Device for drying laundry

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016362829-A1
Application number	US-201615177508-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jun 9, 2016
Priority date	Jun 9, 2015
Publication date	Dec 15, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

A device for drying laundry includes a refrigerant pipe made of a first metal material that injects a refrigerant into a heat exchanger or discharges a refrigerant from a heat exchanger and a heat exchanger having a pipe type connecting portion made of a second metal material different from the first metal material connected to the refrigerant pipe, a diameter of an end portion from the end of one of the connecting portion and the refrigerant pipe to a predetermined length A is enlarged and thus have arriving portions having a concavely obtuse angle formed an inner diameter surface thereof, and an end portion of the other one of the connecting portion and the refrigerant pipe is inserted into the enlarged diameter and is latched to the arriving portion, and the device includes a lock ring that encloses an external diameter surface of the end portion having the enlarged diameter and presses an inner diameter surface of the end portion having an enlarged diameter and an external diameter surface of the inserted end portion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A device for drying laundry including a heat exchanger through which a refrigerant passes, the device comprising:
a refrigerant pipe that injects a refrigerant into the heat exchanger or discharges a refrigerant from the heat exchanger, wherein the heat exchanger has a pipe type connecting portion connected to the refrigerant pipe, and wherein a diameter of one of the connecting portion and the refrigerant pipe is enlarged from a first end to a predetermined length A to form an arriving portion, and a first end portion of the other one of the connecting portion and the refrigerant pipe is inserted into the arriving portion to be latched to the arriving portion, and a lock ring that encloses an external diameter surface of the first end having the enlarged diameter and presses an inner diameter surface of the first end having the enlarged diameter and an outer diameter surface of the inserted first end portion together.

2 . The device of claim 1 , wherein the refrigerant pipe is made of a first metal material and the connecting portion is made of a second metal material different from the first metal material.

3 . The device of claim 2 , wherein the predetermined length A is 10 to 15 mm.

4 . The device of claim 2 , wherein the first end portion extends to a predetermined length B larger than the predetermined length A.

5 . The device of claim 4 , wherein the predetermined length B is larger than or equal to a length of the lock ring plus the predetermined length A.

6 . The device of claim 4 , wherein an external diameter of the first end portion is reduced by 19 to 23%.

7 . The device of claim 2 , wherein a segment from the first end portion to a predetermined length C is larger than a length of the lock ring plus the predetermined length A and extends in a straight line.

8 . The device of claim 2 , wherein the lock ring is pressed onto the enlarged diameter at a predetermined length D inward from the first end, and wherein the predetermined length D is smaller than a length of the lock ring subtracted from the predetermined length A.

9 . The device of claim 8 , wherein the predetermined length D is 2 to 6 mm.

10 . The device of claim 2 , wherein an adhesive material is applied to at least one of an inner diameter surface of the arriving portion and an external diameter surface of the first end portion.

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Jung Kiwook
• Je Haeyoon

Classifications

• D06F58/206 Primary

  Heat pump arrangements · CPC title

• F16L13/141

  by crimping or rolling from the outside · CPC title

• F25B41/003

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F16L13/14

  made by plastically deforming the material of the pipe, e.g. by flanging, rolling · CPC title

• D06F58/24

  Condensing arrangements · CPC title