KR20090105121A - Laundry treating machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A clothes treatment device is provided to dry the clothes evenly by supplying the hot air to an accommodating chamber. CONSTITUTION: A clothes treatment device comprises followings. A cabinet has an accommodating chamber(10) containing the clothes. A circulating duct is located in the inside of the cabinet separated from the accommodating chamber and circulates the hot air within the accommodating chamber. An emitting guide is mounted at an outlet(14) communicating with the circulating duct and guides the direction of the discharged air. The emitting guide is located at the outlet and has a plurality of inclined partition segmenting the discharging area of the outlet.

Description

Clothing processing equipment {LAUNDRY TREATING MACHINE}

The present invention relates to a laundry treatment apparatus. More specifically, the present invention relates to a clothes treating apparatus including a discharge guide on a discharge port side so as to process clothes by using steam or hot air to clothes, and to uniformly supply hot air supplied into a storage compartment in which clothes are stored. .

The clothes treating apparatus refers to an apparatus for processing clothes stored in a storage compartment provided in a cabinet. The treatment of the stored clothes refers to a series of processes that can blow clothes, supply steam or hot air, and remove odors, wrinkles, and moisture remaining in the clothes to give satisfaction to the user who wears the clothes.

For example, if the same clothing is worn more than once, odors, wrinkles, or moisture remain in the clothing. The smell and the like remaining in the clothing may be unpleasant for the user who tries to wear the same clothes again. In order to remove this, the garment may be washed, but the frequent washing process of the garment has a problem of shortening the life of the garment and increasing the cost for maintaining the garment.

In addition, wrinkles may remain even after the clothes are dried after washing, and such clothes cannot be immediately worn and the user must perform a separate cumbersome ironing operation.

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

The clothes treating apparatus may spray steam to the clothes to remove odors, wrinkles, or moisture of the stored clothes, and may blow (including hot air) to dry the clothes containing moisture by the injected steam.

Exposing clothing to wind or hot air may have the effect of removing odors, wrinkles or moisture, but steam may be used to maximize the effect.

When steam is sprayed on the clothes stored in the clothes treatment apparatus, the fine water particles are combined with the odor particles remaining deep in the fiber tissue, and the water particles combined with the odor particles are separated from the clothes in the drying process and discharged. In this way, the odor remaining in the garment is removed.

When steam is supplied to the clothes stored in the clothes treating apparatus, wrinkles, etc. remaining in the clothes may be alleviated. Clothes supplied by steam are to reduce or eliminate wrinkles during drying.

Through such a process, odors, wrinkles, or moisture remaining in the clothes can be removed, and the user of the clothes can wear the clothes in a more comfortable state.

The clothes treating apparatus includes a circulation duct for circulating the air in the storage compartment to dehumidify or heat the lower portion of the storage chamber in which the clothing is stored.

The circulation duct sucks air in the storage compartment, dehumidifies or heats it, and supplies the air back into the storage chamber. Accordingly, the circulation duct supplies the air circulated to the storage chamber through a discharge port formed at an interface between the storage chamber and the electrical equipment chamber in which the circulation duct is installed.

Since the hot air discharged from the discharge port formed toward the storage chamber side is discharged at a constant flow rate by the blower fan, the hot air is intensively supplied to the inside of the storage chamber according to the position of the discharge port and the hot air is concentrated. It can be divided into areas.

Such a variation in the blowing amount may make it difficult to uniformize the treatment process of the stored clothes, for example, the drying process. Therefore, there is a need for a method for uniformly supplying air resupply through the circulation duct inside the storage chamber.

The present invention is to solve the problem to provide a clothes processing apparatus that can process the clothes by using steam or hot air to the clothes, uniformly supplied with the hot air supplied into the storage compartment in which the clothes are stored.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a cabinet having a storage compartment in which clothes are stored, a circulation provided in a space inside the cabinet partitioned from the storage compartment, and resupplying air in the storage compartment to the storage compartment. Provided is a clothes processing apparatus including a duct, a discharge guide mounted to the discharge chamber discharge port communicating with the circulation duct, to guide the discharge direction of the discharged air.

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

The barrier ribs may have slopes that gradually change, respectively.

Here, it is preferable that at least one of the inclined partitions has a different inclination direction from the other partition.

In addition, when the discharge port is provided in the corner of the bottom of the storage chamber, the inclination formed with the vertical surface of each of the partition wall is preferably inversely proportional to the distance between the center of the partition and the bottom surface of the storage chamber.

Here, when the discharge port and the discharge guide is mounted in the corner of the bottom of the storage chamber, at least one projecting in a diagonal direction of the inner surface on at least one inner wall surface of the inner wall surface of the storage chamber adjacent to the discharge port The above guide blade may be formed.

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

In addition, the blade may be provided in the back panel provided separately, the back panel provided with the guide blade may be mounted on the inner wall surface of the cabinet.

The back panel may be mounted to be spaced apart from the discharge guide.

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

According to the control method of the laundry treatment apparatus according to the present invention, the clothes are stored to supply steam or hot air to remove wrinkles, odors or moisture remaining in the clothes, thereby providing satisfaction to the user.

In addition, according to the control method of the laundry treatment apparatus according to the present invention, since the hot air or the like supplied to the inside of the storage compartment in which the clothes are stored can be uniformly supplied, the clothes can be dried uniformly.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, the invention is not limited to the embodiments described herein but may be embodied in other forms. Rather, the embodiments introduced herein are provided so that the disclosure may be made thorough and complete, and to fully convey the spirit of the present invention to those skilled in the art. Like numbers refer to like elements throughout.

1 is a perspective view of a laundry treatment apparatus according to the present invention, Figure 2 shows the internal structure of the electrical equipment of the laundry treatment apparatus according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the clothes treating apparatus 10 according to the present invention is provided in a storage compartment 10 in which clothes are stored and a lower portion of the storage compartment 10, and circulates air in the storage compartment 10. There is provided an electrical equipment room 20 in which various components are installed to dehumidify, heat, or circulate air to remove wrinkles, odors, or moisture remaining in clothes.

The storage compartment 10 and the electrical equipment compartment 20 may be provided in a form provided in one cabinet 70. In addition, the storage chamber 10 has a structure that can be opened and closed by a door provided in the cabinet 70.

The electrical equipment chamber 20 sucks air in the storage chamber 10 and supplies the air back into the storage chamber 10. The bottom surface of the storage chamber 10 includes a suction port 11 through which air in the storage chamber 10 is sucked and a discharge port 14 through which air supplied to the storage chamber is discharged.

The reason why the suction port 11 and the discharge port 14 are provided on the bottom surface of the storage chamber 10 is that the position of the electrical equipment chamber 20 is provided below the storage chamber 10.

In addition, the storage chamber 10 is provided with a steam injection unit 50 is injected into the steam generated by the steam generator provided in the interior of the electric chamber 20.

The suction port 11 and the discharge port 14 is preferably equipped with a mesh-like structure in order to prevent the foreign matter more than a predetermined size from being inserted from the outside.

In addition, since the direction of air sucked in the inlet 11 is not important, the structure for blocking the inlet 11 does not have to have a constant shape.

However, since the air discharged from the discharge port 14 is dehumidified or heated while being re-supplyed to the storage chamber 10 while the sucked air passes through a circulation duct described later, the clothes stored in the storage chamber 10. It is necessary to supply uniformly throughout.

As shown in FIG. 1, when the air discharged from the discharge port 14 provided in the left corner of the storage chamber 10 rises vertically, the right front region of the inner space of the storage chamber 10 is the discharge port ( The area discharged from 14) does not reach (hereinafter referred to as "square area").

Therefore, the structure mounted to the suction port 11 is sufficient to prevent foreign matter from penetrating from the outside, and the air inside the storage chamber 10 may be sucked, but the structure mounted to the discharge port 14 is external. It should be a structure that can prevent foreign substances from penetrating and control the direction of the discharged air.

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

In addition, the storage panel 10 may be provided with a back panel 40 for guiding in the direction of the air flowing through the inner wall surface.

Detailed structures and functions of the discharge guide 30 and the back panel 40 will be described later.

2 is a block diagram of the interior of the electrical equipment room 20 of the laundry treatment apparatus according to the present invention.

The electrical equipment room 20 of the clothing treatment apparatus is provided with a steam generator 25 for generating steam supplied to a storage compartment in which clothes are stored, and a circulation duct 26 for drying or heating the stored clothes.

Of course, the circulation duct 26 is naturally also provided with a blowing function for simply blowing air to circulate the unheated air. Such a blowing function is possible by the blowing duct 28 having a fan so as to discharge the air passing through the circulation duct 26 through the discharge port 14.

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

As a means for heating the air re-supplied to the storage chamber 10, in the case of using a heat pump or electric heater, the dehumidification process by condensing the moisture of the humid air sucked through the suction hole 21 in the storage chamber Will be performed.

As shown in FIG. 2, when a heat pump is provided for heating dehumidified air, a condenser 23b in which dehumidification of wet air occurs by evaporating the refrigerant compressed by the compressor 22 inside the circulation duct 26. ) And a heating unit 23a for condensing the refrigerant to heat the dehumidified air.

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

Even when a heat pump is used for dehumidification and heating of the humid air, a separate electric heater may be added to sufficiently heat the dehumidified air.

The clothes treating apparatus having a drying function may be classified into a condensation type and an exhaust type by drying the clothes inside according to a method of drying clothes.

In addition, after suctioning the humid air of the storage compartment 10, after dehumidification, depending on whether to re-supply to the storage compartment 10 or to directly exhaust the humid air to the outside, it can be divided into the exhaust type and the circulation type, The clothing treatment apparatus according to the present invention uses a circulating method of circulating and dehumidifying the air in the storage compartment 10, and the present invention will be described with respect to the circulating clothes processing apparatus.

A discharge hole 24 is formed in the blower duct 28 to communicate with the discharge port 14 of the storage chamber 10, and the other end of the circulation duct communicates with the suction port 11 of the storage chamber 10. Suction hole 21 is provided.

 Therefore, the air sucked in the suction hole 21 is dehumidified in the condensation part 23b provided in the circulation tuck 26, heated in the heating part 23a, and returned to the storage chamber through the blower duct 28. Supplied.

The heat exchanger 23 of the laundry treatment apparatus according to the present invention dehumidifies the humid air circulated in the storage chamber 10 using the refrigerant supplied from the compressor 22 in the evaporation process of the refrigerant, and condenses the refrigerant. The dehumidified air is heated again.

The compression of the refrigerant is necessary between the evaporation and condensation of the refrigerant. Compression of the refrigerant is performed by the compressor 22 provided in the electric compartment 20.

The electrical equipment room 20 illustrated in FIG. 2 is provided with a drain container 70. The condensed water condensed in the heat exchanger (23) is collected in a sump (29) located below the heat exchanger (23), and the sewage collected in the sump (29) is conveyed back to the sump (70) Are kept.

The sump 29 not only collects the condensed water of the heat exchanger in the circulation duct 28, but also temporarily drains the residual water in the steam generator 25 to drain the water into the drain 70. It also has the function to save it.

Of course, the drainage portion may be an external sewer pipe or the like that is not detachable. However, since there is a restriction that the clothes treatment apparatus should be installed in a place equipped with a sewerage system, the drain container 70 will be described in the case of being configured in a removable water container.

The user of the clothes treating apparatus may selectively separate the drain container 70 from the electrical equipment room 20 in consideration of the capacity of the drain container 70, and discharge the sewage stored therein. The movement of sewage from the sump 29 to the sump 70 may be a drain pump 27 or the like.

If the sump 70 can be disposed below the heat exchanger 23, the sump 29 can be omitted, but to configure the drain sump 70 to be detachable from the electrical compartment, a pump is used. The method of using the drain part provided in the upper part of an electrical equipment chamber can be used. In addition, the sump pump 27 may be built in the sump 29.

In order to enable the user to easily attach and detach the drain container 70 from the electrical equipment room 20, it is advantageous that the location of the drain container 70 is located above the electrical equipment room 20 by a drain pump. It is necessary to compensate for the height difference.

When the drain container 70 and the water supply container 90 to be described later are detachably mounted, the drain container 70 is mounted on a drawer (not shown) provided to move forward or hinge in the electric compartment 20. It may be configured to be withdrawn or rotated in the battle room.

Since the sewage is transported from the sump 29 to the sump 70 using a drain pump, the size of the sump may be smaller than the size of the sump 70.

Steam supplied to the clothes stored in the storage chamber 10 is a steam generator 25 provided in the electrical equipment compartment 20 to heat the water supplied from the water supply tank 90 provided in the electrical equipment compartment The steam is generated in the manner and supplied to the storage chamber 10.

The water supply container 90 is provided in a water tank type that can be attached and detached from the electronic device, similarly to the drain container 70 shown in FIG. 2.

Since the amount of water required to generate steam is not large, and it must be possible to install in a place without running water, it is advantageous to use a removable water tank 90. Of course, if the water supply facility is located near, the water supply tank 90 may also be directly connected to the water supply.

The water supply container 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 to generate steam. 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 of directly installing a heater around a water supply hose through which water passes, that is, heating the water without accommodating water in a predetermined space.

Even when no steam is generated, water remaining in the steam generator 25 may cause a breakdown of the built-in electric heater or the like, and since water may be contaminated, the steam generator 25 may Residual water has to be recovered, and the place where the residual water can be recovered may be either the sump (90) or the sump (70).

If the residual water is drained to the sump 70, it will be drained via the sump 29 as described above.

The steam generator 25 sprays the steam through the steam spray unit 50 to the storage chamber 10 in which the clothes are stored.

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

In order to drain the condensate of steam directly into the sump 70, the condensate of steam is directly connected to the sump 29 or the condensation part 23b in the circulation duct 26 connected to the sump 29. ) Can be connected.

In the latter case, the water can be drained to the sump 70 through the sump 29 together with the condensed water condensed in the condensation part 23b. Considering the length of the pipe connecting each part, a method that can simplify the structure may be used.

As soon as the condensed water condensed in the steam spraying unit 50 is generated, the condensed water may be drained to the drain container 70. It is desirable to make it possible to vaporize again.

In addition, when the condensed water remains, the space in the steam injection unit 50 is reduced, so that the supplied steam can be easily injected. In addition, there is an effect of insulating the steam supplied with the hot condensed water.

Therefore, it is preferable that the condensed water of steam condensed in the steam spraying unit remains in the steam spraying unit 50 for a predetermined time.

Therefore, in order to retain the condensed water in the steam spraying unit 50, it is preferable to provide a valve 80 between the condensed water outlet and the drain container 70.

This is because the condensate generated by the valve can be prevented from draining through the condensate outlet 53 immediately after generation. In addition, the valve 80 is preferably an electronic valve controlled by a control unit (not shown) of the clothes treating apparatus.

In the present embodiment, the condensed water condensed in the steam injection unit 50 is not directly drained to the drain container 70, but passes through the sump container 29. Temporarily storing the condensate in the sump 29 and then draining the pump 27 may be convenient since the condensate may be drained together with the condensate condensed in the heat exchanger 23.

The movement of the condensed water from the sump (29) to the sump (70) is by a pipe connecting both sides. Since the sump 70 is located higher than the sump 29, the compensation of the height difference is due to the sump pump 27.

In this embodiment, although the drain container 70 is provided as a detachable water bottle, where the sewer is provided, it can be directly drained from the sump.

Therefore, the pipe provided for draining the condensate in the sump (29) is preferably provided to be selectively connected to the removable drain (70) or sewer (not shown).

Figure 3 shows a discharge guide 30 for guiding the direction of the air discharged to the storage chamber of the laundry treatment apparatus according to the present invention.

3A is a perspective view thereof, FIG. 3B is a horizontal side view, and FIG. 3C is a longitudinal side view.

The discharge guide 30 of the clothes treating apparatus according to the present invention is mounted on the discharge port communicating with the circulation duct of the storage chamber, and serves to guide the discharge direction of the discharged air.

The discharge guide 30 is provided in the discharge port and includes a plurality of inclined partition walls for partitioning the discharge area of the discharge port.

In the discharge guide 30 illustrated in FIG. 3, the vertical partitions a1, a2, a3, and a4 and the horizontal partitions b1, b2, and b3 are inclined with a predetermined slope, respectively.

The partition walls are inclined because the size of the discharge port 14 for discharging the air into the storage chamber 10 is smaller than the area of the inner wall surface provided with the discharge port. For sake.

Therefore, the partitions a and b forming the discharge guide 30 are formed to be inclined in a specific direction, thereby controlling the direction of the discharged air to some extent.

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

In addition, the partitions (a, b) forming the discharge guide 30 may be configured to be inclined in a specific direction and a plurality of partitions inclined in the same direction may be configured to have a gradually changing slope.

The reason why the slopes of the partitions are gradually formed is to allow the air guided by the discharge guide 30 to be evenly discharged into the storage chamber as much as possible.

That is, if the inclination of the partitions (a, b) is uniform, since the air discharged from the discharge port 14 will be guided only in a certain direction, there will still be a blind area.

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

Therefore, in order for the discharged air to evenly reach the upper right side of the bottom surface of the bottom of the storage chamber 10, that is, the area of the upper part of the intake port 11 through which the storage chamber air is sucked, the expected blind spot side of the partition wall and The inclination of the closest partitions a4 and b3 is inclined most to guide a part of the discharged air to the blind area.

Therefore, by gradually changing the inclination of the plurality of partitions (a, b) constituting the discharge guide 30, it is possible to change the area that the discharged air is guided to reach.

1 and 3, first, the inclination of the vertical partitions a1, a2, a3, and a4 with the horizontal plane is α1, α2, α3, and α4 degrees (°), respectively. The inclinations of the partition walls b1, b2, and b3 with the horizontal plane are β1, β2, and β3 degrees (°).

At this time, each of the inclination has a relationship of α1> α2> α3> α4 and β1> β2> β3. The angles α1, α2, α3, α4 and β1, β2, β3 are gradually changed.

At this time, the inclination of each partition wall is gradually increased or decreased. For example, when the discharge port 14 is mounted at the corner of the bottom of the storage compartment, the inclination of the vertical walls of the compartments is inversely proportional to the distance between the center of the storage compartment bottom surface 12 and each compartment. Can be configured to

By such a method, the slopes of the partitions a1, a2, a3, a4 and a4 and b3 of the partitions b1, b2, b3, which are the closest from the center of the bottom surface, are the most vertical planes. It is the largest. The inclination between the vertical plane and the partition walls a4 and b3 is (90-α4) degrees (°) and (90-β3) degrees (°), respectively.

In the embodiment shown in Figures 1 and 3, the discharge port 14 is mounted in the inner corner of the bottom surface of the storage chamber 10, so as to gradually reduce the inclination of the partition wall constituting the discharge guide (30) It is configured so that the air discharged through the discharge port can be uniformly supplied into the storage chamber (10).

In the embodiment shown in Figures 1 and 3, the inclination of the partition wall is related to the case of gradually inclined in the same direction. However, depending on the position of the discharge port 14 provided on the inner wall surface of the storage chamber, the inclination of the at least one partition may be different from the inclination direction of the other partition.

4 is a plan view of a bottom surface of a storage compartment and a horizontal and vertical side view of the discharge guide 30 for explaining another embodiment of the discharge guide 30 of the clothes treating apparatus according to the present invention.

The discharge port 14 formed in the inner wall surface of the storage chamber of FIG. 4 is formed in the center of the bottom surface 12 of the storage chamber. Therefore, the predicted dead zones are the lower ones of the upper regions of the I, II, III, and IV regions of the bottom surface 12 except for the region in which the discharge port 14 is formed. to be.

Therefore, the inclined direction of the partition wall constituting the discharge guide 30 is set so that the air discharged from the discharge port 14 reaches the area of the upper region of the region I, II, III, or IV. As shown in (b) and (c) of Figure 4 it can be configured differently.

Of course, at least one of the inclined partitions may be configured to have different inclination directions of the partition walls so as to be different from other partition walls, and the slopes of the partition walls 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 increased gradually is common to the description of the discharge guide 30 shown in FIG. 3.

First, the inclination of the longitudinal partitions a1, a2, a3, and a4 with the horizontal plane is α1, α2, α3, and α4 degrees (°), respectively, and the horizontal partitions b1, b2, b3, and b4 correspond to the horizontal plane. The inclinations are β1, β2, β3 and β4 degrees (°).

At this time, each of the inclination has a gradual inclination of α2> α1, α3> α4, β2> β1, and β4> β3.

Among the partition walls, (a1, a2), (a3, a4), (b1, b2), and (b3, b4) are inclined to have the same inclination direction, respectively, but are configured to gradually increase inclination degree.

In the embodiment shown in Fig. 4, since the position of the discharge port 14 through which air is discharged is approximately the center of the bottom of the storage chamber 12, the partitions having different inclination directions are shown in half, but the partitions having different inclination directions are shown. 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 storage compartment and a horizontal and vertical sectional view of the discharge guide 30 for explaining another embodiment of the discharge guide 30 of the clothes treating apparatus according to the present invention.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 5, the position of the discharge port 14 is neither a corner enough to contact the inner surface of the storage chamber 10 nor is it located at the center of the bottom surface.

Therefore, the air may not smoothly reach the upper portion of the regions partitioning the storage compartment bottom surface far from the discharge port 14 in the regions I, II, and III. Therefore, except for a part of the partition wall forming the discharge guide 30, the inclination direction is determined so that the air can be smoothly reached to the upper portion of the I, II, III region far from the discharge port 14 Should be.

Similarly, in the embodiment shown in FIG. 5, the inclinations of the vertical partitions a1, a2, a3, and a4 with the horizontal plane are α1, α2, α3, and α4 degrees (°), respectively, and the horizontal partitions b1 and b2. , b3 and b4 are the inclinations of the horizontal plane with β1, β2, β3, and β4 degrees (°).

5 (b) and 5 (c), among the partitions, (a1, a2, a3), (b1, b2, b3) are inclined to have the same inclination direction, respectively, but gradually It is configured to increase the degree of inclination.

In addition, a4 and b4 of the partitions have different inclination directions from (a1, a2, a3) and (b1, b2, b3), respectively, and the upper part of the region close to the discharge port 14 among the I, III, and IV regions. It can guide the air discharged to.

A guide blade for guiding the direction of 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 back panel 40 in which the discharge guide 30 and the guide blade are formed. As shown in FIG. 6, the back panel 40 is mainly a guide means that may be used when the discharge port is provided adjacent to the inner surface of the storage chamber 10.

The back panel 40 includes a plurality of guide blades 42 to guide the discharged air. The guide blade 42 is a means for artificially adjusting the direction of the discharged air. That is, the direction of the air discharged along the inner surface of the storage chamber 10 may be changed once more.

Referring to FIG. 1 again, the discharge passage of the air passing through the discharge guide 30 may be readjusted by the guide blade 42 formed on the inner wall of the storage chamber.

The guide blade 42 may be provided in a separate back panel 40 to be mounted on the inner wall surface of the storage chamber 10 or may be directly provided on the inner wall surface of the storage chamber 10.

In addition, the guide blade 42 has a curved plate shape. Specifically, the upper portion of the straight line connecting both ends of the guide blade 42 may be curved to be convex. That is, the direction of curvature is determined to be convex upward.

Although the guide blades 42 are formed on at least one inner surface of the inner wall of the storage chamber adjacent to the discharge port 14 in the diagonal direction, the discharge flow path of the air flowing through the inner wall of the storage chamber can be changed. The air discharged from (14) is a dried and heated air dehumidified and heated inside the electric compartment, and thus 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 may be substantially distributed in the horizontal direction.

In addition, the back panel 40 provided with the guide blade 42 may be mounted in a state spaced apart from the discharge guide 30 by a predetermined distance or more. The back panel 40 is also a means for adjusting the direction of the air discharged together with the discharge guide 30, so that each effect is generated separately.

If it is assumed that the discharge guide 30 and the back panel 40 are integrally formed, since the air passing through the discharge guide 30 already has a certain direction, the effect of the guide blade 42 is It may not be big.

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

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

Specifically, as shown in FIG. 4, a plan view of the bottom surface of the storage compartment and the horizontal or vertical direction of the discharge guide 30 when the discharge port 14 is located at the center of the bottom surface of the storage compartment 10. A side view is shown.

In the embodiment shown in Figure 7, the partitions (a, b) are different in the inclined direction and have a gradual inclination, and can be configured to be curved at the same time as the guide blade (42).

In particular, the curved direction may be configured to be convex upward as in the guide blade 42. The reason why the partitions a and b are curved is that the air discharged from the discharge port is dehumidified and heated, so that even if the discharge direction is controlled by the discharge guide 30, the direction of the rising air is increased. This is to compensate more because it will be biased upward again.

Although the present specification has been described with reference to preferred embodiments of the invention, those skilled in the art may variously modify and modify the invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the claims set forth below. Changes may be made. Therefore, it should be seen that all modifications included in the technical scope of the present invention are basically included in the scope of the claims of the present invention.

1 is a perspective view of a laundry treatment apparatus according to the present invention.

Figure 2 shows the internal structure of the electrical equipment room clothes processing apparatus according to the present invention.

Figure 3 shows a discharge guide for guiding the direction of the air discharged to the storage chamber of the laundry treatment apparatus according to the present invention.

Figure 4 shows a plan view of the bottom surface of the storage compartment for explaining another embodiment of the discharge guide of the laundry treatment apparatus according to the present invention and the horizontal and vertical axis side views of the discharge guide.

Figure 5 shows a plan view of the bottom surface of the storage compartment for explaining another embodiment of the discharge guide of the laundry treatment apparatus according to the present invention and the horizontal and vertical axis side views of the discharge guide.

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

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

** Description of symbols for the main parts of the drawing **

10: storage chamber 14: discharge port

20: electric room 25: steam generator

26: circulation duct 30: discharge guide

40: back panel 42: guide blade

50: steam injection unit

Claims (11)

A cabinet having a storage compartment for storing clothes; A circulation duct provided in a space inside the cabinet partitioned from the storage compartment and re-supplying air in the storage compartment to the storage compartment; And a discharge guide mounted to the discharge chamber discharge port communicating with the circulation duct and guiding a discharge direction of the discharged air. The method of claim 1, And the discharge guide is provided in the discharge port, and comprises a plurality of inclined partition walls for partitioning the discharge area of the discharge port. The method of claim 2, The partition wall treatment apparatus, characterized in that each having a slope gradually changing. The method of claim 2, At least one of the inclined plurality of partitions, the clothes processing apparatus, characterized in that the inclined direction different from the other partitions. The method of claim 4, wherein The partition wall treatment apparatus, characterized in that each having a slope gradually changing. The method of claim 2, When the discharge port is provided in the corner of the bottom of the storage compartment, the inclination formed with the vertical surface of each of the partition walls is inversely proportional to the distance between the center of each partition and the bottom surface of the storage compartment. Device. The method of claim 2, At least one guide projecting in a diagonal direction of the inner surface to at least one inner wall surface of the inner wall surface of the storage chamber adjacent to the discharge hole when the discharge port and the discharge guide are mounted at a corner of the bottom of the storage chamber; Clothing processing apparatus characterized in that the blade is formed. The method of claim 7, wherein Apparel processing apparatus, characterized in that the upper portion of the straight line connecting the both ends of the guide blades are curved. The method of claim 7, wherein The blade is provided in a back panel provided separately, the back panel provided with the guide blade is a clothes processing apparatus, characterized in that mounted on the inner wall surface of the cabinet. The method of claim 9, The back panel is a clothes processing apparatus, characterized in that mounted to be spaced apart from the discharge guide. The method according to any one of claims 3, 4 and 7, wherein At least one or more partitions of the inclined partitions forming the discharge guide is a clothes processing apparatus, characterized in that curved to be convex upward.

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