Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Toru Kawabata

Masaya Tadano

Hiroshi Mukaiyama

Koji Ono

Nobuo Koumoto

Kazuyoshi Tomochika

Ryoko Kubo

Shinichi Akiyama

A drying apparatus having a purpose of shortening a drying time of laundry, comprising an accommodating chamber in which the laundry is accommodated, and executing a washing operation of the laundry and a drying operation after end of the washing operation in the accommodating chamber, the machine comprising: a refrigerant circuit in which a compressor, a gas cooler, an expansion valve, and an evaporator are successively connected to one another in an annular form via a piping; an air circulation path for discharging air which has exchanged heat with the gas cooler into the accommodating chamber by a blower to exchange the heat of the air passed through the accommodating chamber with the evaporator; and a control device for operating the compressor and the blower to perform the drying operation, wherein the control device starts the operation of the compressor before entering the drying operation.

Drying apparatus

Growing community of inventors

Oizumi-machi, Japan

Toru Kawabata