EP1591579A1 - Haushaltswäschetrockner mit zweistufigem Kondensator - Google Patents

Haushaltswäschetrockner mit zweistufigem Kondensator Download PDF

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Publication number: EP1591579A1
Authority: EP; European Patent Office
Prior art keywords: air; drying; conduit; cooling; condenser
Prior art date: 2004-04-28
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EP04101800A

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Ugo Favret

Flavio Noviello

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Electrolux Home Products Corp NV

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2004-04-28

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2005-11-02

2004-04-28 Application filed by Electrolux Home Products Corp NV filed Critical Electrolux Home Products Corp NV

2004-04-28 Priority to SI200430446T priority Critical patent/SI1591579T1/sl

2004-04-28 Priority to AT04101800T priority patent/ATE365827T1/de

2004-04-28 Priority to ES04101800T priority patent/ES2289435T3/es

2004-04-28 Priority to EP04101800A priority patent/EP1591579B1/de

2004-04-28 Priority to DE602004007240T priority patent/DE602004007240T2/de

2005-11-02 Publication of EP1591579A1 publication Critical patent/EP1591579A1/de

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- D—TEXTILES; PAPER
- D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
- D06F25/00—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
- D—TEXTILES; PAPER
- D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
- D06F58/00—Domestic laundry dryers
- D06F58/20—General details of domestic laundry dryers
- D06F58/24—Condensing arrangements

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This invention refers to an improved kind of clothes drying machine, preferably of the type for use in households, which is provided with an improved condenser in order to reduce the energy consumption and in the same time also the time required to perform a normal drying cycle.
the known condenser drying machines are generally provided with means for removing the moisture from the drying air comprising a condenser through which there is conveyed, further to the flow of the drying air itself, a second flow of cooling air, occurring of course separately from said flow of drying air, which is taken in from the outside ambient and appropriately delivered to flow through and, as a result, cool down said condenser.
a condenser through which there is conveyed, further to the flow of the drying air itself, a second flow of cooling air, occurring of course separately from said flow of drying air, which is taken in from the outside ambient and appropriately delivered to flow through and, as a result, cool down said condenser.
this cooling air inside said conduit is brought normally at a temperature of about 40° C , and it is easily understood that such an unwanted high temperature remarkably deteriorates the condensing process of the humidity contained in the drying air.
the final and unavoidable result of such situation is an increase of the time length of the drying cycle and an increase of the energy consumption.
a condenser-type clothes drying machine which is provided with a single motor to drive both the drying-air fan and the cooling-air fan, is capable of ensuring a standard-level drying performance, and is however capable of eliminating the above-cited drawbacks of both the entangling of the clothes, mainly during the initial drying phases (consequence of the drum having to rotate in a single direction of rotation during said same initial phases) and of requiring an increase of the inside room for lodging the additional means, and an unwanted raise of the complexity and of the overall cost of the drying machine.
a drum 1 adapted to hold the clothes to be dried, to which there is associated a conduit 2 for the circulation of the drying air; the latter flows also through a condenser 3, which is adapted to cause the moisture contained in the drying air flowing therethough to condense, said condenser being furthermore flown through by a flow of "cold" air, i.e. air taken in from the outside ambient and sent to said condenser 3 via a corresponding conduit 4.
Both conduits 2 and 4 contain two respective fans 5, 6 therewithin, which are provided to circulate the drying-air flow and the cooling-air flow, respectively.
the shafts of said two fans 5 and 6 are connected in any of the manners known as such in the art, even via appropriate mechanisms and gears, to a single motor 7 so that the rotation of this motor causes said two fans to correspondingly rotate in a synchronous manner.
This motor 7 is controlled by appropriate control means (not shown), which are adapted to let it revolve in its two possible directions of rotation; as a result, this allows said two fans to be caused to selectively rotate in either direction, but in all cases in a mutually consistent manner (i.e., when a first fan rotates in a definite direction, the second fan will always rotate in a single and sole direction; and when the first fan changes its direction of rotation, the second fan will change its own direction of rotation, too).
the motor driving the fan may also be used, via appropriate motion transmission means, to also rotatably drive the clothes-holding drum; in this connection, it is a common practice for said motor to be so controlled as to revolve for short periods of time in its normal, i.e. main direction of rotation, in which said short periods of rotation in that direction are alternated with other short periods during which said motor revolves in the opposite, i.e. secondary direction of rotation.
said machine is improved in the following manner: with reference to Fig. 1, and remembering that the condenser 3 is flown through by two distinct streams of drying air and cooling air, there are provided means practically consisting of a second condensation element 11 , placed in series with said condenser 3, meaning that it is crossed by the same drying air-flow crossing the condenser: said second condensation element 11 is cooled by an air-flow passing through a respective auxiliary second cooling-air conduit 12 , placed downstream of said condenser 3 and that takes said air-flow from the same fan 6 which is blowing also into said conduit 4, as symbolically illustrated.
a closing means which is preferably constituted by a valve 13 .
This valve is adapted to receive the flow of cooling air coming from said fan 6, and to selectively stop it, or let it go, according to the working phase of the drying cycle.
valve comprises a moving partition, not shown, which, as appropriately actuated, is capable of selectively close or open said conduit 12, thereby enabling the flow of respective cooling air to be directed towards said second condensation element 11.
the operation of said machine will be easily understood by any person skilled in the art; in the fact the operation period of the machine, in which a drying cycle is implemented, can be split into three sub-phases, that is in a first sub-phase in which the drying air is still quite cool and not yet laden with humidity, in a central phase where the air is being heated up gradually to its process temperature, while becoming increasingly laden with the moisture it removes from the clothes, and in a final phase wherein the drying air is very hot but less humid as the clothing is already almost fully dried.
valve 13 In the central sub-phase said valve 13 is opened, allowing the blowing of an outside fresh air flow towards said second condensation element 11, and as a consequence offers a supplementary condensation action and finally makes the whole drying process to be accelerated, bringing to the wanted reduction of the energy consumption.
valve 13 In the final sub-phase said valve 13 is let open, or it is again closed, according to the balance, case by case, of the condensing ability of the condenser 3 with respect to that of said second condensing element 11.
the present invention allows further advantageous improvements to be added: with reference to figures 2 and 3 said second condensing element 11 is placed soon downstream the condenser 3, so that the relevant conduit 12 is practically void, and so the benefit is obtained that the airflow "B" that is blown towards said second condensation element 11 is not submitted to any heating action.
a second improvement consists in that the collecting reservoir 14 of the condensing water of the condenser 3 is used also as a collecting reservoir of said second condensation element 11, therefore saving apparent production costs.
said side 18 does materialise said second condensation element 11, as it will be soon apparent from the figure 3.
a third improvement is intended to prevent a too strong cooling of the drying air-flow leaving the condenser 3 and that is blown into said conduit 16 before entering the drum (possibly passing on the heating resistors, not shown); with ref. to fig. 4, it may be observed that said second auxiliary conduit 12 is extended and shaped in a way that said wall 18, delimiting said second conduit 12 with respect to the above conduit 17 going out form the condenser, be as wide as possible.
said second auxiliary conduit 12 should be stretched along the whole outside course of said conduit 17.
a further improvement can be obtained providing that said condenser 3 and said side wall 18 are thermally insulated; the benefit of it is that the higher temperature of the condenser 3 is prevented from being transferred to said side wall 18, therefore holding it at a lower temperature, that moreover is kept at a room and so constant temperature, being lodged outside the machine. Due to the fact that the air-flow passing through said conduit 12 is slightly heated as it runs close to the intermediate conduit 17 coming out from the condenser 3 and bringing the drying air-flow "A" (obviously warmer of the room air), it effectively makes up a means of thermal insulation for said drying air-flow "A" with respect to the surrounding room; therefore a reduction of the temperature lowering of said air-flow "A" downstream the heater is obtained.
said second auxiliary conduit 12 works both as a further cooling means of the drying air-flow, generating a supplementary condensation, and as an indirect heating means, as it generates a reduction of the natural cooling of the drying air-flow "A" in said conduit 16, but only downstream said heater.
the benefit of the invention can be well described in the fig. 5; it represents the quantity of the water that is condensed in a drying machine in the two different tests referred to two different conditions, i.e. when the condenser 3 only operates, and when both the condenser 3 and the second condensation element 11 are activated in the same time; of course to be technically correct, the two tests have been made on the same machine, and with all the other conditions unchanged : it is apparent the increase of around 3 % of the condensed water at the end of the test, that corresponds to a typical drying cycle.

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EP04101800A 2004-04-28 2004-04-28 Haushaltswäschetrockner mit zweistufigem Kondensator Expired - Lifetime EP1591579B1 (de)

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Application Number	Priority Date	Filing Date	Title
SI200430446T SI1591579T1 (sl)	2004-04-28	2004-04-28	Gospodinjski suĹˇilni stroj za perilo z dvostopenjskim kondenzatorjem
AT04101800T ATE365827T1 (de)	2004-04-28	2004-04-28	Haushaltswäschetrockner mit zweistufigem kondensator
ES04101800T ES2289435T3 (es)	2004-04-28	2004-04-28	Secadora de ropa de tipo domestico con condensador bietapico.
EP04101800A EP1591579B1 (de)	2004-04-28	2004-04-28	Haushaltswäschetrockner mit zweistufigem Kondensator
DE602004007240T DE602004007240T2 (de)	2004-04-28	2004-04-28	Haushaltswäschetrockner mit zweistufigem Kondensator

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EP04101800A EP1591579B1 (de)	2004-04-28	2004-04-28	Haushaltswäschetrockner mit zweistufigem Kondensator

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- 2004-04-28 DE DE602004007240T patent/DE602004007240T2/de not_active Expired - Lifetime
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- 2004-04-28 EP EP04101800A patent/EP1591579B1/de not_active Expired - Lifetime
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