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US 2014/0109427 A1Published application
Laundry treating apparatus having cleaning device
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsSeonghwan Kim, Bio Park, Yongju Lee
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Abstract
A laundry treating apparatus may include a cabinet, a drum rotatably installed in the cabinet, a heat exchanger disposed in the cabinet and receiving air from the drum, and a cleaning device disposed in the cabinet and moved by an external force in a first direction to remove lint accumulated on the heat exchanger. The lint may be simply removed from the heat exchanger and air may smoothly flow through the heat exchanger, thus improving performance of the laundry treating apparatus.
Claims19
A clothes treating apparatus, comprising:
- a cabinet;
- a drum rotatably installed in the cabinet;
- a heat exchanger disposed in the cabinet and configured to cool air received from the drum;
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- a cleaning device disposed in the cabinet and driven by an external force to remove debris accumulated on the heat exchanger.
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A laundry treating apparatus, comprising:
- a cabinet;
- a drum rotatably installed in the cabinet;
- a heat pump circulating refrigerant therethrough, the heat pump including a condenser to heat air to be supplied to the drum, and an evaporator to cool air transferred from the drum;
- a heater to heat air transferred from the heat pump to the drum;
- and
- a cleaning device installed in an air passage, upstream of the evaporator, wherein the cleaning device comprises:
- a lint removing device to remove lint accumulated on the evaporator;
- and
- an operating device operably coupled to the lint removing device and partially exposed to an outside of the cabinet, wherein the operating device is configured to move the lint removing device in response to an external force applied thereto.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.