Dishwasher
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsKwangsoo JUNG, Minseong KIM, Min Jae JEONG, Doo Hyun KIM
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Abstract
Provided is a dishwasher configured such that an evaporator constituting a heat pump system is disposed inside a heat exchange duct constituting a heat exchange flow path, and air cooled while exchanging heat with refrigerant in the evaporator is discharged not to an accommodation space between a tub and the base but to an outside out of the base, thereby preventing deterioration of operational efficiency of the heat pump module which may be occur when the air cooled while exchanging heat with the refrigerant in the evaporator is re-introduced to the evaporator.
Claims20
A dishwasher comprising:
- a tub having a washing space defined therein and accommodating dishes therein;
- a base disposed under the tub;
- a sump disposed between the base and the tub and configured to store therein washing water to be supplied to the tub;
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- a heat pump module disposed between the base and the tub and configured to heat washing water to be supplied to the sump,
- wherein the heat pump module includes:
- a compressor configured to compress refrigerant;
- a condenser configured to receive the refrigerant having flowed through the compressor and to heat the washing water to be supplied to the sump;
- an evaporator configured to receive the refrigerant having flowed through the condenser;
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- a heat exchange duct constructed to accommodate the evaporator therein and to have a passage defined therein, wherein airflow to be subjected to heat-exchange with the refrigerant in the evaporator flows through the passage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.