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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2006
Tetsuyuki Kono, Tokyo, JP;
Tatsuya Saito, Tokyo, JP;
Tatsuo Ioku, Tokyo, JP;
Satoru Nishiwaki, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuyuki Kono, Tokyo, JP;
Tatsuya Saito, Tokyo, JP;
Tatsuo Ioku, Tokyo, JP;
Satoru Nishiwaki, Tokyo, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiba Home Appliances Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiba Consumer Electronics Holdings Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A drum-type washer/dryer having an evaporator for performing dehumidification by cooling air drawn from the inner space of a drum and also having condenser for heating the air dehumidified by the evaporator, wherein the air heated by the condenser is made to sequentially pass through a duct and a blowhole and blown as dry air to clothes in the drum. A backflow preventing portion is provided in the duct, and when bubbles flow back into the duct from the inner space of the drum through the blowhole, the backflow preventing portion functions as resistance for preventing the back flow of the bubbles.