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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2011
Byeongjo Ryoo, Seoul, KR;
Sungmin YE, Seoul, KR;
Seonghwan Kim, Seoul, KR;
Seungphyo Ahn, Seoul, KR;
Sungho Song, Seoul, KR;
Byeongjo Ryoo, Seoul, KR;
Sungmin Ye, Seoul, KR;
Seonghwan Kim, Seoul, KR;
Seungphyo Ahn, Seoul, KR;
Sungho Song, Seoul, KR;
LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
Disclosed is a clothes dryer having a heat pump, the clothes dryer capable of enhancing energy efficiency by recovering waste heat to the maximum in correspondence to a capacity of the heat pump, capable of enhancing reliability by preventing overheating of a compressor and a heat exchange means, and capable of shortening drying time. The clothes dryer includes a body, drum rotatably installed in the body, a suction duct installed at the body, and configured to suck external air and to supply the external air into the drum, an exhaustion duct configured to exhaust air having passed through the drum to outside of the body, and a heat pump having a heat exchange means for recovering waste heat by heat-exchanging air passing through the exhaustion duct, wherein part of the air exhausted via the exhaustion duct is heat-exchanged with the heat exchange means of the heat pump.