Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Mamoru Ikeshima

Shinichiro Kobayashi

Masao Shimizu

Toshihide Nakamura

Kenji Kida

Atsushi Matsuo

Yoshinori Kataoka

Kiichi Shimosaka

Tomoaki Kajiura

An ironing apparatus includes an iron body having a heater, a base, a tank, a water receiving port and a power receiving port, and a stand having an iron rest, a water feeding port and a power feeding part. The base is heated by the heater, and it comprises a vaporizing chamber. The tank stores water to be supplied to the vaporizing chamber. When the iron body is placed on the iron rest, the water feeding port is connected with the water receiving port of the iron body, and the power feeding part is connected electrically to the power receiving part of the iron body. During this moment, connection of the water receiving port to the water feeding port is completed prior to the connection between the power receiving part and the power feeding part.

Ironing apparatus

Near the middle portion as viewed from side of cover case, there is provided a case space through cover case, thereby forming cover case grip portion in cover case. Near the middle portion as viewed from side of the iron body, there is provided a body space there through, thereby forming iron grip portion in iron body. And, it is configured in that cover case grip portion and iron grip portion can be gripped together when iron body is being placed on stand.

Ironing device

A steam sprayer is used in ironing textile products, including clothes. The steam sprayer is user-friendly and offers highly effective ironing. A vaporizing chamber generates steam by vaporizing water stored in a tank. A water-supplying unit supplies the vaporizing chamber with the water. A steam-ejecting section spouts the steam outside. The steams-ejecting section includes a ironing surface with high frictional resistance characteristics. When touching the ironing surface to clothes or other fabrics for ironing, a pulling force is caused by the frictional resistance, which is a preferable wrinkles-off effect. Thus, the steam sprayer offers a synergistic effect brought by spouting the steam and applying the pulling force to clothes, thereby neatly fixing the form of clothes.

Steam sprayer

A steam iron with spray mist includes a water tank for storing water, a vaporizing chamber for vaporizing water in the water tank so as to generate steam, a base for forming the vaporizing chamber, a heater for heating the base, a base cover for covering an upside of the base, a first passage for guiding water from the water tank into the vaporizing chamber, a mixing chamber in which water in the water tank is formed into fine particles by the action of flow velocity of steam generated in the vaporizing chamber, a second passage for guiding water from the water tank into the mixing chamber, a steam passage for guiding steam from the vaporizing chamber into the mixing chamber, and a spray nozzle for spraying water from the mixing chamber by the action of steam so that the sprayed water can be sent out from an upper portion of the base to the front.

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Mamoru Ikeshima