Clothes care apparatus
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsKwanwoo Baek, Zoohyeong Kim, Younghyun Kim, Jongwon Park, Changwoo Lee
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Abstract
A clothes care apparatus includes: a housing in which a laundry inlet is formed on a front; a tub provided in the housing and configured to store water and including a tub back forming a rear side of the tub; a drum configured to be rotatable in the tub and accommodate laundry; and a drying device disposed above the tub, and configured to remove moisture from air exhausted from the tub and supply heated air to the tub, wherein the tub back includes: a plurality of reinforcing ribs protruding rearward to reinforce a rigidity of the tub back; and a tub duct formed in a portion of the tub back, configured to guide the air exhausted from the tub to the drying device.
Claims14
A clothes care apparatus, comprising:
- a housing including a laundry inlet on a front;
- a tub provided in the housing and configured to store water and including a tub back forming a rear side of the tub;
- a drum configured to be rotatable in the tub and accommodate laundry;
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- a drying device disposed above the tub, and configured to remove moisture from air exhausted from the tub and supply heated air to the tub,
- wherein the tub back includes:
- a plurality of reinforcing ribs protruding rearward to reinforce a rigidity of the tub back, and
- a tub duct formed in a portion of the tub back and configured to guide air exhausted from the tub to the drying device, and including a tub exhaust port configured to exhaust air in the tub and a recess portion recessed further forward than rear ends of the plurality of reinforcing ribs, the recess portion being formed in a rib-free region of the tub back and integrally recessed into the tub back so as to define part of an exhaust flow path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.