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US 2014/0190032 A1Published application
Clothes dryer
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsYongju LEE, Sangik LEE, Hyunwoo NOH
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Abstract
Disclosed is a clothes dryer including a heat exchanger for condensing air discharged from a drum to remove moisture from the air, a collector for collecting condensed water produced in the heat exchanger, a first pump for pumping the condensed water from the collector to a water tank, and a discharge unit for selectively discharging the condensed water from the water tank, to wash the heat exchanger using the condensed water.
Claims12
A dryer, comprising:
- a heat exchanger configured to condense air discharged from a drum to remove moisture from the air;
- a collector configured to collect condensed water produced in the heat exchanger;
- a first pump configured to pump the condensed water from the collector to a tank;
- and
- a discharge device configured to selectively discharge the condensed water from the tank, wherein the discharge device comprises:
- a second pump supplying the condensed water from the tank to the heat exchanger, to wash the heat exchanger using the supplied condensed water;
- and
- a valve selectively opening and closing an outlet of the tank through which the condensed water is discharged.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.