| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 034073000 | By vapor condensation | 49 |
| 20080201977 | Heat exchanger and condensing type laundry dryer having the same - A condensing type dryer uses a heat exchanger in which condensed water can be smoothly discharged through a water-discharging slot formed in a rear end portion of a rear cover of the heat exchanger. The water-discharging slot prevents an air flowing resistance which can be caused by condensed water pooling at the rear end portion of the rear cover. Also, leakage-preventing walls enhance the heat exchanging function by ensuring a uniform flow of cold external air through the heat changer. The leakage-preventing walls prevent external air from leaking around the lateral edges of the heat exchanger. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080229605 | GAS DRYING ASSEMBLY WITH CARTRIDGE AND METHOD - An gas drying apparatus which comprises a housing comprising a sidewall defining at least one opening; ma gas drying material positioned within the housing; an inlet tube wherein at least a portion of the inlet tube is positioned inside the housing; and a piece of porous material positioned around the inlet tube and between the gas drying material and the opening. The invention includes a housing which comprises a sidewall which defines an opening wherein the housing contains a gas drying material, wherein an inlet tube is secured to the housing and at least a portion of the inlet tube is positioned within the housing; and a housing holder wherein the holder defines a cavity to receive the at least one opening. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20090320311 | CONDENSATION TYPE DRYER - Disclosed herein is a condensation type dryer. The dryer includes a circulation tube communicating at both ends thereof with a tub to define a passage through which air inside the tub is circulated, a blowing fan disposed inside the circulation tube to circulate the air inside the tub, a heater disposed inside the circulation tube to heat air supplied into the tub, and a condensation tube connected to a water supply source to supply cooling water into the circulation tube, the condensation tube has a serpentine shape. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100077632 | DRYER - A dryer includes a dryer body, a driving device, a groove, and an upper cover. The groove is located around the opening of the dryer body. The upper cover has a cone shape and is located at the opening of the dryer body. The edge of the bottom of the upper cover is located at the groove. The angle of the cone end of the upper cover makes the water droplets condensed on the inner wall of the upper cover slide downward along the inner wall of the upper cover so that they are collected in the groove. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100095548 | HEAT EXCHANGER MODULE AND DUCTLESS DRYER HAVING THE SAME - Disclosed is a ductless dryer having a heat exchanger module in accordance with the present invention. The heat exchanger module is configured to have a water-supplying inlet disposed at an outlet for air and to be provided with a sealing unit, a drain recess and a leakage preventing protrusion. Thus, a dehumidifying performance for humid air is enhanced. Accordingly, it is capable of preventing mold from being gathered on a wall of an installation space caused by exhausting the air in which moisture is not removed. Also, it is capable of preventing a user in the installation space from feeling unpleasant caused by exhausting the air in which the moisture is not removed to the installation space. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100107433 | Clothes Drying Machine with Improved Vapour Injection Arrangement - Household-type clothes drying machine provided with a rotating drum ( | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100162584 | DEHUMIDIFYING APPARATUS FOR DRYER - Disclosed is the dehumidifying apparatus for a dryer comprising: a case; a drum disposed inside the case and for receiving objects to be dried therein; and a hot air supplying unit for supplying hot air into the drum and drying the objects to be dried, the dehumidifying apparatus, comprising: a dehumidifying unit having a heat exchanger for cooling hot air flowing from the drum; and a water tank for containing a fluid supplied to the heat exchanger, wherein the fluid circulates between the heat exchanger and the water tank. The dehumidifying apparatus for a dryer may reduce an amount of water used for operating the dryer, prevent the waste of water, and stably supply recycled cool water to the heat exchanger from the water tank. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100192397 | HEAT PUMP MODULE AND DRYING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A heat pump module and a drying apparatus having the same are provided. The heat pump module may include a housing, an evaporator provided in the housing that condenses humid air introduced into the housing via evaporation of a refrigerant, a condenser provided in the housing that heats the air having passed through the evaporator via condensation of the refrigerant, and at least one condensed water guide or remover provided in the housing that removes condensed water generated on a surface of the evaporator therefrom. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100199511 | DEHUMIDIFYING APPARATUS FOR DRYER - Disclosed is the dehumidifying apparatus for a dryer comprising: a case; a drum disposed inside the case and for receiving objects to be dried therein; and a hot air supplying unit for supplying hot air into the drum and drying the objects to be dried, the dehumidifying apparatus, comprising: a plurality of dehumidifying units, thereby capable of controlling humidity of exhausted air to a required level of humidity by removing moisture contained in air exhausted from the plurality of dehumidifying units in multiple steps. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100199512 | CLOTHES DRYING DEVICE, AND HEAT PUMP UNIT - The present invention provides a garment dryer including a heat pump device. The inventive garment dryer has an improved heat exchange efficiency without uneven airflow around a heat exchanger (a heat absorber and a radiator) of the heat pump device. A heat exchange air duct portion ( | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100212176 | Tumble Dryer With Peltier Heat Pump - A tumble dryer including a heat pump that includes a Peltier module having a plurality of Peltier elements operationally associated therewith and wherein the Peltier module has a cold side and a warm side; at least two air-directing ducts including a first duct in fluid communication with the Peltier module cool side through which cooling air is directed for cooling and dehumidifying; and a second duct in fluid communication with the Peltier module warm side through which dried air is directed for reheating; and an air and water vapor permeable filter disposed in the second duct facing the Peltier elements. Moisture which arises on the Peltier elements can thereby escape into the duct. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100242297 | HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE HAVING A HEAT PUMP UNIT AND MEANS FOR COOLING A COMPONENT THEREOF - A household appliance includes a housing, a controller within the housing, a drying chamber within the housing, a closed-loop process air channel within the housing and including, a first blower operable by the controller, a heat pump operable by the controller, a condensate collector that collects condensate from the heat pump, and means for cooling a component of the heat pump including an open-loop cooling channel with a second blower operable by the controller. The appliance further includes a temperature sensor within the housing operable by the controller to generate a signal dependent upon a temperature within the housing, and wherein the controller operates the second blower in response to the signal. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20110000097 | HOME DEVICE FOR DRYING LAUNDRY COMPRISING A COMPONENT AROUND WHICH PROCESS AIR CAN FLOW - A domestic appliance for drying laundry having a component around which process air flows. The component has a substrate made of metal and the substrate has a surface facing the process air. The surface carries a coating that prevents adhesion of foreign particles and the coating has a surface energy of no more than 40 mN/m. The surface has a section that is directly impinged by the process air and that is essentially completely covered by the coating. The component has edges in the section covered by the coating and each of the edges is essentially completely covered by the coating. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110030232 | BINARY FLUID EJECTOR DESICCATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF UTILIZING THE SAME - A thermal cycle and mass flow circuit designed for the purpose of drying materials. Binary fluid ejector desiccation represents a new thermodynamic bi-cycle in the field of desiccation (drying). The binary fluid ejector desiccation comprises binary-fluid ejector gas-phase fluid compression and transport, a thermodynamic cycle where phase change energy from the evaporation process is captured, re-circulated and reused as an energy source for the evaporation process itself, and for one method of use, a mass flow circuit that exploits the fluid constituents from the desiccating material as the refrigerant component of the binary working fluid. Methods of use are taught where direct or indirect heat transfer occurs between the working fluid(s) and the material being desiccated. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110277334 | CLOTH TREATING APPARATUS - The present invention relates to a cloth treating apparatus, including a cabinet which forms an exterior thereof, a drum rotatably mounted to the cabinet, a heat pump for supplying hot air to the drum, a steam generator for supplying steam to the drum, and a water tank for supplying water to the steam generator, wherein the water tank is positioned on a refrigerant flow passage of the heat pump, thereby increasing steam generating efficiency by elevating an initial temperature of the water used for the steam generation. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20120005912 | CLOTHES DRYER - Disclosed is a clothes dryer including a heat exchanger for condensing air discharged from a drum to remove moisture from the air, a collector for collecting condensed water produced in the heat exchanger, a first pump for pumping the condensed water from the collector to a water tank, and a discharge unit for selectively discharging the condensed water from the water tank, to wash the heat exchanger using the condensed water. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120102774 | DEWING PREVENTION STRUCTURE FOR SUBSTRATE - A dew prevention apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a dewing prevention structure for a substrate accommodated in a housing. The housing has an opening allowing an inflow of outer air and the dewing prevention structure is configured to suppress dew condensation on the substrate. The dew prevention structure includes a heat conductive member provided inside the housing wherein the heat conductive member contacts each of a predetermined heat source inside the housing and an area of the substrate near the opening. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120131811 | Appliance For Drying Laundry - A laundry drying appliance ( | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120272543 | HEAT REFLUX DRYING MACHINE UTILIZING INLET/OUTLET AIR TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE TO CONDENSE WATER - The present invention utilizes hot air containing water discharged from a heating space to pass through a top/down bended fluid pipeline ( | 11-01-2012 |
| 20130031797 | LAUNDRY MACHINE HAVING A DRYING FUNCTION - The present invention relates to a laundry machine having a drying function for drying an object to be dried, especially clothes. The laundry machine according to one embodiment of the present invention may be a circulating drying machine that supplies the hot air to an object to be dried, so as to remove water, and then condenses the water from the hot air and heats the condensed water to supply the heat to the object to be dried. At this time, condensing may be carried out using natural convection. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130312274 | LAUNDRY DRYER - A laundry dryer includes a casing ( | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130312275 | Laundry Dryer - A laundry dryer includes a drying air circuit for circulating a drying air flow through laundry to be dried, a drying air moisture condensing unit and a condensate drawer tank ( | 11-28-2013 |
| 20140026433 | APPLIANCE FOR DRYING LAUNDRY - A top adapted to match and close from above a cabinet of a laundry drying appliance, is provided. The top is formed as a ready-to-mount part ready to be mounted to the cabinet and forming a moisture condensing module for dehydrating drying air used to dry laundry within a drying drum of the laundry drying appliance. The top has a drying air inlet for receiving moisture-laden drying air, a drying air outlet for delivering demoisturized drying air, fluid passageways defined thereinside from the drying air inlet to the drying air outlet for the passage of the drying air to be dehydrated and a moisture condenser arranged inside the fluid passageways. The top includes, integrally formed therein, at least one structural part of the appliance, the at least one structural part of the appliance having at least one a part of: a housing of a fan for propelling the drying air; a drying air delivery duct connectable to a drying air inlet of the drying drum for delivering the drying air into the drying drum; a seat for a container of detergents/softener for washing laundry; a condense water collector for collecting condense water released by the moisture-laden drying air; at least part of a condense water draining system; a support for at least one water inlet valve for selectively allowing the intake of water from a water main; and at least part of a water circuit for delivering water to wash the moisture condensing means. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140109426 | DRYER HAVING EVAPORATOR EQUIPPED WITH SECOND CONDENSER - A dryer is provided. The dryer may include a second condenser integrally provided with an evaporator and employing a heat pump to maximize a condensation effect so as to enhance heat exchange efficiency, thereby enhancing dehumidifying capability. The dryer may be a circulation type heat pump dryer including a cabinet, a drum, a drying duct to circulate dry air back to the drum, an evaporator having a heat pump, a first condenser, a compressor, an expansion apparatus, and a second condenser to condense refrigerant condensed by the first condenser again so as to supercool the refrigerant during the refrigerant cycle, thereby enhancing dehumidifying capability in the evaporator. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140144035 | LAUNDRY DRYER - A laundry dryer has a casing ( | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140250710 | LAUNDRY TREATING APPARATUS - A laundry treating apparatus having a condensing duct for enhancing the condensing efficiency thereof, the laundry treating apparatus including a body, a drum installed inside the body and configured to accommodate a substance to be dried, a condensing duct mounted at one side of the drum to condense moisture included in air that is discharged from the drum, at least one first path provided at one side of the condensing duct and allowing air that is introduced from the drum to pass therethrough, and at least one second path configured to supply condensation water that is provided to the condensing duct to condense the air, and at least one condensation plate located inside the condensing duct, and configured to separate the first path from the second path, so that a path allowing air to pass therethrough is separated from a path allowing condensation water to pass therethrough. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140352166 | LAUNDRY DRYER HAVING A HEAT EXCHANGER - A laundry dryer includes a body having air discharge openings in an upper region, a clothes drum disposed in the body, and a heat exchanger to condense process air from the drum. The heat exchanger is positioned in the body below the drum and has a cooling air outlet. Further provided is an air duct having an air inlet which is connected to the cooling air outlet and an air outlet which is positioned above the heat exchanger. The air duct is arranged to discharge cooling air from the air outlet in an upward direction into the body. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20150345866 | DRYING SYSTEM AND USE OF THE DRYING SYSTEM IN LAUNDRY DRYING DEVICE - A drying system and a laundry drying device are provided. The drying system includes a compressor, a draught fan, a casing, a throttling device, an evaporator and a condenser. The condenser and the evaporator are relatively fixedly arranged inside the casing, and the evaporator is obliquely arranged inside the casing; an inner space of the casing at least includes a first space at one side of the evaporator, a second space between the evaporator and the condenser, and a third space at another side of the condenser; a bottom portion of the casing is provided with a water reserving portion or a drainage hole, and the casing has a high point A at a portion where the condenser is arranged and a high point B at a portion where the evaporator is arranged, and the high point A is substantially same as the high point B. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20160076192 | Appliance For Drying Laundry Providing Drying Air Recirculation And Moisture Condensation - A laundry drying appliance ( | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160201985 | DRYING MACHINE | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160376744 | DRYER OR WASHER DRYER - Disclosed is a dryer or a washer dryer, including at least a clothes drying system, where the clothes drying system includes a heating structure and a condensing structure; the condensing structure is arranged on a lower part of the dryer or the washer dryer; the condensing structure includes an air inlet and an air outlet for hot air, and further includes a gas inlet and a gas outlet for cold air, and a heat exchanger is arranged inside the condensing structure; the heat exchanger is composed of fins which are superposed in a longitudinal-transverse alternating manner, and a frame with an enclosure structure is arranged outside the heat exchanger. | 12-29-2016 |
| 034074000 | With other gas or vapor treatment | 4 |
| 20080289209 | Housing for Modulizing Heat Pump System in a Clothes Dryer and Clothes Dryer Having the Same - A housing for modularizing a heat pump system of a clothes dryer and a clothes dryer having the same are disclosed. The heat pump system modularized housing of the clothes collectively modularizes a condenser, a compressor, an evaporator and an expansion valve that constitute the heat pump system of the clothes dryer. Not only does the heat pump system is stably mounted in the clothes dryer but also components of the heat pump system can be effectively protected. In addition, the fastening procedures of each component can be unified to simplify an assembling process of the clothes dryer, and thus, the productivity can be improved. Moreover, a structure of an internal flow path of the clothes dryer can be simplified to thus improve efficiency of the heat pump system. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20090038173 | CLOTHES DRIER - A clothes drier comprises: a body; a drum rotatably installed at the body; a hot air supply unit configured to supply hot air into the drum; a heat exchanger configured to dehumidify air exhausted from the drum; a pipe unit configured to supply water to the heat exchanger and collect water from the heat exchanger; and a freeze damage preventing unit installed on the pipe unit. The clothes drier is provided with the freeze damage preventing unit configured to partially or completely discharge out water remaining in the heat exchanger after the clothes drier is stopped. Accordingly, freeze damage of the heat exchanger during winter time is prevented. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20120159800 | APPLIANCE FOR DRYING LAUNDRY | 06-28-2012 |
| 20150020398 | Drying Machine - A drying machine includes a clothes holding unit for holding clothes therein, a drying passage including a heater to supply heated air to the clothes holding unit, a dehumidification passage for removing moisture from the air exhausted from the clothes holding unit to supply dehumidified air to the drying passage, a circulation fan provided in the drying passage or the dehumidification passage to circulate air, a moisture absorption unit for absorbing moisture from the air exhausted from the clothes holding unit, a renewable passage for supplying the heat absorbed by the dehumidified passage to the moisture absorption unit to renew the moisture absorption unit, and a controller for controlling the circulation fan to circulate the air exhausted from the clothes holding unit for a preset time period. | 01-22-2015 |
| 034075000 | Direct contact with cooling substance | 3 |
| 20140190032 | CLOTHES DRYER - Disclosed is a clothes dryer including a heat exchanger for condensing air discharged from a drum to remove moisture from the air, a collector for collecting condensed water produced in the heat exchanger, a first pump for pumping the condensed water from the collector to a water tank, and a discharge unit for selectively discharging the condensed water from the water tank, to wash the heat exchanger using the condensed water. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20150121713 | METHOD FOR THE REMOVAL AND CONDENSATION OF VAPORS - A method for removal and condensation of vapors from within an enclosed space is disclosed. An enclosed space containing hydrocarbonaceous material is surrounded by an insulative permeable layer having a lowering temperature gradient between the inner surface and the outer surfaces. The insulative layer may also be covered by an impermeable layer. Heating the material in the enclosed space causes the formation of vapors at a positive pressure within the enclosed space. Vapors pass through the inner surface of the insulative permeable layer and contact the permeable materials and are condensed by the lowering temperature within the insulative layer. The condensate liquid passes downwardly through the insulative layer and is then collected. The positive pressure within the heated enclosed space and the condensation and lowering of pressure and temperature within the insulative layer serves to draw additional vapors from within the enclosed space into the insulative layer which facilitates condensation and subsequent collection. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20160131427 | PROCESSING SYSTEM INTENDED TO DEHYDRATE FOOD WASTE - The present invention relates to a processing system ( | 05-12-2016 |
| 034076000 | With forced circulation | 9 |
| 20100024239 | DRUM-TYPE WASHER/DRYER - A drum-type washer/dryer having an evaporator ( | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100139111 | Household Clohtes Drying Machine with Additonal Condesner - A clothes drying machine comprises a drum ( | 06-10-2010 |
| 20120167404 | LAUNDRY DRYER THE DRYING EFFECTIVENESS OF WHICH IS INCREASED BY USING DIFFERENT HEAT SOURCES - The laundry dryer ( | 07-05-2012 |
| 20130312276 | Home Laundry Drier - A home laundry drier ( | 11-28-2013 |
| 034077000 | Recirculation of treating gas or vapor | 5 |
| 20080235977 | Drying unit and laundry washing/drying machine equipped with the drying unit - In a laundry washing/drying machine involving drying by a heat pump cycle, in an initial stage of the drying operation the heat within an air circulation path is deficient and therefore it is impossible to effect quick heating of air on a drum inlet side up to a sufficiently high temperature. According to the present invention there is provided a drying unit capable of raising the drum inlet air temperature quickly up to a sufficiently high temperature in an initial stage of the drying operation and thereby shortening the drying time. The drying unit includes a heat pump cycle device for performing a cycle of radiating, with use of a radiator, the heat of a refrigerant compressed by a compressor, passing the refrigerant through a pressure reducing/expansion valve, evaporating the refrigerant in an evaporator and compressing the refrigerant again by the compressor, an air circulation path for allowing air to be circulated by a blower in such a manner that air heated by the radiator is introduced into a drying chamber to dry the laundry, exhaust air discharged from the drying chamber is passed through the evaporator, then is heated again by the radiator and the air thus dehumidified is circulated by the blower, and an external heat source applying device for applying the heat of an external heat source to the evaporator to quicken the rise in temperature of the air in an initial stage of the drying operation. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20120073157 | SYSTEM FOR DRYING AND TORREFACTION - An apparatus for torrefaction of water containing cellulosic materials is performed in an inert atmosphere. The cellulosic material is cascaded through the apparatus between a plurality of rotatable trays vertically stacked within multiple processing zones. Steam being generated from heating of the cellulosic material is recycled back to the apparatus to provide an inert atmosphere. The steam may be superheated in a heat exchanger. Exhaust from the torrefaction zone of the apparatus has some moisture and other volatiles removed prior to being reheated in a burner. The heated exhaust is used in the heat exchanger to superheat the recycled steam. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20160115642 | CLOTHES TREATING APPARATUS - Provided is a clothes treating apparatus. The clothes treating apparatus may include a clothes receiving device providing a space for receiving clothes therein, a circulation passage provided in the clothes receiving device and configured to provide a flow path for air circulation through he clothes receiving device, and a heat-exchanging device provided in the circulation passage and configured to dehumidify air introduced into the circulation passage. A blower may be provided in the circulation passage and configured to circulate air within the clothes receiving device. A condensed water discharge device may be provided at a lower surface of the circulation passage and configured to discharge condensed water generated by the heat-exchanging device. The condensed water discharge device may include a backflow-preventing member that prevents backflow of the condensed water from the condensed water discharge device to the circulation passage. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160138208 | APPLIANCE FOR DRYING LAUNDRY WITH ENHANCED OPERATION FLEXIBILITY - A laundry drying appliance having a cabinet, a treatment chamber inside the cabinet, a drying air recirculation path for conveying air into/out from the treatment chamber, a drying air propeller driven by a drying air propeller motor for causing the drying air to recirculate along the recirculation path, a drying air moisture condensing and heating system in the drying air recirculation path for dehydrating the moisture-laden drying air leaving the treatment chamber and heating the dehydrated drying air before it re-enters into the treatment chamber, laundry drying cycle selector for selecting one out of a number of default laundry drying cycles, a control unit adapted to control the machine operation by operating the drying propeller at a default average speed corresponding to the selected drying cycle, and a command input means operable by the user to change an average working speed of the drying air propeller. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160201252 | DRYING MACHINE | 07-14-2016 |
| 034078000 | Recirculation of treating gas or vapor | 2 |
| 20090090019 | GRANULAR MATERIAL TREATMENT UNIT HAVING A HEAT-REGENERATION GROUP - The present invention relates a granular material treatment unit, comprising:
| 04-09-2009 |
| 20100139112 | Washer/Dryer - The present invention relates to a washer/dryer ( | 06-10-2010 |
