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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2006
Hisao Tatsumi, Tokyo, JP;
Koji Kashima, Tokyo, JP;
Hisao Tatsumi, Tokyo, JP;
Koji Kashima, Tokyo, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiba Ha Products Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Toshiba Consumer Marketing Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A clothes dryer includes a water tub, a rotating container located in the tub, a drive unit rotating the container, an air circulation blower circulating air in the tub, and a heat pump formed by circularly connecting an evaporator, a condenser, a compressor, a discharge airflow path leading to the outside of the clothes dryer, an airflow path switching unit switched so as to open the portion between the container and the evaporator in an airflow path in the drying operation, and to open the discharge airflow path in cooling a place where the clothes dryer is placed, an air inlet located in an upper wall between the evaporator and the condenser in the airflow path, an air discharge blower introducing air outside the airflow path from the air inlet to be passed through the evaporator, and a cooling device that cools down the condenser.