Electrolux Home Products Corporation N.v.

Electronics Home Products Corporation N.v.

Gennaro Napolitano

Roberto Ragogna

Fabio Altinier

Flavio Noviello

Michele Bisaro

Mirko Cenedese

A laundry dryer () has a laundry drum () which is designed to rotate about an longitudinal axis (). An air recirculating conduit () is connected to the laundry drum (). A heater device () is located along air recirculating conduit () to heat the airflow. A rotatable fan () is located along air recirculating conduit () to produce an airflow flowing through drum (). The fan () is designed to be rotated in a main and secondary direction of rotation for providing different air flow rates. An electric motor () is mechanically connected with the fan () and the drum () for rotating the fan () and drum (), simultaneously. The home laundry dryer () further has electric control means () configured to control the electric motor () so as to cause: the drum () to rotate at a first rotational speed (v) in a forward direction of rotation, thereby resulting in the fan () being rotated in the main direction of rotation for providing a first air flow rate; or the drum () to rotate at a second rotational speed (v) greater than said first rotational speed (v) in a reverse direction of rotation, thereby resulting in the fan () being rotated in the secondary direction of rotation for providing a second air flow rate lower than the first air flow rate.

Rotatable-drum laundry drier and method of controlling a rotatable-drum laundry drier to dry delicate laundry

A home laundry drier () having a revolving drum () for housing the laundry to be dried, a hot-air generator () for circulating a stream of hot air inside the drum (), and a steam generator () for feeding steam into the drum (); the steam generator () having an electric boiler () designed to receive a given quantity of water and immediately convert it into a stream of low-pressure steam to be fed into the drum (), a demineralized-water reservoir () located over and communicating with the electric boiler (), and a lint filter () located upstream from the water reservoir (); the water reservoir () receiving distilled water from the water canister () of the heat exchanger () of the hot-air generator () via a water drain circuit (); and the laundry drier () also having a liquid level sensor () for determining when the water in the water reservoir () is below a given minimum level, and a central control unit () for determining whether the water reservoir () is in a given low-water-level condition at both the start and end of a user-selected drying cycle not including activation of the steam generator ().

Determining clog steam generator tank filter laundry drier, and apparatus

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Gennaro Napolitano