Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Kiyokazu Fujikawa

Tamotsu Kawamura

Tatsuya Hirota

Yozo Kawamura

Minoru Kishi

Yoshiaki Aoki

Masaya Tadano

Takahiro Nakamura

Hiroshi Mukaiyama

Takashi Fukuda

Tetsuya Masuda

Motohiko Kosano

Yasuhito Kondo

Koji Ono

Harumi Takeuchi

Nobuo Koumoto

Minoru Nakanishi

Kazuhiro Yamamoto

Kazuyoshi Tomochika

Yoshihiro Inamoto

Masakatsu Morishige

Shinichi Akiyama

Takaaki Yonezawa

Etsushi Nagae

Yasuhiko Shimizu

Kouichi Tanaka

Hisanori Hirose

Kouichi Kuroda

Koichi Kuroda

Youzou Kawamura

Takafumi Hamano

Youzon Kawamura

Tamotu Kawamura

There is disclosed a washing/drying machine having a purpose of shortening a time required for a washing operation and improving an operation efficiency, and comprising: an inner drum in which things to be washed are accommodated and in which a washing operation of the things to be washed and a drying operation after end of the washing operation are performed; a water supply passage for supplying water into the inner drum and a drainage passage for discharging the water from the inner drum in the washing operation; a refrigerant circuit in which a compressor, a gas cooler, an expansion valve, an evaporator and the like are successively connected to one another in an annular form via a piping and in which carbon dioxide is used as a refrigerant; and a blower for blowing air which has exchanged heat with the gas cooler into the inner drum to allow the air passed through the inner drum to exchange the heat with the evaporator in the drying operation.

Washing/drying machine

A washing/drying machine has objects to shorten a time required for a washing operation, to improve a heat exchange capability in a radiator and an evaporator, and to shorten a drying time for things to be dried, and comprises: an accommodating chamber in which things to be washed (things to be dried) are accommodated and in which a drying operation of the things to be washed is performed; a refrigerant circuit in which a compressor, a gas cooler, a decompression device, an evaporator and the like are successively connected to one another in an annular form via a piping and in which carbon dioxide is used as a refrigerant and which has a supercritical pressure on a high pressure side thereof; and blower means for blowing air which has exchanged heat with the radiator into the accommodating chamber to allow the air passed through the accommodating chamber to exchange the heat with the evaporator, wherein the blower means constitutes a circulation direction of the air passed through the gas cooler, and that of the refrigerant flowing in the gas cooler in such a manner as to form a counter-flow, and constitutes a circulation direction of the air passed through the evaporator, and that of the refrigerant flowing in the evaporator in such a manner as to form a counter-flow.

Drying machine

The present invention is directed to a new water treatment device comprising an electrolytic tank to put water in, an electrode provided in the electrolytic tank, a water treating path for pouring water in a pool and returning to the pool the water in the electrolytic tank, a residual chlorine sensor for measuring the residual chlorine concentration of water, and control means for controlling the energization of the electrode on the basis of the measured value by the residual chlorine sensor, and capable of simply and efficiently sterilizing water stored in pools of various sizes from a swimming pool to a home bathtub.

Water treatment device

The present invention is directed to a new water treatment device comprising an electrolytic tank to put water in, an electrode provided in the electrolytic tank, a water treating path for pouring, from a pool storing water, the water into the electrolytic tank and returning to the pool the water in the electrolytic tank, a residual chlorine sensor for measuring the residual chlorine concentration of the water, and a circulating pump provided on the downstream side of the electrolytic tank on the water treating path in order to circulate the water, and capable of simply and efficiently sterilizing water stored in pools of various sizes from a swimming pool to a home bathtub.

The inventive clothes dryer is provided with a system for preventing the overheating of the clothes in the drum caused by the abnormality in the V-belt, such as the break or derailment thereof. By the system, the power supply to the motor is halted temporarily while the motor is rotated at a predetermined speed, whereafter the motor keeps rotating due to its inertia. During the inertial rotation of a predetermined period of time, the number of rotations of the motor is counted. When the V-belt is in the normal state, the motor is loaded appropriately, so that the speed of the motor falls rapidly during the inertial rotation, and the number of rotations is accordingly small. When, on the other hand, the V-belt is in an abnormal state, the number of rotations is large. Therefore, the state of the V-belt is checked by comparing the number of rotations to a predetermined value, and when the number is smaller than the predetermined value, the drying operation is stopped.

Clothes dryer

A clothes drier according to the present invention can minimize failures in a sensor and can satisfactorily detect drying processing irrespective of the environment. In the clothes drier, an atmospheric temperature sensor 44L for detecting the substrate temperature required to determine the termination of the drying processing is disposed outside a circulating duct 18 and is mounted on a control substrate 42 having a thermal capacity on which a microcomputer for controlling operations performed by the clothes drier is mounted. Since the sensor 44L is provided outside the circulating duct 18, the sensor 44L is less affected by dust and water, as compared with a case where it is provided inside the circulating duct 18.

Clothes drier with drying termination determining function

A clothes dryer comprising a body having a drying chamber defined for accommodating clothes; a heater provided in the body; a heated air path for supplying dried air heated by the heater to the drying chamber to dry the clothes placed in the drying chamber; a door for closing and opening the drying chamber; a porous member impregnated with an agent; a supporting member provided on the door, detachably holding the porous member and provided with an aperture for supplying the agent held by the porous member into the drying chamber.

A clothes dryer having a body with heater therein and a rotatable drying chamber is provided with a dual side rotating bladed heat exchange type fan having in its outer portion a group of grooves; and a partition member having an opening whose inner surface is opposed to the outer surface of said dual side bladed fan for separating paths of heated air and cooling air together with said dual side bladed fan in said body; the partition member has a group of fixed grooves interleaved with the fan rotating grooves to form a labyrinth seal; the fixed grooves extend from a base or the partition member and have a rising portion extending in the heated air path to inhibit the leakage of heated air from the heated air path to the cooling air path and have an opening to provide communication between the heated air and the cooling air.

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Shiga, Japan

Kiyokazu Fujikawa