Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids – Apparatus – Rotary drums or receptacles
Reexamination Certificate
2011-01-11
2011-01-11
Lu, Jiping (Department: 3743)
Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids
Apparatus
Rotary drums or receptacles
C034S606000, C034S607000, C034S134000, C034S077000, C034S078000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07866061
ABSTRACT:
A clothes dryer includes a water tub, a rotating container located in the tub, a drive unit rotating the container, an air circulation blower circulating air in the tub, and a heat pump formed by circularly connecting an evaporator, a condenser, a compressor, a discharge airflow path leading to the outside of the clothes dryer, an airflow path switching unit switched so as to open the portion between the container and the evaporator in an airflow path in the drying operation, and to open the discharge airflow path in cooling a place where the clothes dryer is placed, an air inlet located in an upper wall between the evaporator and the condenser in the airflow path, an air discharge blower introducing air outside the airflow path from the air inlet to be passed through the evaporator, and a cooling device that cools down the condenser.
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Kashima Koji
Tatsumi Hisao
DLA Piper (LLP) US
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
Lu Jiping
Toshiba Consumer Marketing Corporation
Toshiba Ha Products Co., Ltd.
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