Drying/washing machine
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsSusumu Kitamura, Masahiro Satou
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Abstract
A washer-dryer has a tub, a drum rotatably disposed inside the tub, and warm air feeding means for feeding warm air to dry laundry put in the drum. The washer-dryer further has an ion generating device that generates ions for sterilizing the laundry. The ion generating device feeds the ions to the drum and the tub. This makes it possible to realize a washer-dryer that can kill germs attached to clothes or floating in circulated air and thereby keep clothes clean.
Claims14
A washer-dryer comprising a tub, a drum rotatably disposed inside the tub, and warm air feeding means for feeding warm air to dry laundry put in the drum,
- wherein a sterilizing device is provided that generates sterilizing means for killing airborne bacteria floating inside the drum,
- the sterilizing device is an ion generating device that feeds ions as the sterilizing means to the drum, and discharges positive and negative ions,
- the ion generating device releases the ions into a circulation path through which the air is circulated, and
- the ion generating device is disposed in the circulation path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.