Dryer or washer dryer

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9976249-B2
Application number	US-201415125644-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 10, 2014
Priority date	Mar 14, 2014
Publication date	May 22, 2018
Grant date	May 22, 2018

Abstract

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.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A dryer or a washer dryer, comprising a clothes drying system, wherein the clothes drying system comprises 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 comprises an air inlet and an air outlet for hot air, and further comprises 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 a plurality of fins which are superposed in a longitudinal-transverse alternating manner, and a frame with an enclosure structure is arranged outside the heat exchanger;
wherein two opposite side edges of each fin of the plurality of fins are bent upwards and in coordination with a respective upper fin to form an air path for ventilating, and adjacent fins are arranged in a mode of vertical-horizontal alternating so as to form transversal air paths and longitudinal air paths independent from each other; the longitudinal air paths are vertically arranged to correspond to the air inlet and the air outlet; the transversal air paths are horizontally arranged to correspond to the gas inlet and the gas outlet; downwards convex pins are arranged on lower surfaces of two upwards bent side edges of the each fin, and downwards concave slots are arranged in upper surfaces of other two side edges of the each fin, and the pins of the each fin are inserted into slots of a respective lower fin so as to connect an upper and a lower adjacent fins.

2. The dryer or the washer dryer according to claim 1 , wherein a length direction of the condensing structure is arranged vertically to a front panel or a side plate of the washer dryer; the air inlet of the condensing structure is located in an upper part, the air outlet of the condensing structure is located in a lower part, and the air inlet and the air outlet are communicated with a drum through an air duct respectively; and one of the gas inlet and the gas outlet is provided with fans, and the other one is communicated with atmosphere.

3. The dryer or the washer dryer according to claim 1 , wherein the each fin is provided with a plurality of downward profiled grooves in parallel in a direction vertical to the air path formed by the each fin and the respective upper fin, and an air path formed with a respective lower fin is divided into a plurality of parallel air paths by the plurality of downward profiled grooves; downward profiled grooves provided on the each fin in the air inlet and the air outlet in a front and a rear of the air path formed between the each fin and the respective upper fin form the slots of the each fin; and, a profiled depth on both ends of the profiled grooves is greater than a profiled depth in middle of the profiled grooves, so that a downward bulge is formed, so as to form the pins.

4. The dryer or the washer dryer according to claim 1 , wherein four side edges of the each fin are bent outwards to form turn-ups; turn-ups of adjoining upper and lower fins are overlapped; turn-ups at the slots are overlapped and fitted closely on turn-ups, which are bent upwards first before bent outwards, on a lower fin; and, the fins are plastic fins.

5. The dryer or the washer dryer according to claim 1 , wherein frame plates are arranged on an upper side, a lower side, a left side, a right side, a front side and a rear side of the heat exchanger, and the frame is of an enclosure structure formed by connecting the frame plates; wherein through holes cooperated with air paths of an internal heat exchanger are arranged in two groups of opposite frame plates opposite to the transversal air paths and the longitudinal air paths, and another group of opposite frame plates are flat plates; and, the through holes are rectangular through holes arranged transversally and longitudinally.

6. The dryer or the washer dryer according to claim 5 , wherein a connection part is arranged at a junction of each frame plate on the frame, and adjacent frame plates are connected through respective connection parts; the connection part of the each frame plate is of a buckle structure; a plurality of parallel grooves are arranged on internal surfaces of the two groups of opposite frame plates with the through holes, and the parallel grooves correspond to closely fitted turn-ups around the heat exchanger, and the closely fitted turn-ups are inserted into the parallel grooves of the internal surfaces of the two groups of opposite frame plates; and, a plurality of sheet-shaped bulges vertical to each of the two groups of opposite frame plates are arranged on adjacent edges of the each of the two groups of opposite frame plates with the through holes; a shape of each of the sheet-shaped bulges is identical with that of a space between corresponding adjacent turn-ups at a respective pin, and the each of the sheet-shaped bulges is inserted into the space between the corresponding adjacent turn-ups at the respective pin.

7. The dryer or the washer dryer according to claim 1 , wherein an upper cover plate is arranged at hot air inlets of the heat exchanger, the upper cover plate has a inclined top surface, the upper cover plate forms a chamber with the heat exchanger, and the air inlet of the condensing structure is formed on the chamber at one end where the upper cover plate is inclined highly and away from the heat exchanger; a lower cover plate is arranged at hot air outlets of the heat exchanger, one side of the lower cover plate is the air outlet of the condensing structure; and the upper cover plate and the lower cover plate are connected with flat frame plates.

8. The dryer or the washer dryer according to claim 7 , wherein a filtering structure is arranged between the air inlet of the condensing structure and the hot air inlets of the heat exchanger; the filtering structure is arranged between the air inlet of the condensing structure and the hot air inlets of the heat exchanger in a pushable-pullable manner; the filtering structure is arranged in the chamber, the filtering structure is slidably connected with sidewalls of the chamber, one end of the filtering structure protrudes out of the chamber, and when one end of the filtering structure is located in the innermost part of the chamber, the other end of the filtering structure is located outside the chamber and hermetically connected with an opening of the chamber through which the filter penetrates; and, sliding chutes/sliding blocks are arranged on two side edges of the filtering structure, and sliding blocks/sliding chutes are arranged on corresponding sidewalls of the chamber, and the sliding chutes/sliding blocks of the filtering structure are matched with the sliding blocks/sliding chutes of the chamber so as to form sliding connection.

9. The dryer or the washer dryer according to claim 1 , wherein a flushing structure is arranged between the air inlet of the condensing structure and hot air inlets of the heat exchanger; the flushing structure comprises a spray layer and a sealing cover which form a cavity; a plurality of spray holes are arranged in the spray layer; water inlets are arranged in the sealing cover; the spray layer serves as an upper cover plate arranged at the hot air inlets of the heat exchanger; the sealing cover is arranged on an upper part of the upper cover plate and hermetically connected with the upper cover plate, and a plurality of spray holes are arranged in the upper cover plate.

10. The dryer or the washer dryer according to claim 7 , wherein an air intake uniform structure is arranged between the air inlet of the condensing structure and the hot air inlets of the heat exchanger; a plurality of vertical ribbed slabs are arranged in the air in

Assignees

• Haier Group Corp
• Qingdao Haier Drum Washing Machine Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lv Peishi
• Xu Yonghong
• Zhang Lijun
• Zhang Huacheng
• Jiang Yuliang

Classifications

• D06F58/22

  Lint collecting arrangements · CPC title

• F28D21/0014

  the heat being recuperated from waste air or from vapors (for air conditioning F24F12/001) · CPC title

• F28D9/0037

  the conduits for the other heat-exchange medium also being formed by paired plates touching each other (F28D9/0043 takes precedence) · CPC title

• D06F58/24 Primary

  Condensing arrangements · CPC title

• D06F25/00 Primary

  Washing machines with receptacles, e.g. perforated, having a rotary movement, e.g. oscillatory movement, the receptacle serving both for washing and for centrifugally separating water from the laundry and having further drying means, e.g. using hot air  (control of washing or of washing and drying D06F33/00, D06F34/00; domestic laundry dryers D06F58/00) · CPC title