High efficiency vented dryer having a heat pump system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10689791-B2
Application number	US-201615754115-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 9, 2016
Priority date	Aug 31, 2015
Publication date	Jun 23, 2020
Grant date	Jun 23, 2020

Abstract

A high efficiency vented dryer having a heat pump system comprises an outer drum, an air-intake drying air duct and an air-exhaust drying air duct for allowing the outer drum communicating with outside. The dryer is provided with a heat pump system comprising a first evaporator and a second evaporator arranged in parallel or in series. The first evaporator is arranged in the air-exhaust drying air duct and the second evaporator is arranged in an external atmosphere to absorb heat from the exhaust air and outside, respectively. By arranging the evaporators in the drying air duct and the external atmosphere respectively, the heat pump system can simultaneously or independently absorb heat from the air exhausted by the dryer and from the ambient air of the dryer to heat the intake air by using heat in the exhaust air and heat in the environment to improve drying rate of the dryer.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A high efficiency vented dryer, comprising: an outer drum, an air-intake drying air duct and an air-exhaust drying air duct for allowing the outer drum to communicate with the outside respectively, wherein:
the dryer is further provided with a heat pump system,
the heat pump system comprises a first evaporator and a second evaporator arranged in parallel or in series,
the first evaporator is arranged in the air-exhaust drying air duct and the second evaporator is arranged in an external atmosphere so as to absorb heat from the exhaust air and the external air respectively.

2. The high efficiency vented dryer according to claim 1 , wherein an air-intake end and an air-out end of the first evaporator and the second evaporator are respectively provided with a control valve for controlling on-off, so that the refrigerant medium in the heat pump system flows through the first evaporator and the second evaporator independently or at the same time.

3. The high efficiency vented dryer according to claim 2 , wherein the air-intake end of the first evaporator and the air-intake end of the second evaporator are respectively communicated with an air-out end of a throttling device of the heat pump system through a first three-way control valve; and
the air-out end of the first evaporator and the air-out end of the second evaporator are respectively communicated with an air-out end of a compressor of the heat pump system through a second three-way control valve.

4. The high efficiency vented dryer according to claim 2 , wherein the air-out end of the first evaporator is respectively communicated with the air-intake end of the second evaporator and an air-intake end of a compressor of the heat pump system through a third three-way control valve;
the air-out end of the second evaporator communicates with the air-intake end of the compressor of the heat pump system through a one-way valve.

5. The high efficiency vented dryer according to claim 3 , wherein at a later stage of a drying process of the dryer, the heat pump system is in a first state in which the refrigerant medium only flows through the first evaporator without flowing through the second evaporator;
at an earlier stage of the drying process of the dryer, the heat pump system is in a second state in which the refrigerant medium simultaneously flows through the first evaporator and the second evaporator.

6. The high efficiency vented dryer according to claim 1 , wherein a condenser of the heat pump system is arranged in the air-intake drying air duct,
an air-intake end of the condenser communicates with an air-out end of a compressor of the heat pump system, and
an air-out end of the condenser communicates with an air-intake end of a throttling device of the heat pump system.

7. The high efficiency vented dryer according to claim 6 , wherein the compressor of the heat pump system is arranged in the air-intake drying air duct located upstream from the condenser to preheat the intake air stream.

8. The high efficiency vented dryer according to claim 6 , wherein the air-intake drying air duct is provided with an auxiliary heating wire,
the auxiliary heating wire is located downstream from the condenser, and
the air-exhaust drying air duct is provided with a first fan controlling the flow direction of the air stream, the first fan is located upstream from the first evaporator.

9. The high efficiency vented dryer according to claim 8 , wherein a second fan is arranged outside the air-exhaust drying air duct and is close to an air inlet of the second evaporator.

10. The high efficiency vented dryer according to claim 4 , wherein at a later stage of a drying process of the dryer, the heat pump system is in a first state in which the refrigerant medium only flows through the first evaporator without flowing through the second evaporator;
at an earlier stage of the drying process of the dryer, the heat pump system is in a second state in which the refrigerant medium simultaneously flows through the first evaporator and the second evaporator.

11. The high efficiency vented dryer according to claim 2 , wherein a condenser of the heat pump system is arranged in the air-intake drying air duct,
an air-intake end of the condenser communicates with an air-out end of a compressor of the heat pump system, and
an air-out end of the condenser communicates with an air-intake end of a throttling device of the heat pump system.

12. The high efficiency vented dryer according to claim 3 , wherein a condenser of the heat pump system is arranged in the air-intake drying air duct,
an air-intake end of the condenser communicates with an air-out end of the compressor of the heat pump system, and
an air-out end of the condenser communicates with an air-intake end of the throttling device of the heat pump system.

13. The high efficiency vented dryer according to claim 4 , wherein a condenser of the heat pump system is arranged in the air-intake drying air duct,
an air-intake end of the condenser is communicated with an air-out end of the compressor of the heat pump system, and
an air-out end of the condenser is communicated with an air-intake end of a throttling device of the heat pump system.

14. A high efficiency vented dryer, comprising an outer drum, an air-intake drying air duct and an air-exhaust drying air duct for allowing the outer drum to communicate with the outside respectively, wherein:
the dryer is further provided with a heat pump system,
an evaporator of the heat pump system crosses the air-exhaust drying air duct, so that a first portion of the evaporator is located in the air-exhaust drying air duct while a second portion of the evaporator is located in the outside.

Assignees

• Qingdao Haier Washing Mach Co

Inventors

• Bing Jindong
• Lu Sanwei

Classifications

• D06F2103/50

  related to heat pumps, e.g. pressure or flow rate · CPC title

• D06F58/24

  Condensing arrangements · CPC title

• D06F2105/26

  Heat pumps · CPC title

• D06F2103/56

  related to air ducts, e.g. position of flow diverters · CPC title

• D06F58/206 Primary

  Heat pump arrangements · CPC title