having a predetermined size or more from being inserted from the outside.

In addition, since the directionality of the air sucked in the suction port 11 is not important, the structure for blocking the suction port 11 does not need to have a certain shape.

However, since the air discharged from the discharge port 14 is dehumidified or heated and then supplied again to the compartment 10 through the circulation tube, which will be described later, the air sucked in the compartment 10 It is necessary to uniformly supply the whole.

1, when the air discharged from the discharge port 14 provided at the left corner of the storage chamber 10 vertically rises, the right front area of the inner space of the storage chamber 10 is discharged through the discharge port (Hereinafter referred to as "rectangular area") in which the air discharged from the discharge port 14 does not reach.

Therefore, the structure mounted on the suction port 11 may be configured to prevent foreign matter from penetrating from the outside and to suck air in the housing chamber 10. However, the structure mounted on the discharge port 14 is not limited to the outside And to control the directionality of the air to be discharged.

Therefore, the clothes processing apparatus according to the present invention includes the discharge guide 30 for guiding the direction of the air discharged from the discharge port 14.

Further, a back panel 40 for guiding the storage chamber 10 in the direction of air flowing on the inner wall surface may be provided.

The detailed structure and function of the discharge guide 30 and the back panel 40 will be described later.

2 is a structural view of the inside of the electric field chamber 20 of the clothes processing apparatus according to the present invention.

The electric room 20 of the clothes processing apparatus is provided with a steam generator 25 for generating steam supplied to a storage room for storing clothes and a circulating duct 26 for drying or heating the clothes stored therein.

Of course, the circulating duct 26 also naturally has a blowing function of simply blowing and circulating the unheated air. This air blowing function is enabled by a blowing duct 28 having a fan to discharge the air passing through the circulating duct 26 through the outlet 14.

The circulating duct 26 can be classified into a case of using a heat pump and a case of using an electric heater according to a method of heating the dehumidified air.

When a heat pump or an electric heater is used as a means for heating the air supplied again to the storage chamber 10, moisture in the humid air sucked through the suction holes 21 in the storage room is condensed, .

2, when a heat pump is provided to heat the dehumidified air, the refrigerant compressed by the compressor 22 is evaporated in the circulation duct 26, and the condensation portion 23b And a heating unit 23a for heating the dehumidified air by condensing the refrigerant.

In this case, there is a difference in whether the heating unit for heating the dehumidified air is a part of the heat exchanger of the heat pump that heats the air through the condensation of the refrigerant or an electric heater.

Even in the case of using a heat pump for dehumidification and heating of the humidifier, a separate electrothermal heater can be added for sufficient heating of the dehumidified air.

A clothes processing apparatus having a drying function can be classified into a condensing type and an exhaust type in a manner of drying clothes in accordance with a method of drying the clothes.

In addition, it is possible to distinguish between the exhaust system and the circulation system depending on whether the humidifier in the storage compartment 10 is sucked, re-supplied to the storage room 10 after dehumidification, or discharged directly to the outside. A circulation type system for circulating and dehumidifying the air inside the storage chamber 10 is used. In this specification, the circulation type clothes processing apparatus will be described.

A discharge hole 24 communicating with the discharge port 14 of the storage chamber 10 is formed in the blowing duct 28 and the other end of the circulation duct is communicated with the suction port 11 of the compartment 10 A suction hole 21 is provided.

 Therefore, the air sucked in the suction hole 21 is dehumidified by the condensing portion 23b provided in the circulation tube 26, heated by the heating portion 23a, passed through the air blowing duct 28, .

The heat exchanger 23 of the clothes processing apparatus according to the present invention dehumidifies the humid air circulated in the compartment 10 using the refrigerant supplied from the compressor 22 in the evaporation process of the refrigerant, The dehumidified air is heated again.

It is necessary to compress the refrigerant between the evaporation process and the condensation process of the refrigerant. Compressing of the refrigerant is performed in the compressor (22) provided in the electric field chamber (20).

The electric field chamber 20 shown in FIG. 2 is provided with a drainage cylinder 70. The condensed water condensed in the heat exchanger 23 is collected in a water collection container 29 located under the heat exchanger 23 and the water collected in the water collection container 29 is transported back to the drainage container 70 .

The water collecting tube 29 does not only collect the condensed water of the heat exchanger in the circulating duct 28 but also temporarily accumulates residual water in the steam generator 25 to drain the remaining water or the like into the drain tube 70. [ As shown in Fig.

Of course, the drainage section may be an external sewage piping or the like which is not removable. However, since there is a limitation that a garment disposal apparatus should be installed in a place where sewage or the like is provided, a case where the drainage cistern is configured as a removable tub is explained.

The user of the clothes processing apparatus can selectively drain the drain canister 70 from the electric room 20 in consideration of the capacity and the like of the drain canister 70 and discharge the stored wastewater therein. A drain pump 27 or the like may be used for the transfer of the wastewater from the collection container 29 to the drain canister 70.

If the drain canister 70 can be disposed below the heat exchanger 23, the water canister 29 may be omitted. However, if the drain canister 70 is detachable from the electric room, And a drainage unit provided on the top of the electric field chamber may be used. In addition, the drain pump 27 may be installed inside the collection container 29.

Since it is advantageous for the position of the water drainage cylinder 70 to be located above the electric room 20 in order to allow the user to easily attach and detach the water drainage cylinder 70 from the electric vehicle room 20, It is necessary to compensate for the height difference.

When the water drainage cylinder 70 and a water supply cylinder 90 to be described later are detachably mounted, a state where the water drainage cylinder 70 is mounted in a drawer (not shown) And may be configured to be pulled out or rotated in the electric room or the like.

The size of the water collection container may be smaller than the size of the water storage container 70 because the waste water is transported from the water collection container 29 to the drainage container 70 using a drainage pump or the like.

The steam supplied to the clothes stored in the storage chamber 10 is heated by the steam generator 25 provided inside the electric room 20 by heating the water supplied from the water supply tube 90 provided in the electric room And supplies the generated steam to the storage chamber 10. The steam is supplied to the storage chamber 10 via the steam generator.

The water supply cylinder 90 is provided in the form of a water bottle which can be attached to or detached from the front body similarly to the water drain cylinder 70 shown in FIG.

It is advantageous that the detachable water supply tube 90 is used because the amount of water required for generating steam is not so large and the water can be installed even in a place without water. Of course, when the water supply facility is located at a short distance, the water supply duct 90 may be directly connected to the water supply.

The water supply tube 90 supplies water to the steam generator 25 and the steam generator 25 injects steam through the steam injection unit 50.

In the present embodiment, the steam generating device 25 generates steam by heating a predetermined amount of water contained in a water tank of a predetermined size with a built-in heater. However, in the present invention, any device capable of generating steam can be used as a steam generator. For example, it is also possible to use a method in which a heater is directly provided around a water supply hose through which water passes, that is, a method in which water is heated without containing water in a predetermined space.

Even if steam is not generated, if water remains in the steam generator 25, it may cause failure of the built-in electric heater or the like, and water may be contaminated. Therefore, The number of residues to be recovered may be any one of the water supply tube 90 and the drainage tube 70.

If the remaining water is drained through the water drainage tube 70, it will be drained via the water storage tank 29 as described above.

The steam generator 25 injects steam into the storage chamber 10 through which the clothes are stored through the steam injection unit 50.

The steam injection unit 50 may be connected to the steam generator 25 and the condensed water may be drained to the drain tank 70.

The condensed water of the steam can be directly connected to the water collecting tube 29 or the condensed water in the condensing tube 23b in the circulating duct 26 connected to the water collecting tube 29 ).

In the latter case, the water can be drained to the drain tank (70) via the water collection tank (29) together with the condensed water condensed in the condensing unit (23b). A method of simplifying the structure may be used in consideration of the length of the piping connecting the respective parts and the like.

The condensed water condensed in the steam injection unit 50 can be drained to the drainage tank 70 as soon as it is generated. However, since the condensed water of the steam is high temperature, the condensed water remaining in the steam injection unit 70 for a certain period of time So that it can be vaporized again.

Further, when the condensed water is left, the space in the steam injection unit 50 is reduced, so that the supplied steam can be easily injected. Also, the high temperature condensate water has the effect of keeping the steam supplied.

Therefore, it is preferable that the condensed water of the steam condensed in the steam injection unit remains in the steam injection unit 50 for a certain period of time.

Therefore, it is preferable that a valve 80 is provided between the condensed water discharge port and the water drainage tube 70 in order to leave the condensed water inside the steam injection unit 50.

The condensed water produced by the valve can be prevented from draining through the condensate outlet 53 immediately upon its production. The valve 80 is preferably an electronic valve controlled by a control unit (not shown) of the clothes processing apparatus.

In this embodiment, the condensed water condensed in the steam injection unit 50 is not drained to the drain tube 70 but passes through the water collection tube 29. If the condensed water is temporarily stored in the water receptacle 29 and then drained by the pump 27, the condensed water can be discharged together with the condensed water condensed in the heat exchanger 23, which is convenient.

The movement of the condensed water from the water collection tank 29 to the drain canister 70 is performed by a pipe connecting both sides. Since the drain tube (70) is located higher than the collection tube (29), the height difference is compensated by the drain pump (27).

In this embodiment, the drain canister 70 is provided as a removable tub, but it may be drained directly from the collection can at the place where the sewer is installed.

Therefore, it is preferable that the piping provided for draining the condensed water in the water collection tank 29 is selectively connected to the detachable drainage tank 70 or the sewerage (not shown).

Fig. 3 shows a discharge guide 30 for guiding the direction of air discharged to the storage chamber of the clothes processing apparatus according to the present invention.

Fig. 3 (a) is a perspective view thereof, Fig. 3 (b) is a lateral side view and Fig. 3 (c) is a longitudinal side view.

The discharge guide (30) of the clothes processing apparatus according to the present invention is mounted on a discharge port communicating with the circulating duct of the storage room, and serves to guide the discharge direction of the discharged air.

The discharge guide (30) is provided on the discharge port and is composed of a plurality of inclined partitions partitioning the discharge area of the discharge port.

In the discharge guide 30 shown in FIG. 3, longitudinal barrier ribs a1, a2, a3 and a4 and horizontal barrier ribs b1, b2 and b3 are inclined at a constant inclination.

The reason that the partition walls are inclined is that the size of the discharge port 14 for discharging air into the storage chamber 10 is smaller than the area of the inner wall surface provided with the discharge port so that the air is guided to the region where the discharged air can not reach It is for this reason.

Therefore, the partition walls (a, b) forming the discharge guide (30) are formed to be inclined in a specific direction, so that the direction of the discharged air can be controlled to some extent.

Here, if the inclination of the partition walls (a, b) is perpendicular to the horizontal plane, the air discharged from the discharge port (14) will rise in a substantially vertical direction. Therefore, by tilting the inclination of the partition wall forming the discharge guide 30 to have a value smaller than a right angle, the direction of the discharged air can be guided.

Also, the partition walls (a, b) forming the discharge guide (30) may be inclined in a specific direction, and the plurality of partition walls inclined in the same direction may be inclined gradually.

The reason why the inclination of the partition walls is gradually formed is that the air guided by the discharge guide 30 is uniformly discharged into the compartment as much as possible.

That is, if the inclination of the partition walls (a, b) is uniform, the air discharged from the discharge port 14 will be guided only in a certain direction, so that there will still be a rectangular area.

As shown in FIG. 1, the discharge port 14 is formed in the left inner corner of the bottom surface of the storage chamber 10.

Therefore, in order to uniformly reach the upper right outer side of the bottom surface of the compartment 10, that is, the area above the suction port 11 where the compartment chamber air is sucked, To tilt the slopes of the nearest partition walls a4 and b3 to guide a part of the discharged air to the rectangular area.

Therefore, by gradually changing the inclination of the plurality of partition walls (a, b) constituting the discharge guide 30, it is possible to change the region where the discharged air is guided and reaches.

1 and 3, the slopes of the longitudinal barrier ribs a1, a2, a3 and a4 with respect to the horizontal plane are α1, α2, α3 and α4 degrees, respectively, The inclination of the partition walls (b1, b2, b3) with the horizontal plane is β1, β2, β3 degrees (°).

At this time, each of the slopes has a relationship of? 1>? 2>? 3>? 4 and? 1>? 2>? 3. The angles? 1,? 2,? 3,? 4 and? 1,? 2,? 3 gradually change.

At this time, the inclination of each partition gradually increases or decreases. For example, when the discharge port 14 is mounted at the corner of the bottom of the compartment, the inclination of the vertical surface of each compartment wall is inversely proportional to the distance between the center of the compartment floor 12 and each partition wall .

In this way, a4 and b3 closest to the center of the bottom of the partitions a1, a2, a3 and a4 and the partitions b1, b2 and b3 are inclined with respect to the most vertical plane The largest. The slopes between the vertical plane and the partition walls a4 and b3 are (90-α4) degrees (°) and (90-β3) degrees, respectively.

1 and 3, since the discharge port 14 is mounted at the inner corner of the bottom surface of the storage chamber 10, the inclination of the partition wall constituting the discharge guide 30 is gradually reduced So that the air discharged through the discharge port can be uniformly supplied to the inside of the compartment 10.

In the embodiment shown in Figs. 1 and 3, the inclination of the partition wall is related to a case where the inclination of the partition wall is gradually inclined in the same direction. However, depending on the position of the discharge port 14 provided in the wall surface of the housing chamber, it is sometimes necessary that the inclination of at least one of the partition walls is different from that of the other partition walls.

4 is a plan view of a bottom surface of a storage chamber for explaining another form of the discharge guide 30 of the clothes processing apparatus according to the present invention and a lateral axis and a longitudinal axis side view of the discharge guide 30. [

The discharge port 14 formed in the wall surface of the storage room of Fig. 4 is formed at the center of the storage room floor 12. Therefore, the predicted rectangular areas are defined as the I, II, III, and IV areas of the bottom surface 12 excluding the area where the discharge port 14 is formed, to be.

Therefore, in order to allow the air discharged from the discharge port 14 to reach the area of the upper region of the I region, the II region, the III region, and the IV region to have a low height, the inclination direction of the partition wall constituting the discharge guide 30 Can be configured differently as shown in FIGS. 4 (b) and 4 (c).

Of course, at least one of the plurality of inclined barrier ribs may have different inclination directions of the barrier ribs so that the inclination direction of the barrier ribs is different from that of the other barrier ribs, and the inclination of the barrier ribs having the same inclination direction may be gradually formed.

The reason why the inclination of each of the partition walls having the same inclination direction is to be gradually increased is the same as that of the ejection guide 30 shown in Fig.

First, the slopes of the longitudinal barrier ribs a1, a2, a3 and a4 with respect to the horizontal plane are α1, α2, α3 and α4 degrees, and the horizontal barrier ribs b1, b2, b3, The inclination is β1, β2, β3, β4 degrees (°).

At this time, each of the slopes has a gradual slope of? 2>? 1,? 3>? 4,? 2>? 1, and? 4>? 3.

(A1, a2), (a3, a4), (b1, b2), and (b3, b4) of the partition walls are inclined so as to have the same oblique direction.

4, since the position of the discharge port 14 through which the air is discharged is approximately the center of the bottom surface 12 of the compartment 12, the partition walls having different inclination directions are shown in half, The ratio should be determined according to the position of the discharge port 14.

5 is a plan view of a bottom surface of a compartment for explaining another form of the dispensing guide 30 of the clothes processing apparatus according to the present invention, and shows a horizontal axis and a vertical sectional view of the discharge guide 30.

In the embodiment shown in Fig. 5, the position of the discharge port 14 is not a corner that is in contact with the inner surface of the storage chamber 10, nor is it located at the center of the bottom surface.

Therefore, air may not smoothly reach the upper portion of the area of the I, II, and III areas that are distant from the discharge port 14 among the areas of the compartment floor. Therefore, except for a part of the partition walls forming the discharge guide 30, the oblique direction is determined so that the air can smoothly reach the upper portion of the region distant from the discharge port 14 among the I, II, and III regions .

Similarly, in the embodiment shown in Fig. 5, the slopes of longitudinal barrier ribs a1, a2, a3 and a4 with respect to the horizontal plane are alpha 1, alpha 2, alpha 3 and alpha 4 degrees, and horizontal barrier ribs b1 and b2 , b3, b4) with the horizontal plane is β1, β2, β3, β4 degrees (°).

As shown in FIGS. 5 (b) and 5 (c), the barrier ribs a1, a2, a3, b1, b2 and b3 are inclined to have the same oblique direction, And the inclination degree is increased.

A4 and b4 of the partition walls have different inclination directions from (a1, a2, a3) and (b1, b2, b3) It is possible to guide air to be discharged to the outside.

A guide blade for guiding the direction of the air discharged separately from the discharge guide 30 may be provided on the inner wall surface of the storage chamber.

6 is a perspective view of the discharge guide 30 and the back panel 40 formed with the guide blades. As shown in FIG. 6, the back panel 40 is a guide means that can be used when the discharge port is provided adjacent to the inside surface of the compartment 10.

The back panel 40 includes a plurality of guide blades 42 for guiding air to be discharged. The guide blades 42 are means for artificially adjusting the direction of the discharged air. That is, the direction of the air discharged along the inner surface of the compartment 10 can be changed again.

Referring to FIG. 1 again, the discharge passage of the air that has passed through the discharge guide 30 can be readjusted by the guide blades 42 formed on the wall surface of the storage chamber.

The guide blades 42 may be provided on a separate back panel 40 and may be mounted on the wall surface of the housing chamber 10 or directly on the wall surface of the housing chamber.

The guide blade 42 has a curved plate shape. Specifically, it is possible that the straight upper portion connecting both ends of the guide blade 42 is curved so as to be convex. That is, the curvature direction is determined so as to be convex upward.

Even if the guide blades 42 are formed diagonally on the inner surface of at least one of the inner wall surfaces of the storage chambers adjacent to the discharge ports 14, the discharge flow path of air flowing on the inner wall surfaces of the storage chambers can be changed, Since the air discharged from the evaporator 14 is dried and heated air dehumidified and heated inside the electric room, it basically has a property of rising in the vertical direction.

Therefore, the guide blades 42 arranged in the diagonal direction are formed to be convex upward, so that hot air or the like guided by the guide blades 42 can be dispersed in a substantially horizontal direction.

In addition, the back panel 40 provided with the guide blades 42 may be mounted in a state separated from the discharge guide 30 by a predetermined distance or more. Since the back panel 40 is a means for adjusting the direction of the air discharged together with the discharge guide 30, the respective effects are separately generated.

Since the air having passed through the discharge guide 30 has a predetermined directionality in the case where the discharge guide 30 and the back panel 40 are integrally formed, It may not be big.

Therefore, as shown in FIG. 6, the discharge guide 30 and the back panel 40 are spaced apart by a predetermined distance d.

7 shows another embodiment of the discharge guide according to the present invention.

Specifically, as shown in Fig. 4, when the discharge port 14 is located at the center of the bottom surface of the storage chamber 10, the top view of the bottom surface of the storage chamber and the horizontal or longitudinal direction of the discharge guide 30 Fig.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 7, the partition walls (a, b) have different inclination directions and a gradual inclination, and at the same time, they can be curved like the guide blades 42.

In particular, the curved direction can be configured to be convex upward as with the guide blades 42. The reason why the partition walls (a, b) are formed to be curved is that the air discharged from the discharge port is dehumidified and heated, so that even if the discharge direction is adjusted by the discharge guide 30, It will be shifted upward again so as to compensate for this more.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made in the present invention without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as defined in the following claims. Change will be possible. It is therefore to be understood that the modified embodiments are included in the technical scope of the present invention if they basically include elements of the claims of the present invention.

1 is a perspective view of a clothes processing apparatus according to the present invention.

2 shows an internal structure of an electric room of a clothes processing apparatus according to the present invention.

Fig. 3 shows a discharge guide for guiding the direction of air discharged to the storage chamber of the clothes processing apparatus according to the present invention.

4 is a plan view of a bottom surface of a storage chamber for explaining another form of the discharge guide of the clothes processing apparatus according to the present invention, and shows a horizontal axis and a vertical axis side view of the discharge guide.

5 is a plan view of a bottom surface of a storage chamber for explaining another form of the discharge guide of the clothes processing apparatus according to the present invention, and shows a lateral axis and a longitudinal axis side view of the discharge guide.

6 is a perspective view of a back panel in which the discharge guide is formed with a guide blade.

7 shows another embodiment of the discharge guide according to the present invention.

DESCRIPTION OF REFERENCE NUMERALS

10: storage chamber 14: discharge port

20: electric field chamber 25: steam generator

26: Circulating duct 30: Discharge guide

40: back panel 42: guide blade

50: Steam injection unit

Claims (11)

A cabinet having a storage room for storing clothes; A circulation duct provided in a space inside the cabinet partitioned by the storage room to supply air in the storage compartment to the compartment; And a discharge guide mounted on the discharge port of the compartment communicating with the circulating duct for guiding the discharge direction of the discharged air. The method according to claim 1, Wherein the discharge guide is formed of a plurality of inclined partitions provided in the discharge port and partitioning the discharge area of the discharge port. 3. The method of claim 2, Wherein the partition walls each have a gradually varying inclination. 3. The method of claim 2, Wherein at least one of the plurality of inclined partitions is different in inclination direction from the other partitions. 5. The method of claim 4, Wherein the partition walls each have a gradually varying inclination. 3. The method of claim 2, Wherein when the discharge port is provided at a corner of the bottom surface of the compartment, the inclination of the vertical surface of each of the compartments is inversely proportional to the distance between the center of each compartment and the bottom surface of the compartment. Device. 3. The method of claim 2, And at least one inner wall surface of the accommodating chamber adjacent to the discharge port, at least one of which is projected in the diagonal direction of the inner side surface of the accommodating chamber, when the discharge port and the discharge guide are mounted in corners of the bottom surface of the compartment Wherein at least one guide blade is formed. 8. The method of claim 7, Wherein a linear upper portion connecting both longitudinal ends of the guide blade is curved so as to be convex. 8. The method of claim 7, Wherein the guide blade is provided on a separately provided back panel, and a back panel provided with the guide blade is mounted on an inner wall surface of the cabinet. 10. The method of claim 9, Wherein the back panel is mounted apart from the discharge guide. The method according to any one of claims 3, 4, and 7, Wherein at least one of the inclined partitions forming the discharge guide is bent so as to be convex upward.

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