| US 7,526,879 B2 | ||
| Drum washing machine and clothes dryer using peltier thermoelectric module | ||
| Sun Cheol Bae, Masan-si (Korea, Republic of); Ja In Koo, Changwon-si (Korea, Republic of); Jin Seok Hu, Masan-si (Korea, Republic of); and Yang Hwan Kim, Busan (Korea, Republic of) | ||
| Assigned to LG Electronics Inc., Seoul (Korea, Republic of) | ||
| Filed on Nov. 02, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/591,471. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 10-2005-0105595 (KR), filed on Nov. 04, 2005; and application No. 10-2005-0105596 (KR), filed on Nov. 04, 2005. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0101602 A1, May 10, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. F26B 21/06 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 34—596 [34/601; 34/602; 34/239] | 10 Claims |
| 1. A clothes dryer comprising:
a drum into which objects to be dried are put;
a circulation duct which forms an air circulation passage so that air exhausted from the drum flows again into the drum;
a condenser which condenses the air exhausted from the drum, the condenser comprising a thermoelectric module having a heat
absorption side and a heat dissipation side which absorbs and dissipates heat at a junction between two dissimilar metals
depending on a direction of current flow through the junction, and the condenser is mounted so that the air exhausted from
the drum passes by the heat absorption side of the thermoelectric module;
a heater which heats the air;
a circulation fan which forcedly circulates the air through the circulation duct;
an outdoor air-discharge duct which is connected to the condenser to discharge the outdoor air passing by the heat dissipation
sides of the condenser; and
a guide duct which is connected to the outdoor-discharge duct to bypass a portion of the outdoor air discharged through the
outdoor-discharge duct toward the heater.
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