EP3124679B1 - Wäschebehandlungsmaschine - Google Patents

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EP3124679B1
EP3124679B1 EP15178416.2A EP15178416A EP3124679B1 EP 3124679 B1 EP3124679 B1 EP 3124679B1 EP 15178416 A EP15178416 A EP 15178416A EP 3124679 B1 EP3124679 B1 EP 3124679B1
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Alessandro Vian
Marco Santarossa
Andrea Giovannetti
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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
    • D06F58/00—Domestic laundry dryers
    • D06F58/20—General details of domestic laundry dryers 
    • 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
    • D06F39/00—Details of washing machines not specific to a single type of machines covered by groups D06F9/00 - D06F27/00 
    • D06F39/12—Casings; Tubs
    • 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
    • D06F58/02—Domestic laundry dryers having dryer drums rotating about a horizontal axis
    • 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 
    • D06F58/206—Heat pump arrangements

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  • the present invention relates to a laundry machine.
  • the present invention relates to a laundry machine with a heat pump system.
  • the laundry machine can be a washer machine, a dryer machine or a washer-dryer machine (i.e. a machine that can both wash and dry the laundry).
  • Laundry machines typically have a bearing structure or cabinet, which generally includes a front wall, a rear wall, a top wall, a bottom wall, as well as sidewalls.
  • the bottom wall is part of a basement wherein the front wall, the rear wall and the sidewalls are mounted.
  • the front wall is suitably provided with a through opening, at which a door is mounted to access a drum for laundry loading/removal.
  • the drum is mounted into the cabinet, rotatable around an axis. Such an axis can be horizontal, vertical or tilted.
  • the drum where the laundry items are contained in order to be treated (dried and/or washed), is actuated through an electric motor.
  • the drum In operation, the drum is made to rotate in order to cause agitation of the laundry items to be processed, which repeatedly tumble into the drum while being processed by a process fluid, as process water and/or air.
  • a process fluid as process water and/or air.
  • the drum In a washer or washer-dryer, the drum is rotatable within a tub.
  • the heat pump system typically comprises a compressor, a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger forming a refrigerant circuit configured to circulate a refrigerant.
  • the first heat exchanger is typically configured to cool the refrigerant and to heat the process fluid (e.g. process water in a washing cycle or process air in a drying cycle) that flows towards the drum, while the second heat exchanger is configured to heat said refrigerant.
  • the second heat exchanger is also configured to dehumidify and cool the process air exiting the drum.
  • the Applicant observed that the part of the compressor, which is mainly overheated during operation, is the upper part thereof, wherein the compressor motor is typically placed.
  • the Applicant further observed that the heat exchangers, the compressor and the process fluid conduits used for channeling the process fluid from and into the drum, are mainly placed into the basement of the cabinet.
  • the room of the basement is thus very packed so that it is very difficult to find a proper space for placing the compressor cooling fan.
  • a position of the compressor cooling fan at an upper part of the basement so that the output face of the fan directly faces the upper part of the compressor, even if optimal for efficiently cooling the upper part of the compressor, would be very critical in term of available room in the basement.
  • the upper part of the basement is very packed due to the presence of the above mentioned process fluid conduits and of the opening for the laundry loading/removal.
  • interferences between the compressor cooling fan and the bottom part of the drum facing the basement may occur.
  • WO 2014/154251 A1 discloses a laundry dryer comprising a drum wherein the laundry to be dried is placed, a compressor providing refrigerant cycle, an intake air fan assembly in communication with ambient air and blowing the same over the compressor in order for limiting maximum operational temperature of said compressor.
  • Said intake air fan assembly comprises a fan and a fan cover provided within a plastic frame of the laundry dryer. The fan cover functioning as an air exchange and noise attenuation structure in between outside environment and the fan.
  • a laundry machine according to claim 1 comprising a basement and a heat pump system with a compressor and a compressor cooling fan, wherein the compressor cooling fan is positioned within the basement in a tilted position so that the main air flow blown by the compressor cooling fan is tilted upward, towards an upper part of the compressor.
  • the vertical extent of the compressor cooling fan is typically lower than that of the compressor.
  • the use of a compressor cooling fan positioned within the basement in a tilted position so that the main air flow blown by the compressor cooling fan is tilted upward, towards the upper part of the compressor advantageously enables to place the compressor cooling fan into the bottom part of the basement, which is typically less crowded than the upper part of the basement, while guaranteeing an effective cooling of the compressor.
  • the invention relates to a laundry treating machine comprising:
  • plastic material and the like, are used to indicate any plastic, i.e. polymeric or synthetic material, or based on plastic, i.e. polymeric or synthetic material, possibly added with fillers suitable to improve the functional and robustness characteristics thereof, such as minerals, textile synthetic fillers and so on and so forth.
  • laundry machine or “machine” or “laundry treating machine”
  • an appliance having drying function only, washing function only, or a combined washer-dryer appliance, which is capable of performing both washing and drying cycles is meant.
  • upstream and downstream are used in the present description and claims with respect to the direction of a fluid (e.g. air) main flow.
  • a fluid e.g. air
  • main air flow is used to indicate a substantial part, preferably at least 50%, of air blown by a fan (compressor cooling fan or circuit air fan).
  • compressor cooling fan or circuit air fan For example, for an axial fan, the “main air flow” refers to the air flow blown in the direction of the fan axis.
  • the present invention according to the aforementioned aspect can have, alternatively or in combination, at least one of the following preferred characteristics.
  • the cabinet further comprises sidewalls substantially parallel to a plane (Y, Z) and front and rear walls substantially parallel to a plane (X, Z).
  • the front wall, the rear wall and the sidewalls are mounted in the basement.
  • the tilted position of the compressor cooling fan is such that the main air flow blown by the compressor cooling fan has a direction whose projection on plane (X, Z) forms an acute angle Az with axis Z.
  • plane (X, Z) is a vertical plane.
  • the tilted position of the compressor cooling fan can further be such that the main air flow blown by the compressor cooling fan has a direction whose projection on the horizontal plane (X, Y) forms an acute angle Ay with axis Y.
  • the acute angle Az and/or Ay are preferably such that 10° ⁇ Az, Ay ⁇ 90°, and more preferably such that 30° ⁇ Az, Ay ⁇ 60°.
  • This solution is advantageous to guarantee that the main air flow blown by the compressor cooling fan is efficiently directed towards the compressor even when the compressor and the compressor cooling fan are placed onto the bottom wall of the cabinet with different X and Y coordinates in the plane (X, Y).
  • the upper part of the compressor comprises a compressor motor for operating the compressor.
  • the basement defines a seat for the compressor cooling fan.
  • the basement comprises an upper shell and a lower shell.
  • the compressor cooling fan is fixed between the upper shell and the lower shell.
  • said compressor cooling fan seat is defined between the upper shell and the lower shell.
  • the compressor cooling fan seat has a bottom supporting surface tilted with respect to the bottom wall of the cabinet (that is, with respect to said horizontal plane (X, Y)) and directed upward towards the upper part of the compressor so as to keep said compressor cooling fan in said tilted position.
  • said seat for the compressor cooling fan is configured for engaging the compressor cooling fan by means of a snap coupling.
  • a snap coupling for fixing the compressor cooling fan into the basement is advantageous with respect, for example, to the use of fixing screws in terms of simplicity and velocity of mounting/removing operations of the compressor cooling fan into/from the basement.
  • said seat comprises snap coupling members (e.g. snap-hooks) for engaging edges of inlet and/or outlet faces of said compressor cooling fan.
  • the snap coupling members are provided in suitable positions of the upper shell and lower shell of the basement.
  • the compressor cooling fan is snap coupled to a support, which -in turn- is mounted onto said compressor cooling fan seat.
  • the snap coupling members are suitably provided in the support.
  • the support may, for example, be fixed to the compressor cooling fan seat by means of screwing or snap coupling, or it may be pinched or fitted between the upper shell and lower shell of the basement, or similar.
  • the seat or the support and the compressor cooling fan are configured to enable a screw fixing of the compressor cooling fan to the seat or the support.
  • the screw fixing when used in combination with the snap coupling, can be conveniently used as a precautionary fixing, in case a snap coupling member gets broken during a mounting operation, or to avoid/limit vibration diffusion from the compressor cooling fan or the support.
  • the compressor cooling fan is an axial-type fan and the main air flow is blown by the compressor cooling fan parallel to a rotational axis of the compressor cooling fan.
  • the compressor cooling fan is an axial fan wherein air is inhaled and blown linearly, in a same axial direction.
  • the axial fan has a casing comprising a rotating impeller with a central shaft about which a set of blades, or ribs, are attached.
  • the central shaft defines the fan axis.
  • the blades or ribs force the air to move parallel to the shaft or fan axis.
  • the casing of the compressor cooling fan has an inlet face from which air is inhaled and an outlet face from which air is blown out.
  • the inlet face and the outlet face are substantially parallel to each other, perpendicular to the fan axis.
  • the main air flow blown by the compressor cooling fan is substantially parallel to the fan axis.
  • the compressor cooling fan preferably comprises a motor for operating the fan itself.
  • the motor is supplied by means of a power supply cable.
  • the basement is configured to define a passage for said cable in proximity of said seat for the compressor cooling fan, or in proximity of the support on which the compressor cooling fan can be mounted.
  • the compressor and the compressor cooling fan are in direct fluid connection to each other, without interfering objects positioned along the direction of the main air flow blown by the compressor cooling fan.
  • the compressor and the compressor cooling fan are positioned onto said bottom wall so as to substantially face each other.
  • the outlet face of the compressor cooling fan faces the lower part of the compressor.
  • effective cooling of the compressor is advantageously guaranteed.
  • the compressor is positioned near one of said sidewalls of the cabinet.
  • the compressor fan is positioned close to the sidewall near which the compressor is positioned.
  • the compressor cooling fan is positioned onto said bottom wall near the front wall of the cabinet, preferably at the front wall. This advantageously enables to inhale fresh and clean air directly from the outside of the cabinet without the need of using any connection conduits between the front wall of the cabinet and the compressor cooling fan. Moreover, such arrangement simplifies the access to the compressor cooling fan for any maintenance/replacement operation.
  • the front wall has an aperture for the compressor cooling fan, preferably closed by a suitable removable grating.
  • the compressor cooling fan is positioned onto said bottom wall in the proximity of a corner of the basement formed by the front wall and one of the sidewalls of the cabinet near which the compressor is positioned.
  • the heat pump system is configured to heat a process fluid for treating the laundry.
  • the heat pump system preferably comprises a compressor, a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger forming a refrigerant circuit configured to circulate a refrigerant.
  • the first heat exchanger is configured to cool the refrigerant and to heat the process fluid (e.g. process water in a washing cycle or process air in a drying cycle) that flows towards the drum, while the second heat exchanger is configured to heat said refrigerant.
  • the second heat exchanger is also configured to dehumidify and cool process air exiting the drum.
  • said basement is realized in plastic, i.e. polymeric, material.
  • the rear wall of the cabinet comprises a rear bulkhead.
  • the rear bulkhead includes a first surface facing the interior of the cabinet, such as the back wall of the drum, and a second surface facing the outside of the cabinet.
  • the drum preferably is a closed drum, i.e. it includes a mantle, for example cylindrically shaped, one of whose ends is closed by a back wall or a flange, which rotates as a single piece together with the mantle when the drum is driven into rotation.
  • the connection between the mantle and the back wall or flange can be of any type, and it depends on the material in which mantle and/or back wall or flange are/is realized.
  • the back wall of the drum is preferably perforated, e.g. it includes a plurality of apertures, so that a process fluid to treat laundry, like air, water or other liquor, can be introduced through the rear wall.
  • the drum is part of a process air circuit, in particular a closed-loop circuit in case of a condensed dryer or an open circuit in case of a vented dryer, which in both cases includes process air conduits for channeling a stream of air to dry the load.
  • the process air circuit comprises the drum and, within the basement, the heat pump system, an air circuit fan and process air conduits.
  • a portion of the process air circuit is formed in the rear bulkhead as well, which is connected to the basement via an air outlet. More specifically, hot dry air is fed into the drum, flowing over the laundry, and the resulting humid and cooled down air exits the same.
  • the humid air stream rich in water vapor
  • a humidity removal element such as an evaporator of the heat pump system
  • the moist process air is further cooled down and the humidity present therein condenses.
  • the resulting cool dry air is then heated up before re-entering again in the drum by means of a condenser of the heat pump system, and the whole loop is repeated till the end of the drying cycle.
  • the air circuit fan that may be located downstream of the condenser of the heat pump system and upstream of the drum, circulates the process air along the air circuit by inhaling the process air coming from the drum and blowing the inhaled process air back towards the drum.
  • process air may circulate in inverse direction from the front of the drum to the back thereof.
  • the front wall of the cabinet is suitably provided with a through opening, at which a door is mounted to access the drum in order to locate or remove the laundry.
  • the rear bulkhead of the rear wall of the cabinet may include a drum aperture facing the back wall of the drum or it has one or more wall portions facing the back wall of the drum. Furthermore, the rear bulkhead might include further or different aperture(s). Preferably, a rim of the rear drum end abuts against the rear bulkhead and even more preferably a gasket is interposed therein between.
  • the rear bulkhead is substantially the major part of the rear wall of the cabinet, facing on one side the back wall of the drum, or anyhow the interior of the cabinet, and on the other side the exterior or the outside of the cabinet.
  • the rear bulkhead is realized in plastic, e.g. polymeric, material as a single, unitary element.
  • the drum is rotatably mounted for rotating according to a substantially horizontal or tilted rotation axis.
  • At least one drum support assembly for rotatably supporting the drum in this rotation around this given rotation axis is provided for within the cabinet.
  • a portion of the at least one of said drum support assembly of the drum is formed at the rear bulkhead.
  • the rear bulkhead thus has also the function to hold at least partially the drum for its rotation via a support assembly.
  • the drum support assembly includes a drum support element, which is for example a shaft or a roller (or both), and a respective holder is provided according to this embodiment at the rear bulkhead.
  • the holder can be of any type and it depends or follows the configuration of the drum supporting element.
  • said drum support assembly includes a shaft, said shaft being connected to said back wall of the drum, said shaft defining said axis of rotation of said drum.
  • rollers are used in combination to the shaft to support the drum and are present at or in proximity of the front end of the drum.
  • a friction reducing surface may be provided in the region where the front drum end is rotatably coupled to the cabinet front wall.
  • Such friction reducing surface acts as a supporting surface for the drum.
  • the shaft can be supported by a bearing.
  • the bearing can be respectively located at the drum itself, e.g. for example integrated or mounted in the back wall of the drum, or at the rear bulkhead, for example integrated or mounted to the latter.
  • a metallic bearing cross integrated in the plastic of the rear bulkhead can be envisaged, e.g. cast to the plastic material of the bulkhead.
  • said shaft is fixed to said back wall and said portion of at least one drum support assembly includes a bearing for said shaft.
  • the shaft could be located at the back wall of the drum, and the portion of drum support assembly located at the rear bulkhead includes the bearing.
  • the bearing might be embedded in a ring, provided to support the shaft, and said ring is held by supporting ribs which can be realized in the rear bulkhead as well, for example in the center of the drum aperture facing the back wall of the drum and closed by the cover.
  • This ring is preferably realized integral to said rear bulkhead, thanks to the plastic material of the latter that allows a relatively easy integration in a single piece of different elements.
  • the bearing - generally realized in metal - is fixed on the back wall of the drum itself.
  • said drum support assembly includes a roller.
  • the drum can be rotatably supported either by a shaft coupled with a bearing at the back of the drum and by rollers supporting the front of the drum, or only by rollers, for example two rollers at the back of the drum and two rollers at the front of the drum. However, any different number of rollers is included in the invention as well.
  • said at least drum support assembly includes a boss or a bracket for supporting said roller.
  • the rear bulkhead includes a boss where the roller can be fixed.
  • the boss might further include a pin where the roller can be fastened, for example by screws or a snap-fitting combination.
  • brackets can be formed as well.
  • said portion of drum support assembly is integrally formed with said rear bulkhead.
  • the rear bulkhead is realized in plastic material as a single body, additional structural elements, such as the portion of drum support element, e.g. the holder of the drum support element, can be realized as well integrally, i.e. in a single unitary piece, therewith. In this way, the assembly of different parts is minimized.
  • said bulkhead includes a water collector for the collection of condensed water, said water collector being integral to said bulkhead.
  • the Figures show a laundry machine in the particular case of a dryer machine. However, as stated above, the principle of the present invention also applies to a washing machine or a washer-dryer machine.
  • Laundry machine 1 comprises an outer box casing or cabinet 2, preferably but not necessarily parallelepiped-shaped, and a treatment chamber, such as a drum 3, for example having the shape of a hollow cylinder, for housing the laundry and in general the clothes and garments to be treated.
  • the drum 3 is preferably rotatably fixed to the cabinet 2. Access to the drum 3 is achieved for example via a door 4, preferably hinged to cabinet 2, which can open and close an opening 4a realized on the cabinet itself.
  • cabinet 2 generally includes a front wall 20, a rear wall 21, a bottom wall 23 and two sidewalls 25, all mounted on a basement 24.
  • the cabinet 2 further comprises a top wall 22.
  • the basement 24 is realized in plastic material.
  • basement 24 is molded via an injection molding process.
  • the door 4 is hinged so as to access the drum 3.
  • the cabinet 2, with its walls, defines the volume of the laundry machine 1.
  • basement 24 includes an upper and a lower shell portion 24a, 24b (visible, for example, in figures 6-8 in a disassembled configuration and described in more detail below).
  • the laundry machine 1, and in particular basement 24, defines an horizontal plane (X,Y) which is substantially the plane of the ground on which the laundry machine 1 is situated, thus it is considered to be substantially horizontal, and a vertical direction Z perpendicular to the plane (X,Y).
  • X,Y horizontal plane
  • Z vertical direction perpendicular to the plane (X,Y).
  • the front wall 20 and the rear wall 21 are substantially parallel to plane (X,Z)
  • sidewalls 25 are substantially parallel to plane (Y,Z)
  • bottom wall 23 and top wall 22 are parallel to horizontal plane (X,Y).
  • Laundry machine 1 also preferably comprises an electrical motor assembly 50 for rotating, on command, revolving drum 3 according to its axis inside cabinet 2.
  • Door 4 and electrical motor assembly 50 are common parts in the technical field and are considered to be known; therefore they will not be described in detail.
  • laundry machine 1 may include an electronic central control unit (not shown) which controls both the electrical motor assembly 50 and other components of the dryer 1 to perform, on command, one of the user-selectable treatment cycles preferably stored in the same central control unit.
  • the programs as well other parameters of the laundry machine 1, or alarm and warning functions can be set and/or visualized in a control panel 11, preferably realized in a top portion of the laundry machine 1, such as above door 4.
  • the rotatable drum 3 includes a mantle 3c, having preferably a substantially cylindrical, tubular body, which is preferably made of metal material, is arranged inside the cabinet 2 and is apt to rotate around a general rotational axis which can be horizontal, i.e. parallel to the horizontal (X, Y) plane, or tilted with respect to the latter.
  • the mantle 3c defines a first end 3a and a second end 3b and the drum 3 is so arranged that the first end 3a of the mantle 3c faces the laundry loading/unloading opening 4a realized on the front wall 20 of the cabinet 2 and the door 4, while the second end 3b faces the rear wall 21 of the cabinet 2.
  • the rear end 3b of the drum 3 is closed by a back wall (not shown).
  • the drum back wall faces the rear wall 21 of the cabinet 2 and is permanently and rigidly coupled to the second end 3b of mantle 3c of the drum 3 so as to close said second end 3b.
  • the drum back wall forms, together with lateral mantle 3c, a substantially cylindrical, cup-shaped rigid container structured for housing the laundry to be dried.
  • the drum back wall is suitably perforated so as to allow a stream of process air to flow through it towards the inside of the drum 3.
  • the drum 3 is made to rotate by motor 50 in order to cause agitation of the laundry items to be dried, which repeatedly tumble into the drum while being processed by process air.
  • the process air is dehumidified and heated in laundry machine 1 by a heat pump system 30.
  • laundry machine 1 includes a process air circuit, which comprises the drum 3 and a process air conduit 18, depicted in figure 3 as a plurality of arrows showing the path flow of a process air stream through the laundry machine 1.
  • process air conduit 18 is formed by the connection of the upper shell 24a and the lower shell 24b.
  • Air process conduit 18 is preferably fluidly connected with its opposite ends to the two opposite sides of drum 3.
  • the process air conduit 18 communicates with, i.e.
  • the process air conduit 18 communicates with, i.e. is fluidly connected to, the rear end 3b of the rotatable drum 3 via an outlet 19 of basement 24 and a portion (not shown) of the same process air conduit realized in the rear wall 21 of the cabinet 2.
  • the outlet 19 is formed by two semi-circular facing indentations defined in the upper shell 24a and lower shell 24b of the basement 24.
  • laundry machine 1 comprises a heat pump system 30.
  • the heat pump system 30 includes a condenser 31 and an evaporator 32.
  • the heat pump system 30 also includes a refrigerant closed circuit (partly depicted and indicated with the reference number 35) in which a refrigerant fluid flows, when the laundry machine 1 is in operation, cools off and may condense in correspondence of the condenser 31, releasing heat, and warms up, in correspondence of the evaporator 32, absorbing heat.
  • a compressor 33 receives refrigerant in a gaseous state from the evaporator 32 and supplies the condenser 31, thereby closing the refrigerant cycle.
  • the heat pump circuit connects via piping 35 the evaporator 32 via the compressor 33 to the condenser 31.
  • the outlet of condenser 31 is connected to the inlet of the evaporator 32 via an expansion device (not visible), such as a choke, a valve or a capillary tube.
  • an air heater such as an electrical heater
  • heat pump system 30 and heater can also work together to speed up the heating process (and thus reducing the drying cycle time).
  • condenser 31 of heat pump system 30 is located upstream of the heater. Appropriate measures should be provided to avoid the electric heater to fuse any plastic components of the laundry machine 1.
  • the laundry machine 1 of the invention may include a condensed-water canister (also not visible) which collects the condensed water produced, when the laundry machine 1 is in operation, inside evaporator 32 by condensation of the surplus moisture in the process air stream arriving from the drum 3.
  • the canister may be located at the bottom of the evaporator 32.
  • the collected water is sent in a reservoir 6 (visible in Figures 1 and 2 ) located in correspondence of the highest portion of the laundry machine 1 so as to facilitate a comfortable manual discharge of the water by the user of the laundry machine 1.
  • the condenser 31 and the evaporator 32 of the heat pump system 30 are located in correspondence of the process air conduit 18 formed in the basement 24. As shown in Fig. 7 , the compressor 30 is housed in a suitable compressor seat 34 defined in the basement 24.
  • the condenser 31 is located downstream of the evaporator 32.
  • the air exiting the drum 3 enters the process air conduit 18 and reaches the evaporator 32, which cools down and dehumidifies the process air.
  • the dry cool process air continues to flow through the process air conduit 18 till it enters the condenser 31, where it is warmed up by the heat pump 30 before re-entering the drum 3.
  • the process air circuit also includes an air circuit fan (or blower) 12 (visible in Figures 3 and 6 ) for inhaling process air exiting the drum 3 and passing through the heat pump system 30 and blowing it back into the drum 3.
  • an air circuit fan or blower 12 (visible in Figures 3 and 6 ) for inhaling process air exiting the drum 3 and passing through the heat pump system 30 and blowing it back into the drum 3.
  • the air circuit fan 12 is a centrifugal fan wherein air is inhaled in an axial direction and blown in a radial direction.
  • the air circuit fan 12 comprises a generally cylindrical rotating impeller 12a.
  • the impeller 12a comprises a central shaft (not visible) about which a set of blades (or ribs) 12c are circumferentially attached.
  • the central shaft is suitably connected to the motor 50, configured to rotate, on command, the rotating impeller 12a about the central shaft.
  • the air circuit fan 12, in particular the impeller 12a is housed in a suitable seat (not shown) defined in the rear wall 21 of the cabinet 2.
  • the rear wall 21 also comprises a fan cover 610 (shown in Fig. 2 ) for covering the air circuit fan 12.
  • the process air circuit of laundry machine 1 comprises the drum 3, the air conduit 18, the heat pump system 30 and the air circuit fan 12.
  • the humid air from the laundry exits the drum 3 from its front end 3a.
  • the process air conduct 18 (as stated above, depicted as arrows in Figure 3 ) communicates with, i.e. is fluidly connected to, the front end 3a of the rotatable drum 3 via pass-through opening 17 provided in the basement 24 and fluidly connected to the part of the front wall 20 of the cabinet 2 that delimits/surrounds the laundry loading/unloading opening 4a.
  • the process air conduit 18 extends across the basement 24 of cabinet 2, where preferably also the heat exchangers 31, 32 are housed, and the circulated process air is dehumified and heated.
  • the lower and upper shells 24a, 24b are coupled one on top of the other, forming at least a portion of the process air conduit 18 and more preferably also include further cavities or seats adapted to receive therein further operational components of the dryer machine 1 for operating a drying process.
  • Process air exits the basement 24 through the outlet 19 and enters the air circuit fan 12.
  • the process air conduit 18 includes a further portion (not shown) realized in the rear wall 21 of the cabinet 2. Accordingly, the process air blown by the fan 12 is guided by said further portion of the process air conduit 18 realized in the rear wall 21 of the cabinet 2, which conveys the process air back into the drum 3 through the apertures or vents realized in the drum back wall.
  • the laundry machine 1 further comprises a compressor cooling fan 60 associated with the compressor 33, configured to cool the compressor 33 and to avoid overheating of the same during operation.
  • the compressor cooling fan 60 and the compressor 33 are placed within the basement 24, rested on the bottom wall 23 of the cabinet 2, in fluid connection to each other. In particular, they are located in proximity of a corner of the basement 24, which is formed by the front wall 20 and one of the sidewalls 25 of the cabinet 2.
  • the compressor cooling fan 60 is placed at the front wall 20 so as to be able to directly inhale fresh and clean air from the outside of the cabinet 2.
  • a grating 26 provided on the front wall 20 is placed in front of the compressor cooling fan 60.
  • grating 26 is removable.
  • a further grating may be fixed to the basement 24 by means of a screw (not shown) to be inserted into a suitable receiving holes 55a and 55b (shown in Fig. 6 ) provided into the lower shell 24b.
  • the compressor cooling fan 60 has a casing 60a (in the example, with a generally parallelepiped shape) housing a rotating impeller with a central shaft 64 about which a set of blades, or ribs, 62 are attached.
  • the central shaft 64 defines the fan rotational axis F.
  • the compressor cooling fan 60 is of the axial type. Air flow is inhaled and blown linearly, in the direction of the fan axis F, from an inlet face 61 to an outlet face 63 of casing 60a.
  • the inlet face 61 and the outlet face 63 are substantially perpendicular to the fan axis F.
  • the compressor cooling fan 60 is actuated by an internal motor (not shown) which is supplied by means of power supply cables 47, which are coupled to a suitable connector 48.
  • the basement 24 defines a seat 40 for housing the compressor cooling fan 60. As shown in Fig. 7 , the seat 40 is proximate to the compressor seat 34.
  • the seat 40 is formed between the upper shell 24a and the lower shell 24b of the basement 24.
  • the seat 40 comprises a bottom supporting surface 41 and peripheral walls 42 configured to support a lower part of the compressor cooling fan 60; at the upper shell 24a of the basement 24, the seat 40 comprises supporting walls 43 configured to support an upper part of the compressor cooling fan 60.
  • the compressor 33 has a lower end 33b resting on the bottom wall 23 of the cabinet 2 and an upper part 33a extending into the upper shell 24a of the basement 24.
  • the compressor 33 extends in the vertical direction Z for a greater extent than the compressor cooling fan 60 so that the compressor cooling fan 60, resting too on the bottom wall 23 of the cabinet 2, faces the lower end 33b of the compressor 33.
  • the part of the compressor 33 which is mainly overheated during operation, is the upper part 33a thereof, wherein the internal compressor motor (not shown) is typically placed.
  • the compressor cooling fan 60 in order to optimize cooling of the compressor 33 and, in particular of the upper part 33a thereof, the compressor cooling fan 60 is housed in the basement 24 in a tilted position so as to direct the main air flow upward, towards the upper part 33a of the compressor 33.
  • the seat 40 and, in particular, the bottom supporting surface 41 are configured to support the compressor cooling fan 60 so that the fan axis F is tilted upward with respect to the horizontal plane (X, Y), such that a projection of the fan axis on a vertical plane (X, Z) forms an acute angle Az with axis Z.
  • angle Az has been found to be particularly advantageous for directing flow towards the compressor when it is such that 10° ⁇ Az ⁇ 90°, and preferably 30° ⁇ Az ⁇ 60°.
  • the compressor 33 is nearer the sidewall 25 than the compressor cooling fan 60; the seat 40 and, in particular, the bottom supporting surface 41 are also configured to support the compressor cooling fan 60 so that the fan axis F is tilted such that a projection of the fan axis on the horizontal plane (X, Y) forms an acute angle Ay with axis Y.
  • angle Ay has been found to be particularly advantageous for directing flow towards the compressor when it is such that 10° ⁇ Ay ⁇ 90°, and preferably 30° ⁇ Ay ⁇ 60°.
  • Figures 10 and 11 show the arrangement of the compressor cooling fan 60 and the angles Ay and Az formed by the projections of fan axis F on planes (X, Y) and (X, Z) with axis Y and Z respectively.
  • the seat 40 preferably comprises coupling members 44, 45 adapted to hook edges of the external casing 60a of the compressor cooling fan 60.
  • the seat 40 comprises a first snap-hook 44, at the lower shell 24b, configured to hook a lower edge of the outlet face 63 of the compressor cooling fan 60 and a second snap-hook 45, at the upper shell 24b, configured to hook an upper edge of the inlet face 61 of the compressor cooling fan 60, as clearly visible in Fig. 5 .
  • the seat 40 also comprises, at the lower shell 24b, a bracket 52 provided with a hole 53.
  • the bracket 52 advantageously provides a support for the inlet face 61 of the compressor cooling fan 60.
  • an operator mounting the compressor cooling fan 60 within the set 40 will need to pass the compressor cooling fan 60 beyond the bracket 52 so as to seat it between the bracket 52 and peripheral walls 42 of the seat 40.
  • the hole 53 of bracket 52 advantageously provides a slot for a fixing screw (not shown) to be inserted both into said hole 53 and into a suitable hole 54 at a corner of the compressor cooling fan 60 to fix the latter to the seat 40.
  • the fixing screw may be used as additional way or alternative precautionary measure to fix the compressor cooling fan 60, with respect to the snap hooks 44, 45.
  • the basement 24 also comprises, at the upper shell 24a, in proximity of the seat 40, a tongue 49 configured to define a passage 46 for supporting the power supply cables 47 of the compressor cooling fan 60.
  • the basement 24 also comprises, at the upper shell 24a, in proximity of the seat 40, suitable centring lugs 51 useful for aligning the upper shell 24a and the lower shell 24b of the basement 24 during mounting operations.

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  1. Wäschebehandlungsmaschine (1) umfassend:
    • ein Gehäuse (2) mit einem Unterbau (24), der eine Bodenwand (23) des Gehäuses (2) in einer horizontalen Ebene (X,Y) definiert;
    • eine im Gehäuse (2) drehbar gelagerte TrommeI (3) ;
    • ein Wärmepumpensystem (30), das einen Verdichter (33) und einen im Unterbau (24) untergebrachten Verdichterkühlventilator (60) umfasst, wobei der Verdichter (33) sich im Wesentlichen in einer vertikalen Richtung Z senkrecht zur horizontalen Ebene (X,Y) von einem unterbaulichen Unterteil (33b), der auf der Bodenwand (23) platziert ist, zu einem Oberteil (33a) erstreckt, der in einem Oberteil (24a) des Unterbaus (24) angeordnet ist;
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Verdichterkühlventilator (60) in geneigter Stellung auf der Bodenwand (23) positioniert ist, so dass ein Hauptluftstrom vom Verdichterkühlventilator (60) entlang einer aufwärts geneigten Richtung zum Oberteil (33a) des Verdichters (33) geblasen wird, wo der Verdichtermotor platziert ist.
  2. Wäschebehandlungsmaschine (1) nach Anspruch 1, wobei unter Bezugnahme auf ein kartesisches Koordinatensystem (X, Y, Z) das Gehäuse (2) ferner umfasst: Seitenwände (25), die im Wesentlichen parallel zu einer Ebene (Y, Z) sind, sowie eine Vorderwand (20) und eine Rückwand (21), die im Wesentlichen parallel zu einer Ebene (X,Z) sind.
  3. Wäschebehandlungsmaschine nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, wobei unter Bezugnahme auf ein kartesisches oder das kartesische Koordinatensystem (X, Y, Z) die geneigte Stellung des Verdichterkühlventilators (60) so gestaltet ist, dass der vom Verdichterkühlventilator ausgeblasene Hauptluftstrom eine Richtung aufweist, deren Projektion auf eine Ebene (X, Z) einen spitzen Winkel Az zur Achse Z bildet.
  4. Wäschebehandlungsmaschine nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, wobei unter Bezugnahme auf ein kartesisches oder das kartesische Koordinatensystem (X, Y, Z) die geneigte Stellung des Verdichterkühlventilators (60) so gestaltet ist, dass der vom Verdichterkühlventilator ausgeblasene Hauptluftstrom eine Richtung aufweist, deren Projektion auf die horizontale Ebene (X, Y) einen spitzen Winkel Ay zur Achse Y bildet.
  5. Wäschebehandlungsmaschine nach Anspruch 4 bei Abhängigkeit von Anspruch 3, wobei der spitze Winkel Az und/oder der spitze Winkel Ay so gestaltet ist, dass gilt: 10° ≤ Az, Ay < 90°.
  6. Wäschebehandlungsmaschine (1) nach Anspruch 5, wobei der spitze Winkel Az und/oder der spitze Winkel Ay so gestaltet ist, dass gilt: 30° ≤ Az, Ay ≤ 60°.
  7. Wäschebehandlungsmaschine (1) nach Anspruch 1, wobei der Verdichterkühlventilator (60) ein Axialventilator ist und der Hauptluftstrom vom Verdichterkühlventilator parallel zu einer Rotationsachse des Verdichterkühlventilators (60) ausgeblasen wird.
  8. Wäschebehandlungsmaschine (1) nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, wobei der Unterbau (24) einen Aufnahmesitz (40) für den Verdichterkühlventilator (60) definiert.
  9. Wäschebehandlungsmaschine (1) nach Anspruch 8, wobei an der Bodenwand (23) des Gehäuses (2) der Aufnahmesitz (40) eine Bodenauflagefläche (41) aufweist, die im Verhältnis zur Bodenwand (23) des Gehäuses (2) geneigt ist und nach oben zum Oberteil (33a) des Verdichters (33) hin gerichtet ist, um den Verdichterkühlventilator (60) in der geneigten Stellung zu halten.
  10. Wäschebehandlungsmaschine (1) nach Anspruch 8 oder 9, wobei der Aufnahmesitz (40) für den Verdichterkühlventilator (60) so ausgelegt ist, dass er den Verdichterkühlventilator (60) mittels einer Schnappverbindung (44, 45) greift.
  11. Wäschebehandlungsmaschine (1) nach Anspruch 10, wobei der Aufnahmesitz (40) Schnappverbindungselemente (44, 45) umfasst, um in Kanten einer Einlass- und einer Auslassfläche (61, 63) des Verdichterkühlventilators (60) einzugreifen.
  12. Wäschebehandlungsmaschine (1) nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche bei Abhängigkeit von Anspruch 8, wobei der Verdichterkühlventilator (60) mittels Schnappverbindung an einer Auflage (52) angebracht wird, die ihrerseits am Aufnahmesitz (40) montiert wird.
  13. Wäschebehandlungsmaschine (1) nach einem der Ansprüche 8 bis 12, wobei der Verdichterkühlventilator (60) einen internen Motor umfasst, der mittels Stromversorgungskabel (47) gespeist wird, wobei der Unterbau (24) so ausgelegt ist, dass er einen Durchgang (46) für das Stromversorgungskabel (47) in der Nähe des Aufnahmesitzes (40) für den Verdichterkühlventilator (60) definiert.
  14. Wäschebehandlungsmaschine (1) nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, wobei das Gehäuse (2) eine Vorderwand (20) umfasst, wobei die Vorderwand (20) eine Ausnehmung aufweist, in welcher der Verdichterkühlventilator (60) platziert ist, wobei die Ausnehmung durch ein geeignetes abnehmbares Gitter (26) verschlossen ist, das vor dem Verdichterkühlventilator (60) angeordnet ist.
  15. Wäschebehandlungsmaschine (1) nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, wobei die Wäschebehandlungsmaschine eine Waschmaschine und/oder ein Wäschetrockner ist.
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