Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Hiroichi Shibasaki

Masashi Matsumoto

Susumu Kitamura

Masanori Komori

Nobutaka Matsunishi

Takahisa Ikegami

Hitoshi Fujita

Toshinari Miyoshi

A drum type washing and drying machine has a water tank (), a rotary drum rotatably provided in the water tank (), a dehumidifying heat exchanger for dehumidifying air introduced from inside of the rotary drum (), a heater unit for heating the air dehumidified by the dehumidifying heat exchanger, and a blower () for introducing the air in the rotary drum () into the dehumidifying heat exchanger and delivering into the rotary drum () the air heated by the heater unit. A filter () is placed in a suction-side channel between the rotary drum () and the blower and on an upstream side of air flow produced by the blower () in a drying process. The filter () is placed so as to be soaked in water supplied into the water tank in a washing process or in a rinsing process.

Drum type drying and washing machine

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Sakai, Japan

Hiroichi Shibasaki