Clothes dryer
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsDongbum Lee, Kyoungwoong Noh, Eungryeol Seo
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Abstract
A clothes dryer with improved heat dissipation efficiency of electronic components. The clothes dryer includes a cabinet having a clothes inlet, a drum rotatably provided in the cabinet, a drying fan configured to circulate air for drying supplied to the drum, and a heat dissipation duct. Wherein the heat dissipation plate includes a lower case fixed to the cabinet and provided with an airflow guide portion protruding toward the printed circuit board and an upper case coupled to an upper portion of the lower case and to which a printed circuit board on which a plurality of electronic components is mounted is fixed.
Claims20
A clothes dryer comprising:
- a cabinet having a clothes inlet;
- a drum rotatably provided in the cabinet;
- a drying fan configured to circulate air supplied to the drum;
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- a heat dissipation duct comprising:
- a lower case fixed to the cabinet and provided with an airflow guide portion protruding toward a printed circuit board on which a plurality of electronic components is mounted, and
- an upper case coupled to an upper portion of the lower case and to which the printed circuit board is fixed.
The clothes dryer according to claim wherein the printed circuit board is fixed to the upper case such that the electronic components face the lower case.
A clothes dryer comprising:
- a cabinet having a clothes inlet;
- a drum rotatably provided in the cabinet;
- a drying fan configured to circulate air supplied to the drum;
- a driving device configured to drive the drum and the drying fan;
- a compressor disposed in the cabinet;
- a printed circuit board having one surface on which a driving device controller configured to control the driving device and a compressor controller configured to control the compressor are disposed;
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- a heat dissipation duct provided to dissipate heat generated from the printed circuit board,
- wherein the printed circuit board is disposed inside the heat dissipation duct such that the one surface on which the driving device controller and the compressor controller are disposed faces a lower surface of the cabinet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.