Lg Electronics Inc.

Cool Dry, Inc.

Gary Lynn Cox

Michael Andrew Wohl

David S Wisherd

Pablo Eugenio D'Anna

Edward Herman Decker

The present application encompasses methods and apparatus for heating a load such as clothes immersed in a medium such as water during a heating period. A method embodiment of the present invention comprises heating the load and medium within an enclosure by subjecting said load and medium to heated air originated from a conventional energy source; and applying heat to said load and medium within the enclosure via an AC electrical field, embodied as a capacitor, originated from an RF power source.

Hybrid RF/conventional clothes dryer

The present invention encompasses methods and apparati for heating a load () such as clothes immersed in a medium (such as water) during a heating period. A method embodiment of the present invention comprises heating the load () and medium within an enclosure () by subjecting said load () and medium to heated air () originated from a conventional energy source (); and applying heat to said load () and medium within the enclosure () via an AC electrical field, embodied as a capacitor, originated from an RF power source ().

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Johnson City, TN, United States of America

Gary Lynn Cox