Heating assembly for a laundry treatment appliance including a liquid storage tank
AssigneeHaier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
InventorsAlexander B. Leibman, Pavan Kumar Madeti, Roberto Obregon
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Abstract
A laundry treatment appliance includes a cabinet; a tub positioned within the cabinet, the tub defining a receiving space; and a heating assembly positioned within the cabinet. The heating assembly includes a duct forming an air passageway in fluid communication with the tub, the duct defining an axial direction, a radial direction, and a circumferential direction; a vessel positioned within the duct, the vessel configured to store a quantity of liquid; and a heating element provided around the vessel, the heating element configured to selectively provide heat to the vessel, wherein the heating element is positioned outside of the air passageway.
Claims20
A laundry treatment appliance comprising:
- a cabinet;
- a tub positioned within the cabinet, the tub defining a receiving space;
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- a heating assembly positioned within the cabinet, the heating assembly comprising:
- a duct forming an air passageway in fluid communication with the tub, the duct defining an axial direction, a radial direction, and a circumferential direction;
- a vessel positioned within the duct, the vessel configured to store a quantity of liquid;
- a heating element provided around the vessel, the heating element configured to selectively provide heat to the vessel;
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- a sleeve positioned around the heating element such that the heating element is positioned between the sleeve and the vessel, wherein the sleeve is tapered toward an upstream end of the air passageway along the axial direction, wherein the heating element is positioned outside of the air passageway.
A heating assembly for a laundry treatment appliance, the laundry treatment appliance comprising a drum, the heating assembly comprising:
- a duct forming an air passageway in fluid communication with the drum, the duct defining an axial direction, a radial direction, and a circumferential direction;
- a liquid vessel positioned within the duct, the liquid vessel configured to store a quantity of liquid, the liquid vessel being fluidly isolated from the air passageway;
- a heating element provided around the liquid vessel, the heating element configured to selectively provide heat to the liquid vessel, wherein the heating element is positioned outside of the air passageway;
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- a sleeve positioned around the heating element such that the heating element is positioned between the sleeve and the liquid vessel, wherein the sleeve is tapered toward an upstream end of the air passageway along the axial direction.
A heating assembly for a laundry appliance having a tub, the heating assembly comprising:
- a duct defining an air passageway fluidly coupled with the tub;
- a vessel positioned within the duct, the vessel configured to store liquid;
- a heating element circumferentially surrounding the vessel;
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- a sleeve overlaying the heating element to further define the air passageway as generally toroidal and cylindrical such that the heating element is positioned outside of the air passageway.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.