# US 2025/0154711 A1 · Clothes care apparatus

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- Number: US 2025/0154711 A1
- Document ID: US20250154711A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 19/022,807
- Filed: 2025-01-15
- Published: 2025-05-15
- Earliest claimed: 2022-08-24
- Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Applicants: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Inventors: Hyunjoo KIM; Kisup LEE; Sujin SEONG; Dongwoo SHIN; Kwonchul YUN; Donggi HAN
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20250154711A1

## CPC

- D06F 58/10: Drying cabinets or drying chambers having heating or ventilating means
- D06F 73/02: having one or more treatment chambers
- B01D 46/42: Auxiliary equipment or operation thereof
- D06F 58/20: General details of domestic laundry dryers (D06F59/00 takes precedence)
- D06F 58/22: Lint collecting arrangements
- D06F 58/206: {Heat pump arrangements}
- D06F: LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
- B01D: SEPARATION (separating solids from solids by wet methods B03B, B03D; by pneumatic jigs or tables B03B; by other dry methods B07; magnetic or electrostatic separation of solid materials from solid materials or fluids, separation by high-voltage electric fields B03C; centrifuges, vortex apparatus B04; presses per se for squeezing-out liquid from liquid-containing material B30B9/02; treatment of water C02F, e.g. softening by ion-exchange C02F1/42; {arrangements of air intake cleaners in gas turbine plants F02C7/05} ; arrangements or mounting of filters in air-conditioning, air-humidification or ventilation F24F13/28)

## Abstract

A clothes care apparatus includes a main case including an upper fan, and a clothes care room, arranged within the main case, including a first airflow inlet and a second airflow inlet configured to respectively draw in air discharged from the upper fan. The clothes care apparatus includes a machine room, arranged at a lower portion of the clothes care room, including a third airflow inlet configured to respectively draw in the air discharged from the upper fan and an airflow outlet configured to discharge the air drawn in. The first airflow inlet is spaced apart from the second airflow inlet on an upper side, and the first airflow inlet, the second airflow inlet, and the airflow outlet are configured to allow air flow between the clothes care room and the main case through a communication duct arranged between the clothes care room and the main case.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A clothes care apparatus comprising:
a main case including an upper fan;
a clothes care room, arrangeable within the main case, including a first airflow inlet and a second airflow inlet configured to respectively draw in air discharged from the upper fan; and
a machine room, arrangeable at a lower portion of the clothes care room, including a third airflow inlet configured to respectively draw in the air discharged from the upper fan and an airflow outlet configured to discharge the air drawn in through the third airflow inlet;
wherein the first airflow inlet is arrangeable on an upper side of the second airflow inlet and to be spaced apart from the second airflow inlet, and
the first airflow inlet, the second airflow inlet, and the airflow outlet are configured to allow air flow between the clothes care room and the main case through a communication duct arrangeable between the clothes care room and the main case.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The clothes care apparatus of claim 1, wherein an area of the first airflow inlet is configured to be greater than an area of the second airflow inlet to allow air drawn in through the first airflow inlet to be greater than air drawn in through the second airflow inlet.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The clothes care apparatus of claim 2, wherein the communication duct comprises a communication flow path configured such that the air discharged from the airflow outlet flows together with the air drawn in through the first airflow inlet and the air drawn in through the second airflow inlet.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The clothes care apparatus of claim 3, wherein the communication duct further comprises a plurality of airflow guides arrangeable on the communication flow path.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The clothes care apparatus of claim 4, wherein the communication duct is configured such that air flows between the upper fan and the communication duct.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The clothes care apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first airflow inlet, the second airflow inlet, and the third airflow inlet each include a dust collector configured to filter out foreign matter from the air that the first airflow inlet, the second airflow inlet, and the third airflow inlet respectively draw in.

### Claim 7 (depends on 2)

The clothes care apparatus of claim 2, wherein the clothes care room further comprises a fourth airflow inlet arrangeable between the first airflow inlet and the second airflow inlet so as to respectively draw in the air discharged from the upper fan to the clothes care room.

### Claim 8 (depends on 7)

The clothes care apparatus of claim 7, wherein an area of the fourth airflow inlet is configured to be smaller than the area of the first airflow inlet and larger than the area of the second airflow inlet.

### Claim 9 (depends on 8)

The clothes care apparatus of claim 8, wherein the fourth airflow inlet is configured such that air flows between the fourth airflow inlet and the communication duct.

### Claim 10 (depends on 7)

The clothes care apparatus of claim 7, wherein the fourth airflow inlet comprises a dust collector configured to filter out foreign matter in the air.