Laundry drying machine
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsJunghoon Lee, Chanwoo Moon, Jihoon Kim, Youngmin Kim
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Abstract
A laundry drying machine includes a cabinet, a drum that is rotatably disposed inside the cabinet and that defines an inner space configured to accommodate a subject to be dried, a driver configured to rotate the drum, a duct configured to supply air to the drum and to discharge the air from the drum, and an electrode part configured to form an electric field in the inner space of the drum to thereby heat the subject. The electrode part includes a probe configured to radiate an electromagnetic wave defining the electric field, where at least a portion of the probe is disposed in the inner space of the drum.
Claims20
A laundry drying machine, comprising:
- a cabinet;
- a drum that is rotatably disposed inside the cabinet and that defines an inner space configured to accommodate a subject to be dried;
- a driver configured to rotate the drum;
- a duct configured to supply air to the drum and to discharge the air from the drum;
- and
- an electrode part configured to form an electric field in the inner space of the drum to thereby heat the subject, the electrode part comprising a probe configured to radiate an electromagnetic wave defining the electric field,
- wherein at least a portion of the probe is disposed in the inner space of the drum, and
- wherein the probe comprises:
- a probe body that defines a probe space therein, wherein at least a portion of a first side of the probe body is closed, and
- a plurality of electrode pins that are disposed at an inner circumferential surface of the probe body and spaced apart from one another by a predetermined angle along a circumferential direction of the probe body.
A laundry drying machine, comprising:
- a cabinet;
- a drum that is rotatably disposed inside the cabinet and defines an inner space configured to accommodate a subject to be dried, the drum further defining a coupling hole;
- a driver configured to rotate the drum;
- a duct configured to supply air to the drum and to discharge the air from the drum;
- and
- an electrode part configured to form an electric field in the inner space of the drum to thereby heat the subject, the electrode part comprising:
- an oscillator configured to generate an electromagnetic wave defining the electric field,
- a probe disposed in the inner space of the drum through the coupling hole and configured to radiate the electromagnetic wave,
- a probe housing connected to the coupling hole from an outside of the drum, and
- a guide that defines a hollow waveguide configured to transmit the electromagnetic wave from the oscillator to the probe, the guide having a first side connected to the probe housing and a second side connected to the oscillator.
A laundry drying machine, comprising:
- a cabinet;
- a drum that is rotatably disposed inside the cabinet and that defines an inner space configured to accommodate a subject to be dried;
- a driver configured to rotate the drum;
- a duct configured to supply air to the drum and to discharge the air from the drum;
- and
- an electrode part configured to form an electric field in the inner space of the drum to thereby heat the subject, the electrode part comprising a probe configured to radiate an electromagnetic wave defining the electric field,
- wherein at least a portion of the probe is disposed in the inner space of the drum, and
- wherein the probe comprises:
- a probe body that defines a probe space therein, wherein at least a portion of a first side of the probe body is closed, and the probe body further defines a fixing hole at the first side of the probe body, and
- an electrode pin that is disposed in the probe space of the probe body, wherein the electrode pin is coupled to the fixing hole and fixed to the probe space of the probe body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.