Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids – Apparatus – With means to treat gas or vapor
Reexamination Certificate
2006-04-11
2006-04-11
Rinehart, Kenneth (Department: 3749)
Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids
Apparatus
With means to treat gas or vapor
C034S073000, C034S606000, C034S134000, C034S609000, C034S499000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07024795
ABSTRACT:
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 accommodating chamber, the machine comprising: a refrigerant circuit in which a compressor, a gas cooler, an expansion valve, and an evaporator are successively connected to one another in an annular form via a piping; an air circulation path for discharging air which has exchanged heat with the gas cooler into the accommodating chamber by a blower to exchange the heat of the air passed through the accommodating chamber with the evaporator; and a control device for operating the compressor and the blower to perform the drying operation, wherein the control device starts the operation of the compressor before entering the drying operation.
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Akiyama Shin-ichi
Kawabata Toru
Koumoto Nobuo
Kubo Ryoko
Mukaiyama Hiroshi
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Rinehart Kenneth
Sanyo Electric Co,. Ltd.
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