Patent ID: 11932983
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Chemical engineering (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC D  F | IPC D  F

Claim 10:
11. A clothes dryer comprising:
a cabinet;
a drum rotatably supported in the cabinet;
a supply port configured to guide air into the drum;
an exhaust port configured to guide the air in the drum to an outside of the drum; and
a lint removing apparatus configured to remove lint from the air passing through the exhaust port,
wherein the lint removing apparatus includes:
a lint filter configured to capture lint,
a screw conveyor including a fin having a spiral shape and configured to scrape and collect the lint captured in the lint filter,
a driving device including a motor rotatable in both directions,
a first coupler connected to the driving device to receive power from the driving device,
a second coupler having a shape corresponding to a shape of the first coupler in order to directly couple to the first coupler to transmit the power to the screw conveyor and arranged with the first coupler along a direction in which the screw conveyor extends, and

an elastic member configured to elastically press the first coupler in a disengaged state with the second coupler to an engaged state with the second coupler, and
wherein the motor operates such that the first coupler and the second coupler are coupled to or separated from each other.