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US 8,024,871 B2Granted
Exhaust structure for clothes dryer in apartment building
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsIn Hee Han, Won Tug Son
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an exhaust structure for a clothes dryer in an apartment building. The exhaust structure includes at least one riser pipe mounted in a vertical direction crossing every floor of a building to discharge exhaust gas, a plurality of branch pipes branched from the riser pipe to a household in the every floor to guide exhaust gas from the household to the riser pipe, and a fan mounted above a top of the riser pipe and operating in proportion to the amount of exhaust gas in the riser pipe.
Claims17
An exhaust structure for a clothes dryer in an apartment building, comprising:
- at least one riser pipe mounted in a vertical direction crossing every floor of a building to discharge exhaust gas;
- a plurality of branch pipes branched from the riser pipe to a household in the every floor to guide exhaust gas from the household to the riser pipe;
- a fan mounted above a top of the riser pipe, the fan operating in proportion to the amount of exhaust gas in the riser pipe,
- wherein at least one of the plurality of branch pipes is configured as a branch pipe for a dryer to guide the exhaust gas from the clothes dryer provided in the household to the riser pipe;
- a first pressure sensor to sense a pressure in the riser pipe;
- and
- a second pressure sensor to sense a pressure in each of the plurality of branch pipes.
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