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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2006
Sun Cheol Bae, Masan-si, KR;
Ja IN Koo, Changwon-si, KR;
Jin Seok HU, Masan-si, KR;
Yang Hwan Kim, Busan, KR;
Sun Cheol Bae, Masan-si, KR;
Ja In Koo, Changwon-si, KR;
Jin Seok Hu, Masan-si, KR;
Yang Hwan Kim, Busan, KR;
LG Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
A drum washing machine and a clothes dryer equipped with a thermoelectric module are disclosed. The thermoelectric module includes a heat absorption side and a heat dissipation side which absorbs and dissipates heat at a junction between two dissimilar metals depending on direction of current flow through the junction. The heat absorption side is disposed at a hot air flowing passage. Accordingly, the drying apparatus can increase energy efficiency with minor structural modification and becomes environmentally friendly unlike a conventional drying apparatus using a heat pump.