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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181359 | Laundry machine A laundry machine is disclosed. The disclosed laundry machine includes a drum rotatably provided in a cabinet; a substance supply device generating water based substance and supplying the water based substance to the drum; a water supply device that is movably provi... | 05/22/2012 |
| 7644516 | Clothes drying machine A clothes drying machine having a temperature sensor that may be easily repaired or replaced. The clothes drying machine includes a housing forming an external appearance of the clothes drying machine, a drying tub rotatably mounted in the housing, a hot air introdu... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7425688 | Heating assembly for a tumble dryer A heating assembly for heating a hot air stream flowing in a flow passage of a tumble dryer. The heating assembly is configured for installation in the flow passage and comprises at least one heating element and at least one temperature sensor. The heating element i... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7395612 | Drum for use in dryer with tumbler sections A drum for use in a dryer is provided. The drum includes a plurality of segments joined axially to form the drum's cylindrical shape. The drum has a simple structure enabling the use of standardized segments to facilitate dryer manufacture by reducing production cos... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7325333 | Heat pump device and drying machine There are disclosed a heat pump device and a drying machine using the device in which abnormal water supplying into a water-cooling heat exchanger for use in water-cooling of a heat pump can be easily detected without disposing any water amount gauge particularly. T... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7257905 | Laundry appliance A laundry drying machine includes a cabinet and a laundry holding drum rotatably supported within the cabinet for rotation. The drum includes a wall that is circumferential relative to the rotation and a drum hatch that is a section of the wall. The drum forms an en... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7228647 | Drying machine and drying machine with washing function and method of controlling the same Disclosed herein is a drying machine or a drying machine with washing function. The drying machine or the drying machine with washing function comprises a heater for heating air introduced into an inlet channel of a drum, an outlet channel for allowing air in the dr... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7213348 | Gas burner and air heater assembly for a gas clothes dryer A burner for a gas dryer is made up of a mixing tube having an open end for admission of gas fuel into the mixing tube. At least one other opening proximate to the open end serves to admit air into the mixing tube for mixing the air and the gas fuel. A burner head i... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7208705 | Heater bracket assembly for dryer A heater bracket assembly for securing a heater case in a dryer is disclosed. The heater bracket assembly includes a supporting part secured to a bottom end of the heater case for supporting the heater case, a fixing part secured to a base plate of the dryer, and a ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7204040 | Apparatus for supplying hot air in drum type washer with dry function The present invention provides a drum type washer with dry function, by which a product cost is lowered and by which compatibility of a blower cover is enhanced. The present invention includes a first duct housing provided to a tub included in the drum type washer, ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7178264 | Washing machine with a drying device A washing machine includes a water tub for accommodating wash water therein; a drum rotatably installed in the water tub; and a drying device for supplying hot air into the drum. The drying device includes a blower unit for forcing air to flow; a hot air supply duct... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7121018 | Dryer, and drain structure of the same A dryer and a drain structure of the same are provided. The drain structure of a dryer includes a base, a condenser mounted on the base, and a drain concaved from front to rear of a condenser mounting surface, which is provided on the base and mounts the condenser t... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7117612 | Method for spin drying a clothes basket in a combination washer/dryer The combination washer/dryer and method for operating a combination washer/dryer. The washer/dryer has a containment drum which receives wash water, and includes a perforated clothes drum which rotates within the containment drum. A heat plenum is provided in heat t... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7047666 | Clothes dryer and method for utilizing an ultrasound atomizer A clothes dryer includes at least one clothes drum for receiving textiles and at least one ultrasound atomizer disposed in the dryer for generating an aerosol from a liquid. The invention further relates to a method for introducing an aerosol into the clothes drum o... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7024802 | Air flow structure of dryer Provided is an air flow structure for a dryer, which includes a drying fan, and an air guide having a bent and inclined shape so as to guide flow of a circulation air discharged by the drying fan. This air flow structure improves air circulation flow in the dryer, r... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7024795 | Drying apparatus A drying apparatus having a purpose of shortening a drying time of laundry, comprising an accommodating chamber in which the laundry is accommodated, and executing a washing operation of the laundry and a drying operation after end of the washing operation in the ac... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6997966 | Lint trap A lint trap having an enclosure with an interior surface, an open end, with an inlet spaced from an outlet on the interior surface. A cover is removably mountable to the open end of the enclosure with a filter secured to the cover, where side edges of the filter sli... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6971189 | Variable volume clothes dryer The invention is a clothes dryer featuring an interior working volume that is adjustable to suit the size of the load and type of article(s) to be dried. Since the volume is adjusted to fit the load, only the necessary volume is heated. For large loads or bulky arti... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6966124 | Drum washing machine A drum washing machine, which has a clothes-drying unit with a plurality of heat pipes. The heat pipes recover, during a drying-mode operation of the drum washing machine, heat from high temperature humid air flowing from a water tub, and combine the recovered heat ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6944969 | Method and installation for drying a mass of fibrous materials by mechanical compression of very moist air The present invention pertains to a method and an installation or system for drying fibrous material. The method comprises the step of ventilating very moist air through the fibrous material located in a drying zone. The moisture content of the moist air is less tha... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6941678 | Sensor assembly for automatic dryer A sensor assembly is provided for an automatic drying machine having a rotatable drum containing a load of wet clothes to be dried wherein at least one sensing element is disposed on a surface of an elongated sensor body and is exposed to inside of the drum so as to... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6931759 | Apparatus for sensing dryness degree in exhaust type clothes dryer and control method using same An apparatus for sensing a dryness degree in an exhaust type clothes dryer and a control method using the same, includes an electrode sensor for sensing a clothes drying state based on the humidity of the clothes in the drum, and a thermistor for sensing the tempera... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6918194 | Heating configuration for a drier A heating configuration for a drier, particularly for a laundry drier, has a burner with a burner head, a first heating channel with an inlet opening and an outlet opening, and a second heating channel with an inlet opening and an outlet opening. The cross-sectional... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6892476 | Clothes dryer with movable rear panel spacer A clothes dryer has a rear panel and an exhaust vent passing through the rear panel. The exhaust vent is adapted to be connected with a flexible venting hose. The spacer is pivotally mounted to the rear panel of the clothes dryer for movement between an upright ship... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6874250 | Clothes dryer A clothes dryer has a first four pole motor that rotates a rotatable drum in the dryer through a transmission system. The clothes dryer has a second two pole self speed regulated induction motor connected to a blower fan in the air passageway of the dryer. The secon... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6832441 | Washing and drying machine and method for controlling drying process thereof Method for controlling a drying process of a washing and drying machine including a preheating step for tightly closing and heating an inner tub for preparing an environment favorable for vaporization of water by elevating a temperature of the inner tub within a sho... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6725563 | Drying method, drying device, and drying machine A drying method, a drying device, and a drying machine, capable of remarkably reducing a drying time by assigning the standby time for an article to be dried to a preliminary drying time in drying, wherein hot air is supplied to the drying machine so as to dry the a... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6678969 | Clothes dryer A clothes dryer is disclosed, in which the clothes dryer comprising a first and second connecting ducts communicating with a drum, respectively, a first flow passage control device to communicate a heating duct with the first connecting duct or with the s... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6665953 | Method for controlling washing and drying machine Method for controlling a washing and drying machine, for improving drying performance, and saving energy, the method having a drying cycle for supplying heated air into an inner tub to dry laundry in the inner tub, wherein the drying cycle includes a plur... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6643953 | Clothes dryer utilizing suction duct extending into drum interior A clothes dryer in accordance with the present invention includes a drum rotatably supported in a case having an interior space for drying clothes. Air for drying clothes is supplied to the suction duct that is connected to one side of the drum. An extens... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6584699 | Three stage single pass high density drying apparatus for particulate materials A single pass, multiple stage, rotary drum heat exchange dryer (22) is provided for drying products such as distillers grains and includes a tubular shell (64) with a moist product inlet (66), an opposed dried product outlet (70), and an internal drying c... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6551461 | Process for making throughdried tissue using exhaust gas recovery The energy efficiency of a throughdrying papermaking process is improved by recycling exhaust air from one or more throughdryers to further heat the web at various places in the process.... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6393725 | Compact microwave clothes dryer and method Compact microwave clothes dryer and method in which the dryer is small enough to be placed on a countertop, and air is circulated past microwave generator and power supply components to the drying chamber to transfer heat from the components to clothes in... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6385862 | Method and apparatus for drying articles having internal cavities within a clothes dryer An apparatus for use in drying articles defining internal cavities within a conventional clothes dryer includes a manifold and a plurality of tubes extending therefrom. Each of the tubes is provided with various, circumferentially spaced and longitudinall... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6223452 | Clothes dryer with emissive coating An improved clothes dryer has a rotatable drum with an emissive coating on the drum to reflect energy from a heat source, such as a radiant infrared lamp, inside the dryer. By reflecting the energy inside the rotatable drum, the rate of heat transfer is i... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6212792 | Basket and method of use A basket or dryer liner that has the usual basket shape, i.e, generally cylindrical, but is resiliently compressible or deformable along multiple axes for reshaping into irregular shapes. It has perforate bottom wall and side walls and an open top and is ... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6108940 | Heater housing for an electric clothes dryer An electric clothes dryer has an irregular polygonal shaped rear wall where the apexes in the polygon align readily with the center of the heater housing to define positions where the electrical insulators are mounted to the heater housing rear wall. Rais... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6035552 | Household dryer with a process air loop for removing moisture from laundry A blower moves cooling air through the primary side of an air-to-air heat exchanger and process air the secondary side. The efficiency of the heat exchanger is increased in that the primary side is divided into at least two portions, through which the coo... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6016610 | Self-cleaning lint trap and gravity assisted lint trap A self-cleaning lint trap includes an enclosed housing having an inlet port, an exhaust port, and a spiral chamber between the ports for imparting a circular air flow to air moving through the spiral chamber. A fine mesh screen extends across the exhaust ... | 01/25/2000 |
| 6006445 | Washer/dryer combination A washer/dryer combination used for washing and drying articles such as clothing in the same machine. The washer/dryer combination includes a body having a treatment chamber defined within the body, a front side including an opening, and a door attached t... | 12/28/1999 |
