KR20110035028A - Clothes dryer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A cloth dryer for extending the lifetime of a clothing is provided to arrange the main dry part of a tumbling area and the sub dry part of a non-tumbling area according to the kind of clothing. CONSTITUTION: A lower part of a main case(10) has the vertical section of a semicircular shape. The top of the main case has the vertical section of a rectangular shape. A main drying part(20) is arranged in the lower part of the internal space. The main drying part dries inputted wet laundry. A sub drying part(30) is arranged on the top of the internal space. The sub dry part dries in a received state.

Description

Clothes Dryer {Clothes Dryer}

The present invention relates to a clothes dryer, and more particularly, according to the type of clothes, the clothes that require forced rotation and the clothes that do not require forced rotation are dried at the same time for drying, and the noise / vibration of the product is reduced. It is related with the clothes dryer which can be reduced.

In general, a clothes dryer is a device for quickly and quickly drying wet laundry washed by a laundry treatment machine without shooting sunlight, and having a main body formed to have an open front surface and a wet laundry disposed to be rotated inside the main body. And a drum for driving the drum and a drum driving unit for driving the drum.

When the user puts the wet laundry into the drum and operates the clothes dryer, the wet laundry is forcibly rotated (tumbling) by the drum driving unit and the air heated in the drum is blown to quickly wash the wet laundry. The drying is done.

However, there are various kinds of clothes, but there is a problem in that laundry damage occurs when the clothes are uniformly rotated in the process of drying the laundry as described above according to the type of clothes.

In other words, depending on the type of laundry there is a case in which the tumbling may be necessary as described above, but if the tumbling is expected to damage the laundry, in such a case, the laundry is not rotated after the laundry is put into the drum. Logic is needed to control the operation of the drum to dry it.

Therefore, conventionally, in order to prevent damage to laundry, a separate drying process has to be performed according to the type of clothes, thereby increasing the drying time.

In addition, conventionally, by tumbling the laundry in an operation of rotating the entire drum, relatively large external noise is generated, as well as a large product vibration, thereby lowering consumer's emotional quality.

According to the present invention, the clothes which require forced rotation (tumbling) and the clothes which do not require forced rotation (tumbling) during the drying process may be simultaneously introduced and dried, and the noise / vibration of the product may be reduced. It is an object to provide a clothes dryer.

The clothes dryer according to the present invention includes a main body case including an inner space having a predetermined size having a semicircular vertical cross section and a rectangular vertical cross section at a lower portion thereof, and a wet laundry disposed in the lower portion of the internal space. It includes a main drying unit for drying while tumbling, and an auxiliary drying unit for drying while storing the wet laundry placed in the upper portion of the inner space.

Here, the main drying unit, the entrance is formed to the front opening to the laundry entering, fixed drum fixed to the lower portion of the inner space, and the tumbling means for rotating the inside of the fixed drum and tumbling wet laundry It may include.

In addition, the fixing drum may be formed in a cylindrical shape having a rear portion opened, and rotation guide means for guiding rotation of the tumbling means may be disposed inside the fixing drum.

The tumbling means may include a rotating panel rotatably coupled to a rear portion of the fixed drum, a tumbling drive unit disposed in the inner space and rotating the rotating panel, and rotating to be linked with the rotating panel. It may include a tumbling lifter coupled to the panel, the tumbling lifter is rotated inside the fixed drum under the guidance of the rotation guide means.

The tumbling driving unit may include a driving motor disposed in the inner space and a connecting member connected to a rotation shaft of the driving motor, wherein the connecting member is connected to the rotating panel to transfer the rotational force of the driving motor to the rotating panel. I can deliver it.

The tumbling driving unit may rotate the rotational force of the driving motor by connecting a driving motor disposed in the inner space, a driving pulley installed on a rotation shaft of the driving motor, and a driven pulley formed on the driving pulley and the rotating panel. It may include a connecting belt for transmitting to the panel.

The tumbling lifter may further include a guide protrusion protruding a predetermined length toward an inner surface of the fixed drum, and the rotation guide means may include an inner surface of the fixed drum such that the guide protrusion is inserted and guided when the tumbling lifter is rotated. It may include a guide groove formed in.

The auxiliary drying unit may include a drying basket detachably attached to the inner space by sliding in and out of the inner space, and a sliding guide part disposed above the inner space to guide the sliding movement of the drying basket.

In addition, the drying basket may be a plurality of vent holes to be vented with the internal space.

In addition, two or more of the drying baskets may be stacked and disposed above and below.

The apparatus may further include air heating means for heating and supplying air to the internal space, wherein the air heating means may be disposed in a machine room located below the main body.

The clothes dryer according to the present invention has an effect of extending the life of the clothes when the clothes are dried by arranging the main drying part which is the tumbling area and the auxiliary drying part which is the tumbling area according to the type of the clothes.

Also. The clothes dryer according to the present invention does not drive the drum itself for tumbling the main drying unit corresponding to the tumbling area, and rotates only a simpler tumbling means to reduce vibration / noise during operation of the product. Have

In addition, the clothes dryer according to the present invention allows the user to dry the product using various drying modes according to the type of clothing, and also has control logic of a separate product by distinguishing the tumbling area from the non-tumbling area. There is a design advantage that does not have to be.

Hereinafter, a clothes dryer according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a perspective view showing the appearance of a clothes dryer according to the present invention, Figure 2 is a perspective view showing a main drying unit and an auxiliary drying unit disposed inside the main body of the configuration of Figure 1, Figure 3 is a tumbling means of the configuration of Figure 1 4A and 4B are exploded perspective views illustrating embodiments of the tumbling means in the configuration of FIG. 1.

The clothes dryer 1 according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention includes a main body 1 having an internal space, as shown in FIG. 1. The main body 1 includes a main body case 10 which forms an exterior, an inner space which opens to the front of the main body case 10 and allows laundry to enter and exit the inside, and the main body corresponding to the front of the inner space ( It includes a front door 40 for opening and closing the inner space in the operation to be rotated to be rotated to the front portion of 1).

The inner space is a space in which the user dries the laundry quickly by blowing the heated air while the user rotates the wet laundry through a series of washing processes and performs a forced rotation.

The front door 40 may open and close the inner space by an upper end hinged to rotate the center of the lower end hinged, in one preferred embodiment of the present invention, as shown in FIG. At least one of the left end and the right end may be hinged to one side of the front part of the main body case 10, and the remaining part may be opened and closed by rotating the left end or the right end connected to the hinge. Presupposed to be configured.

Here, the front door 40, the upper end portion is made of a substantially rectangular shape, the lower end portion integrally extending to the upper end portion may be made of a substantially circular shape.

Meanwhile, in the clothes dryer 1 according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1, the internal space in which the wet laundry is dried is partitioned up and down.

Here, the space partitioned below the inner space is a space for drying the clothes requiring forced rotation of the wet laundry (hereinafter, referred to as tumbling) in the drying process among the types of clothes. It will be referred to as ")".

In addition, the space partitioned on the upper side of the inner space may be used without tumbling laundry (for example, hats, sweaters, shoes, etc.) that may damage the clothes when tumbling wet laundry during the drying process. The space to be dried while stored is referred to as "auxiliary drying unit 30" below.

As such, the clothes dryer 1 according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention includes the main drying unit 20 that requires tumbling according to the type of clothing, and the auxiliary drying unit 30 that does not require tumbling. It provides the advantage of partitioning effectively drying.

In more detail, the main drying unit 20 is configured to dry while tumbling wet laundry placed in the lower portion of the inner space, and the auxiliary drying unit 30 is disposed in the upper portion of the inner space. It is configured to dry while the wet laundry is stored.

As the main drying unit 20, as shown in Figures 2 to 4b, the tumbling of the laundry is essential for its configuration, the fixing drum fixed to the lower portion of the inner space is opened in front of the laundry into and out ( 21 and a tumbling means 60 which is disposed to be rotated inside the fixing drum 21 to tum the wet laundry.

The fixed drum 21 is fixedly installed in the inner space, the rear portion is formed in a cylindrical shape and the rotation guide means for guiding the rotation of the tumbling means 60 in the interior of the fixed drum 21 (26) (27) can be arranged.

More specifically, as shown in Figure 2, the rotation guide means 26, 27, guide protrusions 27 protruding a predetermined length toward the center of the inner space inside the fixed drum 21. It includes. The guide protrusion 27 may be formed in the circumferential direction along the inner surface of the fixing drum 21.

In addition, the rotation guide means 26, 27 as shown in FIG. 3 so that the guide protrusion 27 is inserted and guided when the tumbling lifter 24 is rotated in the configuration of the tumbling means 60 to be described later It may include a guide groove 26 formed in the tumbling lifter 24.

However, the guide grooves 26 are not necessarily formed in the tumbling lifter 24 or the guide protrusions 27 are formed in the fixed drum 21, but the tumbling lifter 24 is opposite to each other. The guide protrusion 27 may be formed, and the guide groove 26 may be formed inside the fixed drum 21.

On the other hand, the tumbling means 60 is disposed in the inner space and the rotating panel 22 rotatably coupled to the rear portion of the fixed drum 21, as shown in Figures 3 to 4b, It is coupled to the tumbling drive unit 50 for rotating the rotating panel 22, the rotating panel 22 to rotate in conjunction with the rotating panel 22, the fixed by receiving the guidance of the rotation guide means 27 And a tumbling lifter 24 that is rotated inside the drum 21.

Here, the rotating panel 22 is coupled to the rear end of the fixed drum 21, it is preferably coupled to rotate when a predetermined rotational force is transmitted from the tumbling drive unit 50.

On the other hand, the tumbling lifter 24 may be formed in a plurality of places to protrude forward from the front edge portion toward the inner space of the front and rear edge portion of the rotary panel 22.

As described above, any one of the guide groove 26 or the guide protrusion 27 may be formed in the tumbling lifter 24.

As such, the tumbling lifter 24 is rotated in conjunction with the rotary panel 22 when the rotary panel 22 is rotated by the tumbling drive unit 50, so that the tumbling lifter 24 is in direct contact with the laundry introduced into the internal space. It is a configuration which serves to tumbling laundry.

On the other hand, the tumbling drive unit 50 includes a drive motor 51 disposed in the internal space, and the connecting members 52 and 150 connected to the rotation shaft of the drive motor 51.

The connecting members 52 and 150 are connected to the rotating panel 22 to transmit the rotational force of the driving motor 51 to the rotating panel 22.

Here, the connecting member 52, 150 is of the drive motor 51 directly connected to the rotation center of the mounting member 23 formed in the center of the outer surface of the rotary panel 22, as shown in Figure 4a As the rotating shaft 52, the rotational power of the driving motor 51 may be transmitted to the rotating panel 22 in a direct driving method.

However, the connecting members 52 and 150 are not necessarily limited thereto, and as shown in FIG. 4B, the driving pulley 152 is wound around the rotation shaft of the driving motor 51 so that the connecting belt 154 is wound. It is disposed and interlocked and rotated, and the mounting member 23 of FIG. 4A is provided with a driven pulley 123 to which the connecting belt 154 is wound, so that the rotational force of the driving motor 51 is applied to the connecting belt 154. Of course, it can be adopted as a belt drive system is transmitted by.

That is, the tumbling drive unit 50 may include a drive motor 51 disposed in the internal space, the drive pulley 152 installed on the rotation shaft of the drive motor 51, the drive pulley 152, and the rotation. It may be configured to include a connecting belt 154 for transmitting the rotational force of the drive motor 51 by connecting the driven pulley 123 formed on the panel 22.

As such, the clothes dryer 1 according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention discards the method of rotating the existing drum itself in order to tumble the laundry put into the main drying unit 20, and the drum is fixed to the fixed drum ( 21), but the vibration generated from the product during drying because the laundry can be tumbling by rotating only the rotating panel 22 and the tumbling lifter 24 coupled to the rear end of the fixed drum 21. There is an advantage that the noise is significantly reduced.

Meanwhile, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the auxiliary drying unit 30 is disposed above the inner space, which is a non-tumbling region in which laundry is not tumbled by the tumbling means 60.

The auxiliary drying unit 30 is disposed on the upper side of the inner space, and includes a drying basket 31 detachable in an operation of sliding in and out of the inner space, that is, forward and backward.

In addition, the auxiliary drying unit 30 includes a sliding guide (32) 33 disposed above the inner space to guide the sliding movement of the drying basket (31).

The sliding guides 32 and 33 may be guide rails 33 formed in the main body case 10 and protruding toward the inner space and extending in the front-rear direction.

On the other hand, the left and right sides of the drying basket 31 may be formed long in the front and rear guide grooves 32 to be movably coupled to the guide rail 33.

The drying basket 31 is a kind of drawer, and when the user wants to dry the laundry that does not require tumbling, the front door 40 is rotated to open the inner space, and then the drying basket 31 is opened. It can be accommodated by slidingly moving forward of the inner space.

As such, the drying basket 31 is formed with a plurality of vent holes (not shown) so that the heated air introduced into the inner space is evenly delivered in the state where the laundry is stored.

In addition, although the number of the drying basket 31 may be arranged in the main drying unit 20, but is not necessarily limited thereto, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, a plurality of 31a (31b) Naturally, it can be laminated | stacked up and down.

As described above, in the case where the plurality of drying baskets 31 are stacked in a plurality of 31a and 31b on the upper side of the internal space, when the volume of the laundry to be dried is large, the drying baskets 31a stacked above are stacked. After removing it to the outside, sufficient space can be secured, and then the target laundry can be stored and dried. If the volume of the laundry to be dried is small, appropriate laundry is stored in all of the stacked drying baskets 31a and 31b. There is an advantage that can be dried.

Meanwhile, although not shown in the drawings, the clothes dryer 1 according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention further includes an air heating means (not shown) for heating and supplying air to the internal space.

The air heating means may be disposed in a machine room (not shown) located below the main body (1).

As such, the air heated by the air heating means disposed in the machine room is supplied to the inner space through a duct part not shown connected to the inner space.

Here, the duct unit is divided into a lower duct connected to the lower side of the inner space in which the main drying unit 20 is disposed, and an upper duct connected to the upper side of the inner space in which the auxiliary drying unit 30 is disposed Can be.

Clothes dryer 1 according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the main drying unit 20 and the auxiliary drying unit 30 has been described on the assumption that the internal space is partitioned.

However, for convenience of description, when the internal space is partitioned, a portion disposed above the auxiliary drying unit 30 is referred to as a part disposed below the main drying unit 20, According to the embodiment, as long as the air heated by the air heating means is supplied to the internal space, the internal space is properly distributed to the auxiliary drying unit 30 and the main drying unit 20 also in the structure Naturally, it can be implemented.

For example, the fixed drum 21 is perforated so that the upper side on which the auxiliary drying unit 30 is disposed communicates with each other, and the heated air supplied by the air heating means is transferred to the main drying unit 20. It is also possible to be vented through the perforations formed in the fixed drum 21 after being introduced again.

In this case, since only the lower duct for supplying air heated to the main drying unit 20 is provided, there is an advantage in designing a part layout of the internal space.

As described above, the clothes dryer 1 according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, in the case of clothes that need to be tumbling according to the type of clothes, puts the wet laundry into the main drying unit 20 and tumbling quickly. Since the tumbling area for drying the clothes, and the tumbling means is not divided into a non-tumbling area for drying the wet laundry only by the circulation of the heated air after storing in the auxiliary drying unit 30 in the case of clothes that are not tumbling, the tumbling means (60) There is an advantage that does not need to have a separate control logic to control the operation of the), there is an advantage that the user can select the most appropriate drying method according to the type of clothing.

On the other hand, reference numeral 15 is an inner case disposed inside the main body case 10 forming the inner space, the inner case formed in a structure surrounding the main drying unit 20 and the auxiliary drying unit 30.

The method of using the clothes dryer 1 according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention configured as described above will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

First, in the case of clothing requiring tumbling, the user rotates the front door 40 to open the inner space, and then inserts laundry into the fixing drum 21 corresponding to the main drying unit 20.

On the other hand, in the case of clothing that is not suitable for tumbling, the user distinguishes this and slides the drying basket 31 corresponding to the auxiliary drying unit 30 disposed above the inner space forward to store laundry thereafter. Push it back into the inner space.

As such, the clothing that requires tumbling and the clothing that do not need to be separated are put into the main drying unit 20 and the auxiliary drying unit 30, respectively, and then the front door 40 is rotated to close the inner space. When the user operates the main body 1 by pressing a button operation part (not shown) disposed outside the main body case 10, the user can dry the laundry by various drying modes.

Or more, with reference to the accompanying drawings, a preferred embodiment of the clothes dryer according to the present invention was described in detail. However, embodiments of the present invention are not necessarily limited thereto, and it is obvious that various modifications or other embodiments falling within the scope equivalent to the present invention may be implemented by those skilled in the art. Therefore, the true scope of the present invention will be defined by the claims that follow.

1 is a perspective view showing the appearance of a clothes dryer according to the present invention;

2 is a perspective view illustrating a main drying unit and an auxiliary drying unit disposed inside the main body of the configuration of FIG. 1;

3 is a perspective view showing the tumbling means of the configuration of FIG.

4A and 4B are exploded perspective views illustrating embodiments of the tumbling means in the configuration of FIG. 1.

<Explanation of symbols on main parts of the drawings>

1: body 10: body case

20: main drying unit 21: fixed drum

22: rotating panel 23: mounting member

24: tumbling lifter 27: rotation guide means

30: auxiliary drying unit 31, 31a, 31b: drying basket

33: sliding guide 40: front door

50: tumbling drive unit 51: drive motor

52: connecting member (rotating shaft) 60: tumbling means

123: driven pulley 152: driving pulley

154: connecting member (connection belt)

Claims (11)

A main body case having an inner space having a predetermined size, the lower portion having a semicircular vertical cross section, and the upper portion having a rectangular vertical cross section; A main drying unit disposed at a lower portion of the inner space and drying the wet laundry while tumbling; And a secondary drying unit disposed at an upper portion of the inner space and drying the wet laundry stored therein. The method according to claim 1, The main drying unit, A fixed drum formed in front of the door to open and close the laundry and fixed to a lower portion of the inner space; And a tumbling means arranged to rotate inside the fixing drum to tumbling wet laundry. The method according to claim 2, The fixed drum is formed in a cylindrical shape with a rear portion opened, And a rotation guide means for guiding rotation of the tumbling means in the fixed drum. The method of claim 3, The tumbling means, A rotating panel rotatably coupled to a rear portion of the fixed drum; A tumbling driver disposed in the inner space and rotating the rotating panel; And a tumbling lifter coupled to the rotary panel so as to rotate in association with the rotary panel, the tumbling lifter being rotated inside the fixed drum under the guidance of the rotary guide means. The method according to claim 4, The tumbling driver, A drive motor disposed in the inner space; It includes a connecting member connected to the rotating shaft of the drive motor, The connecting member is connected to the rotary panel clothes dryer for transmitting the rotational force of the drive motor to the rotary panel. The method according to claim 4, The tumbling driver, A drive motor disposed in the inner space; A drive pulley installed on a rotation shaft of the drive motor; And a connecting belt connecting the driving pulley and the driven pulley formed on the rotating panel to transfer the rotational force of the driving motor to the rotating panel. The method according to claim 4, The tumbling lifter includes a guide protrusion protruding a predetermined length toward an inner surface of the fixed drum, The rotating guide means, the clothes dryer comprises a guide groove formed on the inner surface of the fixed drum to guide the guide projection is inserted when the rotation of the tumbling lifter. The method according to claim 1, The auxiliary drying unit, A drying basket detachable by a sliding movement into and out of the inner space; And a sliding guide disposed above the inner space to guide the sliding movement of the drying basket. The method according to claim 8, The drying basket, Clothes dryer perforated with a plurality of vent holes to be ventilated with the inner space. The method according to claim 8 or 9, The said drying basket is the clothes dryer arranged two or more on top and bottom. The method according to claim 1, Air heating means for heating and supplying air to the inner space further comprises, The air heating means is a clothes dryer disposed in the machine room located under the main body.

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