Clothes care apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11459697-B2
Application number	US-201917269664-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 28, 2019
Priority date	Aug 20, 2018
Publication date	Oct 4, 2022
Grant date	Oct 4, 2022

Abstract

A clothes care apparatus comprises a main body including a clothes care compartment, a clothes support member disposed in the clothes care compartment and including an air supply port provided to allow air to flow therein, a blower configured to form an airflow to be supplied to the clothes support member, and a nozzle provided to guide the airflow formed by the blower to the clothes support member, and including an airflow outlet disposed to face the air supply port, the airflow outlet provided to supply an airflow to an inside and an outside of the clothes support member.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A clothes care apparatus comprising:
a main body comprising a clothes care compartment;
a clothes support member disposed in the clothes care compartment and comprising an air supply port provided to allow air to flow therein;
a blower configured to form an airflow to be supplied to the clothes support member; and
a nozzle provided to guide the airflow formed by the blower to the clothes support member, and comprising an airflow outlet disposed to face the air supply port, the airflow outlet provided to supply an airflow to an inside and an outside of the clothes support member,
wherein a size of the airflow outlet is greater than a size of the air supply port.

2. The clothes care apparatus of claim 1 , wherein
the main body comprises an airflow inlet formed on a rear surface of the main body,
wherein the blower is configured to suction air, which is discharged to the clothes support member though the airflow outlet, through the airflow inlet and configured to discharge the suctioned air to the airflow outlet.

3. The clothes care apparatus of claim 1 , wherein
the nozzle comprises a blade provided to guide and distribute the airflow, which is supplied from the blower, to the clothes support member.

4. The clothes care apparatus of claim 3 , wherein
the blade comprises a curved portion provided to change a direction of the airflow supplied from the blower.

5. The clothes care apparatus of claim 3 , wherein
the blade is formed to face the outside of the clothes support member along a direction in which air moves.

6. The clothes care apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising:
a top cover provided to connect the blower to the nozzle and provided to form a guide flow path,
wherein the top cover comprises a central portion and a vortex reducing portion formed to be recessed on opposite sides of the central portion.

7. The clothes care apparatus of claim 6 , wherein
the vortex reducing portion is provided to guide a portion of the air, which is discharged from the blower, to the central portion.

8. The clothes care apparatus of claim 6 , wherein
the top cover comprises a blade provided to guide the air, which is discharged from the blower, to the nozzle.

9. The clothes care apparatus of claim 6 , wherein
the vortex reducing portion is formed to be inclined downwardly along a direction in which the air, which is discharged from the blower, moves.

10. The clothes care apparatus of claim 1 , wherein
the blower comprises two blower fans, and
the nozzle comprises a center nozzle, and two side nozzles arranged on opposite sides of the center nozzle,
wherein each side nozzle comprises a guide rib arranged on one side thereof facing the blower fan.

11. The clothes care apparatus of claim 10 , wherein
the guide rib is provided to change a moving direction of a portion of the airflow supplied from the blower.

12. The clothes care apparatus of claim 10 , wherein
the guide rib is provided to guide a portion of the air, which is discharged from the blower, toward the center nozzle.

13. The clothes care apparatus of claim 1 , wherein
the clothes support member comprises a guide protrusion provided to guide a portion of the air, which is discharged from the airflow outlet, toward the outside of the clothes support member.

14. The clothes care apparatus of claim 1 , wherein
the nozzle comprises a discharge rib provided to guide a portion of the air, which is discharged from the airflow outlet, toward the outside of the clothes support member.

15. The clothes care apparatus of claim 1 , wherein
a direction of the airflow, which is supplied to the clothes support member through the nozzle, is different from a direction of the airflow formed by the blower.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Geon Ung
• Kim Hyun Joo
• Seo Eung Ryeol
• Shin Dong Woo
• Lee Seung-Mok
• Cho Hwang Mook

Classifications

• D06F58/206

  Heat pump arrangements · CPC title

• D06F73/02 Primary

  having one or more treatment chambers · CPC title

• D06F58/20

  General details of domestic laundry dryers  (D06F59/00 takes precedence) · CPC title

• D06F2105/30

  Blowers · CPC title

• D06F2103/56

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