Dishwasher
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsGyu Han HWANG, Byeong Hyeon JU, Seung Hun KIM
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Abstract
A dish washer includes a heater for regenerating a moisture absorbent. A portion of the heater is received in a heater receiving portion, and the remaining portion thereof is received in an air introduction space under a moisture absorbent receiving space, such that air flow sufficiently heated by the heater may flow into the air introduction space, thereby reducing a possibility of local variation in the regeneration of the moisture absorbent, and the moisture absorbent is directly heated by radiant heat of the heater received in the air introduction space to improve heat emission efficiency and energy efficiency of the heater.
Claims20
A dish washer comprising:
- a tub having a washing space defined therein and constructed to accommodate therein a dish;
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- a moisture-absorption and drying device configured to absorb moisture from air discharged from the tub and supply the air to the tub,
- wherein the moisture-absorption and drying device includes:
- a blow fan configured to generate air flow of the air,
- a moisture absorbent disposed downstream of the blow fan in a flow direction of the air flow,
- a heater disposed between the blow fan and the moisture absorbent in the flow direction of the air flow, wherein the heater is configured to heat the air flow to be supplied to the moisture absorbent,
- a housing including:
- a heater receiving portion having a heater receiving space defined therein, wherein the air flow having passed through the blow fan flows in the heater receiving space, and a heater is received in the heater receiving space, and
- a moisture absorbent receiving portion having a moisture absorbent receiving space defined therein, wherein the air flow having passed through the heater receiving space flows in the moisture absorbent receiving space, and the moisture absorbent is received in the moisture absorbent receiving space, and
- a moisture absorbent holder disposed in an inner space of the moisture absorbent receiving portion and constructed to store therein the moisture absorbent,
- wherein the heater is constructed to extend through the heater receiving portion such that at least a portion of the heater is received in the inner space of the moisture absorbent receiving portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.