Electrolux Home Products Corporation N.v.

Electrolux Appliances Aktiebolag

Diego Dal Ben

Flavio Noviello

Alessandro Vian

Luciano Sartor

Sergio Pillot

Paolo Ros

Nicola Ius

Fabio Pasut

Marcin Lorenc

Marco Santarossa

Daniele Solerio

Luciano Saraceni

Maurizio Saraceni

Matteo Del Puppo

Andrea Giovannetti

Stefano Zandona'

Davide Bignu'

A tumble dryer () is provided having: a laundry drum () rotatably supported in a casing () and suitable to receive laundry to be dried. A lint filter assembly () can be housed in a housing () provided in the casing () so that, when the lint filter assembly () is placed in the housing (), it intercepts a flow of air exiting the laundry drum (). A humidity sensor system retrieves information about the actual humidity of the laundry in the drum () and has at least a pair of electrodes () positioned such that the laundry in the drum () can come into contact with the electrodes (). A control unit () controls the operations of the tumble dryer; and an electric circuit () transmits a signal obtained from the electrodes () to the control unit (). The electric circuit () has at least one electrical connector () arranged in such a way to electrically connect the electrodes () to the control unit () when the filter assembly () is correctly positioned in the housing () and not to connect the electrodes () to the control unit () when the filter assembly () is not positioned or not correctly positioned in the housing ().

Tumble dryer

A laundry machine, in particular dryer, wash dryer or washing machine, includes: a body having a laundry loading opening; a drum, rotatably supported in the body; and a drum illumination device () for illuminating the interior of the drum. The drum illumination device () comprises a printed circuit board (PCB;) and at least one semiconductor or plasma light emitting element () arranged on the PCB (), in particular at least one light emitting diode (LED).

Laundry machine having drum illumination device

A circular sealing gasket can be interposed between a rear rim of a laundry dryer drum tubular body and a rear wall of the dryer casing. The laundry dryer may also comprise a substantially circular, basin-shaped lid or cover fixed to the rear wall, substantially coaxial to the tubular body, so as to form a cavity on the rear wall that communicates with a hot-air generator. A circular gasket-supporting collar may have a nominal diameter greater than that of the tubular body rear rim. The collar may be fixed to the periphery of the basin-shaped lid or cover and/or to the rear wall, coaxial to the tubular body. The circular sealing gasket can be force fitted into the gasket-supporting collar so as to come in abutment against a periphery of the basin-shaped lid or cover around the perimeter thereof.

Laundry dryer with gasket-supporting collar

An upper cabinet of a rotary-drum laundry dryer outer casing can include a rear wall. The rear wall can include a sink-shaped bulge or recess. The bulge or recess can project outwards of the upper cabinet, be roughly centered to a rear rim of a dryer drum, and include a through opening. The upper cabinet can also include a substantially circular, basin-shaped lid or cover fixed to the inner face of the cabinet rear wall substantially coaxial to the drum. The lid or cover can be shaped so as to completely cover and close the outwards-projecting bulge or recess on the cabinet rear wall. This can form, on that rear wall, a cavity which communicates with the inside of drum and also with a hot-air generator via the through opening.

Laundry dryer with rear wall cavity

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Diego Dal Ben