Global Patent Index - EP 4098795 A1

EP 4098795 A1 20221207 - LAUNDRY DEVICE COMPRISING AN ACTIVE COOLING ELEMENT

Title (en)

LAUNDRY DEVICE COMPRISING AN ACTIVE COOLING ELEMENT

Title (de)

WASCHVORRICHTUNG, DIE EIN AKTIVES KÜHLELEMENT UMFASST

Title (fr)

DISPOSITIF DE BLANCHISSERIE COMPRENANT UN ÉLÉMENT DE REFROIDISSEMENT ACTIF

Publication

EP 4098795 A1 20221207 (EN)

Application

EP 22170726 A 20220429

Priority

CN 202110589663 A 20210528

Abstract (en)

The present disclosure is directed to a aundry device (100), comprising a housing (101), which delimits an interior space (103) of the laundry device (100), and which comprises a door opening (107), a laundry drum (109), which is arranged in the interior space (103) of the laundry device (100), and which is adapted to receive wet laundry (113), a door (111), which is adapted to close the door opening (107), wherein the door (111) comprises a projecting section (119), which projects through the door opening (107) into the interior space (103) of the laundry device (100) in a closed state of the door (111), wherein the projecting section (119) comprises a condensing surface (133), which faces towards the interior space (103) of the laundry device (100), an active cooling element (141, 141-1, 141-2), which is arranged in the door (111), and which is adapted to actively cool the condensing surface (133), and a ventilation and heating unit (125), which is adapted to heat air and to direct a flow of the heated air through the wet laundry (113) received in the laundry drum (109), in order to obtain heated air with an increased humidity, which in turn is directed towards the condensing surface (133), so that liquid from the heated air with an increased humidity condenses at the condensing surface (133).

IPC 8 full level

D06F 58/24 (2006.01); D06F 25/00 (2006.01); D06F 39/08 (2006.01); D06F 39/14 (2006.01)

CPC (source: CN EP)

D06F 58/10 (2013.01 - CN); D06F 58/20 (2013.01 - CN); D06F 58/24 (2013.01 - CN EP); D06F 58/26 (2013.01 - CN); D06F 25/00 (2013.01 - EP); D06F 39/083 (2013.01 - EP); D06F 39/14 (2013.01 - EP); D06F 58/18 (2013.01 - EP)

Citation (applicant)

US 2328256 A 19430831 - FRANK BRECKENRIDGE

Citation (search report)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AL AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MK MT NL NO PL PT RO RS SE SI SK SM TR

Designated extension state (EPC)

BA ME

Designated validation state (EPC)

KH MA MD TN

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 4098795 A1 20221207; CN 115404681 A 20221129

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 22170726 A 20220429; CN 202110589663 A 20210528