# US 11,441,259 B2 · Clothes care device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,441,259 B2 - Document ID: US11441259B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/941,165 - Filed: 2020-07-28 - Published: 2021-02-04 - Granted: 2022-09-13 - Earliest claimed: 2019-08-01 - Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Jihyun Woo; Jeonghoon Kang; Hyeongjoon Park; Eun-Suk Bang - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11441259B2 ## CPC - D06F 58/10: Drying cabinets or drying chambers having heating or ventilating means - D06F 87/00: Apparatus for moistening or otherwise conditioning the article to be ironed or pressed (apparatus for smoothing or removing creases from garments or other textile articles by formers, cores, stretchers or internal frames, with the application of heat or steam D06F73/00 {; devices used in combination with a laundry dryer D06F58/203}) - D06F 39/40: Steam generating arrangements - D06F 73/02: having one or more treatment chambers - D06F 58/20: General details of domestic laundry dryers (D06F59/00 takes precedence) - D06F 58/203: {Laundry conditioning arrangements} - D06F: LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES ## Abstract A clothes care device having a steam spray nozzle of an improved structure. The clothes care device includes: a main body including a clothes care chamber of which a front side opens; a steam generator configured to supply a steam to inside of the clothes care chamber; and a steam spray configured to receive a steam from the steam generator and spraying the steam to the clothes care chamber, wherein the steam spray includes a steam nozzle in which the steam spray opening is formed, a nozzle cover coupled to the steam nozzle, wherein a steam inlet is formed in the nozzle cover, and a guide member positioned inside the nozzle cover and covering at least one portion of a moving path of a steam entered through the steam inlet. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A clothes care device comprising: a main body including a clothes care chamber positioned inside of the main body, the clothes care chamber having a front side which opens; a steam generator configured to supply steam to an inside of the clothes care chamber; and a steam spray configured to receive the steam from the steam generator and spray the steam to the inside of the clothes care chamber, wherein the steam spray includes, a steam nozzle having a steam spray opening to spray the steam to the inside of the clothes care chamber, a nozzle cover having a steam inlet which receives the steam from the steam generator while the nozzle cover is coupled to the steam nozzle, and a guide member positioned inside the nozzle cover along at least a portion of a moving path of the steam received through the steam inlet, the guide member formed to be stationary and configured to guide the steam received through the steam inlet along an exterior surface of the guide member to the steam spray opening. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The clothes care device according to claim 1, wherein the guide member comprises, a first guide positioned along the moving path of the steam and configured to mitigate pressure of the steam, and a second guide positioned outside an area of the first guide and configured to mitigate a rotation force of the steam. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The clothes care device according to claim 2, wherein the first guide comprises a plurality of poles. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The clothes care device according to claim 3, wherein the second guide includes a rib positioned in a horizontal direction along a lower edge of the first guide. ### Claim 5 (depends on 2) The clothes care device according to claim 2, wherein a cross section of the first guide is at least one of a straight line, a quadrangle, a triangle, or a curve. ### Claim 6 (depends on 3) The clothes care device according to claim 3, wherein the plurality of poles are spaced from each other. ### Claim 7 (depends on 3) The clothes care device according to claim 3, wherein a gap is formed between the first guide and the second guide. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The clothes care device according to claim 1, wherein a size of the steam spray opening is changeable according to a volume of the clothes care chamber and has a horizontal length maintained at a preset ratio with respect to a left-right length of the clothes care chamber. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The clothes care device according to claim 8, wherein an area w of the steam spray opening is defined by a vertical length and the horizontal length, and the vertical length and the horizontal length of the size of the steam spray opening is changeable according to an internal volume of the clothes care chamber, while the area of the steam spray opening is maintained. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The clothes care device according to claim 1, wherein the steam nozzle includes a condensed water outlet for discharging condensed water. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The clothes care device according to claim 1, wherein the clothes care chamber forms a circulating flow path for circulating air within the clothes care device, the clothes care chamber includes a first air flow inlet through which air from the clothes care chamber enters, and a first air flow outlet connected to the first air flow inlet through which air discharges to the clothes care chamber, wherein an outlet grille is provided in the first air flow outlet. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The clothes care device according to claim 11, wherein the outlet grille includes an outlet guide forming an outlet hole, and the outlet guide comprises an inclined surface. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The clothes care device according to claim 12, wherein an angle of the inclined surface ranges from 60° to 85°. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The clothes care device according to claim 13, wherein the inclined surface includes a first angle of a first position at which air enters, and a second angle of a second position at which air is discharged. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The clothes care device according to claim 14, wherein each of the first angle and the second angle ranges from 60° to 85°. ### Claim 16 A clothes care device comprising: a main body including a clothes care chamber positioned inside of the main body; a steam generator configured to supply steam to an inside of the clothes care chamber; and a steam spray including a steam inlet to receive the steam from the steam generator, and a steam spray opening to spray the steam received from the steam generator to the inside of clothes care chamber, wherein the steam spray includes a guide member covering at least one portion of a moving path of the steam received through the steam inlet and the guide member configured to mitigate pressure of the steam received through the steam inlet and guide the steam received through the steam inlet along an exterior of the guide member to the steam spray opening. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The clothes care device according to claim 16, wherein the guide member comprises a first guide including a plurality of poles positioned along the moving path of the steam and spaced apart from each other, and a second guide positioned outside an area of the first guide and configured to mitigate a rotation force of the steam. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The clothes care device according to claim 17, wherein the second guide comprises a rib positioned in a horizontal direction in a lower edge of the first guide. ### Claim 19 (depends on 17) The clothes care device according to claim 17, wherein a cross section of the first guide is at least one of a straight line, a quadrangle, a triangle, or a curve. ### Claim 20 (depends on 16) The clothes care device according to claim 16, wherein a size of the steam spray opening is changeable according to a volume of the clothes care chamber and has a horizontal length maintained at a preset ratio with respect to a left-right length of the clothes care chamber. ### Claim 21 A clothes care device comprising: a main body including a clothes care chamber positioned inside of the main body; a steam generator configured to supply steam to an inside of the clothes care chamber; and a steam spray including a steam inlet receiving the steam from the steam generator, and a steam spray opening spraying the steam to the inside of the clothes care chamber, and a guide member formed to be stationary and configured to guide the steam received through the steam inlet along an exterior of the guide member to the steam spray opening, wherein an area of the steam spray opening is changeable according to a volume of the clothes care chamber and has a horizontal length maintained at a preset ratio with respect to a left-right length of the clothes care chamber. ### Claim 22 (depends on 21) The clothes care device according to claim 21, wherein the area of the steam spray opening is defined by a vertical length and the horizontal length, and the vertical length and the horizontal length of the steam spray opening is changeable according to the internal volume of the clothes care chamber, while the area of the steam spray opening is maintained. ### Claim 23 (depends on 21) The clothes care device according to claim 21, wherein the horizontal length of the steam spray opening changes at a preset ratio with respect to a horizontal length of the clothes care chamber.